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1. down list allows you to Zoe 2 specify whether the chat will always remain open Don t publish any chat times or whether the chat session will repeat at the same time every day or same day each week This selection is purely used as an indication to students when the chat room will be available if the chat room is visible on your home page students will be able to enter the room regardless ON ELOTO D OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services Moodle User Manual for Instructors 28 8 The Save past sessions drop down list lets you specify how long the chat transcript will be available online for others to view and Everyone can view past sessions selection controls whether students can view the transcript Yes or only the instructor No 9 When you are done click the Save and return to course button Participating in a Chat room 1 On your course home page click on the link to the Chat room you have just created 2 A summary screen will be presented displaying the next scheduled session if indicated in the settings as well as any introduction text that has been provided 3 To enter the Chat room click on Click here to enter the chat now 4 A pop up box will open to display the chat session The main panel on the left displays the chat activity that is occurring amongst participants in the room You can view who is present in the Chat room on the right
2. Moodle User Manual for Instructors 50 Email digest type You may choose to receive all email from Moodle in one daily message There is also the option to receive either the complete message or just the Subject titles from forums you subscribe to Forum tracking This highlights unread forum messages so you can quickly see what s new Note that you will need to click on Mark read for every message to tell the system the message has been read Subscribing Unsubscribing to forums Moodle has a subscription feature that sends emails to the address you have specified in your Moodle profile every time discussion occurs in any forum you are subscribed to The instructions below will show you where to go to change your subscription to a forum 1 Click the forum you wish to subscribe unsubscribe 2 Click Subscribe to this forum or Unsubscribe from this forum under Settings block and Forum administration to subscribe unsubscribe searching in discussion forums In the top right hand corner of the Forums overview page there is a Search Forums feature that can be used to search for keywords Monitoring Student Participation It is possible in Moodle to view the posts made by a certain individual 1 Click on the name of the individual in your course 2 You will be taken to that user s profile Click on Forum posts of an individual participant under the Navigation block You can view the contributions by either posts or discussions
3. dropdown menu OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 54 2 Insert the Assignment Name the Description and the Grade that it will be marked out of You can use the Available from and Due date to indicate when this activity will take place Click Save and Return to Course 3 The activity is now visible on the Course home page We will hide it from students before entering the grades through this activity 4 After clicking on the activity link you will be taken to an area that lists the activity s instructions and availability dates To start entering grades for students click on View assignment grades and feedback You will see a list of students The rows in the table may be re sorted by clicking on any of the column headings You may also collapse or expand a column by clicking the minus or plus icons respectively 5 To adda grade for a student clicks the Grade link in the Status column on the right 6 A pop up window will appear for you to enter a grade and a comment In the Grade dropdown menu in the top right select the mark for the assignment In the text box enter any additional comments or feedback Grades Grade 44 100 Current grade 44 00 in gradebook Feedback Feedback Font family Font size Paragraph at BI V x J2 B amp A p11 STE oF 2 AQ Guam gt you failed Pat
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5. ELGE 2012 Teacher Admin User Tater Gandy WU Si F My profile settings On the left and right sides of your welcome page you will see several blocks with grey title bars A block is a small area of a Moodle page that offers specialized functionality to the user In the example above The Resources is a customized block that York has created to provide both Instructors and ON EG ODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY oNeeIeIDI Y Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services 2 Moodle User Manual for Instructors 6 Students with time sensitive information related to Moodle The block detects whether the user is an Instructor or Student and displays content relevant to them The Instructor can also see what view the student has MY COURSES LAW 1234 ELGG 2012 Terter Sefer Let Click on the Course Title to access the course Tamar Ajy Wu You will be brought to your Course Home page The Weekly Sections is where you as an instructor will add your course content for students to access The content area is broken down into sections where you can group content depending on your course format After you click Turn editing on button on the top left you can use the Add a resource and Add an Activity drop down menus to add content and activities OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Je Website Moodle User Manual for In
6. OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 51 Communicating with others in Moodle MOODLE DOCUMENTATION There are a couple of ways to communicate with other users in Moodle Course Announcements The Course Announcements tool allows you send a message to all participants of your course for example a notification of a room change Students have forced subscription to this forum meaning that they will also receive an email with this information Please refer to the document How to send a Course Announcement for more information on how to do this Messages Messages in Moodle can be used to contact individuals When you send a message to a user and that user is offline the message will be emailed to them Messages can be accessed from the Navigation block under My profile you can check any messages that might have been sent to you from here To send a message 1 Click on the Messages link 2 Use the Search tab to search for a user 3 The search results will list the users matching your criteria 4 Click on the name of the person to send them a message 5 Using the icons next to the name you can also Add them as a contact Block the contact from messaging you and view the Message history respectively People block The people block within a course allows both you and other people enrolled in the course to see a listing of people enrolled in the course rather than trying to search for cont
7. 1 Click on the Quiz name on your course home page 2 Click Edit quiz 3 To add a question form the Question bank into your Quiz select the category that you created then click on the Add to Quiz button 40 E Separation of powers ir With selected Midterm Exam 1 Qui Mid tenn paper Default for Mid term paper Course LAW 1234 Defaultfor LAW 1234 Midterm Exam 1 AUT TU UTS F Also show questions fram sub categories C Also show old questions OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services 5 5 E OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 44 4 To preview the quiz you created click Preview under Quiz administration in Settings block Settings i Y Quiz administration Edit settings Group overrides User overrides P Edit quiz Freview Locally inned roles _ Preview Check permissions Logs Backup Restore P Question bank OhYOOlO BI Y Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services J N E R s T E OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 45 How to send a Course Announcement MOODLE DOCUMENTATION Course Announcements is a special type of discussion forum News forum that is provided as default when a course is created It is located in the top section of the central area If you are in editing mode there are many editing icons here but for now let s simply post a
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9. LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 47 that will be student led This option is the default 6 Enter a description of the discussion forum into the Forum introduction text editor 7 The Subscription Mode pull down list specifies whether students will automatically receive e mails of new posts or whether they will need to manually subscribe to the forum 8 The Read tracking for this forum pull down list controls whether unread posts should be automatically highlighted or not or whether students will be able to control this setting themselves 9 The Maximum attachment size pull down list allows you to control whether students may attach files to their messages or not and if so how large they can be 10 RSS Really Simple Syndication is a Web technology that automates information distribution such that users don t need to login to a Web site to see what s new Moodle forums can be RSS enabled so that students are automatically notified of new topics or postings in the forum without having to login to check 11 In the RSS section you can enable an RSS feed for this activity that will include new Discussions with their initial post or all new Posts in the forum You can also specify the Number of RSS recent articles to include 12 In the Post threshold for blocking section you can restrict the number of times a student may post to a forum within a given period of time This can ensure that particular
