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Skill Level: Basic, Intermediate, & Advanced
Priority Level: Mandatory, Suggested, & Optional
Optimal Timing: Beginning-, Middle , End of Term, & Full Term
Most of the processes involved in keeping your Moodle course running smoothly are simple, but they are often only required once per term, making it easy to forget. This collection of help guides, organized by usage categories is designed to give you the info you need, when you need it! We value your feedback on regarding any additional information you would like to see here.
There are two broad categories of content in a Moodle course: Resources and Activities. Think of resources as your learning content, and Activities as what you, your students, and the system itself does to facilitate learning.
Moodle has a number of Activity and Resource types available for instructors to use in their courses. Don’t let the amount intimidate you, though, because the vast majority of our courses utilize 5 or fewer types. Even if you only use 1 or 2 types of Activities and/or Resources, it is well worth your time to put it in Moodle!
Course Management
Course Management
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Optional
Optimal Timing: Beginning of Term
This is how to copy all or some of the contents of an entire course into another one.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: Full Term
Gaining and grasping the student perspective is a critical part of the education process.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Optional
Optimal Timing: Beginning of Term
Did you know you can hide entire sections of content, as well as individual activities & resources in your Moodle course? You can even configure them to be automatically visible on a specific date/time in the future!
Skill Level: Beginner
Priority Level: Optional
Optimal Timing: Beginning of Term
This is a great way to make sure everything functions consistently for you and your students from week-to-week.
Skill Level: Basic
Posting your syllabus, lecture slides, etc. in your Moodle course is one of the most basic, yet useful ways to take advantage of eLearning in your teaching. Posting a link to a shared Google Doc has many advantages for you and your students compared to a conventional file.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: Beginning of Term
The “Dates” report is a powerful tool that enables you to update various access date & time settings for the activities & resources in your Moodle course.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Mandatory
Optimal Timing: Beginning of Term
When a Moodle course shell is created at LBCC, it is set to be unavailable (invisible) to students.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: Beginning of Term
Groups in a Moodle course have two contexts: Course level and Activity level. Here is how to set up groups in your Moodle course. NOTE: this process is required if you plan to configure 2 or more courses in a meta (parent/child) arrangement.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Recommended
Optimal Timing: Full Term
Here are a few different ways to determine student activity within your Moodle course. This is especially important when you are teaching an online course.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: Full Term
The “ATTO” editor is the default text and HTML editing interface in LBCC Moodle, and was designed to simplify and streamline the process of creating and editing accessible content.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Mandatory
Optimal Timing: End of Term
"The Accessibility Resources Office has authorized a student to receive more time (or other accommodation) on the quizzes in my Moodle course. How do I facilitate that?"
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: Full Term
Here is how to use your Moodle Dashboard to navigate to your courses. You may want to include this as a URL Resource in your course.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: Pre-Term
Inheriting a Moodle course site developed by another instructor is a common occurrence. While inheriting content and assessments that have already been developed can be very helpful, there are a few steps the instructor inheriting the course can take to make the hand-off as successful as possible.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Optional
Optimal Timing: Beginning of Term
Did you know you can hide entire sections of content, as well as individual activities & resources in your Moodle course? You can even configure them to be automatically visible on a specific date/time in the future!
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: Full Term
Have you ever deleted a resource or activity from your Moodle course, only to regret it later? Deleted items are sent to a recycle bin, allowing you to retrieve a resource or activity that you later want to restore into your course.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: End of Term
As part of the end-of-term Moodle course maintenance processes, the course backup provides a complete copy of everything that happened in your Moodle course during a single term.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: Full Term
There are a couple of ways you can determine the last date a student accessed to your Moodle course.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Optional
Optimal Timing: Full Term
There are a number of scenarios where you may want/need to accommodate a student’s request to edit their assignment submission. Luckily, the process is very straightforward.
Skill Level: Advanced
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: Beginning of Term
Faculty are required to report whether or not course learning outcomes are met for each student. This process allows you to generate an outcomes report in Moodle as a reference for reporting outcomes at the student level. If you want and/or need assistance in designing activities that partially or completely fulfill your course outcomes, contact our outcomes specialist:
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Recommended
Optimal Timing: Beginning of Term
Take a tour of all of the most useful settings of the Moodle Assignment Activity, with a few added-value tidbits added along the way.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: Full Term
You can control the availability of learning materials in your Moodle course based on a number of condition types by using the “Restrict Access” setting in Resources and Activities, as well as entire sections of content. This can help in setting your students on track for success.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Optional
Optimal Timing: Full Term
You can make a week or topic content section available for a single (or more) student as well as control individual Moodle Activities and Resources within that section.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Optional
Optimal Timing: Full Term
There are a number of user roles on the LBCC Moodle system, including the standard roles (Instructor, Student, etc.) and many customized roles developed to serve user needs in a wide variety of scenarios. Each user role has a large number of “permissions” or capabilities that are enabled or disabled, depending on the intended use for that role.
Skill Level: All
Priority Level: Optional
Optimal Timing: Full Term
You may want to bookmark this page, as it is the most complete and up-to-date listing of all of our in-house Moodle videos. NOTE: these videos are updated regularly to reflect current interface features. If you notice an out-of-date video, please message Paul Tannahill.
