Moodle for Faculty

Turning Editing On 1. Enter the course site you want to edit. 2. Click on the settings gear in ...

MLC courses use collapsed topics by default. These topics can be used to organize course content,...

Course blocks are the boxes of information on the right side of the course page. These blocks can...

This feature allows instructors to see the course home page and activities as if they were a stud...

Orphaned content can appear when the number of sections in a current course does not match the nu...

Course resources and activities typically appear on the course page in the order that they are en...

PDFs, Word Documents, Images, Spreadsheets, and more can be added to the course page for students...

Nearly anything with a web link can be shared to your Moodle course page. Instructions Log in...

If you wish to have students contribute to your Moodle site, it is possible, but not very intuiti...

Hidden content cannot be seen by students. Content needs to be made visible before students can s...

When an activity or resource is outdated or will no longer be used for the course, it can be dele...

The assignment activity is how students can turn in a variety of files to be graded. There are a ...

When adding a new assignment activity to a Moodle course, there are a variety of settings that im...

Follow the instructions for adding course content. In step 3, choose Assignment. Enter the in...

Instructors can limit the file types that a student is allowed to submit for an assignment. This ...

Using Feedback Files When this option is enabled in an assignment, instructors can upload a comp...

A very useful feature in Moodle Assignments is the ability for students to upload a Google Doc di...

An explanation of the various settings that can be utilized in a Moodle discussion forum. These s...

Question and Answer forums can be used when you don't want students to see the responses of other...

Discussion forums allow students to interact with each other asynchronously. There are a variety ...

There are five types of discussion forums to support participant collaboration and learning. Each...

1. Create your Google Form or Google Forms Quiz 2. Click the purple Share button in the upper ri...

In addition to assignments, discussion forums, and quizzes, a variety of other activities are ava...

The feedback activity can be used to provide students with a place to share their thoughts after ...

The Announcement forum is available by default in all courses. It has some unique features. On...

Anywhere that instructors or students have a textbox to enter text, they can also record audio or...

Categories Weights Moving Items Grade Scale Aggregations:  Moodle allows you to aggregate you...

  A Moodle Discussion forum can be graded within Moodle. The grades are automatically entered in...

You can also add your own entries to the gradebook that aren't linked to a Moodle activity like a...

Detailed View Quick Grading Feedback audio/video feedback Grading Guides Rubrics Feedback F...

When viewing the gradebook, items are listed in chronological order, based on when the assignment...

If you haven't used Moodle Gradebook before, this would be a great time to try it out. Some benef...

Extra credit can be added to the Moodle gradebook as a gradebook item that adds points to the stu...

This screencast shows the user how to set up a rubric in Moodle.     

This screencast shows how to grade an assignment onecethe rubric has been established.

This screencast shows how to use a rubric established for one assignment in another without retyp...

No Groups Groups will not be used for this activity. This is the default setting. Separate Grou...

In Moodle, groups are set up for the whole course, but only impact those activities that are set ...

Your Moodle profile shares biographical and contact information with other Moodle users. Please f...

Your Moodle profile picture is visible to Moodle users you interact with, helping to put a face w...

Courses need to be activated before they appear in Moodle. You may activate any course that you a...

Requesting a Sample Student Contact Rachel Feld to request a sample student account. Enrol...

At the conclusion of a course or the semester, courses should be hidden from student view to prot...

Course content from previous offerings can be imported for reuse. The entire course can be import...

Meta-courses can be reused from one semester or year to the next by removing the sections that ar...

Groups can be used in a Discussion Forum to limit the number of posts an individual student inter...

At the end of each semester, grades need to be reported for each student. Grades are reported on ...

A Teachers' Assistant (TA) can be added to courses to assist with various instructional duties. ...

Most online instructors do not want to delete a course site right after they have taught it since...

A common end-of-course survey is conducted at the conclusion of all online courses in order to ga...

By default, all courses are initially hidden from student view. Instructors need to make courses ...

Class rosters are available to view prior to the semester via Portal or during the semester via P...

For online courses, please contact your students about two weeks prior to the start of the semest...

After importing and opening up a course, sometimes activities appear as orphaned. Please follow t...

Some MLC courses have several sections of the same course. These can be combined into a single co...

Meta-courses can be reused from one semester or year to the next by removing the sections that ar...

The course short name is unique to every course. It can be helpful to know the course sh...

All courses are named following a standard convention. Official Course Number: This begins wi...

Please use the following checklist to help get your online Moodle course up and running. Act...

Please use the following checklist to help get your On-Campus Moodle site up and running. Ac...

Please use the following checklist to help guide you through the end of your online course. ...

Please use the following checklist to help guide you through the end of your on-campus course. ...

What are "Blocks?" Blocks are part of the Moodle Course Page.  These areas give the user informa...

Reports Moodle provides several tools for giving you feedback about student activity. Moodle's R...

It may be useful to know when a student last accessed your course.  Moodle keeps track of that fo...

You can allow students to access logs and activity reports.  Steps: Log in to the course.  Selec...