Moodle Users
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Gary Ackerman's Faculty Hours & Workshops 2020-2021 | Gary, the coordinator of instructional technology at GCC, will be holding "faculty hours" beginning in September 2020. This is your chance to have questions about Moodle and online teaching answered. Open this page to see the calendar of hours and links to the virtual sessions. |
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Creating PDF Files | Scan to PDF with Notes in iOS | |
Find the Export as PDF Option | Almost every word processing or presentation software includes the option of saving files in PDF. View a PDF version of the presentation used in the video (the PDF has the spelling mistake fixed!)
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Adobe Scan | Using Adobe Scan, an app available for iPhone (and iPad) and Android devices, you can take a picture of a document and convert it to a PDF file which can be uploaded to Moodle. When I first used Adobe Scan to upload to Moodle, I had to take a few extra steps to get my iPad to show me the PDF's I had created with Adobe Scan. I explain what I did in this video: You can learn more about Adobe Scan on the Adobe web site. |
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Annotate PDF for Teachers to Give Feedback | This tools allows faculty to view PDF submissions in the web browser without the need to download. Several tools are available for marking up the file, as well as providing typed feedback, entering a grade to be displayed in the grade book, and uploading a feedback file. |
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Navigating and Customizing Moodle | Your Dashboard | When you logon to Moodle, you land at the dashboard. Open this page to see a video that gives you a brief tour of how it works. |
Course Overview Block | The Moodle classrooms to which you have access are listed in the "Course overview" block on your dashboard. This page gives suggestions on how to customize the courses that are displayed there. |
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Change Your Preferred Name | By updating their preferred name in MyGCC, users can change the names displayed to all users of Moodle. |
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Notifications | Moodle sends notifications of several different types of events to users. These can be managed in your preferences. |
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Course Visibility | Faculty have control over the visibility of courses. If it is set to "Hide," then it will be unavailable to students. |
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Add a Course Image | By adding a course image, faculty can add a visual to students' (and their own) course overview block. |
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Collapsed Topics | This course format will minimize the amount of scrolling users must do to navigate your classroom. |
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Collapsed Weeks | ||
The ATTO Text Editor | The ATTO Text Editor | This is used to compose content in a wide variety of places in Moodle including forums, wikis, pages, and essay questions in quizzes. The tools described here are available wherever the ATTO text editor is installed. |
Adding a YouTube Video to Moodle with the ATTO Text Editor (copy) | The ATTO text editor is used throughout Moodle. Students and instructors use it when composing forum posts or replies, creating pages, and creating other content in Moodle. We have configured Moodle so that YouTube videos are automatically embedded in the text, so video appears without the need to click into YouTube. Further, the advertisements, comments, and recommended video that can distract us are not included when following the recommended steps. |
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Creating and Managing YouTube Videos | Uploading Video from Your Computer to YouTube | In spring 2020, YouTube updated the system whereby users upload video, this page was created on May 1, 2020 and reflects those changes. |
YouTube Live | Those with G Suite accounts can use YouTube live for recording. |
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Adding Closed Captions to Your YouTube Video | All videos made available to the GCC community should be appropriately closed captioned. |
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Adding a YouTube Video to Moodle with the ATTO Text Editor | The ATTO text editor is used throughout Moodle. Students and instructors use it when composing forum posts or replies, creating pages, and creating other content in Moodle. We have configured Moodle so that YouTube videos are automatically embedded in the text, so video appears without the need to click into YouTube. Further, the advertisements, comments, and recommended video that can distract us are not included when following the recommended steps. |
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Assignments, Quizzes and Grades for Students | Submitting Assignment for Students | Follow the steps on this page to see how to submit assignments. |
Submitting Assignments from Chromebooks for Students | ||
Submitting Assignments from G Suite for Students | ||
Check Assignment Status | ||
Seeing Grades and Feedback | ||
Using Chromebooks and Moodle | Understanding What Chromebooks Do... And Don't Do | |
Chromebooks and Moodle | ||
Chromebooks and RTF Files in Moodle | ||
Submitting Assignments from Chromebooks for Students (copy) | ||
