CreateGradeCompareCreate There are a number of ways to integrate multimedia into your Moodle course; this article should help you determine which recording tool is best for your needs. This article does NOT include pre-existing academic video resources like those provided by the CCC Library. Grade Grading You can accept and grade video submissions from students [...]
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Working with Kaltura in Moodle At this time Moodle is not designed to host big media files like videos. They bloat course archive files sizes making restores slow and difficult and can force students to download a video and play it on their own computer. By using Kaltura in Moodle students can play and upload [...]
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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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Working with Kaltura Media Assignment in Moodle The Kaltura Media Assignment activity is where you can have students submit a video directly to you for grading. It can be either a pre-recorded and edited video file (possibly ideal for a multimedia course) or it could be recorded on-the-spot for a less polished video assignment showing [...]
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Many textbook and course material publishers provide a direct integration into Moodle to limit the number of required logins. Working with External Tools/LTI in Moodle CreateGradeTroubleshootCreate Adding a New Activity An LTI integration with a textbook publisher can be created on two levels: If you're trying a new tool or only need to set up [...]
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A great place to start putting Moodle to use if you're already familiar with LMS and just need to know what tools do what to create content. There are other tools available for you and your students, too! Check out our Moodle Survival Guide and Technology Toolkit for Beginners.
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Zoom is a synchronous online collaboration tool that can be used to conduct and record online lectures, host office hours, set up group meeting spaces, and more—all with annotation and whiteboard capabilities.
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Enrollments in Moodle is a wide and varied topic that spans a couple of different tools and terminologies and is dependent on a few systems across campus. CreateGradeTroubleshootCreate Adding a New Enrollment As a teacher with a Moodle shell you can give other people access to your Moodle content as long as they have a [...]
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Hidden Content If you’re working on an item that’s a Work-in-Progress you don’t have to have it where students can see it and potentially get confused or worried about the content. You can hide content so you can work on it or explore your options quietly! You can also restrict access to activities (and sections) [...]
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Restrict Access is a Moodle plugin that can be applied to Activities and Resources and used to limit access based on group, password, completion tracking, date/time, and more. ApplyGradeTroubleshootApply Applying Restrict Access to an Activity or Resource Restrict Access gives teachers some extra control over resources and activities that don't have built in due-dates such [...]
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Forums can also be referred to as discussion forums, threads, discussions and similar. They are a way to have students post text, images, videos, or attached files that you want other students to see and/or interact with. CreateGradeFor StudentsTroubleshootCreate Adding a New Activity All Moodle shells come with an Announcements forum you can use for [...]
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Workshops are a Moodle activity which is highly customizable and thus takes a comparatively high amount of setup but facilitates peer review within a class. This activity features: Two grading values: student submissions as well as peer review Multiple Phases of activity function: Setup, Submission, Assessment, Grading Evaluation, and Closed. Some of these phases can [...]
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The Question Bank is the pool of questions that feeds quizzes in a course. You can set up pools of questions in categories to pull from at random or specifically chosen questions. Generally questions should be entered into a question bank but they can also be entered directly into a quiz within Moodle- one at [...]
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Labels are a type of resource in Moodle that allows us to place content directly on the front course page, as opposed to creating a link to takes users to another view. Labels can be used to help us format the course page, emphasize certain pieces of information, and (embed information not otherwise available in [...]
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Moodle enrollments are the setting in a course to dictate who has access to what content. Common Roles (Who can Do/See What)Other RolesCommon Roles (Who can Do/See What) Common Roles: Who Can Do/See What The most common roles and basic permissions, in order of access/power are: Guest A guest typically: does not have access to [...]
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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 StudentsAccessibilityTroubleshootCreate These instructions cover some of the [...]
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You can now enable a feature that allows students to check off work as they complete it in Moodle. This may appeal as a way for students to visually track progress from the main page of a course as well as give them the satisfying feeling of literally checking off a task. You can also use this tool [...]
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Gradebooks in Moodle are a very powerful tool but they can be confusing to set up or otherwise mold to your needs. The key is that whatever your Moodle gradebook does, it needs to match your syllabus. CreateGradeFor StudentsTroubleshootCreate Designing a Gradebook Most teachers grade based on categories of work valued at percentages of the course total. If [...]
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