You can use Bulk actions to change the availability, duplicate, move or delete multiple sections, activities, or resources in your course at once. This is a built in tool, and will be available in all your courses. If you need to duplicate to another course or duplicate to a different section within this course you [...]
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Sometimes you may have optional or hidden Moodle activities that show up in the User and Grader Report. This can cause course totals to not be accurate and confusion for students that are viewing the gradebook. We recommend that you follow these steps to create a hidden Not graded category to eliminate these issues. Scroll [...]
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A manual grade item populates a gradebook with work that occurs outside of Moodle: Work hosted elsewhere, such as required emails or outside tools from publishers Extra credit above normally graded work, such as a student earning 12/10 points on an assignment In-Class work Anything that is not completed using a Moodle Activity or Resource Scroll [...]
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Courses appear differently depending on the role you have in the course. It can be beneficial when designing a course to view the course as a student. You can use the switch role feature to temporarily view the course in another role. Enter the course you wish to view as a student. Click on the [...]
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When you delete activities and resources in Moodle the items are placed in the Recycle bin for 7 days. This will allow you to restore these items back to your course if you have made an error in deleting an item from your course. Click the More drop-down menu from the secondary navigation. Select Recycle [...]
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Extra Credit is Not Calculating Correctly For extra credit to calculate correctly you can either have grade item(s) marked as extra credit OR a single category marked as extra credit. Do NOT put extra credit grade items inside of a category marked as extra credit. To fix you will need to: Disable the extra credit [...]
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There are a number of ways to integrate multimedia into your Moodle course. This article will help you determine which tool best suits your needs. You can also add pre-existing academic video resources like those provided by the CCC Library to your Moodle courses. Tool Name with Article Link Record Audio/Video(text editor) Embed Kaltura Video(text [...]
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Working with Messages in Moodle - View more details by hovering over icons. Tool Name with Article Link Ask & Share Forum (Included in Course Template) Bulk Moodle messaging (Participants page) Bulk Email through Self Service (MyClackamas Portal) MoodleMail block (third party plugin) General Guide Ideal for course announcements that are not time sensitive. These can [...]
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Scroll to the top of your course page. Select Participants from the secondary navigation. Select Groups from the drop-down menu. NOTE: If you don't see a Groups option listed you may need to enable groups in your course. Click on the Create group button at the bottom. Set up the basics for your group: Set the [...]
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These steps will help you design your gradebook using the Percentage Layout. This is just one part of the gradebook setup that you will need to complete. Scroll to the top of the main page of your course. Select the Grades option from the secondary navigation. Select the Gradebook Setup option from the drop-down menu. [...]
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Before importing questions into Moodle, we strongly suggest you create a Category in the question bank for each chapter or topic so later you can easily find and select questions. Scroll to the top of the main course page. From the secondary navigation, click the More menu. Select the Question bank option. From the drop-down [...]
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The Question Bank allows you to create, preview, and edit questions in a course (rather than in an individual quiz). These questions can be used in a Quiz or select questions can be used in a Lesson activity. Questions can be organized in both categories and subcategories. Scroll to the top of the main course [...]
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Forum activities are generally used to stimulate online discussions. NOTE: All courses come with an Ask & Share Forum to use for class-wide announcements. This forum is part of the Course Structure Template and does not adhere to the following instructions. Please contact online@clackamas.edu for assistance if you need to create an Ask & Share [...]
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Extra Credit You can identify an extra credit item from the Gradebook Setup view. The Max grade will followed by a dashed underlined + symbol. Make an item Extra Credit If you want your category to contain an extra credit grade items you need to set the aggregation to one of our suggested aggregation methods: [...]
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You can quickly add the following file types to your course: Word Documents PowerPoint Files Compressed Zip Files Images Any file you want to make available for your students to download DO NOT upload video files directly to Moodle. Review the multimedia options in Moodle article for better ways to add videos to your course(s). Enter [...]
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This process is ideal for creating similarly configured activities or resources for consistency of content. NOTE: To duplicate multiple activitis or resources within a course at the same time you can use Bulk actions, and to duplicate to another course you can use the Mass actions block. Navigate to the course you want to duplicate [...]
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Hidden Content If your course is a Work-in-Progress you can hide course content from students till you are ready for them to access it. This will prevent students from accessing content early and becoming confused or concerned about the content. You can also restrict access to activities (and sections) to prevent students from accessing activities [...]
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The Question Bank is a pool of questions (with various question types) you can use in Quiz and Lesson activities. You can then set up quizzes using random questions or specific questions from your question bank. NOTE: You can add questions to quizzes directly, but it is not recommended as you will only have access [...]
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