Moore Faculty User Manual
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1. 4 n Move eee a This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 23 of 27 eThink Education E Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION Finally go to the Choose an Action menu in the upper left corner and select Grader Report to return to the Gradebook MOORE MOODLE Practice Course 1 Categories and items Simple view wies and toms gt Simple view vore ERCTUITTONMENENNN Edit categories and items Simple view eerie report b ear rapon Categories nmd terme tates A mat iau mome hepte P Aa toons p Scales gj Preckee Coarse E agmini pome esa A tore Leers bees y Course total I gt Ede imysort We ac drago T y Epon ry Add cetegor ADJ gioca ter Exce sj Your Gradebook will likely look something like the example below You can click on the icon next to each category to expand or collapse the category There are 3 settings fully collapsed just the Category total shows open showing individual activities and the category total column circle 2 open showing individual activities but not the column for the category total eThink Moodle Training Course uncategorised cm Credit Type X Category total tt m fe Quiz It GG Quiz Exa2. eThink Education E Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION MOOR E MOODLE COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN IntrodUctOn oisices ee veu eaeo e o e aeo Pe ne eaa ee po eG Seo Poe ee ono e Cen Pose ea eo soo Caves see ea esee o Sesso PE EE e ee pP RE eser PE ES 2 Editing Your Profile e S Opening Your Course er lecce MS Editing Your Bh c B LLL Emailing Students see ui LO Importing Items between Courses eere eere eee eerte ee eese sess so sees soseessossesssesess L Grad s ILE Attendance in MOONE m ZD Other Resources on Moodle is scccsssscecesisanciecsvecseeosnesouscivnsontsoanccnueseasetsoctacssecsansornstenceaceesen 27 This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 1 of 27 eThink Education E Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION Introduction Welcome to Moodle eThink Education and Moore are excited to introduce the long term solution for course management and online learning
3. Repeat this process for each Category you require for your course This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 21 of 27 eThink Education E Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDLICATION Grade category Hide Advanced Category name Quizzes Aggregation Simple weighted mean of grades Aggregate only non empty E grades Aggregate including O subcategories Drop the lowest None v My report preferences 4e Advanced Aggregation view Default Full Default v view Q Save changes Cancel Once you have created all the Categories use the Move buttons the up and down arrows to move the individual activities underneath the appropriate category as shown below This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 22 of 27 eThink Education Moodle Faculty Think Quick Reference Guide EDUCATION Edit categories and items Simple view Name C4 Test Course 1 4
4. Student Test r1 la m Overall average Go to the Choose an Action menu in the upper left hand corner of the screen and drop it down Select Categories and Items Simple View or Full View from the drop down as shown below This will take you to the setup screen for the Gradebook MOORE wooou Practice Course 1 View Grader report report Categones and tame Prate Course 1 Sate dee perenne wee Md term Grede tmel gode Scales letters Edi aa uterret Med Term Gerace E tmr Fine Grade FE xpon Mae heme ty ievescnmoo Learning The best thing to do is create Categories for each of the major types of grades you will have within your course This will help you keep all the grades organized and make the Gradebook easier to read and manage Examples of categories might be Quizzes Homework Exams and Forums The example below shows an overall category of the Course Name which will be created This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 19 of 27 eThink Education E Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION automatically Below that the example below has a Quizzes category To adda Category click the Add a Category button in the lower right corner Essay
5. you ll first need to turn on Editing Mode which will allow you to add resources and activities to your course On the left side of the screen of any course you are teaching you ll see a link labeled Turn Editing Mode On Clicking on this link will present you with a new array of options Starting at the top of the screen let s look at what Editing Mode enables you to do At the top of each block you ll see an icon of a hand holding a pencil When you click it you are presented with a Summary text area You can use this to label and summarize each topic or schedule blocks in your course You should keep the summary to a sentence or two for each block to avoid making the main page too long Click Submit when you ve added your summary You can go back and change it later by clicking the hand and pencil icon again On the lefthand side next to the label for the People block you ll see the icons described Block icons Icon Function b e Show or hide item If you want to keep an item in your course but don t want your students to see it you can use this to hide it from them x Delete item Removes the item or block from your course Items will be permanently removed blocks can be added again using the Blocks menu Jt Move item Clicking this will allow you to move an item to another topic or schedule block gt Move right or left You can move blocks to the left or righthand columns You can als
