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  • Moodle provides several ways for instructors to record grades in the gradebook. When grading from within a Moodle activity, grades will automatically appear in a corresponding column (grade item) in the gradebook. Additionally, instructors can manually enter and override grades in the gradebook,...
  • RSS feeds are an easy way to automatically bring new content into your course from outside websites such as blogs and newspapers.  Feeds are especially useful if you want your students to be up-to-date on news or events that are relevant to your course.  The Remote RSS Feeds block can be configured...
  • Moodle makes it easy to reorder and move resources, activities and sections within your course. If JavaScript is enabled in your browser (recommended), you can drag-and-drop the items to a new location on the page. If JavaScript is not enabled, you can move items up or down by clicking.  Note: To...
  • Moodle is a widely-used open source learning management system (LMS) used to deliver course content and host online learning activities. Beginning in the summer of 2021, on-campus, for-credit Moodle courses are created in Moodle in the Cloud (umass.moonami.com). Courses taught in Moodle through...
  • As an instructor, you can Back Up a Moodle Course by creating and downloading a Moodle Backup File (.mbz). An .mbz file is a compressed archive of a Moodle course that can be used to restore that course within our new version of Moodle, Moodle in the Cloud, or at a different campus. We recommend...
  •   Error Note: Activities restored from the Recycle Bin do not restore student responses or student data. Moodle US is aware of this Moodle-wide bug and are working on a fix.   The Recycle bin saves deleted Activities or Resources from your Moodle course for a period of seven days. After an...
  • Every semester you teach a course in Moodle, even for classes you've taught before, your newly created Moodle course will initially be empty. Use the Import function to quickly copy content from a previous Moodle course and reuse the content for the current term. Reusing a Moodle course is a...
  • This matrix provides an overview of role capabilities. For detailed descriptions of roles, see Roles in Moodle.   Access Course  Grade Student Work Add Activities & Resources View Forums Access Quickmail Post to...
  • There are several distinct roles individuals can have in a Moodle course. Each role provides access to a specific set of capabilities. Your status in a class in SPIRE determines the role you are initially given in a Moodle course: Student, Non-editing teacher (Teaching Assistant), or Teacher (...
  • Select missing words questions allow instructors to create questions that require students to select words or phrases from a drop down menu embedded into a question text.  Create a New Select Missing Words Question On your course page, in the Administration block, under Course Administration,...
  • The Assignment activity lets you communicate tasks, collect work, set due dates, and provide feedback and grades. For more information on how to Add a Moodle Assignment as well as basic Assignment settings, please see: Add an Assignment Activity in Moodle Students often benefit from getting...
  • Moodle does not come with a pre-configured activity for individual student journals, but you can set up journals using a Forum. You can make journaling spaces private so that only the instructor and TAs can read students' posts, or you can allow students to read but not edit or comment on each...
  • Short answer questions require respondents to type a word or phrase in response to a question (that may include an image). Answers may or may not be case sensitive and can include more than one correct answer. Acceptable answers can be a word or a phrase, but must match one of your correct answers...
  • Simple calculated questions are individual numerical questions based on a formula using variables or "wildcards" (i.e {x} , {y}). These wildcards are based on a set of pre-generated values making it possible for respondents to see different values for the same question. Example of a Simple...
  • When teaching a course with multiple sections, especially when a course has a large number of students, using groups in conjunction with the gradebook makes it much easier to filter student data. Multi-section courses automatically have groups created for each section, which you can use in addition...
  • An alternative to giving numerical grades on an activity is to use Grading scales. You could either opt to use a preconfigured standard scale (see below), or create a custom grading scale. Grading scales are best for record keeping purposes and other assessments you do not intend to factor into...
  • Echo360 is an online learning platform that many instructors use to post recordings of in-person lectures, or to share course content for flipped or team-based learning classes. You can use Echo360 to review past lectures in preparation for an exam, view presentation slides at your own pace, or ask...
  • Turnitin helps instructors assess the originality of student work and ensure the proper citation of references by comparing students' electronic documents to a variety of online sources and to the Turnitin database. The software then creates an “originality report” that rates submitted assignments...
  • Moodle lets instructors create Assignments with a variety of settings. For example: Your instructor can control whether you can make only one submission or whether you can you can re-submit files, or if you can upload files after deadlines have passed. Some assignment types let your instructor...
  • Why Use a Wiki? A wiki is a simple, flexible tool for collaboration. Wikis can be used for everything from simple lists of web links to building entire encyclopedias. As an example, Wikipedia is the largest wiki in the world. At the most basic level, wikis allow students to make sets of inter-...

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