The Moodle Guide for Faculty

Class outline

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  • Announcements Forum
• Getting Started
  

  Getting Started

  • Log In and Find Your Courses Page
  • Get to Know a Moodle Course Page
  • Make Your Course Visible to Students Page

    Are students complaining they can't see your Moodle course?  Woops- let's make it visible.

  • Import Resources and Activities from Another Course Page
  • Enroll Students and TAs in your Course Page
  • Update Your Office Hours Page
  • Change Your Course Format and Adjust Sections Page
• Activities and Resources
  

  Activities and Resources

  • Move, Rename or Hide Items Page

    Moodle Tip: You can use these options to adjust the content you've added, or hide it from students if you don't want them to see it yet.

  • View Student Activity Reports Page
  • Activities

  • Create an Assignment Page
  • View Assignment Submissions and Give Feedback Page
  • Annotate PDFs Submitted to an Assignment Page
  • Track Assignment Completion with a Grading Scale Page

    Moodle Tip: Grading scales in Moodle don't need to mean actual "grades". Use these instructions to take advantage of the grading system to view at-a-glance reports of who's missing what!

  • Reviewing Assignments "Offline" Page
  • Using Rubrics in Assignment Feedback Page
  • Add a Discussion Forum Page
  • Forum Types, Suggested Uses and Teaching Tips Page
  • Forum Subscription Options Page
  • Set Up and Take Attendance Page
  • Readings and Resources

  • Accessible Course Materials Page

    Something to consider when adding files: are your documents accessible?  What does that mean? Thinking about accessibility early on can save time and prove beneficial for both you and your students in the long run.

  • Add Files Page
  • Add Files from Google Docs or Dropbox Page
  • Upload Multiple Files in One Step Page
  • Store Multiple Files in a Folder Page
  • Add Links to Websites or Documents Page
  • Managing Files You Have Linked To Page
  • Add Images Page
  • Add Videos from YouTube or Your Computer Page
  • Add Videos from HampFlix or Kanopy Page
  • Add Text to Your Course Outline with a Label Page

    Moodle Tip: You may want to add some text to the sections for class meetings, to explain assignments or make note of schedule changes or holidays.

  • Create a Page with Links & Text

    Moodle Tip: You can make your Moodle course easier to navigate by putting content, links, media or other course information one-click-away on a Page. This entire guide is made up of pages!

• Backup and Restore Your Course
  

  Backup and Restore Your Course

  • Save Your Course Page as a PDF
  • Download All Course Files Page

    Moodle Tip: Want to save all the readings, documents, and photos you have uploaded to a course in one place?  Use the Download Instructor Files link to do just that.

  • Backup Your Course Page
  • Restore Your Course from a Backup Page
• Temporary Enrollment, Guest Access and Contacting Students
  

  Temporary Enrollment, Guest Access and Contacting Students

  • About the Temporary Enrollment Role Page
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    Guest Access
    If you want to give a someone who is not enrolled in your class access to your Moodle site it may be possible, but there are privacy and copyright concerns to take into account. Read the policy below to see how it works. 

  • Guest Access Policy Page
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    Quickmail
    This feature lets you email some or all of your students directly through Moodle.

  • Using Quickmail Page
• Other Features
  

  Other Features

  We've just scratched the surface of Moodle so far- it can do a LOT. When you're ready to explore some of the other features, check out the links below, or feel free to ask us!

  Workshop- Have students provide peer review for each other's assignments directly through Moodle.  You're in charge of setting the timeline for several stages (initial submission of the work, peer review) and how many assignments each student reads.

  Quiz- You can build a bank of quiz questions and use them in a various quizzes.

  Lightbox Gallery- You can use this module to create an image gallery.  Great for displaying images of ideas generated together on the board in class.

  Scheduler - Set aside time slots so students from a single class can sign up to meet you.

  Glossary- The class can work collaboratively to create a glossary of terms, with each student adding entries.

  For the motherlode of information, visit Moodle.org, the official Moodle help & how to site.