6. 11 September 17 Ei P B S There are no upcoming Administration September 18 September 24 pj events L3 Turn editing on Go to calendar gj Settings September 25 October 1 Ei New Event Assign roles October 2 Octobe Ei B SERIE Recent activity lt Groups ns Li Ei Ei Once you click Import you will be prompted to select the course you want to copy the resources from The list will include other courses you are teaching Select the course you want to then press Use this Course On the next page check or uncheck the boxes for the resources you want to copy into this course If you leave all the boxes checked the entire course will copy or just select a few boxes to move specific resources This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 16 of 27 eThink Education E Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION MO OR E MOODLE Moodle at Moore COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN You are logged in as Admin User Logout Moore gt eThink 101 gt Administration gt Import course data gt eThink Moodle Training Course eThink 101 Import course data eThink Moodle Training Course eThink 101 Include All None All None Assignments Upload a Word Document Offline Assignment
7. SGE ba Le ee FOGYs mo 1 You ll see your username and email address already filled in You will not be able to change these here as they are linked to your other logons on campus 2 Email display allows you to choose who can see your email address Your choices are to hide your email from everyone allow only the people in your classes to see it or display it for everyone who logs in to the site If you choose to hide your email from other people they will not be able to send you email directly from Moodle 3 After setting your city and country you can choose your preferred language Setting your language here makes it your default language for all pages This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 4 of 27 eThink Education E Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION 4 The timezone setting can be very important especially if you re working with an international audience or will be traveling and accessing the system Be sure to set the time zone to your local time not the server s local time 5 The description box gives you a place to tell your Moodle community a little about yourself If you don t feel comfortable writing a description just put a couple of characters in here and the
8. lt s S Upload an image Chats v Moodle Chat v v Choices 7 Choice Exercise about Moodle Forums News forum At the bottom of this page leave the defaults as shown and press Continue Course files Yes v Site files used in this course Yes Grade histories No The next page will begin the copy process let it run through to completion and then press the Continue button Now you should see the content copied into your course This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 17 of 27 eThink Education E Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION Grades Using this guide you will be able to successfully track and tally grades in Moodle From the homepage of your course click on the Grades link from the Administrative block on the left side of the page MOORE MOODLE Practice Course 1 COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN You are logged in as Faculty Test Logout Moore gt PC1 Switch role to Turn editing on People Weekly outline Quickmail z Q3 Participants Compose amp P News forum History Activities e Forums m August 21 August 27 a Latest news 7 Add a new topic Search Forums E AA Edel El No news h
9. of the screen Help If you have any questions or problems below are some people who can help you Library Eamon Tewell etewell moore edu 215 965 4054 Erin Thompson ethompson moore edu Education Support Services ESS Matt Chellel mchellel moore edu 215 965 4063 Claudine Thomas cthomas 9 moore edu 215 965 4061 Registrar Kristen Chando kchando moore edu 215 965 4031 registrar moore edu Dianne Saridakis dsaridakis 9 moore edu 215 965 4028 IT Chad Muthrad cmuthrad moore edu 215 965 6802 Global Dennis Dawton ddawton moore edu 215 965 4073 academic moore edu Shaun Flanly sflanly moore edu 215 965 4004 admin moore edu This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 27 of 27
10. system won t complain 6 The remaining optional fields allow you to include personal details about yourself including your photo or a representative image and contact information Your picture will appear by your postings in the forums in your profile and in the course roster 7 You can also upload a picture using these steps a Prepare the picture you want to use by converting it to a gif or jpeg if you haven t already It should be smaller than the maximum upload size b Click the Browse button and locate your prepared picture Then click Choose in the dialogue box c Then click Update Profile at the bottom of the screen Moodle will crop your picture into a square and shrink it to 100 by 100 pixels Now your profile is all set to go You won t have to edit this again unless you want to change something This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 5 of 27 eThink Education E Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION Opening Your Course After logging in you will find yourself on the Moodle homepage Your user id is linked to PowerCAMPUS so Moodle should know automatically what courses you are teaching and they should appear immediately on the Moodle homepage If you do not se
11. 1 O 10000 Eda A E X Category total 100 00 aA Cl Quizzes Simple weighted mean of grades v 20 0000 exlaa all i j None Sample Quiz E 30 00 Jf Show quiz Sample Quiz amp X Category total 100 00 B 3h Participation 1 0000 100 0 xikAa O C Participation Simple weighted mean of grades 10 0000 X lB8 All None X Category total 100 00 aA E Assignment 3 0 0000 100 00 Eda A Fi X Course total 100 00 B Move selected items to Add category Agd grade item Once in the Add a Category option you should assign the Category Name at the top For Aggregation it is easiest to select Simple Weighted Mean of Grades or Weighted Mean of Grades Simple weighted mean uses the maximum grade values to weight scores within a category rather than normalizing a grade to 100 percent before weighting This aggregation type does not allow you to set a weight for items or the categories it simply uses the inherent weighting you ve established by setting different maximum point values A1 70 100 A2 20 80 A3 10 10 70 20 10 100 190 Weighted mean allows you to establish weights for categories and items These weights influence the overall importance of each item or category For example if a category is weighted at 50 then regardless of the number of items in that category the overall mean score of those items will be 50 of the student s grade This documentation is proprietary information of eTh
