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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...
_THE MOODLE ATTENDANCE ACTIVITY CAN BE USED TO ASSESS REPEATING
ASSIGNMENTS THROUGHOUT THE SEMESTER (LIKE STUDENT JOURNALS), AS WELL
AS ATTENDANCE IN FACE-TO-FACE CLASSES. DOING SO GIVES STUDENTS AN
ACCURATE ASSESSMENT OF THEIR PROGRESS IN THE COURSE AND ...
BENEFITS OF DUE DATES IN MOODLE ASSIGNMENTS:
FOR STUDENTS
* The due date (and the time remaining) is clearly displayed in the
Assignment description.
* Lists the assignments in the "Upcoming Events" block.
* Includes due dates in the Moodle calend...
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...
For times when you want all students to contribute files to a common
location within a course, you can use the Folder resource with a
modified setting to allow students to add content to your course for
others to see.
* To create a folder resource, tur...
_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 ...
A moodle chat room is an activity where participants can send
messages in real-time (instant messaging or IM) to the entire group. A
chat is a synchronous activity, however transcripts of the chat can be
archived for review after the session is finishe...
_A forum in Moodle allows faculty and students to participate in an
online asynchronous discussion. Faculty can create the forum and add
text which may include the topic to consider, length of response and
deadlines. Each post to the forum is stamped with...
_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...
_There are two advanced grading methods in Moodle--the Grading Guide
(for more information on this, see Creating a Moodle Grading Guide
[http://go.augsburg.edu/markingguide]) and a Rubric. A Moodle Rubric
is an advanced grading method that provides consis...
WHAT IS A PODCAST?
According to Wikipedia (January 25, 2019), "A PODCAST...is an episodic
series of digital audio or video files which a user can download in
order to listen to. It is often available for subscription, so that
new episodes are automatical...
\N\NCREATING A WIKI IN MOODLE\N\N
A wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki [1]) is a website that
allows multiple authors to edit the content using a web browser. The
Moodle Wiki module enables participants to work together on web pages
to add, expand...
_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...
CREATE AN ASSIGNMENT ACTIVITY
(For offline assignments, note well Step 6 of this article)
* Click the green button in the upper right-hand corner to turn
editing on, and then (in the topic section where you want to add the
assignment, click the "Add a...
CREATING/SHARING GOOGLE DRIVE FILES FOR A CLASS ASSIGNMENT
For some assignments, instructors will recommend providing a link to a
file (especially a movie file) or uploading the file directly into a
Moodle Assignment or Forum. This may be because the fi...
Discussion forums are the most accessible tool we have in Moodle to
create collaborative learning activities. However, many instructors
limit their use of the discussion board to a simple "discussion
question" where students are asked to respond or share ...
_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...
In most cases, content imported from a previous course can have due
dates assigned that require updating in order to be relevant for the
new term. A new feature we've added to Moodle 2015-16 is the ability
to view and change the date settings for your cou...
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 ...
_The Content Editor (toolbar) in Moodle forums has templates so you
can quickly create robust directions that clearly communicate your
expectations. _
* Create a forum [http://go.augsburg.edu/createforum] (or if you
already have created the forum, click...
_GOOGLE ASSIGNMENT LTI (LEARNING TECHNOLOGY INTEROPERABILITY),
FORMERLY KNOWN AS GOOGLE COURSE KIT, IS A FREE TOOL THAT ALLOWS
INSTRUCTORS TO CREATE AND COLLECT ASSIGNMENTS VIA GOOGLE DOCS/DRIVE,
GIVE FEEDBACK TO STUDENTS USING GOOGLE DOCS COMMENTING, AND...
_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...
_MOODLE HAS AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR GRADING FORUMS THAT STREAMLINES
YOUR GRADING AND ALLOWS YOU TO PROVIDE TIMELY, SUBSTANTIVE, AND
PRIVATE FEEDBACK TO YOUR STUDENTS. IF YOU PREFER--HERE IS A VIDEO
[HTTPS://YOUTU.BE/KD7BLVGKSEW] THAT EXPLAINS THE STEP-BY...
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...
_Annotate web-based videos (YouTubes) or video files (WebM or mp4) by
adding interactive elements such as quiz questions. Scores are
automatically integrated into the Moodle gradebook. This is an
asynchronous activity that will enable you to make a passiv...
_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....
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. IT IS POSSIBLE TO: _
_ 1. HIDE INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES_
_ 2. HIDE SPECIFIC TOPIC SECTIONS_
_ 3. HIDE THE ENTIRE COURSE_
...
