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When creating polls for use in class, you may want to restrict participation to Registered Participants Only but registered participants is a premium feature that can be purchased on the Poll Everywhere Pricing page. Restrict Participation Once your students...

Summary In this article you can find the directions for posting a file for students to view from the homepage of your course.  This Guide Will Help You to: Post a file viewable from the homepage of your course in Moodle.  Post a file Ensure you are ...

Summary The News & Announcements forum is a great way to easily and quickly get a message out to your students. This forum allows instructors to post a message to everyone enrolled in a course that will be automatically sent to each student's email account. A...

Summary Forums allow students and teachers to exchange ideas by posting comments as part of a 'thread'. Files such as images and media maybe included in forum posts.  Discussion fosters active learning, critical thinking, and a sense of community, transformin...

Th steps below will first show you how to create a quiz shell in the Learning Modules area of your Moodle course. Secondly, you will see how to add questions from your course question bank to the quiz shell. Or watch this 6 minute Quick Quiz Start-up video fro...

When instructors are interested in grading all answers to a specific question (such as an essay question) in a quiz, they may opt to do the following: Steps From your course page, click into the quiz activity, on the right in the Quiz Administration block,...

Suppressing quiz grades in Moodle from students until a desired time.   Instructors may be interested in hiding quiz grades from students until a certain point in time.  To do this, go to Edit Settings of the Quiz Activity in Moodle, under Review Options, des...

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...

Summary Moodle has an excellent quiz tool with plenty of options that make it very efficient for both you and your students. And if your questions/test are located in a Word document, you can easily reformat them them for import into the Moodle Question Bank ...

If you want to quickly grade all responses to a single quiz question (rather than grading one entire quiz at a time), you can do that by following these screen prompts:  Step-by-step guide Start at the main course page.  Navigate to the desired quiz, click...

Once most formatting is done, save and close the file.  Open Notepad (not Word or Wordpad) and open the quiz file in Notepad. Now follow the steps below to save the quiz as a special type of text file that can be imported into Moodle. Click on "File", the...

Summary Instructors are able to allow individual students or groups of students to take a quiz with exceptions to the standard quiz settings.  This is useful for students with accommodations.  Unlimited time and other exceptions can be applied for the individ...

The Quiz tool can be set up to email a message to the Teacher when a student has submitted the quiz. The instructions below must be done separately for each individual Quiz you would like to receive an email confirmation for. Click the title of the quiz y...

Between AI and the Internet, students have plenty of opportunity to find answers online. Although quizzes and exams do have a place in assessment, research offers some caveats for using them. What Does the Research Say About Testing?  Here is an example of wha...

This article will go through how to turn off Blind Grading. Blind Grading is used to hide the identity of students to graders. Some instructors may accidentally turn this setting on, which will lead to the assignment grade not showing up in the gradebook. To m...

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....