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  • Managing Moodle Classrooms

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    Primarily for faculty

    • Change Your Preferred Name Page

      By updating their preferred name in MyGCC, users can change the names displayed to all users of Moodle.

    • Add Moodle Calendar Events to Your Google Calendar Page

      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.

    • QuickMail Block Page

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

    • 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

      Follow these steps to add others to your classrooms.

    • Archive: Save Your Old Courses Page

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

    • Formatting Item Titles Page

      Use these tags in the "Name" box to edit how text appears on your 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 this to track students' attendance in class.

    • Use Logs to See Participation Page

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

    • 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). 

    • 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

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

    • 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. 
    • 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.
    • Downloading Students email Addresses from Moodle Page

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

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

      Disable this repeated message with these direction.