THIS TUTORIAL WILL EXPLAIN HOW TO CREATE AND SHARE A VOICETHREAD WITH
OTHERS. HAVE A POWERPOINT READY TO CONVERT INTO A VOICETHREAD BEFORE
STARTING THIS TUTORIAL.
WHAT IS A VOICETHREAD? HTTPS://VOICETHREAD.COM/HOWTO/
[HTTPS://VOICETHREAD.COM/HOWTO/]
...
_Grading Guides are scoring charts that list a series of criteria for
an assignment and establish a range of possible points for each. Your
instructors may use a Grading Guide to provide you with feedback on
your work. Here is how to access your graded Gr...
_The Moodle lesson is a valuable tool for creating engaging online
course content. A Lesson contains pages of lesson content (this could
be text, images, or video) and questions (which can be auto-graded)
that are delivered in a specific sequence. The les...
_Regardless of whether students submit assignments online (by
attaching a file or entering text directly into a text box) or offline
(by handing in a hard copy of a paper or delivering a face-to-face,
oral presentation), the Moodle Assignment activity off...
Your instructor may ask you to take a screenshot of a badge you have
earned in a Moodle course (for instance, the APA Style Review course)
and submit that as evidence you have earned the badge. Once you have
met the necessary requirements, you should rece...
_INSTRUCTORS MAY ASK STUDENTS TO SUBMIT AN ASSIGNMENT AS AN UPLOADED
FILE TO A MOODLE ASSIGNMENT OR AS AN ATTACHMENT TO A MOODLE FORUM
POST. MOODLE WILL ACCEPT MANY DIFFERENT FORMATS, BUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR
MAY SPECIFY THAT YOU UPLOAD A WORD DOC OR PDF TO A ...
_Whether you are assigning number grades or simply tallying
participation in your Moodle forums, there may be times when you want
to view all of the posts (responses and replies) submitted by a
specific student to a particular Moodle Forum. The following ...
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...
The Workflow setting in Moodle Assignments allows you to finish
marking all students' submissions before releasing them to the
gradebook. Workflow has 6 states (Not graded, In grading, Grading
Completed, In review, Ready for release, and Released) to allo...
_There may be situations (e.g., in-class quizzes or writing
assignments, presentations, etc.) where students are not going to
submit work through Moodle, but you want to provide feedback and add
the grade in the Moodle gradebook. The BEST way to do this i...
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...
_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...
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...
_PERUSALL IS A SOCIAL LEARNING PLATFORM THAT INCORPORATES A
VARIETY OF WEB-BASED RESOURCES (E.G., PDF'S, E-BOOKS, VIDEOS,
PODCASTS) WITH COLLABORATIVE ANNOTATION TOOLS TO ENGAGE STUDENTS
IN AN ASYNCHRONOUS LEARNING EXPERIENCE. WATCH THIS VIDEO
[HTTPS://YO...
Dividing students into small group (5-6 people per group) can help
facilitate lively discussion and reduce forum overload for students
and faculty.
Here is how to tell (and change) whether a Moodle forum (or other type
of activity) is using Groups:
*...
_Realtime quizzing in Moodle is a synchronous polling device (similar
to iClickers and Poll Everywhere) that operates within your Moodle
course. Instructors create multiple-choice questions, and students
logged into their Moodle course respond on their ow...
_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...
The Lindell Library subscribes to Films on Demand, a database with
thousands of educational and documentary videos including films from
_Films for the Humanities & Sciences_, _Cambridge Educational_,
_Meridian Educatio_n, and _Films Media Group_. Instruct...
_Many courses use personal journaling as way for students to reflect
upon their experiences and learning throughout the semester. Google
Docs provides a very effective method for sharing journals between
student and instructor. Using their Augsburg email ...
UPLOAD MULTIPLE FEEDBACK FILES USING A ZIP FILE
If you like to make comments on files (such as using Track Changes in
a Word document, or adding comments to a PDF), you can return
annotated feedback files to students through a Moodle Assignment.
Addition...
_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 "Standard forum for general use" is the default choice in Moodle.
However, the layout of the standard forum means instructors must open
each thread separately, making it difficult to simultaneously assess
quantity (number of posts/replies as required...
_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...
The VoiceThread Assignment Builder is integrated with Moodle and
allows instructors to assign a grade when students have either
* _completely watched a VoiceThread._
* _submitted a Comment to a VoiceThread, or_
* _created a VoiceThread (e.g., for ...
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