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Moodle

Moodle is the Learning Management System (LMS) at Clarkson University. Participants and instructors use Moodle to exchange digital course information and communications.

This book contains support documentation for Students, Teachers and Administrators related to Moodle 4.0 at Clarkson.

To login in to Moodle: moodle.clarkson.edu

Moodle 4 for Students

Moodle 4 for Teachers

Course Start-Up

Show Moodle Course to Students

Summary: At the beginning of each term, Teachers must change the Course Visibility of the course...

Add a Course Image to your Course for Display on the Dashboard

A great location to find images that don't require attribution: Pixabay From within your course:...

Post the Course Syllabus

Summary Students will look for your syllabus at the Course Syllabus button posted at the top of ...

Institution Course Template

All Moodle courses come with a default course template.  The template contains prompts for teache...

Add your own 'Getting Started' Information - Top of Course Homepage

The top of the course homepage is the perfect place to welcome students to your course and provid...

Communicating with Your Students in Moodle

Communicating with Students is easy with Moodle 4, and you have several options depending upon yo...

Post an Announcement

The Announcement tool allows you to post a message to everyone enrolled in your course. All annou...

Set Up Virtual Class and Recordings

Note: Teachers please complete the steps described in this article no more than two weeks before ...

Add Text and Media (formerly Label) to the Moodle Course Page

Summary Teachers use the Text and Media area (formerly Label) resource tool to display informati...

Hide / Show Activities and Resources in Your Course

Summary Teachers can choose to show or hide course items to students. This option is available o...

Moodle Dates in Edit Settings

Course visibility determines whether students can access the course. If it is set to Show, no mat...

Post a file

To post a file that students can click and view from the homepage of your course Click to Tu...

Moodle Forum Types

There are different types of forums to choose from: A single simple discussion - is just a s...

Moodle 4 Gradebook

Consider the following resources when learning how to set up your gradebook in Moodle: 1) Moodle...

Create an Active Hyperlink in a Moodle Page, Label (Text/Media), or Forum

Quality Matters and Universal Design guidelines state that when linking to the Internet, use desc...

Create a URL/Link

To create a URL/link that students can click from the homepage of your course: Click to Turn...

Insert an Image into the Editor in Moodle

If you want to add an image to the editor in Moodle, you might have the image already on your com...

Page

Create a Page To create a page that students can click from the homepage of your course to view:...

Enrollments

Enroll Users in a Moodle Course

Summary: myCU manages all Student enrollments in catalog courses. Teachers can enroll other Teac...

Access Class Roster and Email Adresses in Moodle Course

The Class Roster can be exported from Participants list in Moodle: Log into Moodle and go to t...

Self-Enroll in a Course

1. Search Moodle by course name or login using the link you have been provided.  2. Find the cou...

Adding Guest Access to a Course

Because Moodle is accessed through CAS (Central Authentication System) and that system requires a...

Moodle: Guest Access to Course

Instructions for Guest Access to designated courses in Moodle: Go to https://moodle.clarks...

Moodle: Guest Access for QM Course Review

Instructions for Guest Access to designated courses in Moodle for the purpose of completing an QM...

Moodle: Guest Access for SAMPLE Course Review (Prospective Students)

Instructions for Guest Access to designated courses in Moodle for the purpose of viewing a SAMPLE...

Moodle: Guest Access to Course with Guest Email in CAS

Instructions for Guest Access to designated courses in Moodle: Go to: https://moodle.clarkso...

Moodle: Guest Access to MSEM Faculty Course

Instructions for Guest Access to MSEM Faculty Course in Moodle: Go to https://moodle.clark...

Moodle: Question Sharer Role for Question Bank

Instructors may be interested in sharing Question Bank questions from one course to another, or o...

Moodle: Guest Access for QM Course Review

Instructions for Guest Access to designated courses in Moodle for the purpose of completing an QM...

Import Enrolls in Moodle

Summary: Teachers can use the Import Enrolls function to enroll a batch of students from a csv d...

Moodle 4 Migration

Profile

Assignment

Discussion

Attendance

Grading

Access HR Training

There are three ways to locate the New Hire Training 2021/2022 from the Moodle Dashboard. My Cou...

Adding & Using Mass Actions Block

This guide shows you how to add the Mass Actions block to your course and how to use it. Tool Des...

Announcements

Best Practices

Quality Matters

Backup/Restore/Import

Blank Page Instead of a Video in Moodle

Problem When I click on a link to a page in Moodle, where there should be embedded video, I get ...

Message Tool

Sharing Cart

External Tools

Activity

Grading & Certificate of Completion for Pre-matric Courses

To track completion and participation as well as to issue certificates of completion, a gradebook...

Groups

HR Training

SCORM

Manually Grade a Moodleroom (Advanced Discussion Forum) Holistically

There are many ways to rate and grade discussion forums in Moodle depending upon how you set up y...

Publisher Content

Moodle for Staff: Start up

Go to: https://moodle.clarkson.edu/ Login to Moodle: enter your Clarkson AD & Password. Click...

Moodle for Students: Start up

Step-by-step guide - download file here: Log in to Moodle Tutorial.pdf New Students: access your...

Mobile

Quiz

Create A Quiz in Moodle

This guide will first show you how to create a quiz shell in the Learning Modules area of your Mo...

Quiz: Grading by Question

When instructors are interested in grading all answers to a specific question in a quiz they may ...

Quiz: Hide Grades

Suppressing quiz grades in Moodle from students until a desired time.   Instructors may be inter...

Quiz: Importing a Quiz to Moodle

Best practice for using quizzes in Moodle is to add questions to the Question Bank first and then...

Quiz: Prepare a Word Quiz for Import into the Moodle Question Bank

Moodle has an excellent quiz tool with plenty of options that make it very efficient for bo...

Quiz: Quicker Manual Grading

If you want to quickly grade all responses to a single quiz question (rather than grading one ent...

Quiz: Saving a Quiz as a Text File for Importing into Moodle

Quiz: Saving a Quiz as a Text File for Importing into Moodle

Once most formatting is done, save and close the file.  Open Notepad (not Word or Wordpad) and op...

User Overrides in Quiz

Summary Instructors are able to allow individual students or groups of students to take a quiz w...

Quiz Email Submission Permissions

The Quiz tool can be set up to email a message to the Teacher when a student has submitted the qu...

Reducing the risk of cheating during online quizzes and exams

1. First rethink your exam/quiz questions: Convert true/false questions to multiple choice, ...

Open quiz scores after quiz closes

How do I open scores and answers for quizzes/exams after they are finished? If you don’t want st...

Locate Quiz Administration Block through Course Dashboard

Summary For editing questions and settings in a Moodle Quiz activity, Teachers can access the Qu...

Poll Everywhere

VoiceThread

Echo360

PointSolutions

Turnitin

Administering Moodle

Clarkson Best Practices for Using Moodle

Faculty and staff can expect that our students are experienced learning management system users a...

Restoring Administration Block in a Course

Add &bui_editid=10 to the end of the URL.The ID for the Admin block seems to be 10 in Live, 70 ...