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
Access Moodle 4
Summary Moodle 4 is the Learning Management System (LMS) used by Clarkson University. It is the ...
Navigate Moodle 4
Summary The top navigation menu is useful for moving between your courses and the dashboard of M...
Dashboard and My Courses in Moodle 4
Summary As you enter Moodle 4, the Dashboard is your starting place where you can access your My...
Update your Profile in Moodle 4
Summary Moodle community members can customize their personal profile preferences. They can chan...
Navigate a Course in Moodle 4
Summary You will want to navigate to your course's important information quickly. From the Cours...
Course Resources and Activities in Moodle 4
Summary Your instructors will post a variety of resources and activities in your courses. It is ...
Moodle Quick Resources
Summary Moodle is Clarkson University's Learning Management System (LMS). This is the an online ...
Submit an Assignment
Summary Students will submit assignments to Teachers through the Assignment activity in their Mo...
Students: Submit Equation Type Assignments for Grading (Assignment Feedback)
Submitting answers to math equations can be tricky in an online class, however, we have worked ou...
Moodle 4 for Teachers
Moodle 4 FAQs
Below is a collection of questions that the TLC and Helpdesk have frequently received during the ...
Dashboard and My Courses for Teachers
Summary As you enter Moodle 4, the Dashboard is your starting place where you can access your My...
Moodle Switch Role To...
Summary Teachers can temporarily switch role to view the course as a Student. This is for testin...
Moodle Course Life Cycle
Summary This article describes the policy related to course availability to students and the len...
User Roles In Moodle
Roles At the course level, the two basic roles are "Teacher" and "Student". When a user is assig...
Moodle - Audit a Course
Certain Clarkson courses may be audited on a space-available basis by currently enrolled Clarkson...
Moodle 4 & More: Where to Go for Self-Help
Explore these self-help resources: Clarkson OIT Knowledge base-includes Moodle, Echo360 & ...
Moodle Course Availability
Summary This article describes the policy related to course availability for students on Moodle ...
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
Migration Checklist
Our Moodle environment has changed! Welcome to Moodle 4.1. After extensive testing (thank you to ...
Move videos to Echo360 for Migration Prep
Course sections in Moodle that have videos that have been uploaded directly into the section as o...
Recreate discussion forums in Moodle 4 from the open forum tool in Moodle 3
The Open Forum tool is unavailable in Moodle 4. If a course had Open Forum activities in Moodle 3...
Reconnect VoiceThreads in Moodle 4
After your course is migrated to Moodle 4, you will need to re-link all VoiceThreads (VTs) the wh...
Profile
Adding a Profile Picture to Moodle
This article will demonstrate how to add an profile image to a User's Moodle profile, for student...
Edit Profile
In Moodle 4, you can use the Description feature in your Profile to communicate important informa...
Moodle Notification Preferences
In Moodle, Notification preferences allow users to indicate whether they receive email when certa...
Text Editor Toolbar Preferences
Summary Moodle individuals may choose to customize their profile by selecting from multiple text...
Set Preferred Language to English - United States
If you notice European spelling of some words (ex) enrol) in your Moodle, you may want to set the...
Assignment
Create an Assignment
Summary This tutorial shows how to create an Assignment from within a topic in Moodle. Step-by-...
Assignment Feedback (Student View)
For instructors, if you are wondering how your students will see or receive your feedback in Mood...
Grade Assignments Using Annotate PDF
This tutorial shows how to create an Assignment that uses the Annotate PDF Tool which allows inst...
Alternative to Grading/Annotating PDFs with MS Edge or Mac browser (Assignment Feedback)
Step-by-step guide How to Annotate a PDF Document The good news is that most of the focus is on...
Grades: Uploading Multiple Feedback Files
*A bug identified is currently affecting the steps to make this process function properly. The te...
Download Student Submission Files
Summary Instructors may wish to download student Assignment file submissions for review and grad...
Releasing Grades from Blind Grading
This article will go through how to turn off Blind Grading. Blind Grading is used to hide the ide...
Discussion
Forums In Moodle
The Announcements Forum The Announcements forum is a special forum for class announcements that ...
Advanced Discussion Forum Not Visible in my Gradebook
Problem All of my advanced discussion forums are showing in my gradebook except for one so I a...
Advanced Forum: View all responses by student
Problem: When an instructor would like to view all posts made by one person in an advanced forum...
Q & A Discussion Forum (2 types)
Moodle has two different discussion forum tools, and each has their own Q & A sub-type. It is imp...
Discussion Grading Override
If you want to manually enter students’ forum grades in the gradebook, you will need to override ...
Discussion Grading - Using Rating Scale Skip to end of metadata
Use a rating scale to grade discussion posts cumulatively. For example, you can separately grade ...
Attendance
Grading
Create a Rubric for an Assignment in Moodle
Rubrics can be created for assignments in Turnitin or directly in Moodle. The instructions below ...
