Manage Activities

Moodle's Assignment activity allows students to submit work individually or as a group for grading. Instructors can also create "offline" assignments to add due dates for activities that don't require electronic submission t...

  Keeping track of assignments and events for classes can be difficult. Moodle provides the Timeline and Calendar  blocks as standard features so you can keep track of your schedule more easily for all courses in which you are enrolled...

The Sensus Access Document Converter activity enables Moodle course participants to convert course files to formats that meet their accessibility needs . Once the Sensus activity is added to a course, students can use it for all files posted...

Despite the name, the Quiz activity can be used to design any kind of online formative or summative assessment , from a tutorial with instant feedback to an exam in which feedback is withheld until the close of the exam period. Many questio...

While you can create questions from scratch when using Moodle's Quiz activity, doing so can be time-intensive. As an alternative, Moodle creates a repository of questions that you can use at any time and move between courses. This feature ...

Need a space for you and your students to have discussions? Would you like your students to respond to and make comments on response questions? Here are step-by-step instructions on how to add the Forum, as well as helpful information on the di...

The Moodle Questionnaire  activity allows you to survey Moodle course participants for the purpose of gathering information. Questions do not have a “right” answer (as they must in Quiz), and responses can be anonymous or identif...

Although Moodle does not have a purpose-built journal activity, you can use the OU Blog Activity in Moodle to create individual journals that your students can post to over time.  Before You Start , you will need access to the followi...

The workshop activity enables the collection, review, and peer assessment of students' work. This can be done whether students submit through Moodle's text editor or by attaching files. Before you start , you may need the following: a...

Bryn Mawr uses Watermark Course Evaluation and Surveys software to conduct end-of-semester course evaluations. Links and reminders within Moodle make it easier for students to complete surveys and for instructors to access results (this article)...