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      Whole forum grading

      Enable this option to quickly grade students' participation in forums.

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      2) Configure the Quiz Settings & Adding Questions

      Moodle makes it possible to specify many aspects of how the quiz in administered. This page details the choices.

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      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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      Convert Blank Grades to Zeroes

      "I want blank grades to convert to zeroes automatically when students don't take a quiz on Moodle."


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      Quiz: Delete Attempts

      This was originally done for Moodle 4.2, but it still applies to the current version.

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      Dropping Lowest Grades in a Category

      Many faculty include this in their grading schemes. This shows how to configure the gradebook to do this.

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      Grading Assignments for Faculty

      Find students' submissions and open them for grading following the steps on this page.

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      Grade Me block

      Displays work that need the instructor's attention in the block drawer. This page includes directions for hiding it from students.

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      "My Students Can't See Their Grades"

      There are several reasons students cannot see their grades in the Gradebook. This page describes to most common reason.

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      Grading: Pass/ Fail

      Directions are here for setting an assignment or forum to pass/ fail grading.

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      Workflow for Using "Annotate PDF"

      Annotate PDF is the preferred method for grading and providing feedback for assignments.

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      Turn Off Annotate PDF Grading

      By default, we have enabled "Annotate PDF" grading. It can be turned off using these steps.

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      Gradebook: Create Weighted Grade Categories

      Setting up the Moodle gradebook can be complicated. It is recommended that faculty follow the steps outlined on this page.

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      Grading Forums
      the recommended method for grading forums is to enable "Whole forum grading." This allows instructors to see students' participation on a single page and enter grades easily. 
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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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      Files Instructors Download

      GCC's TLIC does not recommend this, but will answer questions and troubleshoot existing "Assignments."

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      ExamSoft (For Nursing Faculty)

      Directions for pushing graded exams from ExamSoft to Moodle.

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      Quiz: Delete Attempts

      This was originally done for Moodle 4.2, but it still applies to the current version.

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      Convert Blank Grades to Zeroes

      "I want blank grades to convert to zeroes automatically when students don't take a quiz on Moodle."


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      2) Configure the Quiz Settings & Adding Questions

      Moodle makes it possible to specify many aspects of how the quiz in administered. This page details the choices.

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      Grade Me block

      Displays work that need the instructor's attention in the block drawer. This page includes directions for hiding it from students.

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      Whole forum grading

      Enable this option to quickly grade students' participation in forums.

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      "My Students Can't See Their Grades"

      There are several reasons students cannot see their grades in the Gradebook. This page describes to most common reason.

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      Grading Assignments for Faculty

      Find students' submissions and open them for grading following the steps on this page.

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      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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      Workflow for Using "Annotate PDF"

      Annotate PDF is the preferred method for grading and providing feedback for assignments.

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      Turn Off Annotate PDF Grading

      By default, we have enabled "Annotate PDF" grading. It can be turned off using these steps.

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      Dropping Lowest Grades in a Category

      Many faculty include this in their grading schemes. This shows how to configure the gradebook to do this.

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      Files Instructors Download

      GCC's TLIC does not recommend this, but will answer questions and troubleshoot existing "Assignments."

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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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      ExamSoft (For Nursing Faculty)

      Directions for pushing graded exams from ExamSoft to Moodle.

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      Grading Forums
      the recommended method for grading forums is to enable "Whole forum grading." This allows instructors to see students' participation on a single page and enter grades easily. 
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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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      Add Moodle Calendar Events to Your 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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      QuickMail Block

      Use QuickMail to send email messages to your entire class... or to individuals.

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      Settings: 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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      Reports: 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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      Users: Adding Them to Your Moodle Classroom

      Follow these steps to add others to your classrooms.

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      Archive: Save Your Old Courses

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

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      Formatting Item Titles

      Use these tags in the "Name" box to edit how text appears on your page.

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      Reset a Course

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

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      Using the Attendance Plugin

      Use this to track students' attendance in class.

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      Use Logs to See Participation

      Use logs to see student participation in class or on specific assignments or on specific days.

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      Student Tracker Block

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

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      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). 

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      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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      Creating Groups

      Use groups to manage student groups for projects, overrides of assignments settings, or to restrict access to materials.

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      Why Due Dates?

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

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      Moving Topics or Weeks

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

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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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      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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      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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      Downloading Students email Addresses from Moodle

      Use these steps to download student email addresses from within Moodle.

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      Disable "New sign in to your GCC Moodle Online Learning System account"

      Disable this repeated message with these direction.

