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Set up a Group self-selection activity to allow students to join a group in the course. Instructors must specify which groups are available for the activity, and can place a limit on the number of members in each group.
Create Groups for Your Students to Choose From, and Add the Groups to a...
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The Questionnaire activity allows you to survey your students using a wide range of question types. For example, you can collect informal/ungraded student feedback on your course or on a particular topic. You can view all responses or individual student's responses (and control whether or not...
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Turnitin assignments differ from regular Assignments in Moodle. Turnitin helps instructors evaluate the similarity of students’ work by comparing electronic documents to online sources and the Turnitin database. The software returns an Similarity Report which rates submitted assignments and...
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A Workshop in Moodle is a peer assessment activity with many options. Students submit their work via an online text tool and attachments. There are two grades for each student: a grade for their submitted work, and a grade for their peer assessments of other students' work. For a summary of the...
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The Assignment activity lets instructors communicate tasks, collect work, set due dates, and provide feedback and grades.
Students may submit digital files (such as word-processed documents, spreadsheets, images, or audio and video clips), or type text directly into a text submission box....
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Many web-based teaching and learning tools can be integrated with Moodle via a method called Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI). You can connect these tools to your Moodle course with the External tool activity. If you are a Teacher or Course Designer, you can configure External tools in Moodle...
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An HTML block is a standard block used to add text or images in the sidebar of your course page.
An HTML block can incorporate a variety of functions and uses. It provides the standard Moodle Editor for formatting text, adding images or creating links, and switching to HTML view, which allows any...
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A Page resource allows students to see a single, web page within a Moodle course. Instructors can format text, add links, insert images and videos, and modify a page's HTML code with Moodle's robust text editor.
Add a Page
In the menu bar at the top of your course page, select Turn editing on (...
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A Quiz in Moodle is a powerful and adaptive activity that instructors can customize in numerous ways. This page explains how to add a Quiz activity to your course and reviews the many options you can set for delivering a quiz and providing feedback, for example, how many times it may be attempted,...
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In Moodle, you can add an image anywhere you see the Text editor toolbar.
Instructors can use images in activity descriptions (e.g., the description for an Assignment, Quiz questions, a post to a Forum, or in a Page resource).
Students can add images, when posting in a forum, submitting a text-...
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This article explains how to add questions to a Moodle Quiz that has already been added to your course. To learn how to create a quiz see Add and Configure a Quiz Activity in Moodle.
Note: You will not be able to add quiz questions once the Quiz activity has been atempted.
Add a New Question to...
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As an instructor, you can control the number of Sections students see in different ways. You can add sections using buttons at the bottom of the course page, and you can delete or hide/show particular sections from students.
Note: Depending on the Course Format, the names of course sections are...
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As of November 2, 2017 a new method for connecting Moodle courses to the UMass Amherst Libraries Course Materials (Library Reserves) replaces the Moodle block. Instructors now create the link using an External tool activity.
For instructions, see Give Students access to Library Course Materials...
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Learn how to adjust quiz scoring, override quiz access settings for particular students or groups of students, and review and grade student attempts on quizzes.
Configure Quiz Scoring
When a student attempts a Quiz activity in Moodle, the student's responses are scored automatically by Moodle...
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From the Gradebook setup page, you can control advanced options for all grade items including whether grades are displayed as numeric, percentage or letter grades. This page describes how to view and edit these options for grade items (activities and manually created columns) and category totals....
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UMass Amherst considers the course content you have created to be your intellectual property. During the transition from Moodle legacy to Moodle in the Cloud, you can still authorize access to share your Moodle course content with an instructor. The steps will differ based on whether you are...
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Assignments in Moodle allow you to collect and evaluate student work. Managing student work using an Assignment activity gives you these benefits:
Paperless management of student work: The Assignment activity provides a convenient database of student submissions that you can organize and manage...
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Moodle provides many communication tools. This overview will help you learn about the strengths and limitations of each tool and when you might choose to use it.
The Announcements Forum
Announcements (previously called News Forum) is a unique forum that acts as an announcements tool for your...
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The groups feature allows an instructor to assign students (and TAs or co-instructors) to one or more groups for the entire course or for individual activities. Because students can be in multiple groups at once, instructors can set up different group memberships for different activities (e.g.,...
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Instructors can use quizzes in Moodle to evaluate student understanding of material. Moodle quizzes consist of a Quiz activity that contains one or more questions from your course's Question bank. The Quiz activity allows you to administer a wide range of questions (see Quiz Question Types in...