10. Manual for Instructors 18 Group mode g ped a AE separate groups visible groups a No groups is the default and indicates that the activity will be worked on by the entire class together that is there will be no groups b Separate groups means that only members of a particular group will be able to work with other members of their group on the activity Members of one group will not be able to view the work of other groups c Visible groups means that only members of a particular group will be able to work with other members of their group but that the work of one group can be viewed but not modified by other groups 4 Once you have selected a Group mode click the Save and return to course bution OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 19 How to edit and arrange content in your course MOODLE DOCUMENTATION To enter editing mode in Moodle you need to click on the Turn editing on button in the top right hand corner When you are in editing mode on your course page you will see a variety of editing icons on the Course Home page Below is a description of what they do when you click on them 059502 Vebele Melsgoode Law Library York Website Home gt My courses gt LAW 1234 Blocks Turn editing on WEEKLY OUTLINE Havigation it Search forums i Home Hew brun Ga My hore A
11. User Manual for Instructors 26 How to display a folder of files MOODLE DOCUMENTATION A directory resource is simply a list of files in a given folder with links so that students can access the files within it To Add a Directory 1 You must be in editing mode click the Turn editing on button 2 Click the Add a resource pull down list in the section that you want to add a book to 3 Click to select Folder 4 Inthe Name text box enter the name of the directory the way you want it to appear on your course page Students will access the files in the directory by clicking on this name 5 Enter a brief description of the directory into the Summary editor This description will not appear on your course page For some resource display options this summary is printed alongside the resource to provide extra information about it 6 Click Add button to add the files you want into this folder 7 When you are done click the Save and return to course button When you return to your course page you will see that a link to your new directory resource has been added to the section The icons gt aa following the directory link enable you to indent move change delete and hide the link respectively For complete coverage of these editing icons consult How to edit and arrange content in your course OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Ma
12. as for On line text above I Allow resubmitting allows students to resubmit assignments after they have been graded for you to re grade iL E mail alerts to teachers can be set to send an e mail to the course instructor whenever a student adds or updates a submission om eeIeIDI Y Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 34 lil Maximum size specifies how large the uploaded file can Upload a single file Allow resubmitting No Email alerts to No teachers 7 Maximum size 1MB h d Offline activity Since offline assignments are completed outside Moodle and students do not submit anything on line there are no extra configuration options for this type of assignment 10 The Common module settings area allows you to specify if the assignment should be set up for different groups This has no effect on what students see since Students will only be able to see their own submission regardless of the group setting is This setting however will affect what a person with non editing teacher role will see Inthe Separate groups mode o if TA is not assigned to any group cannot see and grade any submissions o if TAis amember of some group can see and grade submissions of his her group members only Inthe Visible groups and No groups modes o TAcan see and grade all submissions no matter what Common module sett
13. but you can now choose to have every question in the quiz manually graded if you wish Interactive mode After submitting one answer and reading the feedback the student has to click a Try again button before they can try a new response Once the student has got the question right they can no longer change their response Once the student has got the question wrong too many times they are just graded wrong or partially correct and get shown the feedback and can no longer change their answer There can be different feedback after each try the student makes The number of tries the student gets is the number of hints in the question definition plus one Immediate feedback Similar to interactive mode in that the student can submit their response immediately during the quiz attempt and get it graded However they can only submit one response they cannot change it later Deferred feedback or Immediate feedback with Certainty based marking CBM With CBM the student does not only answer the question but they also indicate how sure they are they got the question right The grading is adjusted by the choice of certainty so that students have to reflect honestly on their own level of Knowledge in order to get the best mark OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 40 12 In Review Options you can control what information stu
14. correctly Y Grade administration Grader report Outcomes report User report T Import hj Export Course grade settings he My report preferences s Letters E Outcomes gil Scales Y Categories and items Simple view Full view 3 Click the Calculator in the Course Total Row under Actions You will see the Edit calculation screen Each grade column needs to be assigned a different id number which will be used in the calculation rather than the full assignment name you can choose your own e g CP E2 A number may have already been assigned to the column if grades have already been entered Name Aggregation ey Extra credit PS LAW 1234 Simple weighted mean of grades f Essay 1 Essay 2 Quiz i Presentation I Final exam x Course total OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Max grade Actions Select DE All None 100 00 a 100 00 s 100 00 POSE 100 00 P 100 00 s amp Moodle User Manual for Instructors 57 4 Enter an ID number for each grade item Once you have assigned the numbers click on Add id numbers button 5 To change the way that the final course grade is calculated you need to enter a formula in the Calculation text box at the top of the Edit calculation screen As with popular spreadsheet programs like Excel your formula must start with an equal sign To refer to an assessment I
15. course announcement news item Everyone who has access to your course can read news postings and are automatically subscribed to the Course Announcements Moodle will automatically e mail a digest of postings to each member of the course For these reasons it is an excellent way to make general course announcements To create a Course Announcement 1 Click the News forum link 2 Click the Add a new topic button 3 Enter a Subject and Message in the text boxes provided 4 When you are finished click the Post to forum button at the bottom of the page 5 You will see a message that you have 30 minutes to edit the post before any students registered for your course will receive an e mail containing a link to this message via the email account that is set their in their user profile OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 46 Creating and posting to a discussion forum MOODLE DOCUMENTATION Forums are on line message boards where you and your students can communicate both as a group and one to one Unlike a chat room students don t have to be logged in at the same time to participate in a discussion forum Messages can be posted to a forum at any time and from anywhere there is an Internet connection Each discussion forum can contain several discussion threads a thread is a series of related message posts and re
16. editor text box Response File return to the students This means that you can download their submission s edit the file s adding annotations and making corrections then upload the file s back for the student to review For Microsoft products such as Word Excel and PowerPoint you can easily add comments to a document by clicking the Insert menu then selecting Comment Word also includes a useful feature called Track Changes Consult the built in help in these products for more detailed If you have used the Advanced Uploading of Files option you can also upload a response file to information Once you have entered your comments save the file then upload it back to Moodle OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 37 8 When you are finished grading the assignment click Save changes to close the popup window and return to the summary of submitted assignments page First name Surname 1 Email address Grade Comment Last modified Submission Last modified Grade Status Final grade Fy dont know I 1 stu dent std yorku com Friday 13 July 2012 08 00 PM ie AEE Update 7 days 17 hours late test student1 name name com Grade 9 To change a mark or update a comment you can click the Update link at any time OhYOOlO BI Y Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services 2 OSGOODE
17. graded or not and if so how many points the assessment is out of Moodle provides very powerful and flexible tools for managing and viewing grade information In this section we will show the best practice method for creating grade columns in Moodle Before setting up your gradebook it is important to think about the different components that will make up your gradebook and whether the students will be assessed from within Moodle using an activity or outside of Moodle offline activity Marked towards Assessed out of final grade f cr 00 In Moodle Advanced uploading of file 20 uploading of file Go s Quiz In class 100 10 In class presentation Offline activity Offline activity Creating a grade column in Moodle can be done simply by adding the associated activity on the course home page for example a quiz or an assignment For detailed information on how to add an assignment or quiz please refer to the documentation For this example we will show how to add an offline activity for grades recorded outside of a built in Moodle activity e g In class presentation How to include a grade item for an offline activity Many instructors find that the grade management tools in Moodle are so powerful and convenient that they prefer to use them to keep track of the marks for offline non Moodle assessments as well To do this 1 On the Course home page select Offline activity from the Add an activity
