Save time grading with joule Grader
Providing feedback and grading assignments can be very time consuming. Luckily, Moodle has a new feature that makes grading more efficient. The joule Grader puts all student submissions in one place making it easier for professors to grade one assignment and quickly move to the next assignment.
Read MoreMoodle Q&A: Make grades and feedback visible to students
In this Moodle Q&A post, Elon faculty ask how to make grades and comments in their gradebooks visible to students. In older posts, we discussed how to import grades from Excel into Moodle. Now, we’ll cover how to ensure students can see the feedback you are providing on those assignments. Q: How can I make sure …
Read MoreMoodle Q&A: Import grades from Excel into Moodle
Question: I prefer to enter grades using Excel. How can I import grades into Moodle using Excel? Answer: Importing grades from an Excel document into Moodle is easy, if you follow some very specific, non-intuitive, steps. Importing grades from Excel is useful if you prefer to use Excel for grade calculations or if you use Scantrons …
Read MoreAnswer student questions with a virtual coffee shop
Guest Post by Victoria Shropshire – English Instructor Forums can be used in a variety of ways in any course, but at their heart, they encourage and increase writing. At a University where writing across the curriculum is one of our most pressing goals, why not embrace a technology that is easy to use and (in my …
Read MoreMoodle Q&A: forum emails, resubmit assignments, remove from gradebook
In this Moodle Q&A post, Elon faculty ask how their students can stop receiving an email every time someone posts in a forum. We also cover how to give a student a chance to resubmit a file after they’ve submitted something. In a previous post, we walked through enrolling yourself in your course as a student to experience …
Read MoreMoodle Q&A: act like a student, folder views, links, and passwords
In this Moodle Q&A post, Elon faculty ask how to experience their course exactly as a student (gradebook and all), how to reduce the amount of information displayed on their course page, and more. Elon faculty have a lot of questions about Moodle. That’s a good thing. It proves Elon faculty are using Moodle and testing …
Read MoreUPDATE: Easily add current, course-relevant news to your Moodle courses
Ideas for using Twitter in higher education are easy to find. One simple way to use Twitter is to embed a widget into your Moodle course. Embedding Twitter into Moodle is an easy way to add current, course-relevant news and opinions to your course.
Read MoreMoodle Q & A: drop the lowest score, YouTube and folders
Elon faculty have a lot of questions about Moodle. That’s a good thing. It proves Elon faculty are using Moodle and testing its limits. This post includes some questions (and answers) we received from faculty about Moodle.
Read MoreNeed email? Three things to get your Moodle course ready for Fall
Fall is here! There are three important steps to get every Moodle course ready for the fall. The following steps will make it easier for you to email your students and verify all your students have access to your Moodle course. This post includes steps to: Add the Quickmail block to your courses so you can …
Read MoreTake attendance with Moodle
If you take attendance in your courses, Moodle’s Attendance feature is an easy way to keep track of student absences. There are several advantages of using Moodle instead of a spreadsheet or a written notebook. In my mind, the two biggest benefits are the option to automatically calculate attendance in the final grade (if you …
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