Before you open your Moodle course to students, you’ll want to transfer and review your course content and rosters.
If you have questions, don’t hesitate to contact the Online Learning & Educational Technology (OLET) department at online@clackamas.edu.
Start Of Term Checklist
- Look over recent Moodle updates for changes to tools you use.
- Ensure you’ve got your course content ready!
- Replicate existing course content:
- Copy Course Content from a past term/section to the current/future term.
- Request that a previously-archived course be restored from Online Learning backups.
- Ask another instructor to manually enroll you in their course as a Course Content Viewer so you can copy course content from there.
- Add new content:
- Get started with by importing over our Course Structure Template course
- Quickly upload files and documents into Moodle.
- See the New to Moodle page to Discover Common tools in Moodle and what they’re used for.
- Ask the library if they offer digital versions of your articles, books, or videos.
- Replicate existing course content:
- Review your course content
- Update your Syllabus and Course Calendar.
- Look for for broken links and out-of-date files.
See our list of academic multimedia resources if you’re looking to replace or enhance content within your course. - Verify that your grade book is behaving as you want/need.
- If not everything is ready you can hide course elements from student view until you are ready to release them.
- Confirm your course start and end date for automatic Course Visibility.
- Verify student enrollment to ensure that your Moodle and Self Service rosters match.
- Contact your students to welcome them to class and help them get started in your course.
- Consider including or directing students to essential documents (i.e.: syllabus, course calendar) and this short survey: Are you ready for online learning? to students.
- Consider including or directing students to essential documents (i.e.: syllabus, course calendar) and this short survey: Are you ready for online learning? to students.
We suggest you email your students and/or add these resources to your course(s):
Familiarize Students with Moodle
- Are You Ready for Online Learning?
- Moodle 101 Self-Guided Student Orientation
NOTE: We recommend this short orientation for those new to Moodle to become familiar with the basics from a student perspective. If you require your students to provide verification for a grade, we suggest you ask them to forward their completion email to you or you can check their Moodle User account for a badge.
Common Student Issues
- Forwarding CCC emails to a personal email account
- How to find my Moodle course(s)
- Moodle Help (FAQ)