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  Welcome to Moodle 4.1. Our Moodle environment has changed! After extensive testing (thank you to the team and beta testers!) your course is ready for your updates and revisions in Moodle 4. Please use this checklist as a guide for additional revisions y...

Sometimes you may want to make an activity available only at a specific time, or after another event has taken place such as students must view a video prior to taking a quiz. The Restrict Access setting allows you to use various restrictions including date, g...

The 3 buttons are gone now and students see the same view as teachers in their Moodle course pages. The welcome area or a Get Started section is the recommended location for the syllabus. Teachers may opt to post a link to a file or paste a link from a Google ...

  If you want students to see the actual videos in Moodle (rather than linking the video or linking to all videos for the course), you’ll need to embed them within your course. The first step takes place in your Moodle course where you will get ready to add t...

Communicating with students is easy with Moodle, and you have several options depending upon your needs. Options News & Announcements First, the quickest way to communicate with your students is by posting a message in the News & Announcements forum. Th...

Explore these self-help resources: Clarkson OIT Knowledge base-includes Moodle, Echo360 & PeopleSoft Clarkson Moodle for Teachers Clarkson Moodle for Students Moodle Docs - General search teachers/students TLC website- Pedagogy, technology and tools...

If you are using Perusall in your Moodle 4 course we made the switch to version LTI 1.3 in August 2023. Follow these instructions from Perusal Support: If a user was originally integrated into Perusall with LTI 1.1, the first time they launch into Perusall vi...

Students tell us they want accuracy and consistency when it comes to course content in Moodle. Instructors can make a great first impression with students by following these easy Best Practices in Moodle 4.5 beginning May 13, 2025:  Moodle 4.5 key updates and...

No need to recreate your quizzes from another LMS. Brightspace Users Follow these Steps Log into your D2L Brightspace course In the Brightspace course, go to Course Tools->Import/Export/Copy Components Select "Export Components" followed by "Start" In "Selec...

Are your students having to request access to your old files in Google Drive? If so, it's probably time to update the files and the folder they are share in. On July 26, 2021, Google notified many Google users about an update that will take effect September 1...

Moodle has a feature that allows instructors to control whether students receive reminders about various events in a course. The Reminders link in the Administration block allows customization for a course and course events. Steps to Customize Reminders for a...

Research on using AI in the classroom is in it's infancy but academics on ramping up their efforts in a variety of categories. Articles not yet peer reviewed by a Journal AI Tutoring Outperforms Active LearningAI tutors outperform human instructors, doublin...

Clarkson University suggests instructors provide a paragraph outlining the specific guidelines for student use of AI in the course syllabus.* Follow the link below to view a crowd-sourced list of policies from various institutions. According to the webpage: "...

We commonly ask our students to submit handwritten assignments as PDF files and we need to make sure they know how to submit a readable file. This article explains how to save documents as PDF files using commonly used software listed below. The Portable Do...

Particularly during remote teaching and learning, it is common for faculty and students to share a scanned version of a document or assignment for which they have a hard copy (e.g. notes, equations, handwritten work, etc.). Office Lens offers a secure way to s...

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...

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...

Formerly "Alternatives to VoiceThread" Clarkson’s subscription to VoiceThread ended on January 1, 2025. This means all access to VoiceThread services and any VoiceThread files through a clarkson.edu account will no longer be available starting January 1, 2025...

The World Wide Web is an amazing place, full of tons of learning opportunities. Education has changed greatly since its introduction and we encourage you to take advantage of the resources and media out there. Library The Clarkson University Library is a...

Overview The Workshop Activity provides a robust tool for setting up peer reviewing for assessment of assignments submitted to the workshop. Moodle Workshop has four phases, Set up, Submission, Assessment, and Evaluation. Each phase is explained below, howeve...