12. 27 eThink Education Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION Emailing Students The Quickmail block provides an easy way to email one or all of your students from directly within Moodle The emails sent from within Moodle appear exactly the same to students as emails sent from your MOORE email address and if students respond to the email you will receive it in your regular MOORE email Inbox You should see the Quickmail block appearing in the right hand corner of your course MO OR E MOODLE we 1 al c B e adeo Ms Practice Course 1 You are logged in as Faculty Test Logout Moore PC1 Switch role to w Turn editing on People Q3 Participants Weekly outline e News forum Activities amp Forums H 21 August 2 August 28 September 3 Search Forums z s Advanced search Quickmail compose History Lates Add a new topic No news has been posted yet Upcoming Events There are no upcoming events Administration oror 1p LA Turn editina on Gn tn nalendar Click on the Compose button to open the block and write an email Check the boxes next to the student names you want to receive the email The History tab will store a record of all emails you have sent from within Moodle This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose o
13. Group Mode Moodle can create student workgroups For now you need to decide if you want your groups to work independently or to be able to view each other s work You can also set the group mode separately for many activities or force the group mode to be set at the course level If everything in the course is done as part of a group or you are running cohorts of students through a course at different times you ll probably want to use the group mode to make management easier Availability Use this setting to control student access to your course You can make a course available or unavailable to students without affecting your own access This is a good way to hide courses that aren t ready for public consumption or hide them at the end of the semester while you calculate your final grades This setting will be configured to hide your course when the course is initially created You must change this setting to unhide your course in order for students to see it Enrollment Key A course enrollment key is a code each student enters when they attempt to enroll in a course The key makes it more difficult for students who aren t officially in the class to gain access to your Moodle site Generally it is not necessary to use this key unless you specifically want feel your course needs it Guest Access You can choose to allow guests to access your course either with an enrollment key or without it Guests can only view your course and cou
14. Mon 4 02 18 09 Wed 5 02 23 09 Mon 6 02 25 09 Wed 7 03 02 09 Mon 8 03 04 09 Wed Add Report Settings Description Regular class session Regular class session Regular class session o tu u nm w iD ue o ps Regular Regular class session Regular class session Regular class session Regular class session Help Q Actions evx eux OVX eux evx euvx euvx eux You have now added Daily Attendance and are ready to go This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 26 of 27 eThink Education E Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION Other Resources on Moodle There are many other resources to consult for additional information on Moodle Using Moodle Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System This book is available in PDF format and can be reproduced as needed These files are posted to Moodle site in the upper left hand corner under Main Menu gt Using Moodle Book Chapter 3 on Creating and Managing Content is particularly helpful Moodle org This web site is designed to assisting users and has online how to format for teachers From the www moodle org home page select the Documentation link on the left and then For Teachers in the body
15. Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION Click on the grayed out course ID to open your course MOORE SELF SERVICE EMAIL LIBRARY R E YOU ARE LOGGED IN AS FACULTY TEST LOGOUT MOODLE COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN Calendar El 4 August 2009 gt Practice Course 1 Teacher Faculty Test Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 7 of 27 eThink Education E Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION Course Settings The settings area where you set the course format also gives you access to a number of important course options You ll find it is important to take a moment to review the settings for your course to ensure that it behaves the way you want To change your course settings 1 Click Settings in the Administration block 2 Review each of the settings options to ensure they are correct for your course Category Do Not Change this field Moodle is automatically creating course categories as it pulls the courses over from PowerCAMPUS These categories are mapped to the prefix of your Course ID for example all IDs that begin with ACC are placed in an ACC category This would include ACC 101 ACC 102 ACC 201 e