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      Sharing Cart: One or Two Items at a Time

      Use the Sharing Cart to move small numbers of items from one classroom to another. 

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      Content: Importing from Another Classroom

      Use the option to import when you want the bulk of the content from an existing course. 

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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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      Assignments: Edit

      Instructors can edit assignments to allow students to resubmit.

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      Students Compose or Paste Online Text

      Allow students to compose online text rather than (or in addition to) submitting a file for assignments.

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      Quiz: Adding Questions from Textbook Publishers

      This page takes you through the steps of adding questions from a .zip file provided by your textbook publisher.

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      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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      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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      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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      They Never Submitted!

      On occasion, students will log out of Moodle without finishing the "submit" process at the end of a quiz. Their work is usually saved, but will not appear in the grade book. This page shows you how to find students' work.

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      Exporting/ Printing a Copy of a Quiz

      If you find it necessary to have a hardcopy or a PDF version of a Quiz item that is in Moodle, you can follow these steps.

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      Configuring Quiz Review

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

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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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      See How Forums Work

      This page contains a video gives a quick demonstration of how forums work in Moodle.

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      Whole Forum Grading

      Enable this to ease the work of grading students' participation in forums. 

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      Rating Forums

      This is the "old" method of grading forums. Some faculty configure this to allow another method of interacting on forums.

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      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 same group.

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      Forum Subscriptions
      When subscribed to forums, updates are sent to users' email. This page summarizes how to configure it.
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      Attaching a Document to a Forum Post or Reply

      If you want to include a document (such as a PDF, Word file, image, Excel workbook, PowerPoint presentation, or other file) to your forum post or reply, follow the direction here.

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      Padlet Notifications

      Is there a way to have students get notification that another has commented on their Padlet post?

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      Padlet

      Padlet allows users to create a virtual bulletin board (alone or with collaborators).

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      Journals: Work with Students' Drafts

      When instructors want students to submit drafts of files, follow these recommendations for word processing files (Google Docs), slide shows (Google Slides), or spreadsheets (Google Sheets).

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      Submitting Drafts of Work to Journal Activities

      We recommend faculty use Journals if they are going to have students submit drafts of word processing files, slide shows, or spreadsheets for comments before they are submitted for grading. If your instructor is using the steps we recommend here, then follow these steps described on this page to submit drafts.

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      Use Journals to Work with Students' Drafts

      When instructors want students to submit drafts of files, follow these recommendations for word processing files (Google Docs), slide shows (Google Slides), or spreadsheets (Google Sheets).

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      Checklists

      Faculty (and students if you configure it) can add items to a checklist. While these are not automated, they can be useful in helping students know what needs to be completed and to track their own progress. 

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      Hot Questions

      • Students respond to a prompt
      • All appear on one page
      • No replies
      • Upvotes

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      OU Wikis

      Wikis are just like Wikipedia-a collection of pages that can be edited by anyone enrolled your course (or a group). 

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      Lightbox Gallery

      Allow students to upload images and comment on galleries of images. 

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      Students Folder

      Add a folder where students can upload files. This can also be a better option for adding files to your course than the Folder activity.

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      Media Collection

      Add a collection of student-created galleries where you and students can upload files to be viewed by everyone in the course.

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      Use this tool to add videos that have embedded questions. 

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      Padlet Notifications

      Is there a way to have students get notification that another has commented on their Padlet post?

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      Embedding Google Workspace Files in Moodle (copy)

      When files stored in Google Workspace are linked in Moodle using the ATTO text editor, the content along with all of the available controls are there.  The specific controls depends on the Google account the user has used to log in. Changing the account in the browser being used and refreshing the Moodle page will change the controls.

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      Linking to Documents with a URL

      One option for pointing students and others to a Google Document; this options is available only to teachers and contributors. 

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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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      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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      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.

    • Using the "ATTO text editor"


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      An Overview of the ATTO Text Editor

      This video includes seps for adding Images, Pre-formatted Text, and Equations in the ATTO Text Editor

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      Adding YouTube Videos with the ATTO Text Editor

      All GCC users (both student accounts and faculty and staff accounts) can log on to YouTube using their GCC email credentials. Users can upload videos to YouTube and manage them at studio.youtube.com. 

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      Adding an Image in the ATTO Text Editor

      User create pages, forum posts and replies, and many other types of content with the ATTO text editor. This video shows how to add an image to the content you create with it. 

    • Interaction in Moodle


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      See How Forums Work

      This page contains a video gives a quick demonstration of how forums work in Moodle.

