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The Sharing Cart is a block for duplicating course items into a personal library and an easy way to move those Moodle resources and activities between multiple courses on your site. With just three clicks, the Sharing Cart copies and moves a single course item...

Rubrics can be created, copied and edited in the Advanced Grading area of Assignment activity settings in Moodle. The instructions below show how to create and add the rubric, and also how to use the Grade button to view the assignment and rubric in the annota...

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...

This tutorial shows how to create an Assignment that uses the Annotate PDF Tool which allows instructors to grade assignments without downloading them. Note: It is not recommended using this tool to provide feedback for an assignment that students will need t...

If your professor tells you your Assignment PDF file submission is not readable for grading in Moodle, don't panic! You just need to change the Print -Scale settings to Fit to Printable area. From the Moodle Grader perspective, your professor is seeing someth...

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,...

Moodle has an excellent quiz tool with plenty of options that make it very efficient for both you and your students. But if your questions/test are located in a Word document, you will need to some time reformatting them for import into the Moodle Ques...

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...

Forums-Two Commonly Used Types: 1. In the Forum Tool "Standard Forum for General Use", students are able to make a post by using the button Add a new discussion topic. Any student can add a new discussion topic at any time and all students can see all questio...

Often you can copy and paste an image into a Moodle topic, page, forum, etc. See the example below to see how an image can enhance your words. Add an image by using the editor in Moodle, follow the Step-by step guide below the example. Do you have the image? ...

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...

This page describes how to log in to the ACRES computing cluster. If you do not yet have an account on ACRES, please request one by emailing the OIT helpdesk: helpdesk@clarkson.edu Login to Clarkson VPN If you are not connected to Clarkson's Network (e.g. yo...

Summary Courses can be meta linked into a mother course and divided into Groups in many ways. For example, a lecture course may have many sections  or a course may have many lab sections that occur at different times. Often the course may provide students wit...

Overview Create and narrate your presentation slides in Google Slides so that all team members can participate. Once the presentation is complete, the team leader will use PPT to export the slides into an MP4 video, and finally upload the file to Clarkson Ech...

Collections are designed to be collaborative spaces where specific people (members) are brought together to view, post, or otherwise work with the media in the collection.  Everyone in Echo360 can create and manage a collection. Members can be added or invite...

When planning for summer courses, please try to offer courses that are typically in high demand throughout the year, courses in which you often find students requesting summer transfer credit for, and common "catch up" courses needed to help students stay on t...

Following this method, you may run a graphical application on ACRES and see / interact with it through the display of your local computer. RUNNING PARALLEL JOBS Please note: DO NOT use the method outlined in the article to execute parallel jobs. Intensive pa...

This mail merge tool is a simple solution to send personalized emails, newsletters, or forms to multiple recipients. Clarkson has purchased this program from Google so that you can send up to 1500 messages daily. You can download this mail merge tool at: http...