Faculty Moodle Resources
Starting a Semester in Moodle
- Getting Started in Moodle
- Beginning in Moodle in an On Campus Class
- Beginning with Moodle in an Online Class
- Navigating Moodle
- Adding a Resource or Activity to Your Moodle Course
- Adding a Syllabus
- Adding Attendance to Your Course
- Setting Up a Moodle Gradebook
During the Semester
Finishing Up the Semester
Learning Resources and Activities
Check out the Moodle instructor guide and the Moodle resources course.
Moodle is a robust platform that provides many options to instructors as they work to support students as they learn. Instructors can choose from several Moodle resource options to present content in their courses. There are even more diverse options available for inclusion in a course to allow students to demonstrate their learning and instructors to record a grade.
- Adding an Activity or Resource to a Moodle Course
- Adding Sections to Display and Organize Activities and Resources
- Deleting Course Topics
- Setting Up an Open Forum
- Creating an Assignment (Dropbox)
- Moodle Quizzes
- Settings to Preserve Quiz Integrity
- Adding an H5P Activity
- Connecting Connect and Moodle When Importing from a Master Course
- Connect Student Instructions
Grading in Moodle
Once students submit their work in Moodle, instructors will need to grade the work submitted in Moodle, just like student work submitted in class would need to be graded. The resources below are specific to type of activity used.
- Grading Open Forums
- Grading Open Forums with the Open Grader
- Grading Assignments
- Grading an Assignment with a Rubric
- Grading Quizzes
- Extra Credit in the Moodle Gradebook
- Removing Attendance from the Gradebook
Supporting Student Success with Moodle
Moodle has multiple features that can support students as they work to stay on task and accomplish the things that instructors ask them to do. Other Moodle features allow instructors the option to be flexible in extreme student circumstances when students’ lives do not allow them to meet our course deadlines and timelines. There are options to support our students while maintaining high expectations for our students.
Moodle Student Guide & Moodle Improvements Guide
The Moodle guides are more in-depth than the targeted resources on this page. If you want to get an overview of what students need to know, check out the Moodle Student Guide. The Moodle improvements guide keeps you up to speed on recent updates and improvements to Moodle.
Final Grades and Never Attended Reports
Never Attended and Final Grades are two required reports that are submitted through Moodle. If you need a step-by-step guide to submitting these reports, you have come to the right place! Also, below, you will find a handy guide to exporting and printing your Moodle gradebook, which also includes tips for formatting the spreadsheet.
- Entering Final Course Grades in Moodle
- Exporting and Printing the Gradebook
- Creating a Digital Copy of the Final Grades Submission Page
- Entering a Never Attended Report in Moodle
Course Copying and Maintenance
In this section, you will find guides dealing with course maintenance, including routine tasks like importing course content, converting documents to various formats, backing up course content, using course logs to glean information about student access, and ensuring accessibility of your digital materials.
- Video – Importing a Master Course into an Active Section
- Copying Course Content
- Extending a Moodle Assignment Deadline
- Converting Documents to PDF and RTF Format
- Backing up a Moodle Course
- Using Logs to Verify Student Course Access
- Making Moodle Course Content Accessible
- Removing a Grade Override in the Gradebook
- Grading Open Forums with the Open Grader
- Adding an H5P Interactive Resource
Quizzes
In this section, you will find resources related to the creation and maintenance of quizzes in Moodle, including adding user overrides to give individual users different parameters than other users, and deleting quiz attempts.