18. not yet available to students You are logged in as Andy wu Logout No The YORK OSGOODE Osgoode Course Websites m ik CpG EH HALL L N PHONG T RE UHIVEINEIT TY Torrie akea aa 5 ha eeu Aloha io kr ET ra EE Osgoode Website hlyttsgoode Law Library fork Website My Courses Resources Blocks i 406 Welcome to Osgoode s new leammng management system Developed from learung cenirc bow da I access Moodle perspective il provides a collaborative onhne environment hal facitates teaching leaming both withen Taga my usemame antia and outside the classroom You will see your enroled courses after you log in using your Osgoode user password for Moodle what do dg WON 3 How d I hogin to Moodle D and password i er ae Please note al this time there are limited courses being offered through this system If you are Faculty TGS BLE amp How d I update my profile in or Adung Faculty and interested in hosing course sites using us platform please comad the Moodle Osgoode Helpdesk helpiPosgqoode yorku ca to schedule a review session or request a demo site S How can l change my email address in Mingle S we coniinue to improve this ate we welcome your feedback t 1 dont seem to be recening some of ihe information other studens si they get in hippe what do I do Ave Mere specific browser configurations required for ioode 9 Where can gel help with Moodle LAW 1234 Courses Tabcher Andy SU
19. purpose of group in the Group Description editor When you are done click the Save changes button You can repeat steps 3 6 again to create additional groups Once your groups have been created click to select the name of the group you would like to add students to then click the Add remove users button On the Add remove users page there are two columns The left lists existing members of the group and the right lists potential members To add a student to a group click their name in the right column then click the Add button To remove a student click their name in the left column then click the Remove button When you are done adding members to the group click the Back to groups button You can repeat steps 7 through 9 again to add members to other groups Once you have put students into groups using the Groups administrative tool you can configure assessment and social activities to work as group activities Please note that you will only need to create one instance of an activity and set it as a group activity rather than create an activity for each group There are two ways to accomplish this OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY To define a group activity 1 Click the edit icon of the activity that you would like to make into a group activity 2 Atthe bottom of the page in the Common Module Settings area you will see a pull down list entitled Group mode 3 Select one of these three options Moodle User
20. Add a Label 1 You must be in editing mode click the Turn editing on button 2 Click the Add a resource pull down list in the section that you want to add a label to 3 Click to select Label 4 Insert the Label text using Moodle s built in HTML editor 5 When you are done click the Save and return to course button When you return to your course page you will see that the new label has been added to the section The icons amp an ag following the label enable you to indent move change delete and hide the label respectively For complete coverage of these editing icons consult How to edit and arrange content in your course OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services E OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 22 How to upload content into your course MOODLE DOCUMENTATION You might have an MP3 Microsoft PowerPoint or Adobe Acrobat PDF file that you d like to share with your students Moodle makes it easy to share a file in any electronic format Copyright and your Web site Before you upload content or files of literary or artistic works to your course management site s ensure that you review the copyright information and guidelines posted at the new Copyright and You website http www yorku ca copyright The website provides information on everything from the basics of copyright to FAQs on copyright compliance for course websites Contact the
21. Copyright Officer Patricia Lynch at copy yorku ca if you have additional questions 1 You must be in editing mode click the Turn editing on button 2 Click the Add a resource pull down list in the section that you want to add a file to 3 Click to select File 4 Inthe Name text box enter the name of the file resource the way you want it to appear on your course page Students will access the file by clicking on this name 5 Enter a brief description of the file into the Summary editor Don t write too much or include a link to the resource itself This description will not appear on your course page For some resource display options this summary is printed alongside the resource itself to provide extra information about it 6 Click the Choose or upload a file button 7 Anew window will open with a list of uploaded file resources 8 To upload a new file click the Add button then select Upload a file from the list on the left OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 23 9 Click Browse locate the file you d like to upload on your computer then click the Open button 10 Back in the Moodle window click the Upload this file button Moodle will copy the file from your computer into Moodle and display it in your files list 11 To complete the process click the Save and return to course button Wh
22. D number you enclose it in double square brackets For example CP refers to the Class Presentation in this example All of the basic arithmetic operations are supported and as well as the following list of functions The comma character is used to separate arguments within function brackets average item1 item2 Returns the average of a sample max item1 item2 Returns the maximum value in a list of arguments min item1 item2 Returns the minimum value in a list of arguments mod dividend divisor Calculates the remainder of a division pi Returns the value of the number Pi power base power Raises a number to the power of another L round number count Rounds a number to a predefined accuracy sum item1 item2 Returns the sum of all arguments OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services E OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 58 For the following example Marked towards Assessed out of final grade fe pg 00 In Moodle Advanced uploading of file 20 uploading of file Qu pp ae Quiz In class 100 10 In class Offline activity You will have a calculation of OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 59 Importin
23. HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 38 Creating Quizzes in your course MOODLE DOCUMENTATION Moodle provides a very powerful and flexible quiz builder that you can use to create quizzes with a broad range of question types including multiple choice true false short answer numerical matching essay and more Moodle can automatically grade some question types How to create a quiz Creating a quiz is not difficult but there are numerous settings that need to be configured before you can add questions to the quiz Many of the options are self explanatory and the default settings are usually best We ll focus on the most important options below You can click the small beside each option in Moodle for more information 1 You must be in editing mode click the Turn editing on button 2 Click the Add an activity pull down list in the section that you want to add the quiz to then select Quiz 3 Inthe Name text box enter the name of the quiz the way that you want it to appear on your course page Students will access the quiz by clicking on this name 4 Inthe Introduction text box describe the quiz and mention any special instructions 5 Inthe Timing options you can set the opening and closing date and time to control access to the quiz You can also specify a Time limit in minutes after which the quiz will be automatically submitted for marking with the current answers 6 Inthe Atte
24. Moodle User Manual for Instructors 8 How to configure your browser settings MOODLE DOCUMENTATION Moodle is compatible with most modern Web browsers including Internet Explorer 7 x and 8 x Firefox 3 x and later and Safari 5 x Please note that some Moodle functions will not work with some browsers Newer browsers such as Internet Explorer 9 x and Google Chrome have not been thoroughly tested For Moodle to function correctly it is recommended that the following requirements be met 1 Pop ups are enabled 2 Cookies are enabled and 3 Java is installed up to date and enabled To detect whether you have Java or need an update please go to hitp www java com By clicking Free Java Download on the page the site will also help you determine if you have the latest version of Java installed Please configure your browser settings based on the instructions available on the support website of your browser Enable Cookies _http support mozilla com en 2DUS kb Enabling 20and 20disabling Enable Pop up https support mozilla com en 2DUS kb Pop 2Dup 20blocker Windows Enable Java httos support mozilla com en 2DUS kb JavaScript s javascript amp as s Enable Cookies http windows microsoft com en 2DUS windows7 Block 2Denable 2Dor 2Dallow 2Dcookies Enable Pop up http windows microsoft com en 2Dus Windows7 Internet 2DExplorer 2DPop 2 Windows Dup 2DBlocker 2Dfrequently 2Dasked 2Dquestions Enable Java http supp
25. With the mark data spreadsheet open in Excel click the File menu then click Save As 3 Choose to save the file in CSV format on your desktop OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services E OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 60 4 Back in Moodle Click on Grades in the Settings block Click on Import then select CSV file in the Settings block under Grade administration 5 On the Import file screen click the Choose a file button and select Upload a file 6 Click Browse button then select the csv grade file on your desktop Leave the rest of the default settings and click the Upload this file button 7 Back to the Import page click the Upload grades button 8 The Import Preview screen will appear and you will see a list of the column headings from your imported csv file under the Grade item mappings heading I To uniquely identify a user and assign the correct grade to them you must select the name of the column that contains the student number in your csv file form the Map from dropdown menu In the Map to field select userIDnumber ii Beside each item is a pull down list containing grade items in Moodle Using the pull down lists you must map the column headings that contain grade data to their associated grade items in Moodle The field name next to the dropdown menu for each item indicates the name of the column in your excel file You can Ignore t
