The Moodle Guide for Faculty

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  • Announcements Forum
  • ATTO HTML Editor URL

    You can now replace the default editor with the more robust ATTO HTML Editor

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  What's New in Moodle 3.11

  • Activity Completion URL

    Activity completion is a good scaffold for students. They can keep track of the individual parts of an assignment. You can see a different view of all assignments. Assignments can be marked complete by students or by you.

  • Why use Activity Completion? URL
  • Brickfield Accessibility Starter Toolkit Page

    The Brickfield Accessibility Starter Toolkit will help you identify the parts of your Moodle Course that are accessible as is, the parts that need some work, and the parts that are not yet accessible. This includes files, links, text, images, etc. The old scanner only looked at .pdf files. This does much more!

    
    

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  Getting Started

  • Log In and Find Your Courses Page
  • Get to Know a Moodle Course: Blocks and the Outline Section 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 a Previous Course Page
  • Enroll Students in your Course Page
  • Enroll TAs in your Course Page
  • Update Your Office Hours Page
  • Change Your Course Format and Adjust Sections Page

    Moodle Tip: To get a sense of the ways different course formats can be used to achieve organizational goals, check out the Topics and Categories page of our Moodle Course Gallery.

  • 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.

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  Resources

  Want to get a sense of how other teachers are using Moodle to include images, videos, and other additions to their Moodle pages?  Check out the Files and Media section of our Moodle Course gallery.

  • Files and Documents

  • Accessible Course Materials (link to hampshire.edu) URL
  • Add Files Page
  • Store Multiple Files in a Folder Page
  • Upload Multiple Files* in One Step Page

    *This includes the contents already in a nested folder.

  • Note About Adding Files from Google Docs or Dropbox Page
  • Links to Online Resources

  • Add Links to Websites or Files Page
  • Managing Files You Have Linked To Page
  • Images and Videos

  • Add Images Page
  • Add Videos from YouTube or Your Computer Page
  • Stream Hampshire Library Video Titles on HampFlix Page
  • Record short video or audio right into your content Page
  • Text and Site Pages

    Example uses for text and pages are collected on the Instructions and Questions page of our Moodle Course Gallery.  Check them out for some inspiration!

  • Add Text to Your Course Outline 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 one-click-away on a Page. This entire guide is made up of pages!

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  Activities

  • Assignments and Grades

    Examples on how assignments can be integrated (or not) throughout the semester can be found on the Assignments and Submissions page of our Moodle Course Gallery.

  • 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 know who's missing what!

  • View Student Activity Reports Page
  • Reviewing Assignments "Offline" Page
  • Using Rubrics in Assignment Feedback Page
  • Discussion Forums

    For inspiration on using forums, feel free to check out the Forums and Discussion page on our Moodle Course Gallery, where we've collected examples of how others have used the feature.

  • Add a Discussion Forum Page
  • Forum Types, Suggested Uses and Teaching Tips Page
  • Forum Subscription Options Page
  • Database Activities

    The database activity is actually very flexible. It can be used to create a shared gallery, a study guide, or even a journal.

  • Journaling and other uses for the Database Activity Page
  • Attendance

  • Set Up and Take Attendance Page
  • Zoom Integration
    

    For general information about Hampshire Zoom accounts, please check out our FAQ at https://www.hampshire.edu/it/zoom-faq . For details about using our Zoom/Moodle integration, see below.
    

  • Zoom/Moodle Integration Page
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  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
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  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
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  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!  There are also examples of the Feedback, Attendance, and Scheduler activities that you can view in our Moodle Course Gallery.

  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.
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