G Suite | Uploading PDF and Other Files to Google Drive | |
Submitting Assignments from G Suite for Students (copy) | ||
Understanding Sharing on Google Drive | One of the great advantages of using Google Drive is that files can be shared. This page summarizes what those new to Google should know about sharing. |
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Linking a Moodle Page to a File on Google Drive | ||
Adding Google Documents to Moodle | There are multiple options for adding Google files to Moodle. Page explains three. |
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Embedding Google Slides Presentation in a Moodle Classroom | Google Slides is the G Suite version of PowerPoint; PPT files can be uploaded to Google Drive and many of the animations and timings (but not voice overs!) are compatible and are preserved when presentations are uploaded and converted to Slides. |
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Add Moodle Calendar Events to Google Calendar | Follow the steps in this tutorial to have events in the Moodle calendar (including due dates instructors add to assignments and tasks) sent to Google Calendars. |
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How Do I Get to G Suite? | ||
Google Meet & YouTube Live | Calling a Landline | We cannot initiate calls to landlines from Google Meet or Zoom, but others can call in to meetings we have created. Open this page to see how landlines can call in to your Zoom meeting. |
Google Meet | A video conferencing tool available through G Suite. Students can access this tool as part of their GCC email account. Faculty and staff need to activate their Google accounts; they should have received an email on March 17, 2020 if this was necessary. |
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Using Google Meet | Answers to some questions that have arisen regarding Google Meet |
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Recording Google Meet Sessions | ||
Changing Layout | Users can change how the images are displayed during a Google Meet. |
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Grid View in Meet | One of the complaints about Google Meet is that one cannot see all of the participants one one screen. This page takes you through the steps of adding a Chrome extension call "Google Meet Grid View" which add this capability. Many thanks to the student who suggested this extension to their instructor and to that instructor who passed it along! |
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YouTube Live | Those with G Suite accounts can use YouTube live for recording. |
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Other Tools for Students | Lightbox Gallery | The Lightbox Gallery os a tool some faculty use to facilitate discussion about images students upload. This page gives directions for uploading and editing images as well as commenting on others' images, |
Tools Faculty Use Manage Courses | Using Quickmail | The groups responsible for Quickmail stopped development in 2018. As a result, it no longer functions as expected. While it still sends mail, when instructors check the history, an error is returned. We recommend faculty use the work arounds described on this page. |
Add Scheduler to Your Class and Configure It | Scheduler is a tool that allows faculty to add time slots to a classroom; students can self-schedule appointments (or faculty can schedule for them). It will even send email reminders of appointments on the morning it is scheduled. |
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Grade Me Block | coming soon |
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Changing Dates on Copied Courses | Using "Dates," faculty can see all of the due dates in their course on one page. This is especially useful for those who teach from course that have been copied from previous terms. |
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Importing from One Course to Another | Faculty can use this option to copy amounts of contents from one course to another. This can be used rather than submitting a help ticket to request IT copy content for you. |
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Sharing Cart (copy) | This block (which was added to our installation in June 2020) allows teachers to copy content from one course to another without the need to import. |
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Adding Users to Your Moodle Course | When adding other who need permission to add content to your courses, it is best to assign those individuals the role of "Publisher." This role has been updated to allow editing, but maintains students' privacy. |
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Moving Topics or Weeks | ||
Metacourses and Groups | Metacourses are Moodle classrooms in which students from multiple sections are enrolled. This allows faculty to use a single classroom for those classes they teach multiples sections. This page details how to create groups of students based on their section enrollments. |
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Student Tracker Block | ||
Reviewing Participation by Students | There are a few options for faculty to see summaries or reports of students' participation in their Moodle courses. |
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Assignments, Quizzes, & Grades for Faculty | Convert Blank Grades to Zeroes | I want blank grades to convert to zeroes automatically when students don't take a quiz on Moodle. Currently I override the blank with a zero in the gradebook, which I then have to correct if I let them take the quiz late. I can't seem to find a setting for this. |
