Working with Assignments in Moodle The Assignment activity is essentially a file drop-box for students to send you files. Often these files are Word Documents or PDFs but you can request any file type from your students and optionally limit what types of files student can submit. CreateGradeFor StudentsDue Date ExtensionTroubleshootCreate Follow these directions to [...]
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Assignments, quizzes, forums or other gradable activities have their own built-in grading tools. We recommend that you primarily grade these activities using the built-in grading tools. There are some tasks such as bulk entering empty grades, removing grade overrides, and excusing a student from an assignment that should be done using the gradebook in Single [...]
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Gradebooks in Moodle are very powerful with many features. OLET can help you match your gradebook to your course syllabus. Design (Percentage vs. Points)GradeStudent ViewFinal GradesTroubleshootDesign (Percentage vs. Points) Designing a Gradebook There are two standardized Gradebook layouts: Percentages and Points. Example Percentage Layout In situations where your syllabus has grades broken down into percentages like [...]
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You can grade manual grade items in two different ways. The first is by manually entering your grades into the assignment using Single View. The second method is to import the grades from another source. NOTE: If you are using assignments, quizzes, forums or other gradable Moodle activities you should be using their specific grading [...]
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Working with Quizzes in Moodle Quizzes are one of the common assessment activities used in Moodle. Quizzes can meet many teaching needs, from simple, multiple-choice knowledge tests to complex, self-assessment tasks with detailed feedback. It is best to create questions in a Question bank so they can be used within multiple quizzes. CreateGradeFor StudentsAccessibilityTroubleshootCreate We [...]
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Rubrics in Moodle allow instructors to use criteria-based assessment forms to grade student work consistently, quickly, and transparently. The tool allows instructors to create their own rubrics from scratch or use an existing rubric that can be modified and filled out online. The rubric is available to students reviewing their grades, and can also be [...]
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Manually Enrolling Users into a Course in Moodle Students who are officially registered for a class will automatically be enrolled in the associated Moodle course. However, occasionally it may be necessary to manually enroll additional students, instructors, or course content viewers. Scroll to the top of your course page. Click the Participants option from the [...]
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The Attendance activity is designed for teachers to be able to take attendance during class, and for students to be able to view their own attendance record. A teacher can mark the attendance status of a student as Present, Absent, Late, or Excused. These status descriptions and associated point values can be modified to align with [...]
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The TinyMCE text editor contains a menu and toolbar to assist you with entering formatted content into your course. These functions should be familiar to anyone who uses a word processor. This text editor allows you to format your text easily without any knowledge of HTML. Moodle Documentation for the TinyMCE text editor.
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Follow these directions to grant an extension for specific student(s) for a particular assignment or quiz. Log into Moodle and navigate to your course. Enter the Assignment or Quiz where you want to add an extension. Click the More option from the secondary navigation. Select Overrides. Click the Add user override button. From Override user, select the user [...]
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To be able to import course content into your course you will need to have Teacher, Staging Manager, or Course Content Viewer role within the course you wish to copy from. If you do not already have one of those roles in the course, you can request the instructor to manually enroll you in the [...]
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Forum subscriptions allow you to, via email, stay up to date with the goings-on in a given forum. When you are subscribed to a forum you will be sent an email for each post made to the forum you are subscribed to. This can be desirable for keeping tabs on a conversation or annoying in [...]
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A meta-course enrollment will allow you to add ALL participants from one course into another Moodle course. The advantage of meta-course enrollment is that you can facilitate multiple sections from one course. Some uses for meta-course enrollments are: Create a resource repository or cohort course that students from multiple courses can access. Combine multiple sections [...]
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A workspace is an area where you can create, modify, and delete Moodle courses. You can use the workspace to experiment with Moodle Activities and Resources, develop a future course, restore a past course, share course resources between courses, etc. Access your WorkspaceAdd a CourseDelete a CourseUse your WorkspaceAccess your Workspace Get a Workspace Workspaces [...]
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Editing content is a key part of creating and maintaining a Moodle course. Only participants enrolled with the role of Teacher, Course Manager, or Course Content Editor have the ability to modify Moodle course content. This page is broken into the areas of a Moodle course where content can be modified. NOTE: Before making major changes [...]
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Overview The Edit course settings page is where an instructor manages a course's overall settings. You can access the Edit course settings page by selecting the Settings item on the secondary navigation when you are on the main course page. Clicking the Settings link on the secondary navigation on other pages will direct you to [...]
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To add any Activity or Resource to a page you must be on the main page for the course. Enter your course and turn Edit mode on. Scroll to where you want to add the Activity or resource. Click the plus symbol to access the Add content drop-down menu. NOTE: If you want to add between two [...]
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