16. a x aw f K aS UNE Pet et Course categories Username Miscellaneous 1 2009 FALL MAIN Password Lost password Search courses Go 4 August 2009 gt This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 3 of 27 eThink Education Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide cIhink EDUCATION Editing Your Profile The first time you logon you may want to update your user profile To access it click on your name in the upper right hand corner of the page and then go to the Edit Profile tab A number of fields on this profile are being automatically updated using your information in PowerCAMPUS If you feel any changes need to be made contact the Registrar to have it updated Test User Profile Edit profile Forum posts Blog General EN First name Test Last name User Email address testuser ethinkeducation com Email display Allow only other course members to see my email address v Email activated This email address is enabled v City town Baltimore Select a country United States vj Timezone Server s localtime Preferred language English en us Description Trebuchet vl 1po viltang v BZ U S amp x amp J x c EXSE mT i I E
17. as been posted yet September 4 September 10 Ei Advanced search a TR Tr ri Upcoming Events There are no upcoming Administration September 18 September 24 Ei avents CQ Turn editing on Go to calendar q Settings September 25 October 1 Ei New Event S qies October 2 October 8 Ei ES Recent activity a Back us October 9 October 15 Li Activity since Wednesday E Pecora August 19 2009 10 21 AM qj import october 16 October 22 Ei Full report of recent activity m Reset iiic new since your last October 23 October 29 ogin Reports You will enter the Gradebook for your course as shown below If you have any assignments quizzes or other graded activities already configured in your course you will see them appearing in the Gradebook If you do not yet have those setup don t worry You can proceed regardless of whether or not you have content in your course This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 18 of 27 eThink Education Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION Moore gt PC1 gt Grades b View b Grader report Choose an action v Grader report Practice Course 1 Firstname Lastname T Credit Type X Course total J Mid Term Grade Final grade
18. at for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 12 of 27 eThink Education Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION content block Forum Treaded discussion boards They are a powerful communication tool Glossary Dictionaries of terms that you can create for each week topic or course You can have your students participate in building them Journal Self reflection is an important idea in social constructivism Journals are free response opportunities for students to reflect on the course materials Lesson A set of ordered materials that use questions to determine what content the student sees next Quiz A good old fashioned web quiz with a lot of flexibility Resource A file web page link or other content for students to view or download SCORM SCORM is an acronym for Sharable Content Object Reference Model It s a packaging standard for educational content Moodle now has tools to allow you to upload content packaged as SCORM Survey Gathers feedback from students using pre packaged questionnaires Workshop A very nice tool for student peer assessment Students upload their work and score their peers work using a scoring guide you create This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for an
19. ation Maximum Upload Size This setting is used to limit the size of any documents you or your students upload to the class The maximum size is set by your system administrator but you can choose to limit students to files that are smaller than the system maximum You can limit the amount of storage space each assignment can take or limit the size of picture or video files your students upload Your Word for Teacher Teachers The next two settings allow you to enter the word you want Moodle to use for the singular and plural versions of the word that designates the teacher s role You can call teachers instructors facilitators professors etc Whatever you want to use enter it here Your Word for Student Students Again you can choose the word you want Moodle to use for people in the student role such as participants or learners 3 Once you ve made all your selections click Save Changes This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 10 of 27 eThink Education Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION Editing Your Course Now that you ve decided on a format and settings for your course let s look at how to add content to your course To start the process
20. bottom Next click the Add tab On this tab you can use the Create multiple sessions area to add a session for each course meeting during which you plan to take attendance This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 25 of 27 eThink Education C Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink _ EDUCATION Daily Attendance gt Add Daily Attendance Add Report Settings Create one session for the course Session Date l5 v Febmay v 2009 v Description Create multiple sessions Session start date 5 v February v 2009 hd Session end date 5 x February 2009 v Session Days Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Frequency 10 week s Add multiple sessions l Now if you click on the Daily attendance tab you can see each individual class session Click the green circle to add attendance If you have already added attendance and need to edit it the green circle will not appear Instead click where it says Regular Class Session and this will take you into that individual session to update it Daily Attendance Date 1 02 09 09 Mon 2 02 11 09 Wed 3 02 16 09