"My Students Can't See Their Grades" | ||
1) Create Categories | While it seems unnecessary, it is best to create categories (one for each quiz you will administer) and add questions to that category. |
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2) Configure the Quiz Settings | Moodle makes it possible to specify many aspects of how the quiz in administered. This page details the choices. |
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3) Grading Quizzes | Once students have completed the quiz, there are several options for grading them. This page describes the method that weems to work for mot instructors. |
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Options for Adding Questions | There are multiple options for adding questions to Moodle. These options are described on this page. |
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User Overrides | This page shows faculty how to open quizzes at different times for different students, allow extended time, or multiple attempts. |
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Editing a Quiz | Once any student has attempted a quiz, it cannot be edited. Before any attempt, a teacher may add, remove, or edit questions questions. |
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Adding an Assignment to Your Classroom | Assignments are digital drop boxes where students can upload PDF and other files. |
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Grading Assignments for Faculty | ||
Annotate PDF | This tools allows faculty to view PDF submissions in the web browser without the need to download. Several tools are available for marking up the file, as well as providing typed feedback, entering a grade to be displayed in the grade book, and uploading a feedback file. This page includes a video demonstration (apologies, I forgot to capture at high resolution!) that demonstrates using the "Annotate PDF" interface. |
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Restricting Access Based on Assignment Completion (copy) | When faculty want to restrict access to a resource based on (for example) handing in an assignment, they can follow the steps described here. |
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Creating and Using Rubrics in Moodle | Rubrics are a widely used tool for grading students? work. When
they are provided to student before they complete work, it is reasoned, students
will have a better idea of what the expectations are. |
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Tools Faculty Use to Teach | Recommended Procedures for Adding Content to Moodle Classrooms | This page describes the primary types of content that faculty add to Moodle classrooms and links to other pages within the Moodle Users classroom that provide step-by-step instructions. These recommendations were updated in spring 2020 to take advantage of the affordances of Google Drive. |
Why Pages? | Regardless of the type of file on content being embedded, it is recommended the files be linked from Moodle pages. The rationale for that recommendation is described on this page. |
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Adding a PowerPoint Presentation | PowerPoint in a widely used application for creating content for students. This page describes the recommended steps for ensuring your students will actually be able to view the PowerPoint files you prepare. The images on this page are available on this PDF file. |
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Screen Capture with Screencastify | Screencastify allows users to capture what is displayed in Google Chrome (along with either audio or video). Recordings up to 5 minutes can be created and are stored in users' Google Drive. This page takes users through the steps of using Screencastify and adding closed captions to the videos. |
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Linking a Moodle Page to a File on Google Drive (copy) | ||
Adding Google Documents to Moodle (copy) | There are multiple options for adding Google files to Moodle. Page explains three. |
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Embedding Google Slides Presentation in a Moodle Classroom (copy) | Google Slides is the G Suite version of PowerPoint; PPT files can be uploaded to Google Drive and many of the animations and timings (but not voice overs!) are compatible and are preserved when presentations are uploaded and converted to Slides. |
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Adding a YouTube Video to Moodle with the ATTO Text Editor (copy) | The ATTO text editor is used throughout Moodle. Students and instructors use it when composing forum posts or replies, creating pages, and creating other content in Moodle. We have configured Moodle so that YouTube videos are automatically embedded in the text, so video appears without the need to click into YouTube. Further, the advertisements, comments, and recommended video that can distract us are not included when following the recommended steps. |
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Streaming Video form the Nahman-Watson LIbrary | First half is the technical aspect of using library streaming services; second half discusses how licenses work with both library materials and Netflix/Hulu/Amazon. |
