Assignments can be extended in Moodle to provide students extra time to accomplish a set task. Quiz time extensions have specific instructions. Log in to Moodle and navigate to the desired course. Enter the Assignment activity. Click the Actions Menu (gear icon) and select the User Overrides option. Click on the Add User Override button. Search for [...]
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If you have Teacher, Manager, or Course Content Viewer roles within Moodle, you are able to copy content from another course into your own. If you do not have access to the other course, you can request the assigned instructor enroll you with the Course Content Viewer Role. Don't want to whole course? You can [...]
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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 take any and all folks enrolled in one Moodle course and automatically push them into another course of your choosing. Some examples of use are: Mimicking cross-listed courses (that couldn't be cross-listed in scheduling for technical reasons) Running multiple sections of the same course in a single Moodle course Creating [...]
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In a staging area you how more power over your courses than you would elsewhere in Moodle. You can: Create, Modify and Delete Moodle Courses placed here Common uses of the Staging Area include... Experimenting with Activities and Resources (Sandboxes) Course Development (DEV) Shared online resources such as office hours or announcements between classes (with [...]
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Creating & Modifying Course Content Editing content is a key part of creating and maintaining a Moodle course. This page is broken into key locations of a Moodle course and some things may only appear if you've got the correct course settings enabled. Special Role/Permissions required Those with the role of Instructor, Staging Manager, Editing [...]
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Overview The Course Settings page is where an instructor creates and manages a course's overall settings. Other Settings pages will be specific to the page you are on when you click Edit settings. Remember to click on the Save changes button when you are finished making any changes. The following is an explanation of the [...]
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To add any Activity or Resource to a page you must be on the main page for the course. Navigate to the course you wish to add an activity or resource to. Turn Editing On within your course. Once Editing is enabled, scroll down to the bottom of whatever week/topic you want to add an [...]
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NOTE: Beginning 2019 Summer term courses will automatically open and close based on the provisioned start and end dates of a course in Moodle. You can change these settings after the fact or change your course start and end dates to reflect your preferred availability. Default Course start date is the Monday of the first [...]
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The following is a checklist of procedures for your course at the end of a term. Click on any item in the list for more information and the steps to follow. Checklist If you have an Incomplete in your class, set up a separate course for them to finish their work without disturbing other students. [...]
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Your initial course quiz settings can be overridden to set special quiz access for individuals or for groups of students. For example, an individual student can be given unlimited time to take an otherwise timed quiz, such as when a student has a Disability Services accommodation. Use the Unlimited Test Time User role for that [...]
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At the start of each term, you’ll want to take a moment to verify student enrollment for each of your courses. This is to make sure the students that have been put into your Moodle course match the class registration list for that course. Check Moodle Enrollments These should be automatically pulled from our student [...]
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There are a few settings you will want to take care to verify before making your class visible. Navigate to the course you wish to verify Start by clicking on Edit settings in Action Menu On the Edit course settings page, check the following settings Under the General sub-category, confirm the Course full name and [...]
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Pages are for static content- a student cannot interact with them except to view them. A page is a handy way to display information to students without having them navigate away from Moodle. This keeps less tech-savvy students from getting lost or disoriented and is a sure way to ensure better control over content shared [...]
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These instructions are to import content from a course, this can be a single item you want to bring over or the ability to pick-and-choose content from a course. To import the entire contents of a course see our start of term procedure to copy over course content from one course to another. To allow [...]
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