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      Hot Questions

      • Students respond to a prompt
      • All appear on one page
      • No replies
      • Upvotes

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      "Attaching" a Document to a Forum Post or Reply

      If you want to include a document (such as a PDF, Word file, image, Excel workbook, PowerPoint presentation, or other file) to your forum post or reply, follow the direction here.

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      Grading Forums
      In summer 2020, we upgraded to Moodle 3.9 which includes "Whole forum grading." This allows instructors to see students' participation on a single page and enter grades easily. 
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      Forum Subscriptions
      When subscribed to forums, updates are sent to users' email. This page summarizes how to configure it.
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      Class Announcements

      There is a "Course Announcements" forum added to each Moodle classroom at GCC by default. Any announcements added to that forum are both posted there and sent to students automatically. 

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      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 same group.

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      Rating Forums

      This is the "old" method of grading forums. Some faculty configure this to allow another method of interacting on forums.

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      Get Started with Hypothes.is Updated April 2021

      This is a group annotation tool that has been recommended at GCC since early 2020. This page demonstrates creating an account, installing the Chrome extension, and adding annotations to a web page. 

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      Private Hypothes.is Groups April 2021

      This is a group annotation tool that has been recommended at GCC since early 2020. This page demonstrates creating and using a private group.

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      Students Folder

      Add a folder where students can upload files. This can also be a better option for adding files to your course than the Folder activity.

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      Media Collection

      Add a collection of student-created galleries where you and students can upload files to be viewed by everyone in the course.

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      Student Folders

      Use this tool to provide a place where students can contribute files to your classroom

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      My Class Isn't Showing

      If the courses students expect to see are not on their dashboard, suggest trying these steps! These are the same steps we will suggest if they submit a help ticket, so you can get them back into your class sooner by pointing them here. 

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      Help, I Don't See My Class!

      If you don't see the courses you are expecting on your Moodle dashboard, try these steps to reset your course filter. 

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      Submitting Assignment for Students

      Follow the steps on this page to see how to submit assignments.

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      Submitting Assignments from Chromebooks for Students

      Follow these steps for submitting PDF files if you are using a Chromebook to access Moodle classrooms.

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      Submitting Assignments from Google Workspaces for Students

      Follow these steps for submitting PDF files if you are using Google Docs as your word processor.

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      Check Assignment Status

      Once assignments have been submitted, student can check the status. Some faculty "hide" grades until they have graded all submissions.

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      Seeing Grades and Feedback
      Once grades have been posted, students can check their grades and see feedback from their instructors by following steps outlined here.
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      Submitting Quizzes

      The Quiz tool is used to create a variety of assessments in Moodle classrooms. This slideshow takes students through the steps of submitting quizzes.

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      Word to PDF Using Google Workspaces

      Some instructors add starter files to Moodle as Word documents to Moodle. Follow these steps to download it, upload it to Google Workspaces to edit it, then download it to you computer to submit it.

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      Add Moodle Calendar Events to Your 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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      The Accessibility Block

      The "Accessibility" block can be added to classroom by any user. This provides a collection of tools to improve the accessibility of courses. The changes one user makes with this block are specific to the user. 

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      Change Your Theme

      Some users find the colors, menus, and other aspects of GCC's installation of Moodle can interfere with their navigation or perception of courses. Using these directions, any user can change to a theme which will minimize these difficulties. Changing the theme does not affect the course materials and it doe not affect how any others see the classrooms. Themes can also be changed back to the default whenever a user decides.  

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    • GCC's IT Department recommends faculty and students who are creating video content for teaching and learning upload their files to YouTube, then embed them in Moodle. 

      We do recommend:

      • Being aware that FERPA may restrict what video content should be captured;
      • Remembering Massachusetts is a "dual-party" state which means all parties must be aware recordings are being made;
      • Making all videos unlisted;
      • Once the video is no longer needed, delete it from YouTube.

      Some advantages of using YouTube to share video include:

      • Universal access (every digital device will display YouTube);
      • YouTube automatically generates closed captioning (although these must be edited to be accurate).

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      Verifying YouTube Accounts

      Before uploading videos longer than 15 minutes and to Go Live, users must verify their YouTube accounts.

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      Uploading Video from Your Computer to YouTube

      Follow these steps to get a video from your computer to YouTube.

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      Finding Zoom Recordings on You Computer

      Follow the steps on this page to find the video recordings of Zoom meetings saved to your computer. 

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      YouTube Live

      Those with verified Google Workspaces/ YouTube 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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      Google on Coursera

      GCC does recommend those who have little experience with Google to explore these trainings materials. These are free!

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      Students please follow these directions to create PDF files for ASL-101 assignments