Updated Articles

  1. Moodle: Create a questionnaire

    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 identified, and can op...
  2. Moodle: Forums

    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? Need to set up a Q&A-style activity? Read on for step-by-step instructions on how to add the Forum...
  3. Moodle: Use Question Bank

    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 is k...
  4. Moodle: Create and grade Quizzes

    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 que...
  5. Moodle: Create and manage assignments

    Use the Assignment activity to enable students to electronically submit work individually or as a group and/or  grade student work "blindly." Electronic file submission is optional -- some instructors also create Assignments for offli...
  6. Moodle: Student Journals

    Moodle does not have a purpose-built journal activity. This article describes techniques instructors have found for creating student journaling assignments using other Moodle tools as well as each technique's advantages and disadvantages. ...
  7. Moodle: Set up a course gradebook

    Use the Gradebook to record grades for both Moodle and non-Moodle activities  (e.g., oral presentations) and display them to students (each student sees only their own grades). You can calculate category-level and final course grades in Moodle...
  8. Captioning

      Captioning adds a text transcription of audio content to a live event or recording, either at the bottom of the screen (closed captions) or in an adjacent window or display. Captioning provides an accessible way for people who are Deaf/Hard of ...
  9. Zoom: Create meetings for courses through Moodle

    Instructors can create and manage Zoom Meetings associated with a Moodle course using   the Zoom activity in Moodle . The advantages to using the Moodle Zoom activity instead of the Zoom web portal or desktop/mobile app are: Course partic...
  10. Zoom: Schedule course meetings with the Moodle Zoom activity

    Instructors can create and manage Zoom Meetings associated with a Moodle course using   the Zoom activity in Moodle . The advantages to using the Moodle Zoom activity instead of the Zoom web portal or desktop/mobile app are: Course partic...