Moodle Users
Topic outline
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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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Linking to a Google Doc files from Moodle is useful for distributing files you want students to be able to edit or download.
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There are multiple options for adding Google files to Moodle. Page explains three.
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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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Unless using Powerpoint is part of your curriculum, PPT files should be managed in one of these ways:
a) exported as PDF before being uploaded and linked in Moodle,
b) exported as an .mp4 file and uploaded to YouTube before being embedded in Moodle,
c) uploaded to G Suite and published before being embedded in Moodle pages (details for this are in the G Suite section).
The images on this page are available on this PDF file.
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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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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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Follow these steps for submitting PDF files if you are using a G Suite as your word processor.
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This page demonstrates how to embed Google files in Moodle using iframes and the html option in Moodle pages.
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Linking to a Google Doc files from Moodle is useful for distributing files you want students to be able to edit or download.
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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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A block that provides quick access to students' email addresses.
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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.
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There are three choices for decreasing the amount scrolling needed to navigate your courses.
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Added January 27. 2022
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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.
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