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_For many Moodle forum discussion assignments, it is advantageous to
limit the number of participants by creating groups of 5-6 students.
This will reduce the chance of eliciting repetitive responses and
overwhelming students with too many posts to read. ...
_It is possible (with just a few extra steps) to accommodate students
who have received clearance from the CLASS office to receive
additional time, extend a deadline for a student, or allow a second
attempt for a student with a technological issue._
* ...
_Once you have created your discussion groups
[http://go.augsburg.edu/creategroups] , you can easily assign them to
separate discussion forums. _
* If you have not already done so, create a forum
[http://go.augsburg.edu/moodleforum]. Provide thorough d...
_THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES THE STEPS TO ADD PEOPLE TO YOUR MOODLE COURSE
USING A MANUAL ENROLLMENT METHOD. YOU MUST BE ASSIGNED AN
"INSTRUCTOR" ROLE TO ADD OTHER CO-INSTRUCTORS OR STUDENTS TO YOUR
COURSE. STUDENTS ARE AUTOMATICALLY ADDED TO COURSES THE DAY...
_The Accessibility block allows students to customize Moodle to their
visual needs. It supports changing of text sizes and color schemes.
The block includes the "ATBar." This provides extra tools and
customization options, including dictionary lookup and
...
This tutorial will show you how to add additional sections to your
course, if you need more than the 1 provided by default. First, turn
editing mode on, then scroll to the bottom of the course page to
select ADD SECTIONS.
Go link: http://go.augsburg.edu...
NOTE: This article explains how to quickly edit/update Activity
Completion criteria for Moodle activities and resources you have
already created in your course. For a comprehensive explanation of how
Activity Completion works, please see the article entit...
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.
*...
To change the name of the topics in your moodle course perform the
following:
* Turn editing on from the and click the gear icon below the topic
section summary to edit the summary.
* Uncheck the box next to "Use default section name" and enter the
ne...
_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...
_There are two types of advanced grading methods in Moodle--the Rubric
(please see Creating a Moodle Rubric [http://go.augsburg.edu/rubric]
for information on that), and a Grading Guide. A Grading Guide is an
advanced grading method that provides consiste...
Quizzes are an effective learning tool to increase student engagement
and gauge student participation. Especially for the online or hybrid
student, frequent, low-stake quizzes provide students with a tool for
self-assessment and an external motivator to c...
_The SCHEDULER helps you to schedule one-on-one appointments with all
your students. You specify the periods during which you are available
to see the students and the length of each appointment. The students
then book themselves into one of the available...
Completion tracking in Moodle enables assignments to be marked as
complete either by the students or by Moodle when certain criteria is
completed by participants. Items marked as complete are indicated by a
check box to the right of the item. Enabling thi...
This article shows how to define exclusive access to any activity or
resource in moodle to a group of students. This can be used to
managing content in courses with merged enrolments between
lower-division and upper-division students or multiple sections ...
_You can do a quick check of student participation in a Moodle Forum
by running a report on how many times a student posts to a specific
forum._
* In the Administration block of the course, click on "Reports" and
then on "Course participation."
* In ...
_In the settings for Moodle forums, the term "Ratings" (rather than
"Grade") is where you will indicate the maximum points possible for
the assignment. The following step-by-step process is for a forum
assignment that asks students to make an initial post...
The Assignment activity in this year's version of Moodle has some
significant changes for grading. View this video
[https://youtu.be/GcShb_iSG2U] to learn about the new features.
(keywords:legacy grade, advanced grade, PDF grading)
http://go.augsburg.edu...
_If you hear from students that they are not able to post to one of
your Moodle discussion forums, it may be due to those forums being set
to use groups but you have not put students into your groups yet.
Those forums won't work for students until you do....
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_
...
_RUBRICS ARE SCORING CHARTS THAT LIST A RANGE OF CRITERIA FOR AN
ASSIGNMENT AND ESTABLISH BENCHMARKS WITH REASONABLE AND APPROPRIATE
EXPECTATIONS FOR VARYING LEVELS OF MASTERY. YOUR INSTRUCTORS MAY USE
MOODLE RUBRICS TO PROVIDE YOU WITH FEEDBACK ON YOUR W...
_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...
_Recent changes to Moodle mean there is just ONE method for importing
content from a different Moodle course (regardless of whether it is a
current or previous Academic year). If you are NOT an instructor of
the course you are seeking to import, you will ...
Forum subscriptions enable a particpant to receive email messages when
there is activity in a moodle forum. This article details how to:
* modify the forum subscription and digest settings for your
individual profile
* modify forum settings for your...
Grades can be imported into your Moodle gradebook from a spreadsheet
with either a file upload or a copy/paste method. Importing can
populate grades for existing assessment items or create new ones for
you (these will have the default 100-point maximum). ...
_Instructors sometimes hesitate to administer quizzes online because
they cannot be proctored as they are in the face-to-face classroom.
They must assume the quiz will be "open book" and also cannot rule out
the possibility that students might "share" inf...
REPORTS - OVERVIEW
Course reporting tools in moodle are available to all instructors.
Reports can be used to gather data about how activities and resources
in your course are being used and provide a measure of student
interaction in the course. Some rep...
_THE SHARING CART IS A BLOCK FOR DUPLICATING COURSE ITEMS INTO A
PERSONAL LIBRARY AND AN EASY WAY TO MOVE THOSE MOODLE RESOURCES AND
ACTIVITIES BETWEEN MULTIPLE COURSES ON YOUR SITE. WITH JUST THREE
CLICKS, THE SHARING CART COPIES AND MOVES A SINGLE COURS...
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...
New items added to a Moodle course end up at the end of the grade
book. To move items individually or as a group to a different category
or chronology, follow these steps:
* From the main course page under the Administration block, click
"Gradebook set...
_PAIRING A MCGRAW-HILL CONNECT WITH YOUR MOODLE COURSE ALLOWS YOU TO
SYNC GRADES FROM THE CONNECT SECTION TO YOUR MOODLE GRADEBOOK, AND
ALSO PROVIDES AN EASIER REGISTRATION PROCESS FOR YOUR STUDENTS. ONCE
YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE FOLLOWING AND YOUR COURSE I...
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...
_NOTE: YOU WILL NEED TO PAIR YOUR MCGRAW-HILL CONNECT COURSE WITH YOUR
MOODLE COURSE [HTTP://GO.AUGSBURG.EDU/CONNECT] BEFORE YOU CAN SYNC
CONNECT GRADES TO YOUR MOODLE GRADEBOOK._
*
To begin syncing grades from your Connect section to your Moodle
gra...
_The Moodle Attendance and Participation activity can be used to
assess student participation as well as attendance. Doing so gives
students an accurate assessment of their progress in the course, and
provides instructors with a comprehensive record of th...
_Whether you are assigning number grades or simply tallying
participation in your Moodle forums, there may be times when you want
to efficiently track how often students post to forums. Below is a
method for viewing all of the postings only ONE student ha...
NOTE: This article explains how Activity completion works and the
settings for various Moodle activities and resources. If you have
already created Activities and Resources in your course and want to
quickly update them to include Activity Completion crit...
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...
As an instructor in moodle you have access to reporting tools that
collect information about your course activity. This data is very
useful when determining which students are and are not active in
different activities of the course. You also can pull dat...
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 ...
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