26. acts using the messages area By clicking on a user s name they will be able to send them an instant message If the recipient is not logged into Moodle at Participants OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 52 that time the message will be emailed to the address specified in their profile This is a default setting that can be modified through the Settings tab in the Message area If you do not see the People block you can add it in the following way 1 Onthe Course Home page click Turn Editing on 2 Using the Blocks block choose People from the Add dropdown menu To send a message to a course participant 1 Click on the link Participants in the People block 2 You will be presented with a list of all participants in the course 3 Click on the name of the person you wish to send the message to 4 Click the Send message button OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 53 Setting up your gradebook NOTE This function is still in evaluation and it is not supported MOODLE DOCUMENTATION Many of the assessment and social activities in Moodle allow the instructor to assign grades When you create an assessed activity in Moodle e g an assignment or quiz you indicate whether it will be
27. assign grades Typical assignments include essays projects and reports Students may submit any sort of electronic file PowerPoint Word MP3 Adobe PDF in response to an assignment or input their answer directly using the built in HTML editor in Moodle Instructors can issue a grade for the assignment which is accessible from within the Moodle Framework How to create an assignment 1 You must be in editing mode click the Turn editing on Add an activity H button g ssignments Advanced uploading of files 2 Click the Add an activity pull down list in the Online text section that you want to add the assignment to Upload a single file Offline activity 3 Click to select one of the following four types of assignments a Advanced uploading of files will allow each student to upload one or more files including revised versions of files previously uploaded This option also allows instructors to upload a response file for the student which might contain more detailed feedback b On line text will allow each student to enter text directly into Moodle via its built in HTML editor This sort of assignment can be used for students to record their thoughts or reflections about a particular topic c Upload a single file will allow each student to upload only one electronic file d Offline activity is useful when you want to provide a description or reminder of an assignment that will be performed o
28. can quickly see what s new Forum tracking ves highlight new posts for me When editing text Selecting Use HTML editor some browsers only enables Moodle s easy to use HTML editor for entering text If this option is selected and your browser supports It YOU will see what the editor looks like under the Description setting below Note that Moodle s HTML editor does not currently work with Safari 3 on Macintosh When editing text Use HTML editor some browsers only B Description Here you can write a little about yourself for other students or faculty to read if they click on your name when viewing your contributions in Moodle If you don t want to write anything at this time just type a space in the box Trebuchet F 168 pt HH m tang E BE Z U 5 x mH g Da Il IO il al lt a Interests Here you can enter a list of your interests separated by commas Moodle will make each interest into a link called a tag When a Moodle user clicks on one of your interest tags Moodle will display a list of users who share the same interest Once you have edited your profile settings click the Update profile button OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 13 Changing your course settings MOODLE DOCUMENTATION To edit your course settings including the course format click the Edit settings option
29. ctions are shown in collapsed form This is the recommended default setting because it still gives your students a road map of upcoming course content To completely conceal hidden topics weeks including their titles select Hidden sections are completely invisible Hidden sections to _ Hidden sections are shown in collapsed form ad OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 14 News items to show Every course includes a Course Announcements that is an ideal place for an instructor to post course announcements for all students to see This setting specifies the number of recent news items that will appear in the Latest News block which can be added to your home page If you set this to 0 zero students will not see the Latest News block at all News items to show 5 HA Show gradebook to students Many activities in Moodle allow the instructor to record grades If this option is set to Yes students will be able to see their own grades not those of their classmates If this option is set to No you can still record grades for students but they will not be able to view them Note that the grades displayed are only for graded activities within Moodle in other words from the Moodle gradebook Show gradebook to students ves l Show activity reports Detailed activity reports can be generated for a student sho
30. d users link in the Users under the Settings block on the left column of your course page 2 You will see a list of Teachers TAs and students in the page To add a user from a particular role click the Eg icon for that role in the Roles column 3 Next you will a popup window There will have buttons of role that particular user not in Assign roles X 4 To remove a role of a user simply click the button beside the role that user assigned under the Role column OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 17 Using Groups in your course MOODLE DOCUMENTATION Moodle allows you to organize your students into groups at a course level Once groups have been defined you can configure each activity as something that the whole class does together or that groups work on individually To create groups 1 OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services Click the Groups link in the Settings block under Course administration gt Users gt Groups on the left column of your course page On the Groups page there are two columns The left column lists groups you have created initially empty and the right column contains students assigned to a selected group To create a new group click the Create group button In the Group name text box enter a name for the group Describe the
31. dents can see when they review a quiz attempt or look at the quiz reports 13 In the Display options you can set will the profile picture show during the student is doing the quiz the decimal places in overall grades or question grades 14 Extra restrictions on attempts you may set a Required password to re attempt a quiz you may also set a Require network address to limit the location of student when to re attempt eg In a specific lab room or you may enforce delay between attempts for student must wait a specific time to re attempt a quiz 15 Finally in the Overall feedback options you can specify feedback text to display to your students based on their quiz grade 16 When you are done click the Save and return to course button How to add questions to the question bank 1 Click the Questions bank link in the Settings block on the left column of your course page 2 A list of four options will appear By default you will first bring to Questions page a The Questions option is selected by default and is used to create and add questions to a particular category We ll use this after we create a category for our questions in the question bank b The Categories option is used to create a new category for questions c The Import and Export options can be used to import questions from other on line learning systems or export them Question bank Questions Categories Import Export OSGOODE Documentation cour
32. dsanped search Site pages F Wy profile My courses Add new topic Y LAW 1274 F Participants Ha news has been pos hed F Reports b General teat Upcoming events ia There are n upecoening rm events E Final Project i Go Ip calandar 5 H Ped TF Project Disoussions 1 eo Resources _ Project Outline and Ej Hours Virtural Activities EA ut 1 T Genreal discussion Managing Blocks Reorganize the blocks in a way that makes the most sense to you Delete those that you don t find useful Minimize or maximize the content of the block Minimizing a block simply hides the content within it so that there is more vertical space to view other blocks in the same column gt gt Show or hide the block from your students view OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services N y E R OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 20 1 Move the block up or down in its current column To move a block you can also try clicking and dragging its title bar to reposition it Most modern browsers support a group of Web technologies called AJAX that make this possible At the time of this writing Safari 5 0 1 on Macintosh does not support this feature The bottom block on the right column is titled Blocks and includes a pull down list enabling you to add a new block to your course page There are many different bloc