Skill Level: All
Priority Level: Optional
Optimal Timing: Beginning of Term
The Moodle Attendance activity module enables an instructor to take attendance during class and students to view their own attendance record. The instructor can create multiple sessions and mark the attendance statuses as "present," "absent," "late," or "excused," or modify, and and/or delete the statuses to suit their needs. Reports are available for the entire class or individual students.
Communication
Communication
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: Full Term
There are a few different ways to send messages to your students from within your Moodle course.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Priority Level: Optional
Optimal Timing: Beginning of Term
The Quickmail block adds a link to a tool that has a checkbox list of all students in your Moodle course, and the familiar, full-featured composition text area.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: Full Term
The Moodle forum activity allows asynchronous discussion between students and instructors to extend beyond the time and space limitations of live/face-to-face conversations.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: Full Term
New Moodle courses have an
Announcements forum
pre-loaded, and thus, care
must be taken when
importing content so as to not
duplicate this forum because
having more than one will
break the emailing
processes.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: Full Term
This short "how-to" video walks the viewer through Moodle's new Participant Filtering to send targeted Moodle messages to a sub-group of students.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: Beginning of Term
Personalizing your Moodle profile gives your students a better sense of who you are as a person - details like photos, background, interests, and hobbies help humanize you. This fosters stronger student-instructor connections.
Skill Level: Advanced
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: Beginning of Term
Did you know that you can have Moodle automatically track your students' completion of any or all of the resources and/or activities in your course, and then when they complete everything, the system will indicate course completion? There's even a nifty block that will show student progress!
Grading / Gradebook
Grading / Gradebook
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: Full Term
By default, Moodle displays grades in the gradebook in points. Some students prefer to see their grades expressed in point values, while others prefer a straightforward percentage. Here is how to show both.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Priority Level: Optional
Optimal Timing: Beginning of Term
There are two primary methods of displaying and calculating grades in a Moodle course.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: End of Term
After you have finalized student grades at the end of the term, it’s a good idea to export your Moodle gradebook.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Priority Level: Optional
Optimal Timing: Full Term
There are multiple ways of approaching an efficient grading workflow in your Moodle course. Here is a not-so-obvious way to show all of the Activities in your course that are ready to be graded, in one report. It’s just 5 mouse clicks away!
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: Full Term
There are numerous scenarios where you might want to provide a graded activity in your Moodle course to facilitate extra credit for your students. You can add an extra credit item(s) at any time during the term.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: End of Term
Incompletes can be requested by the student or offered by the instructor. Whether or not an incomplete is granted is at the instructor’s discretion. Incompletes are appropriate in situations that meet a number of criteria.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: End of Term
When a student has not completed all of the work to earn a final grade in your Moodle course, they may request an extension beyond the end of the term to finish the course. Our processes for incomplete students in Moodle is super-simple.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: Full Term
There are numerous scenarios where you might want to provide a graded activity in your Moodle course to facilitate extra credit for your students. You can add an extra credit item(s) at any time during the term.
Multimedia
Multimedia
Skill Level: Intermediate
Priority Level: Optional
Optimal Timing: Full Term
Panopto is LBCC’s technology solution for recording video presentations, managing your existing videos, and streaming your video content to any device.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Priority Level: Optional
Optimal Timing: Full Term
At the request of a few instructors who want to assign their students to produce a brief self-introduction and/or demonstration videos as assignment submissions, forum posts, etc. Here is a screencast video directed toward students for you to include in your Moodle course.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Mandatory
Optimal Timing: Prior to Term
If you are participating in the DDA program in collaboration with the LBCC Boosktore, here is everythig you need to know. Direct questions to Lawrence LaJoie: lajoiel@linnbenton.edu
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Optional
Optimal Timing: Beginning of Term
You can integrate the graded activites you build on the ALEKS site into your Moodle course, including the grades.
Quizzes
Quizzes
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Suggested
Optimal Timing: Beginning of Term
This process facilitates the efficient import of true/false & multiple choice test questions directly into a Moodle course question bank.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Optional
Optimal Timing: Full Term
There are a number of scenarios where you may want/need to allow a student an additional attempt at a quiz in your Moodle course. Luckily, the process is very straightforward.
Skill Level: Basic
Priority Level: Optional
Optimal Timing: Full Term
Take a tour of the settings for the Quiz activity, as well as some basic info on the Moodle Question Bank.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Do you recognize and appreciate the value in using a calendar that includes things you want to do, along with thing you need to do, all in one view? It makes it easier to avoid double booking. Here is how to make a Google Calendar version of your Moodle course(s) calendar, in a simple, step-by-step process.
Have you ever thought it would be nice to include an "Add to Google Calendar" link in the body of an email message you are sending out to announce an event? Here is one way to make it easy for your email recipients to add a copy of YOUR event to THEIR Google Calendar. This works for one-time events, as well as recurring events!
Introducing a terrific Chrome browser extension that makes it very easy to include a link to your Zoom room in your Google Calendar events. No more copying & pasting between your Zoom "Meetings" page and your Google Calendar event, as the selection is available directly in Google Calendar.
Have you ever spent more time scheduling a meeting among multiple people than the meeting itself? It's surprisingly simple and easy to avoid that, and schedule a meeting during an available time slot among all of your guests.
YuJa Panorama has a deep integration with Moodle LMS to help instructors provide digital accessibility for course content without extra log-ins and dashboards. Instructors can create content as they normally would. YuJa Panorama automatically generates accessible alternatives in the background and provides real-time feedback.
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