21. e one or all of the courses you are teaching contact the IT Help Desk for assistance The courses are pulling over directly from PowerCAMPUS the Student Information System As such the Course ID Course Name Description Start and End Dates are automatically being filled in It is not recommended that you change any of this information in Moodle Instead if you see anything that is incorrect contact the Registrar s Office to have it updated in PowerCAMPUS The Course ID in Moodle is a computed field including the Course ID ACC 101 plus the Section Number followed by a dash and then the Term and Session the course is being offered in For example ACC101 01 FAI would be ACC 101 Section 1 offered in the Fall Term Session 01 The information on your course the special Course ID will be grayed out when you first see it on the homepage This is because when the course is created it is created in a hidden status This means that only you as the teacher can see it the students cannot This gives you an opportunity to update your course and add content and then you decide when you are ready to for your students to see the course This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 6 of 27 eThink Education Moodle Faculty e
22. for Moore The following user guide is designed as a quick reference guide for the basic functionality you will use everyday with Moodle If you find yourself getting more advanced with Moodle there are a number of resources at your disposal A few alternatives are outlined at the end of this document to get you started This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 2 of 27 eThink Education Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink J EDUCATION Logging On To access Moodle go to http moodle moorecollege net from a web browser Moodle is compatible with Internet Explorer or Firefox browsers Moodle is integrated with your existing campus logon user name and password This means you can use the same user name and password that you use to logon to computers on campus For example if your name is John Doe your logon will be something like jdoe or john doe The password will be the same as you use currently The first screen you will see is the Moodle home page Click in the upper right corner to login Enter the User Name and Password as shown below MOORE SELF SERVICE EMAIL LIBRARY MOORE MGGBE YOU ARE NOT LOGGED IN LOGIN COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN English en us v
23. ink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 20 of 27 eThink Education E Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION A1 70 100 weight 10 A2 20 80 weight 5 A3 10 10 weight 3 category max 100 0 7 10 0 25 5 1 0 3 18 0 625 gt 62 5 100 In order to decide which grading method is right for you find the scenario below that applies most closely to your grading philosophy for a particular course Scenario 1 IF I know in advance what all the graded course items are and the available points per item are in proportion to each other bigger items are worth more points THEN Use Simple Weighted Mean of Grades or Sum of grades as your aggregation strategy There is no need to establish categories Scenario 2 IF I know in advance what all the graded course items are and I use one standard scale to grade my course items Points out of five or out of one hundred etc But some things are worth more than others e g a final exam graded out of 100 is worth more than a homework assignment graded out of 100 THEN Use Weighted Mean of Grades Assign proportional weights to the ITEMS Once you ve made your grading method selection everything else on the Categories page can be left as it defaults Press Save at the bottom
24. ly create a page as you would using a word processor Otherwise you ll need to know some HTML for most formatting Link to a file or web site If you want to upload your course documents in another format you can save them on Moodle and provide easy access for your students You can also easily create links to other web sites outside your Moodle course Display a directory If you upload a lot of content you may want to organize it in directories Then you can display the contents of the entire folder instead of creating individual links to each item Insert a label You can use labels to organize the links in your course s main page The only thing they do is provide a label within the content block The Add Activity Menu allows you to add interactive tools to your course The table below explains each tool very briefly Activity types Tool type Description Assignment A basic task with which you can describe what you want the students to do or record a grade You can also have the students upload a response and score it later Attendance Used to manually or automatically track student participation in the class Chat A group chat room where people can meet at the same time and send text messages Choice A simple poll displayed within a This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than th
25. mples 4l G Forums Quiz tf X Category total 4r Final grades for students will still be entered into Moodle and automatically moved into IQ Web There is no need to enter your course s final grades in IQ Web This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 24 of 27 eThink Education E Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION Attendance in Moodle Daily Attendance is used to keep track of students on a day to day basis To use Daily Attendance you must add it to your course by turning editing on and selecting Daily Attendance from the Activities drop down MOORE MOODLE Practice Course 1 aw ae Admi At pour People Weekly outline Quickmail Bie 5 Co gt Activities J exes Latest news Sa meso d dier Acid v 2eues p Ar pott OPERIS NO news has been postad Advanced uploading ol wa Search Forums niire wet Bie ddoresosce mide u big Rents s oO e meee There are nO upromng gt everti Administ ration gp Add oresowce H Bde O ffir m a e Recent activity 3 9 9 we Ree s jmmary Asenda Activity once Friday August gt y a 21 2004 20 04 AM ee Once you have selected it you can leave the defaults on the next screen and press Save and Display at the