33. e formats are available MOODLE DOCUMENTATION course format describes how the resources and activities you provide your students will be organized in the middle column of your course page Moodle allows you to switch between course formats so feel free to experiment to find which format you prefer There are several different ways that your course content can be organized SCORM format For displaying a SCORM package in the first section of the course page as an alternative to using the SCORM AICC module Social format A forum is displayed on the course page Topics format The course page is organised into topic sections Weekly format The course page is organised into weekly sections with the first week starting on the course start date OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 5 How is a Moodle course organized MOODLE DOCUMENTATION After logging in to Moodle you are presented with the My courses page giving an overview of all courses that you are associated with Your students will see a very similar page except the list will contain the courses that they are associated with one of which will be your course The image below shows a typical instructor s welcome page with only one course listed The course title is in red indicating it is available to students a grey title indicates that the course is
34. ect a question type 2 Calculated multichoice Pr ie ceils Calculated simple Embedded answers Cloze Essay Matching Multiple choice 44 Numerical 474 Random short answer matching Short answer ee True False Description Next Cancel 7 For each question enter the Question Name Question text and any other details required for the question For each question click the Save changes button to save General 4 Category Midterm Exam Question name Separation of powers in Canada Question text Font family Font size Paragraph gt JA a B 7 yax lE Ell 2 BA 2 pa 1 SEERE wE HAN Fm Describe how separation of powers impacts the political system in Canada Path p Default mark 100 ON EG ODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 43 8 Once you have added questions to the question bank you will be able to add them to future activities that you create where questions are required such as quizzes and lessons Also show questions from sub categories ET Also show old questions El Show question text in the question list Weight of 30 of your final grade Create a new question E 1 SEES by Last de ed by E E Separation of powers in Canada Le Andy wu Andy wu With selected Delete Move to gt gt Midterm Exam 1 How to add a question to the Quiz
35. en you return to your course page you will see that a link to your new file resource has been added to the section If a student clicks on this link they will be able to download the file The icons e ea following the file link enable you to indent move change delete and hide the link respectively For complete coverage of these editing icons consult How to edit and arrange content in your course OhYOOlO BI Y Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 24 How to link to a website MOODLE DOCUMENTATION To complement your course material you might want to direct your students to view related Web sites on the Internet To do this you need to add a Web site link to your course page Copyright and your Web site Before you upload content or files of literary or artistic works to your course management site s ensure that you review the copyright information and guidelines posted at the new Copyright and You website hittp www yorku ca copyright The website provides information on everything from the basics of copyright to FAQs on copyright compliance for course websites Contact the Copyright Officer Patricia Lynch at copy yorku ca If you have additional questions mses i es es Ce l To Add a Web Site Link 1 You must be in editing mode click the Turn editing on button 2 Click the Add a resource pull down list in the
36. ernrrrnnrrrnvrrnnrernrrnnerernrrnnnrennsrennee 35 Creating Quizzes in VOUl COURSE Lanssapanvepnepreens deras paadan 38 HOw tO create a IE careers nenni EE EE 38 How to add questions to the question bank rrrannnnnnernnrrranrnrnnernnnnnnrnranrnnnnrnnnrnnnnennnnenneennsennnne 40 How to add a QUESTION to the Quiz rrarnnnnnrnnnnvnnrnnnnvrnnnnnrennrnnnnernrnnnnsnnrnnnnsnnnnnersnnrnnsnsrnrnnnnseene 43 OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 2 How to send a Course ANnouncement rrarrrranrrrnnnrrraerranerranrennnnenranernnnnnnnssennnnennnssennnsennnssnnnn 45 Creating and posting to a discussion fOFUM ccccecccceecccee cece eeeaeececeeeesseeeeseueeseeeessueesseeesaaees 46 HOW 10 create a discussion Torus O a 46 How to post to a discussion forum rrnnrnnnnnnnrnnnnnnnrnnnernnrnnnennnennnennnennnennnnnnnnnannnannnnnnnnnnnnnnnssnnn 48 NII GING GIS CUSSION og EEE EEE EE 49 Moe NIE 49 Useful forum settings in your Moodle profile rrrnrrrnnrrrnnrrrnrnnnnernnrnrnnrnnnnennnnnnnnennnennnnennsennnne 49 Subscribing Unsubscribing to forums arrrrnnnrrrannrrnnnernnrerranrnrnnrennnnennasrennnnennnnennnssnnnnennnssnnnn 50 Searching in discussion forums rrrnnnrrrnnnnrnnnerranrrrnnernanrnrnnnrnnnnrnnnnsennnennnsennnsennnnsennnnennnssennnee 50 Monitoring Student Participation ranrrrnnnrnnnrnrnnrrnnrrnnnrnnnr
37. forget your Moodle password In the event that you forget your Osgoode user password send an e mail to helo osgoode yorku ca and request a password reset OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services J N y E i z E OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 10 How to make the course available to students MOODLE DOCUMENTATION When a course is created in Moodle it is automatically created as unavailable to students Once you are happy with your course design and content you can make the course available to the students enrolled in your course Course administration Turn editing on s Edit settings 1 To make the course available to students click the Edit settings option in the Settings block 2 You will see the Edit course settings page 3 Under the section Availability use the drop down menu to select This course is available to students 4 Atthe bottom of the page click Save Changes Availability Availability ey This course is available to students OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services v N y E R OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 11 How to edit your user profile MOODLE DOCUMENTATION Your Moodle profile includes information about you such as your name e mail address location courses you are enrolled in and any interests you care to share wit
38. g and exporting grades NOTE This function is still in evaluation and it is not supported MOODLE DOCUMENTATION Although managing grades in Moodle is quite straightforward some people prefer to manage their grades outside of Moodle and then upload them into the Moodle gradebook so that students can easily access their grades This document highlights the best practice method for doing this and involves exporting marks to an Excel spreadsheet such that you can edit marks within Excel if you wish Once you have edited marks in Excel you can then import them back into Moodle and update your database of marks in Moodle To Export Grades to Excel 1 Click on Grades in the Settings block 2 Click on Export then select Excel spreadsheet in the Settings block under Grade administration 3 Onthe Export Excel Spreadsheet screen select the grade items that you would like to include in the Excel file and click the Submit button 4 You will see a summary of the grade data fields that will be included in the Excel spreadsheet Click the Download button to download the file and save it on your desktop 5 Once you have downloaded the file you can double click on it to open it in Microsoft Excel and then edit marks directly within Excel To Import Grades from Excel 1 Once you have edited marks in the Excel spreadsheet that you downloaded above you must save the data as a Comma Separated Value csv file to import back into Moodle 2
39. h p Send L notifications 7 When you are finished entering your grade and comment click Save changes to close the pop up window and return to the list of students OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services E OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 55 8 To change a mark or update a comment you can click on the Update link at any time 9 If you now click on the Grades link from the Course Home page you will see that the value given to each student and any feedback entered is automatically populated in the in the gradebook oNeeIeIDI Y Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 56 Calculating the correct Course Total NOTE This function is still in evaluation and it is not supported MOODLE DOCUMENTATION By default Moodle calculates the final grade Course Total for each student by assuming the weighting of each activity based on its mark out of value It is therefore important to set up a formula to calculate the Course Total correctly if you will be releasing this value to students or using it in anyway 1 Click on Course administration gt Grades gt Categories and items in the Setting block on your Course Home Page 2 If your Course Total column is not already hidden you may want to hide it while you enter the formula and verify it is calculating
40. h others After logging in to Moodle you will see a link to Edit Profile below Settings gt My profile settings To edit your profile Click the Edit profile under the Settings block To view all of the profile settings click the Show Advanced button Required profile settings are marked with an asterisk Unless specified otherwise it s best to leave the default settings Here s an explanation of the most important profile settings in the General options E mail address Moodle has a lot of important e mail features so it s essential that you set this to a valid e mail address that you check frequenily If you decide to change your email address Moodle will send an email to the new address with a link to confirm the new address You must click on this confirmation link Email address E mail display Specifies who can see your e mail address Because you ll likely want to be able to receive e mail from other Moodle users you should leave this set to the default Allow only other course members to see my e mail address Email display ajjow only other course members to see my email address E mail format Specifies whether you d like to receive HTML formatted e mail that can include images and colour or only plain text Modern e mail clients display HTML formatted messages so leave the default Pretty HTML format Email format Pretty HTML format a E mail digest type When you are
