_While images are not crucial to a good Moodle site, they do play a
role in focusing students' attention, breaking up blocks of text, and
supporting your course content. It is very easy to add images to a
Moodle label [http://go.augsburg.edu/moodlelabel],...
Your moodle profile picture is the image people see associated with
your name in course participant lists, forum discussions and other
activities within moodle.
* Identify the location of the image file you wish to upload; will be
doing so shortly.
*...
_One way to limit the amount of scrolling required to locate content
and assignments on your course homepage is to 'collapse" the topic
blocks. This turns your homepage into a "hyper-table-of-contents" that
enables students to quickly access information a...
_Most instructors post their syllabi on Moodle as a Word doc or PDF.
However, there are many benefits to copying & pasting your syllabus
into a Moodle page (a web page accessible only within your course).
For one thing, a page is much more accessible to s...
_Instructors can streamline their course building by duplicating
Moodle Resources and Activities._
* Create the desired activity or resource according to the following
directions:
* Creating a Moodle Forum [http://go.augsburg.edu/moodleforum]
* C...
It may be helpful to hide individual activities and resources when
building a course where students have access to the course. You can
also hide the entire course or a section of a course (see links at the
end of this article). Here are the steps to hide ...
As an instructor, you have the ability to manage what course content
is viewable by students. For most content, the availability can be
managed using the show/hide icon next to each individual item. You can
also hide the entire course from students as you...
_AS AN INSTRUCTOR, YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO MANAGE WHAT COURSE CONTENT
IS VIEWABLE BY STUDENTS. IT IS POSSIBLE TO: _
_ 1. HIDE INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES_
_ 2. HIDE SPECIFIC TOPIC SECTIONS_
_ 3. HIDE THE ENTIRE COURSE_
...
_As an instructor, you have the ability to manage what course content
is viewable by students. For most content, the availability can be
managed using the show/hide option for each item. However, you may
want to hide ENTIRE topic sections from students wh...
_The E-Learning Team recommends that all instructors install the
Moodle Course Template (a pre-formatted pattern that incorporates
online course design best-practices) in their course(s). The template
is intended as a time-saver for instructors, but it al...
_The Moodle Dashboard is designed to help you organize the way you
prefer._
You may choose to Star courses to create your own custom list of
courses for the current semester:
Repeat this process at the end of the semester, un-starring the
courses you ...
Level up the Moodle Dashboard for students and make courses stand out
so they are easier to find by adding customized photos for each
course.
By default, Moodle course images show up as a monochrome colored
geometric pattern. For example:
Instructors c...
When creating or editing the settings for most Moodle activities
(e.g., Assignment, Label/textbox, Page, Forum) the content editor
appears. One of the buttons includes a list predefined templates which
you can select to pull pre-formatted content into you...
You may occasionally have reason to slightly rename your moodle
course, such as when:
* You are sharing your courses with other instructors, for
cooperative course development and want to clearly identify which
course is yours as more and more courses ...
_RESTRICT ACCESS settings are used to restrict or hide resources from
students under different conditions. Instructors can use this to make
students' access to learning materials dependent on conditions such
as:_
* _the date (you can set FROM and UNTI...
If you accidentally delete an activity (assignment, forum, quiz, etc),
or resource (PowerPoint, Word document, PDF), you may use the Recycle
Bin in Moodle to restore the deleted item. Deleted items are stored
for 30 days.
Click the Recycling Bin icon at...
The Collapsed topics format in Moodle gives the option to
automatically list the date range for each week in your course based
on the start date of your course. This can eliminate the need to
modify each section header when migrating content from a previo...
At times, it is helpful to see how the design of your Moodle course is
viewed by someone in a student role. As an instructor, you have the
ability to change to a student role and view the course as a student
would.
Note: The 'Switch role to...' feature ...
