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Best practice for using quizzes in Moodle is to add questions to the Question Bank first and then add them to the actual quizzes from the Question Bank. The first step is to create categories for organizing the questions. You might organize by topic, chapter o...

Padlet is a virtual bulletin board tool where you can post and share with your students, or have students share with you, or with the class. Padlet is very easy to use and can be used in many ways. For educational purposes, it is an excellent tool for curatin...

Extra Credit in Moodle Gradebook can be tricky. Consider just adding a point or two to the final grade average as this is the easiest method for some aggregation methods. If that doesn't interest you, try following the steps General InformationIf you would lik...

Roles At the course level, the two basic roles are "Teacher" and "Student". When a user is assigned the role of "Teacher" they will have the ability to change the roles of other users in their course. The following are the different types of roles that are us...

Create – Collaborate – Share Overview Moodle Board is a virtual bulletin board tool very similar to Padlet, however, it is built right into Moodle. With the Board activity, you can place post-it notes with text or media to share with your students, or you co...

Occasionally, you may want to delete a manually added item, for example, you once added the column to record exam grades and exams are now given digitally in Moodle, or a paper once submitted by hard copy in the classroom is now submitted digitally in an Assig...

Instructions for Guest Access to designated courses in Moodle for the purpose of completing an QM Official Course Review: Go to Clarkson Moodle Guest Access Log in page. Access: Click the "Access as a guest" button.  3. Copy/Paste course U...

Summary Course instructors may create a backup copy of their course in Moodle. The backup copy can be saved to the individual's storage location for later use. Backup copies can be restored into a Moodle course shell at a future time. This Guide Will Help Yo...

Summary The Restore function in Moodle allows Teachers and Administrators to pull a backup copy of a course into another course shell. Teachers often use this to reuse a course copy from a prior term.  Steps Open the course you wish to restore content to....

Summary Teachers can reuse course content from a prior term by using Moodle's course Import function in the Course administration tools.* *Teachers can import from Moodle 4 only. If course is from Spring 2023 or earlier and is only in Moodle 3, the import wi...

Summary Moodle is the Learning Management System (LMS) at Clarkson University. Find steps below for accessing your courses in Moodle.  Steps 1) From www.clarkson.edu, click Current Students: 2) You will be prompted to login to CAS with your Clarkson user...

Summary Teachers use the Text and Media area (formerly Label) resource tool to display information on the Moodle course page. This displays information to students from the topics areas on the main Moodle course page. This varies from the Page tool which crea...

Summary Moodle courses are generally available to Teachers and Students for a period of 48 months after the semester or quarter term begins.  Terms described below. Students: Students that are enrolled in a section in myCU are added to the Moodle course wit...

Instructors can view content they have uploaded or recorded in their Echo library. To do so: Log into Echo at go.clarkson.edu/echo Recordings are categorized as Media.  Filter or Search for desired recording by Date Created or Name. 

How to Annotate a PDF Document The good news is that most of the focus is on annotating PDF documents because it is the most shared format. Annotation is also a default feature set of common tools found on both Windows and MacOS. Step-by-step guide This gui...

This article will demonstrate how to add an profile image to a User's Moodle profile, for students and instructors. Head to the Moodle Website Log into Moodle At the Moodle welcome page, go to the top right of page and click the down are where your name/i...

Problem If you do not see your discussion forums showing the course gradebook, the settings for the forum are probably set to “none”. Simply edit the settings for the forum(s). Here’s how: Turn editing on in your course. Go to the Forum(s) that is not...

Summary When using the Whole Forum option for grading a discussion, the easiest way to view all of one student's posts for the discussion at once, is the Grade Users button. How to Steps From your course page, click into the forum. Scroll to the bott...