41. hand side KN LAW 1234 Virtual office hours Mozilla Firefox LAW 1234 Virtual office hours 20 24 Andy wu Andy wu has just entered this chat Andy wu 20 24 Andy wu Hi Do you have any questions for the coming midterm stu dent 0 25 stu dent stu dent has just entered this chat Talk beep 20 27 Andy wu You have to write minimum of 1000 words double space 5 To type a message to all participants in the chat use the dialogue box at the bottom of your screen to enter your message when you are satisfied with your message hit the Enter key on your keyboard OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services s OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 29 6 When you are finished in the Chat room you can close the window please note that this doesn t close the chat session for the other participants 7 To view past chat sessions click on the View past chat sessions on the summary screen oNeeIeIDI Y Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services 2 OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 30 Creating and grading assignments in your course NOTE This function is still in evaluation and it is not supported MOODLE DOCUMENTATION An assignment activity provides a simple way for an instructor to provide a task for students to complete before a given deadline collect work from students and
42. he fields that contain other information e g First name 9 When you are done click the Upload grades button 10 Your grades will be updated and you should see a confirmation message Click the Continue button to return to the Grader report screen 11 The grades on the Grader report screen should appear updated OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY
43. ings Show advanced Group mode EN Separate groups Visible Show ID number T ONE 01 0 D Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services a T E OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 35 When you return to your course page you will see that a link to your new assignment has been added to the section Recent activity Activity since Wednesday 11 Theicons 43 following the assignment link enable you to July 2012 07 50 PM indent move change delete and hide the link respectively For complete a accel coverage of these editing icons consult How to edit and arrange content in COURSE UPDATES your Course Updated Forum Project Discussions l l Aa Updated Assignment You will also notice that your assignment will appear in the Recent activity Final Project online text block as a reminder to your students Updated Chat TA Hours Virtural Updated Forum Genreal discussion How to view and grade assignment submissions Before entering grades for students we suggest that you hide both the Assignment activity and the grade column This will allow you to enter grades for all students before releasing them When you create an Assignment activity a gradebook column is automatically created in your Grades area Any grade entered using the instructions below will be automatically populated in the gradebook To view and grade assignments that your
44. ks that you can add for example blogs calendar course description and library resources etc Resources and Activities Here is a description of the resource and activity editing icons Indent or unindent the resource or activity to help visually organize it Click and drag the resource or activity to change its order within a section or move it to a different section Create an duplicate copy of a resource or activity Edit the details of the resource or activity Delete the resource or activity from the section ON8B Show or hide a resource or activity from your students view Set the group options for the resource or activity to control whether the activity is something that the whole class does together or that individual groups work on together For more details on this topic see How to create and use Groups 3 This options it to assigning TA to specific activity so they can have more privilege such as viewing students assignment and grading amp OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 21 How to add a descriptive label MOODLE DOCUMENTATION The purpose of a label is to help describe and organize other resources and activities within a topic or weekly section You compose a label using Moodle s built in HTML editor so you may include not only formatted text but graphics as well To
45. mpts options you can control the number of times a student can take the quiz If you allow multiple attempts 7 If you allow multiple attempts at a quiz you can choose how the grade will be calculated using the Grading method option 8 In Grade option you can set which grade category does this quiz falls in of your gradebook OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 39 9 The Layout options you can specify that the questions be presented in a random order by selecting Shuffled randomly it also controls how many questions will be displayed per page in Question order 10 The Question behaviour you can select Shuffle within questions to set the answers in the multiple choice or matching questions to be shuffled too 11 In How questions behave there are several options to set how are the question feedback provided Deferred feedback Students must enter an answer to each question and then submit the entire quiz before anything is graded or they get any feedback Adaptive mode and Adaptive mode no penalties Allows students to have multiple attempts at the question before moving on to the next question The question can adapt itself to the student s answer for example by giving some hints before asking the student to try again Manual grading Used for essay questions irrespective of what the quiz is set to
46. nual for Instructors 27 Using the Chat activity MOODLE DOCUMENTATION Chats allow your students to converse in real time meaning that they can communicate with other students currently in the Chat room Chat rooms are a great way to have group discussions a EE about a particular topic or host on line Q amp A sessions Often Me students who are reluctant to ask or answer questions in a pate lg traditional classroom setting are more talkative in on line chats Add an activity Add an activity Choice Database External Tool How to create a Chat room Kine lossary Lesson 1 You must be in editing mode click the Turn editing on ad ETEN button Survey Wiki Worksho 2 Click the Add an activity pull down list in the section that you want to add the chat to 3 Click to select Chat 4 Inthe Name of this chat room text box enter the name of the chat session the way that you want it to appear on your course page Students will access the chat by clicking on this name 5 Enter a brief description of the chat topic into the introduction text editor This description will not appear on your course page Name of this chat Virtual office hours 6 Use the Next chat time room drop down lists to schedule 9dection text Font famiy the date and time when the chat room will open Every tueday 1pm 2pm Font size Paragraph vm Ke vu ili B Z U ax x 3 7 The Repeat sessions drop
47. o manage As the instructor of an on line course you have complete control over what course material and activities you will provide your students There are three general categories e LEARNING RESOURCES are static course materials that your students will read but not interact with for example you can post class notes readings provide links to related Web sites or provide files for students to download e ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES are course materials that your students will interact with for example you can post on line lessons that ask a student questions to check their understanding as they go assignments where students submit their work on line and quizzes to assess their understanding of course content e SOCIAL LEARNING ACTIVITIES are activities where students interact with each other about course material for example live on line chats among students and instructors discussion forums and shared glossaries and wikis As the instructor of an on line course you can start small and use a limited number of Moodle s features and then add other features as you become more comfortable with how things work One of the nice things about Moodle is that it is very flexible and allows you to go back and make changes to your course at any time so don t be afraid to experiment OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 4 What cours
48. ort microsoft com gp howtoscript Enable Cookies _http support apple com kb PH5042 Enable Pop up http support apple com kb PH5040 Windows Enable Java htt pport apple com kb HT5241 Additional toolbars that may have been added to your browser can act as pop up blockers Yahoo Toolbar Google Toolbar and MSN Toolbar are examples of toolbars that are able to block pop ups Please check to see if your browser has any of these or other toolbars that may block pop ups and disable their blocking feature while using Moodle ON EG ODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 9 How to login to Moodle MOODLE DOCUMENTATION To login to Moodle you must have an Osgoode account If you don t have an osgoode yorku ca e mail address ask your faculty department administrator to request an e mail account on your behalf Once this is done Osgoode IT Services will send you your new username and temporary password which you can change later Once you have your Osgoode account information 1 Launch your browser and go to http courses osgoode yorku ca 2 On the left enter your Osgoode username and password and click the Login button If you do not know your Osgoode username it can be found once you login to MyOsgoode above the Sign Out button 3 After logging in to Moodle you will see your name and related links What to do if you
49. own list select the grade scale for the assignment or No grade if you will not be evaluating it In Grading method choose the advanced grading method that should be used for calculating grades in the given context In Grade category controls the category in which this activity s grades are placed in the gradebook OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services s N E R s T E OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 32 Grade Grade No grade h Grading method Simple direct grading Grade category Uncategorised 9 The following instruction depends on the type of assignment selected in step 3 Most of the options below are self explanatory and the default settings are usually best You can click the small beside each option in Moodle for more details a Advanced uploading of files I Maximum size specifies how large an uploaded file can be ii Allow deleting gives students the ability to delete files they have uploaded until their work has been graded lil Maximum number of uploaded files specifies how many files a student may submit for the given assignment When an assignment requires more than one file submission it s often a good idea to mention this in the Description of the assignment IV Allow notes enables students to include notes comments to the instructor when a file is submitted V Hide description before available date will not display the a
