Moodle for Faculty

Some Best Practices for Teaching Online Courses, based on prior experience with teaching online c...

Course Layout Explained Turning Editing On 1. Enter the course site you want to edit. 2. Cli...

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...

Having an organized Moodle course site can go a long way in helping students succeed in online le...

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

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

Master Copies of courses are used in both the undergraduate and graduate programs to help keep tr...

Activities are things that you want the students to do in your online classroom. Unlike Resources...

General Assignment Name The title that students will see on the course page. This is a re...

Resources are how you give students access to information on your Moodle course page. You can als...

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

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...

The commenting and editing features within Google Docs can sometimes be more user-friendly than t...

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...

Multiple Choice Students pick correct answer from a list. Question can have one or multipl...

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

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

You can find some information at the EdTech blog in the post titled BigBlueButton Basics.

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

Gradebook Overview   Categories Weights Moving Items Grade Scale Aggregations Moodle all...

Showing Letter Grades     7 STEPS 1. The first step is to open Course: ASL8001 01: American S...

  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...

The grading scale is how Moodle translates percentages into letter grades. It is also the scale t...

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 ...

Adding a Student Log in to Moodle and enter your Moodle course. Click on Participants on the ...

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...

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

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

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 Edit Dates report lets you review and update due dates, cut-off dates, and other timed events...

In general, courses should be hidden after they are completed. Sometimes, a student might need ac...

In discussion forums, sometimes a student will get an error that says they cannot post because th...

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.   ...

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. ...

Summary of Changes You will see a course appear in your Moodle list that starts with MASTER ...

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...

The basics:  To add an article from a library database to a Moodle reading list, use its persiste...