Working with Messages in Moodle Tool Name with Article Link Announcements Forum Bulk Moodle messaging (Participants page) Bulk Email through Self Service (MyClackamas Portal) Quickmail block (third party plugin) General Guide Ideal for one-way course announcements that are not time sensitive in a visible Moodle course. (Don’t forget to verify enrollment!) Ideal for using the [...]
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For preventing date-based late access to any resource or activity (not needed for assignment activities or quiz activities, and as of 3.8 no longer needed for forum activities as they have a built in feature for this (cutoff date and close date, respectively).) Locate the Activity or section/topic in your course that you want to [...]
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For preventing date-based early access to any resource or activity (not needed for assignment activities as it has a built in feature for this.) Locate the Actions Menu (gear icon) from the top-right corner of the page. Select the Turn editing on option. Locate the Activity or section/topic in your course that you want to [...]
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To be done after you have enabled completion tracking on all relevant activities for your course- this is not something you can enable in a course that you're working on only a week ahead of the class. The block does NOT update immediately and changes to a student's progress will update every few minutes. Expand [...]
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You can bulk apply settings to ALL activities but your completion tracking options may be limited to none or manual check-off only. We suggest using this process one type of activity/tool at a time for the most control and best results. Enter the course in question that already has completion tracking enabled Locate the Actions [...]
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Completion tracking must be enabled for this option to be available. This is ideal for Forums, Assignments, Databases and other interactive activities, it can also be applied to read-only resources to ensure a student at LEAST opens a page or URL or Book. If you can't find a good way to automate this, consider using [...]
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Completion tracking must be enabled for this option to be available. Ideal for students tracking progression through coursework such as completing readings or assigned tasks handled outside of Moodle. For items handled in Moodle you might instead automate this process so an activity checks off after meeting requirements. View of student-markable completion tracking with editing turned [...]
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Enabling Completion Tracking in a course allows the instructor to put check boxes next to work for students. It will have no effect on their grade. It will also not be track-able on a course-level without further configuration. (They just get the visual confirmation of check boxes, which can be helpful for students in managing and planning [...]
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Enter the quiz activity. Locate the Actions Menu (gear icon) in the top-right corner of the page and select the Edit Quiz (NOT the Edit settings) link. Locate the question you want to remove. OPTIONAL: Click the magnifying lens icon to review a question's content. Click the Select multiple items button above the quiz, so [...]
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Enter the quiz activity. Locate the Actions menu (gear icon) from the top-right corner of the page and select the Edit Quiz (NOT Edit settings) link. Locate the question you want to remove. OPTIONAL: Click the magnifying lens icon to review a question's content. Click the trash can icon (Delete) to remove the question. Click the [...]
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This applies to Forums set up to use Ratings (Option 1 in Create a Forum Activity) Enter the (Open) Forum you wish you enter grades for. Enter the Discussion you wish to enter grades for. (Does not apply for Single Simple Discussion or Blog style forums) Read over a student's post. Locate the Rating... drop-down menu [...]
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If you want to grade assignment activity work one submission at a time or as its turned you might want to check out our article on Grading Assignment Activities One at a Time/as Work is Submitted. For the following to work you’ll need to ensure your assignment supports offline grading: Edit the settings of your [...]
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A Discussion within a forum is the start of a new Topic or the posing of a question that solicits replies from other students and/or your instructor. You can experiment with forums hands-on in our Moodle 101 Self-Guided Student Orientation. You may use Discussions in a forum to: Start a new conversation by posting your [...]
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Courses can be formatted so sections are categorized by week, topic or folder in Moodle. What does this mean? Courses formatted as topics or weeks can now have content hidden and only made view-able one week at a time. without having to transition entirely to Folder format. This may help keep scrolling to a minimum [...]
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If you are using assignments (How to grade an assignment), quizzes (How to grade a quiz), forums or other gradable items they have their own built-in grading tools that will be overridden by entering grades for them directly into the gradebook. The built-in grading tools have superior ways to provide feedback and provide clearer grading [...]
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Ideal for webpages constructed by Dreamweaver or other small websites consisting of multiple .html pages, images and/or other resources that are not needed outside of Moodle. Not ideal for items that need regular upkeep but good for quick uploads of preexisting data. Turn Editing on in Moodle Open up File folder with files you want [...]
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Add a Manual Grade Item A manual grade item would be the most ideal method for these, you can add a manual grade item (just one for everyone- you don't need one for each group). You can set a manual grade item by Go to the course you wish to add a manual item to [...]
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