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Startup a New Moodle Course 3.4

Get Familiar with Moodle Now

  • Homepage

  • Dashboard

  • Turn editing on/off 

  • Edit settings 

    • General 

      • Change the full name of your course 
      • Change the short name of your course 
    • Description 

      • Change the Description of your course 
    • Course format 

      • Hide Sections 
    • Appearance 

      • Change the appearance of your Moodle course 
    • Files and uploads 

      • Change the maximum upload size 
    • Completion tracking 

      • What is Completion tracking? 
      • Completion tracking setup 
        • Different Activity/Resource has different Completion tracking setup 
        • Expect completed on
  • Assign Roles 

    • What are Roles in Moodle? 

    • All types of Roles in Moodle [Table] 

    • Common uses for Adding a role in Moodle:

    • How to Assign a role in Moodle:

  • Create groups: 

    • Create a single group 

      • Add & modify group members 
    • Auto-Create Groups 

      • General 
        • Naming scheme 
        • Auto create based on 
        • Allocate members 
    • Import Empty Groups 

  • Group to Grouping 

    • What is Grouping? 

    • What is Grouping for? 

    • Add groups to a grouping:

  • What is Gradebook? 

  • Questions needed to be asked for Instructional Support 

  • Why we use Moodle Gradebook? 

  • Gradebook setup 

    • Start with creating a category: 

    • Grade category 

      • Available Aggregation types: 
        • Means of grades: 
        • Custom Weights: 
          • What is Weight: 

          • Do I have to put a value in each "weight" input box? 

          • Do all the weights have to add up to 100 or some similar value? 

          • Weighted mean 

          • Simple weighted mean 

        • Natural: 
      • Category total 
        • Grade type 
        • Value 
        • Text feedback only 
        • Scale 
        • Letter 
      • Hidden 
      • Locked 
      • Show more... 
    • Change Category name or Aggregation method 

  • How to give students extra credit for a grade item: 

  • How to add an extra credits activity in Gradebook: 

  • View grades 

  • Exclude from totals 

    • If you want to exclude a whole category: 

  • Grade history 

  • User report 

    • Grade rank 

  • Import & Export 

  • How to grade with rubrics 

  • Overridden grades 

    • Identify the overridden grade 

    • Remove the overridden grade 

    • Use manual override sparingly 

  • TA’s role in Gradebook 

  • Can I delete an activity in Gradebook?

  • Why we backup a Moodle course: 

  • What can be backed up in a Moodle course: 

  • What cannot be backed up in a Moodle course: 

  • How to make a backup of a Moodle course:

  • Difference between Backup and Restore: 

  • How to Import/Restore an Entire Course: 

  • If you want to Import a Moodle course that you don’t teach: 

  • Following steps after importing a Moodle course: 

  • How to Import/Restore Moodle Activities or Resources from One Course to Another 

    • Step 1: Prepare items to copy 

      • Why 
      • How 
    • Step 2: Import items into the target course 

  • Following steps after importing a Moodle content:

  • Guest

  • General 

    • Edit the name and description of the section: 

    • Another option to change the name: 

  • Announcements 

    • Post a new announcement: 

  • Open all / Close all 

    • Move resource icon 

  • Edit section name 

  • Fold/Unfold icon 

  • Delete section

  • How to add an activity/resource

ACTIVITIES

  • What is Assignment? 

  • What is Assignment for? 

  • Assignment setup 

    • General 

      • Name: 
      • Description: 
      • Additional files: 
    • Availability 

    • Submission types 

    • Feedback types 

    • Submission settings 

    • Group submission settings 

    • Notifications 

    • Grade 

    • Common module settings 

  • Assignment View

  • What is Forum? 

  • What is Forum for? 

  • Forum View 

  • Forum setup: 

    • General 

    • Form type: 

    • Subscription and tracking 

    • Ratings 

    • Activity completion

  • What are External tools for? 

  • Distinguish External tools and URL 

  • External tools View 

  • External tool setup 

    • General

  • What is Chat? 

