Quiz Settings

You can use quizzes in Moodle to evaluate student understanding of material. Moodle quizzes consist of a Quiz activity that contain one or more questions from your course’s Question bank. The Quiz activity allows you to administer a wide range of questions within a specific layout and order and the quiz activity allows you to…

Assignment Settings

The Assignments activity in Moodle allows students to submit work to you for grading. The work may be text typed online or uploaded files of any type your device can read. Grading may be by simple points, percentages or custom scales, or more complex rubrics and marking guides may be used. Assignments may be submitted…

Gradebook

Before we dive into learning about Moodle’s gradebook it is important to consider how you will be collecting assessment items. The reason for this is many activities in Moodle automatically enter a line item in the gradebook so these activities need to be added to your course before you can accurately set up your gradebook. …

Participants

The participants in your Moodle course are yourself and the students who have enrolled in your course in the Banner registration system. If you think you might have been added to the wrong Moodle course shell please check your course list in TRU employee and compare it to your participants list in Moodle, they should…

Notification Settings

Notifications alert teachers, students and other users about events in Moodle such as new forum posts, assignments that need grading or have been graded or badges awarded. You can customize which notifications you receive in Moodle! Below are instructions that outline how: Click on the profile button and select Preferences Select Notification preferences Toggle on…

Basic Editing

Here’s a short overview of some of Moodle’s editing icons and how you can use them to to give your students the best learning experience! Now that you are into your Moodle course, you may want to make changes and add content! In order to do so you first have to turn edit mode on….