50. plies Moodle also allows users to subscribe to a forum so that any new postings are automatically e mailed to them How to create a discussion forum 1 You must be in editing mode click the Turn editing on button 2 Click the Add an activity pull down list in the section that you want to add a discussion forum to 3 Click to select Forum 4 Inthe Forum name text box enter the name of the discussion forum the way you want it to appear on your course page Students will access the forum by clicking on this name 5 Inthe Forum type pull down list you can configure four types of discussion forum a A single simple discussion limits the forum to one discussion thread created by the instructor to keep the postings focused on a specific topic b Each person posts one discussion allows each student to start one discussion thread which may then have multiple replies In this way all students can help direct the discussion but still maintain the focus of the forum c Qand A forum requires the instructor to post a question to which students respond with possible answers Before a student can view and respond to other students postings they must post their response to the question first d Standard forum for general use allows students to start more than one discussion thread and is the most useful for large discussions or for social forums OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL
51. rnanennnnennnnnnnnennnrnnnsennsennnnennnsennssnnnee 50 Communicating with others in Moodle rrrrnrerranrrnnnrerrarennnnervnnnennnnennnnnennnnnnnnnennnnennnnnennnssnnnnne 51 Course Announcements cccsassscecssessnetssnsccndecdiersResdinepastaedestessadearibsns sduedeeshenntuassagadesehaestastinases 51 VESEN JE EEE 51 PEOP DIOC K ia E E 51 Setting up your gradebook r rrannrrrnrrrrannrrnnnrrranerrnnrnrannrnnnnrnnansnnnnsnnnnsrnnnnennansennnnennanennnnnnnnssennnnen 53 How to include a grade item for an offline activity rrrnnennnrrrarernnnrrnnnrnrrrranennnrnranrnnnnennsrnnne 53 Calculating the correct Course Total ccccccsececeeeeeseceseeeeeceeessueeesesesseeseeeeeseeesseeesseeeessaees 56 Importing and exporting grades rrrrrrrnnrrrnnernnnevanrrranrrnnnennnnennnrrnnnennnnnnnnennennnennsnnnnsennaennsnnnene 59 RETT GE 59 To Import Grades from EXxcel rrrrarrrnnnrrrranrrnnnnnrnnnennnnennnnnnnnnnennanennanennansnnnnnennanennnnnennnnnnnnen 59 oNeeIeIDI Y Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 3 What is Moodle MOODLE DOCUMENTATION Moodle is an on line learning management system LMS that can be used to complement face to face class lectures or deliver a course completely on line Moodle enables you to create powerful flexible and active on line learning environments that are intuitive to use and easy t
52. rum you want to move Se eS ee g 3 Select the new location _ the forum you want to move to Splitting discussions Sometimes participants may reply to a message instead of starting a new topic In this case you can split a discussion thread to move the out of context post into a new discussion thread in the same forum This will also move any response posts that occur after the message you are choosing to split 1 Inthe post that you wish to split click on the Split link 2 You can provide an appropriate Discussion name and click Split 3 The post will now appear as a new topic in the forum Useful forum settings in your Moodle profile There are a few settings in your Moodle profile that allow you to control certain behaviour in the discussion forums You can access your Moodle profile directly from the My Courses page or by clicking on your name anywhere you see it in red and clicking Edit Profile To see the options below you may need to click on the Show advanced button Forum auto subscribe By selecting this you are automatically subscribed to any forum to which you post a message This means that you receive email copies of all messages for these forums You may unsubscribe from forums whenever you want OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services
53. section that you want to add a Web site link to 3 Click to select URL 4 Inthe Name text box enter the name of the Web site link resource the way you want it to appear on your course page Students will access the Web site by clicking on this name 5 Enter a brief description of the Web site into the Summary editor This description will not appear on your course page For some resource display options this summary is printed beside the resource name to provide extra information about it 6 Inthe External URL text box type the URL for the Web site 7 Inthe Display pull down list select Open This will ensure that the Web site opens ina browser window directly OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 25 8 When you are done click the Save and return to course button When you return to your course page you will see that a link to your new Web site resource has been added to the section If a student clicks on this link the site will be loaded in a new browser window The icons 40 following the Web site link enable you to indent move change delete and hide the link respectively For complete coverage of these editing icons consult How to edit and arrange content in your course OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services N y E R OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle
54. ssignment link on your course page until the Available from date set in step 7 above Vi E mail alerts to teachers can be set to send an e mail to the course instructor whenever a student adds or updates a submission vii Enable Send for marking will provide students with a Send for marking button to indicate that the file s they have uploaded are final and are ready to be marked OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services E OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 33 Advanced uploading of files Maximum size 1MB Y Allow deleting Yes Maximum number 3 of uploaded files Allow notes No No Hide description before available date g Email alerts to teachers 7 Enable Send for Yes marking button No b On line text I Allow resubmitting allows students to resubmit assignments after they have been graded for you to re grade il E mail alerts to teachers can be set to send an e mail to the course instructor whenever a student adds or updates a submission lil Comment inline will copy the student s original submission text into the feedback comment text box during grading making it possible for the instructor to add inline comments or correct the original text Online text Allow resubmitting No Email alerts to No teachers amp Comment inline No c Upload a single file The first two options are the same
55. structors 7 Law Library York Website Ky sgaoode Horne gt My courses Aone Bal hornet P Site pages P ir profile My courses Y LAN 1274 F Participants F Reports P General tes F Course administration Turi editing in i Edi senga F Users He Grades Mm backup Pal Restore Campos ag esel F Question bank Po Swich role te P My profile settings LAW 1234 m E Tiaa FA EEKLY OUTLINE T Mews brun nd i Tum editing on Search forums lu Advanced search Add new topic Ma news has Been posted pil el Upcoming evenis la There Ie n Upon ergs Go 10 calendar New eremi Full reget of racan acter Nothing new since pour last Panir legin The Recent Activity block will update automatically informing participants that the course has been updated From the Settings block you can access your course administration Assign users and access Grades amongst other functions Please refer to the documentation on each of these items for more information Your view of the course page is very similar to what your students will see except they will only see the Grades and Profile options in the Settings block in the lower left They will also not see the Switch role to or Turn editing on options at the top right OSGOODE OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services x N
56. students don t dominate the discussions 13 Under the Grade section you can use the Aggregate type pull down list to allow students to rate the forum postings of other students If you allow posts to be rated the Grade pull down list specifies the grading scale to be used You can also control which posts can be rated by specifying a particular date range 14 In the Common Module Settings you can use the Group mode to set up forums for groups Groups must first be set up to allow for this functionality if you are thinking about setting up Groups please refer to Using Groups in your Course 15 When you are done click the Save and return to course button When you return to your course page you will see that a link to your new discussion forum has been added to the section The icons s w0 following the discussion forum link enable you to indent move OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 48 change delete and hide the forum respectively For complete coverage of these editing icons consult How to edit and arrange content In your course How to post to a discussion forum To start a new discussion topic 1 2 8 Click on the link to your discussion forum If you are using a group discussion you can toggle between the different group forums you have access to Be sure to select the correct group to post