  • What is Chat for? 

  • Chat View: 

  • Chat setup 

    • Chat sessions:

  • What is Checklist? 

  • What is Checklist for? 

  • Checklist setup 

  • Settings: 

    • Edit Checklist 

  • Teacher view: 

  • Student view:

  • What is Choice? 

  • What is Choice for? 

  • Difference between Choice and other activities 

  • Choice View 

  • Choice setup: 

    • Options

  • What is Database? 

  • What is Database for? 

  • Difference between Glossary and Database [Table]: 

  • Database setup: 

    • Entries 

    • Ratings 

  • Edit Database: 

    • What is Field? 

    • Create a new field 

    • Add template 

    • Add entry 

  • Use Database

Activity-Glossary

  • What is Glossary? 

  • What is Glossary for? 

  • Glossary setup: 

    • General 

    • Entries 

    • Ratings 

  • Edit Glossary 

  • Glossary View

  • What is Questionnaire? / What is Questionnaire for? 

  • Distinguish among Questionnaire, Quiz and Checklist: 

  • Questionnaire setup 

    • Response options: 

    • Content options 

  • Edit Questionnaire 

    • Add questions 

    • Check Boxes 

      • Date 
      • Drop-down Box 
      • Label 
      • Numeric 
        • Numeric questions example [Table] 
      • Radio Buttons 
        • Radio buttons Alignment 
        • Possible answers 
      • Rate (scale 1..5) 
        • Add Rate (scale 1..5) question 
        • Number of scale items 
        • Type of rate scale 
        • Possible answers 
      • Text Box 
        • Add a Text Box question 
        • Edit a Text Box question 
        • Text Box question e.g 
      • Yes/No 
        • Add a Yes/No question 
        • Yes/No question e.g 
    • Manage questions

  • What is Group self-selection? 

  • What is Group self-selection for? 

  • Group self-selection View 

  • Group self-selection setup: 

    • General

  • What is Wiki? 

  • What is Wiki for? 

  • Wiki Setup 

    • Sub-wikis: 

    • Annotation system: 

    • Template: 

      • Create a wiki template 
      • Create a new section 
      • Download wiki template 
      • Apply a wiki template
  • What is Workshop? 

  • What is Workshop for? 

  • Workshop setup 

    • General 

    • Grading settings 

      • Grading Strategy [Table] 
    • Submission settings: 

      • Feedback: 
      • Example submissions: 
  • Availability:

  • What is Quiz? 

  • What is Quiz for? 

  • Before you set up a Quiz: 

  • Quiz questions in Question bank setup: 

  • Quiz setup 

    • Timing 

    • Grade 

    • Layout 

    • Question behavior 

    • Review options 

  • Import a Quiz in Moodle

  • What is Lesson? 

  • What is Lesson for? 

  • Before you add an Lesson : 

  • Lesson setup 

    • General 

    • Appearance: 

    • Availability 

    • Flow control 

    • Grade 

  • Group overrides/User overrides 

  • Adding content and questions to your lesson 

    • Import questions 

      • Add a cluster 
      • Add a content page 
      • Add a question page 
        • Question type [Table]: 
        • Text editor type [Table]: 
  • Move your lesson forward

  • What is Turnitin assignment? 

  • What is Turnitin assignment for? 

  • Inform Your Students About Turnitin assignment 

  • The following are sample paragraphs you may wish to include in syllabi:

RESOURCES

  • What is File? 

  • What is File for? 

  • File setup

  • What is Folder? 

  • What is Folder for? 

  • Folder setup as a shared space with teachers

  • What are Labels? 

  • What are Labels for? 

  • Make your moodle course page more readable:

  • What is Page? 

  • What is Page for?

  • What is URL? 

  • URL setup

BLOCKS

  • What is Quick settings ? 

  • What is Quick settings for? 

  • Quick settings setup

  • What is Latest news? 

  • Latest news and Announcements

  • What are upcoming events?

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