Section outline

  • Primarily for faculty

    • Mail: Sending Messages to Students Page

      Use the Mail tool to send emails (including attachments) to those in your courses.

    • Settings: Course Visibility Page

      Faculty have control over the visibility of courses. If it is set to "Hide," then it will be unavailable to students.

    • Reports: Changing Dates on Copied Courses Page

      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. 

    • Users: Adding Them to Your Moodle Classroom Page
    • Archive: Save Your Old Courses Page

      Follow the steps here to make and save you own archives of Moodle courses.

    • Formatting Item Titles Page
    • Reset a Course Page

      If you discover you have imported from the wrong classroom, use the steps described here to reset it.

    • Using the Attendance Plugin Page
    • Use Logs to See Participation Page
    • Student Tracker Block Page

      This block displays the students who have not logged on to the course in the times you configure.

    • Add Scheduler to Your Class and Configure It Page

      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. 

    • Metacourses and Groups Page

      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.

    • Creating Groups Page
    • Why Due Dates? Page

      A brief rationale for taking the time to set up due dates for your assignments, forums, and other items.

    • Moving Topics or Weeks Page

      This is often used to keep the current week or topic at the top of the page.

    • Add a Course Image Page
      By adding a course image, faculty can add a visual to students' (and their own) course overview block. 

    • Managing Student Participation

    • Checklists Page
    • Restricting Access Based on Activity Completion Page
      When faculty want to restrict access to a resource based on (for example) handing in an assignment, they can follow the steps described here.
    • Restricting Access Based on Grade Page
      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.
    • Reengagement Page

      Use the to automatically send reminders.

    • Downloading Students email Addresses from Moodle Page
    • Configuring Quiz Review Page

      This page reviews the options for ensuring students can (or cannot) review quiz attempts.

    • Course Visibility #2 File
    • Adding Blocks Page