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Sharing Cart | This block (which was added to our installation in June 2020) allows teachers to copy content from one course to another without the need to import. |
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Importing from One Course to Another (copy) | Faculty can use this option to copy amounts of contents from one course to another. This can be used rather than submitting a help ticket to request IT copy content for you. |
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See How Forums Work | ||
Forum Subscriptions | ||
Forums in "Group Mode" | This page take you through the steps of creating a forum that students complete in "group mode" which means they post and reply only to those who have been assigned to the saem group. |
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Grading Forums | ||
Hypothes.is Annotation Tool | ||
Add a Link to Annotate with Hypothes.is | ||
Allow Students to Add Items to Annotate with Hypothes.is | ||
Wikis | ||
Linking to a PDF file in Google Drive | ||
Restricting Access Based on Grade | When using this option, an activity or resource is unavailable to a student unless the specified grade for an assignment or quiz has been met. This feature is usually used along with multiple attempts for the assignment or quiz, otherwise a student who does not earn the grade to "unlock" the activity will be unable to access it without intervention. |
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Restricting Access Based on Activity Completion | When faculty want to restrict access to a resource based on (for example) handing in an assignment, they can follow the steps described here. |
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Checklists | ||
The Alternative to QuickMail | With the upgrade to Moodle 3.9, we were forced to find an alternative to the no-longer supported QuickMail block. This page contains a slide show describing alternatives. |
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Lightbox Gallery | Allow students to upload images and comment on galleries of images. |
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Flipgrid | Microsoft's free-to-use video discussion platform. |
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Using Zoom | Managing Zoom Participants | |
Zoom in Moodle for Students | ||
Zoom in Moodle for Faculty | ||
Common Zoom Settings | ||
Zoom and YouTube and Moodle | This page contains a video demonstration showing how to:
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New Zoom Settings | Details on new features added to Zoom on March 24, 2020. |
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Adding Backgrounds to Zoom | ||
Students and Zoom Accounts | Zoom users only need an account if they are going to host meetings (or use some features such as backgrounds). If students need to host Zoom meetings, they can create an account using their stuemail.gcc.mass.edu accounts. These accounts will be similar to GCC's basic accounts, but we cannot assign them one of our licenses. Only teachers can add Zoom meetings to Moodle classrooms. Students can enter these meetings if they have an account on Zoom or not. |
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Zoom (outside of Moodle) | While we recommend using Zoom inside Moodle whenever possible, some user may find it necessary to connect via Zoom outside of Moodle. |
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Adding Zoom to Moodle | Zoom meetings can be added to any Moodle classroom at GCC |
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Starting a Zoom Meeting Then Leaving It | ||
Securing Zoom Meetings | "Zoombombing" has become a "thing" in spring 2020. Basically, individuals are finding Zoom meetings that are open, and connecting with the intent of disrupting the meeting. This page suggests strategies for securing your Zoom meetings. |
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No Grade for Zoom | By default, "External tools" (including Zoom meetings) added to Moodle classrooms are graded by default. This page describes how to make Zoom meetings "ungraded." |
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Screen Sharing & Remote Control | By default GCC allows only the host to share their screen during a meeting. Hosts or co-hosts can change this during a meeting; directions are on this page. |
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Optimizing Zoom for Low Bandwidth | Make these changes in your settings to improve the quality of the audio and video in your Zoom meeting for those who are connecting over "weak connections." |
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It Turns Out You Can Build Community in a Zoom Classroom | Anne Wiley shared this PDF article from the Chronicle of Higher Education: Turns Out You Can Build Community in a Zoom Classroom |
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Polls in Zoom Meetings | For those who have Zoom licenses, the polls options is available. This video on this page is from Zoom's technical support and it reviews how polls work and how to create them using the Zoom web site. |
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Cloud Recordings and Zoom | Users with a licensed account can "record to the cloud" which puts files on Zoom's servers. This is intended as temporary storage; the directions in this page show users how to find and download their recordings. |
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Taking Attendance in Zoom |