26. o use this to indent items in your content blocks t4 Move up or down Moves items and blocks up or down in their respective areas You will use these icons throughout Moodle to customize the interface for your needs In addition to the icons for manipulating the blocks each content block in the middle column has two dropdown menus On the left the menu labeled Add a resource gives you tools for adding static content such as web pages and word processing documents On the right the Add an activity menu gives you tools to add activities such as forums quizzes lessons and assignments The resource menu gives you access to tools for adding content There are a number of ways you can create content directly within Moodle or link to content you ve uploaded This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 11 of 27 eThink Education Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION Compose a text page From here you can create a simple page of text It doesn t have many formatting options but it is the simplest tool Compose a web page If you want more formatting options you can compose a web page If you selected to use the HTML editor in your personal profile you can simp
27. rse materials they can t post to the forums take quizzes or submit any materials It is recommended that you NOT allow guests to access your course Hidden Sections When you hide an upcoming topic block to prevent your students from jumping ahead you can choose to display the title as a collapsed section or simply hide the topic altogether Displaying the collapsed sections will give your students a roadmap of the upcoming topics or weeks so it s probably a good idea to leave this on the default setting News Items to Show Use this setting to determine the number of course news items displayed on the default page This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 9 of 27 eThink Education E Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION Show Grades This setting allows you to choose whether grades are displayed to students If you are using the Moodle gradebook allowing students to view their grades is recommended Checking grades has become one of the most popular features of CMS systems Show Activity Reports This setting allows students to view their activity history in your course This is useful if you want students to reflect on their level of participation or if they are graded on particip
28. tc Do not change the course category Full Name Cannot be changed This is the name that is displayed on the top header of every screen in your course This name is also computed by the integration with PowerCAMPUS and therefore cannot be changed Short Name Cannot be changed Enter the institutional shorthand for your course This name is also computed by the integration with PowerCAMPUS and therefore cannot be changed Summary Cannot Be changed The summary will appear in the course listings page when other users scan the course catalogs This is also computed by the integration with PowerCAMPUS and therefore should not be changed Course Start Date Do Not Change this field The start date is the day the course is first active This is also computed by the integration with PowerCAMPUS and therefore should not be changed Enrollment Period Do Not Change this field The enrollment period is the number of days after the start of the course during which students are enrolled After the enrollment period all of your students will be unenrolled from the course This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 8 of 27 eThink Education E Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION
29. ther than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 15 of 27 eThink Education E Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION Importing Items between Courses If you are teaching more than one course sometimes you need want to use the same resources in several courses Rather than setting up the resource again you can use the Import process to move resources from one course to another Note that the Import process does not copy the Section Summaries at the beginning of each week topic in your course The easiest thing to do is cut and paste these into the new course once you ve done the import To use the Import process go into your course and then go to the mport block in the Administrator block on the left M O OR E MOODLE Practice Course 1 COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN You are logged in as Faculty Test Logout Moore gt PC1 IF Switch role to w Tum editing on People Weekly outline Quickmail Q3 Participants compose amp News forum History Activities Activity since Wednesday August 19 2009 10 21 AM Full report of recent activity Nothing new since your last login Reset 4 Reports amp Forums E August 21 August 27 a Latest news IS E Sates Add a new topic Search Forums Angust ag September Ei No news has been posted yet September 4 September 10 Li Advanced search Upcoming Events 9 September
30. y purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 13 of 27 eThink Education Moodle Faculty Quick Reference Guide c hink EDUCATION Simulate Student Role Once you ve added content to your course you may want to simulate a student role so you can get an idea of what the course will look like for a student In the upper right hand corner of the screen click on the drop down to change role and select Student Now you can navigate your course as a student Once you are ready to move back to your normal role click on the appropriately named button in the upper right corner MOOR E MOODLE 1 c E bs de A im Practice Course 1 Yo aS aculty Test Logout Moore PC1 2B Switch role to M People Weekly outline Quickmail Q3 Participants Compose amp News forum History Activities Sas ETTETUT August 28 September 3 Latest news Add a new topic Search Forums No news has been posted oooog BEC eden yet September 4 September 10 Advanced search ies Te aera Upcoming Events There are no upcoming Administration September 18 September 24 ste This documentation is proprietary information of eThink Education and is not to be copied reproduced lent or disposed of nor used for any purpose other than that for which it is specifically provided without the written permission of eThink Education 14 of
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