Moodle Q&A: How to transfer content from one course to another
As the semester winds down, faculty may need to move assignments, quizzes, videos, audio files or photos from one class to another. The easiest way to do this is through Moodle’s Import feature. This allows you to reuse instead of recreate activities and resources. Q: How do I transfer material from one course to another? A: You …
Read MoreMoodle Q&A: Student collaboration functions
In this Moodle Q&A post on groups, faculty ask about student collaboration functions. In previous Moodle Q&A posts on groups, we discussed what groups are, why we should use them, how to create them and how to collect assignments from them. Moodle handles groups differently than Blackboard. In Blackboard, groups were automatically given a workspace that …
Read MoreMoodle Q&A: How to collect assignments from groups
In this Moodle Q&A post on groups, faculty ask how to collect particular assignments from different groups. Collecting assignments from groups is advantageous because it allows you to view submitted assignments from specific groups rather than from the class as a whole. For example, imagine you have assigned a group project in your class and want …
Read MoreMoodle Q&A: Create groups
In this Moodle Q&A series on groups, Elon faculty ask what groups are, why they should use them and how to create them. Groups provide a way for instructors to arrange students into clusters so that assignments and grades can be allocated and accessed separately. Q: What Are Moodle Groups? A: Moodle groups allow instructors to organize users …
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 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 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.
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