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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Here are the common issues that you might experience when trying to grade the assignment activity. Blank First Page If you have the assignment submission types set to both Online text and File submissions you will have a blank first page in the Review Panel. Use the page navigation controls (top left of the previewed document) [...]
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Text that is copy and pasted into the TinyMCE editor can contain some extra HTML formatting code that can affect how your text will appear in Moodle. Here are some tips to prevent and to fix formatting within Moodle. Clear Formatting Highlight the text that has formatting you wish to remove with your mouse OR [...]
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This is ideal when you want to give a student a second chance on a quiz and want to keep their first attempt on record or factored into their grade. Or, you can completely remove an attempt. From within the secondary navigation, click More. Select Overrides from the list. From Override user, select the User [...]
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Sometimes there are technical difficulties and a student will submit a quiz that is either empty or only partially filled out. In cases where you would like to give that student a fresh start you can delete their own attempt so that they can make a new one, unaffected by the erroneous grade. If you [...]
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You may find that student grades appear lower than expected if grade items that are hidden or have not been completed are being used to calculate the course grade. If you are finding this to be the case you can follow these steps to fix this issue. NOTE: Changing this setting will also cause grade [...]
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You can set a password to prevent users from accessing a quiz. There may be times where you forget the password or if you inherited a course from another instructor you may not know it. You can use these steps to check and update the password for your current course. Enter the quiz. Click Settings from [...]
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If a student reports they cannot see or are unable to submit work to an assignment activity check the following assignment settings: Enter the Assignment activity. Select the Settings option from the secondary navigation. Expand the Availability section. If Allow submissions from is enabled, ensure that this date has already passed. If Cut-off date is [...]
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Submissions left in Draft (not submitted) status can cause problems for both instructors and students. Here are some of the issues that can arise and how to resolve them. Draft submissions will... Prevent the Submitted/Require grading filter from accurately displaying assignments. Prevent the system from accurately reflecting whether a submission was completed on time. Draft submissions [...]
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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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These are some of the common issues that you might experience with an existing quiz. Setting the Maximum Point value of a Quiz There is not a place to enter the grade value under Quiz Settings as with most activities in Moodle. Enter the Quiz you want to modify. Select the Questions option from the secondary [...]
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