57. students have submitted follow these steps students will only see their own grade 1 Click the link for the assignment on your course home page 2 You will see the assignment name and detailed description 3 Click the View submitted assignments at the top right OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 36 separate groups All participants This requirements of this assignment are You are graded based on Available from Friday 29 June 2012 02 45 AM Due date Pnday 6 July 2012 02 45 AM You have not submiiled any hing yet Add submission 4 You will see a summary of submitted assignments The rows in the table may be re sorted by clicking on any of the column headings You may also collapse or expand a column by clicking the minus or plus icons respectively 5 To download or view an assignment submission click its link in the Last modified Student column To view a student profile click the link for their name You can also download all assignment as a Zip by clicking the link above the table 6 To grade the assignment click the Grade link in the Status column on the right 7 You can click Open in a popup window to view students submission in a pop up window In the Grade pull down list at the top right select the mark for the assignment Type any additional feedback or comments in the HTML
58. subscribed to a discussion forum Moodle will send you e mail copies of all posts to that forum each day If you select No digest single e mail per forum post you could receive dozens or even hundreds of e mails per day depending on how many forums you are subscribed to and how active they are OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 12 Alternatively you can select Complete daily e mail with full posts which will combine all forum posts into one e mail message to you Again depending on how active a forum is this message could be very long The recommended setting is Subjects daily e mail with subjects only which will send you an e mail that includes only a list of links to new forum post subjects for the day including authors You can click on a subject link in the digest to view the complete forum post on Moodle Email digest type Subjects daily email with subjects only EA Forum auto subscribe Leave the default setting Yes when I post subscribe me to that forum so that you will receive an e mail digest of all new messages in forums you participate in You can unsubscribe from a forum at any time Forum auto subscribe Yes when I post subscribe me to that forum Forum tracking Selecting Yes highlight new posts for me will highlight forum messages that you have not read yet so that you
59. tesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 41 3 Click the Categories option to create a question bank category Add category Parent category Default for LAW 1234 Name Midterm Exam Category info Weight of 30 of your final grade Add category 4 The Edit categories page will reload Near the top of the page you will see your new category listed You can repeat step 3 to add another category as desired Now that we have at least one category we can add some questions 5 Click the Questions option to create a new question In the Category pull down list select the category that you would like to add the new question to In this case we ve selected the category we just created in step 3 QUESTION BANK Midterm Exam Course LAW 1234 w Also show questions from sub categories Default for LAW 1234 E Also show old questions El Show question text in the question list The default category for questions shared in context LAW 1234 select a category Create a new question 6 Select the type of question you would like to create in the Create new question box There are many familiar question types here OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 42 x CHOOSE A QUESTION TYPE TO ADD Calculated Sel
60. the message to using the Separate Groups dropdown menu on the top Click the Add a new discussion topic button Insert a Subject Compose your message in the Message box You can choose whether or not you would like to receive emails when people reply to your post using the Subscribe dropdown menu You can also choose to add an attachment to your message using the Browse button in the attachment field and select to have the message displayed only for a certain period of time Once you are happy with your settings click Post to forum Reading and replying to a discussion topic 1 2 OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services Click on the link to your discussion forum If you are using a group discussion you can toggle between the different group forums you have access to and read the different messages using the Separate Visible Groups dropdown menu in the top left hand corner Click on the discussion title to read the message The message will be displayed Underneath the message content click on the Reply button OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 49 Managing a discussion forum MOODLE DOCUMENTATION Moderating discussions It is important that Forums are properly moderated to make sure they stay on track Moving discussions 1 You must be in editing mode click the Turn editing on button 2 Select the move button amp beside the fo
61. under Course administration in the Settings block You will see the Edit course settings page Generally speaking the default settings are recommended for most courses but you should review the configuration options to ensure that your course behaves the way you want it to General Options In the General options you can change the description for your course and choose which course format you would like among other things Course ID Number non editable This is your course code and is used for internal backend server purposes Course Summary non editable You should provide a one paragraph summary of your course This summary will appear with the full name of your course when a student views the list of course categories Format This is where you choose the format for your course See What course formats are available document for a detailed explanation of the options o Ifyou select the Topics format then you must set the Number of weeks topics a If you select the Weekly format then you must set the Course start date and the Number of weeks topics 5 Ifyou select the Social format then you must set the Course start date Moodle will ignore any value in the Number of weeks topics setting Hidden sections It s possible to hide an upcoming topic or week to prevent students from jumping ahead much like you can hide a block To hide only the content of a topic or week but still show its title select Hidden se
62. utside of Moodle This option does not allow students to submit work in Moodle 4 Inthe Assignment name text box enter the name of the assignment the way that you want it to appear on your course page Students will access the assignment by clicking on this name OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 31 5 Enter a detailed description of the assignment i e exactly what you expect the students to do and how they will be evaluated into the Description editor General Assignment name Final Project Description Font family Font size Paragraph E EET B Z U ex EFF e GBAA ZTN c j i 2 H Ymg This requirements of this assignment are You are graded based on Fath p Display description on course page i 6 Using the Available from pull down lists set the date when students are allowed to start submitting their assignments You can also set the final date for assignment submissions using the Due date pull down lists To disable either of these dates click the Disable check box beside them 7 Using the Prevent late submissions pull down list you can choose whether or not students will be allowed to submit work after the due date Available from 29 June 2012 02 45 E Enable Due date 6 July 2012 02 45 V Enable Prevent late No submissions 8 Inthe Grade pull d
63. wing their activity history in your course Because this information is likely of more interest to instructors and generating a report requires significant server resources it is recommended that you leave this set to No Show activity reports ves Maximum Upload Size Here you can limit the size of files that your students are allowed to upload to the course e g through Forums or Assignments Setting this at the course level will default it at that size for each activity Groups Group settings set here relate to the Course level Any group mode defined at the course level is the default mode for all activities defined within that course Group mode PG _ No groups z Force No 4 Default grouping None Availability Every new course is created with This course is not available to Students selected as a default This allows you the opportunity to take as long as you need to build or update your course When you decide that it s ready to be seen you can change this setting to This course is available to Students Availability ao This course is available to students 44 Language You can force the language of the course which will translate certain aspects of the Moodle course OSGOODE Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 15 Role Renaming You can choose to rename the roles associated with
64. your course For example you may want to rename Teacher as Instructor oNeeIeIDI Y Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services 2 OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY Moodle User Manual for Instructors 16 How to add TAs and other instructors to your course MOODLE DOCUMENTATION Moodle at York has been configured to support four types of roles Teacher Non editing Teacher Auditor and Student As the instructor of your course you will automatically be assigned the role of Teacher This role allows you to do anything within your course from adding content to grading students to using the administration tools Students in your course will be automatically enrolled enrollment is linked to the class list and assigned the role of Student This role allows them to view and interact with the activities you have provided and with other students but will not allow them to change activities grades or the configuration of the course page Since enrollment is automatic you should not add students manually to your course As a Teacher you can assign a colleague to be in your course as a Non editing teacher You can think of a Non editing teacher role as a Teaching Assistant they can grade student work but cannot modify the activities or use the administration tools You can also assign a colleague to be in your course as an Auditor Auditors have read only access to the course To assign roles 1 Click the Enrolle

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