Download Annotated (Graded) Student Submission Files
[Beginning August 2019 - The Annotating a PDF in Moodle feature is no longer available in Clarkso...
Grades: Add Manual Grade Item
Instructors can post grades in Moodle's grade book for activities completed outside of Moodle. ...
Grades: Grader Report (GradeBook) Location
The location of the Grade Book / Grader Report has changed. It is now located under the main "N...
Import Grades
Summary This article provides instruction for instructors who wish to import grades from a file ...
Grades: Setting Up Your Gradebook
The gradebook in Moodle is very powerful with several options for aggregating and presenting grad...
Moodle: How to Delete a Manually Added Gradebook Item
This tutorial goes through how to delete a manually added gradebook item from Moodle. Select a...
Moodle: Rubrics
There are at least two paths for you to choose from. Instructors can set up and grade with a rub...
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
Add the QM seal to a course that has received QM certification
<iframe src="https://widget.qmprogram.org/certification/?id=16794&program=2&width=250&...
Start a Quality Matters Self-Review using the CRMS
If you would like to start a Quality Matters Self-Review using the Course Review Management Syste...
Backup/Restore/Import
Backup a Course in Moodle
1. Open the Moodle course that you want to backup. Under Administration click Backup 2. Use th...
Copy Content from one Course to another in Moodle (Import)
Summary Teachers can reuse course content from a prior term by using Moodle's course Import func...
Restore A Course in Moodle
Open the course you wish to restore content to, and in the lower left hand corner click on Res...
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
Course Import: Updating External Tool Links
For those importing Moodle courses from prior semesters, please note: External Links will need t...
Create Custom LTI with Third Party Provider
Instructors may have occasion to bring content directly into your Moodle course from an outside c...
Perusall
If you are using Perusall in your Moodle 4, course be aware that our institution made the switch ...
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
Poll Everywhere - Creating Polls
To begin using, you will need to create your poll or activity in Poll Everywhere When creating P...
Poll Everywhere - Presenting Poll in Class
Activating Your Poll When you are ready for the audience to respond, you will need to activate t...
Poll Everywhere - Restrict Participation
When creating polls for use in class, you will want to restrict participation to Registered Parti...
VoiceThread
VoiceThread Guest Access
If you need to add a person to a VoiceThread project, who is not enrolled as a student or an empl...
VoiceThread Instructor: Add an Assignment
Adding a VoiceThread assignment to encourage student interaction with not just your content but a...
VoiceThread Instructor: ReConnect the VoiceThread External Tool Each Semester
When you import your course content from a previous semester, the VoiceThread links stay with the...
Echo360
PointSolutions
TurningPoint - For Instructors
Please note: Beginning Spring 2022, TurningPoint merged with Echo360, and is now rebranded by Ech...
TurningPoint- For Students
Please Note: In Spring 2022, TurningPoint merged with Echo360, and is now rebranded as PointSolut...
TurningPoint - Powerpoint
TurningPoint has made a variety of video resources available that are designed to support faculty...
PointSolutions Account Start Up
Effective August 24, 2023, PointSolutions (formerly Turning Point), the clicker tool you use for ...
Turnitin
Turnitin For Instructors
Academic Integrity. Streamlined Feedback. Smarter Grading. Turnitin is integrated into Moodle ...
Turnitin for Instructors: Check for Originality by Adding A Turnitin 2 Activity
Turn-it-in is directly integrated with Moodle, so if you as an instructor in a Moodle course add ...
Turnitin for Instructors: Using outside of Moodle
Instructors at Clarkson University may wish to use Turnitin outside of Moodle to review individua...
Turnitin For Students
Turnitin Feedback Studio is an improved redesign of the Turnitin interface. It is simple and desi...
Turnitin for Students: Submit an Assignment to the Turnitin Dropbox (Moodle)
Summary In Moodle, your instructor may provide a Turnitin dropbox for you to submit an assignmen...
Turnitin for Students: Find Your Peer Reviewed Papers
Summary After the due date for peer reviewed submissions arrives, you will be able to find the...
Turnitin for Students: Using PeerMark to Peer Review
Summary Your instructor may assign you to peer review or self-review papers submitted to the Tur...
Administering Moodle
Login to Moodle 4 Development Server
To login to the Moodle 4 Development server: Navigate to: https://mdl4dev.clarkson.edu/my/ ...
Course Creation Process Flow
Task: To improve our Moodle Course managementTools: Moodle Plugin "local_course_templates", Moosh...
Course Formats
Summary: The New Learning Theme is the standard institutional theme and default course format in...
Moodle Template Naming Conventions/Guidelines
Courses can be created in any category using the template, not just the one the template reside...
Moodle - Locating courses activity/resource types are in
These steps will provide a breakdown of courses that a specific activity or resource is located i...
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 ...