Westminster College Moodle 2.6 Quick Start Guide Satterfield, Christina ext. 6236 2/25/2014
Contents Introduction to Moodle... 2 Access Moodle... 2 Access Your Course... 2 Moodle Course Site... 2 Setting Up Your Course... 4 Import Course Content... 8 Merging Courses Together (for cross-listed courses or multiple sections of a course)... 11 Setting Time Exempt for Learning Opportunity Students (LOC)... 14 Managing Course Content... 16 Adding Files to a Course... 16 Forum Adding and Configuring... 17 Assignments Adding and Configuring... 21 Quiz/Tests/Assessments Adding and Configuring... 25 Turn It In Assignments... 36 Turn It In Assignment Review... 38 Gradebook... 39 Add a Grade Category... 39 Move an Activity to a Grade Category... 41 Add a Grade Item... 42 User Report - Student Grade View... 44
Introduction to Moodle Access Moodle 1. Go to http://moodle2.westminster-mo.edu 2. Locate Log In in the upper right corner 3. Sign-in with your username and password. Access Your Course 1. Once you are logged into Moodle, locate the Navigation block in the left side column. 2. Expand My Courses 3. Choose a semester to expand and view courses in. Moodle Course Site The list below describes the various parts of your course page. Please refer to the image below. 1. Navigation block houses links to My home, Site pages, My Profile, Current Course and My courses a. My home a list of courses you are enrolled in b. Site pages refers to just the Moodle site pages of Calendar and Tags (not used in our site at this time) c. My profile View and edit your profile, check your forum posts, messages and access your private files d. Current Course allows expand and collapse navigation of the course you are currently looking at within Moodle (only shows when you are on the course page).
e. My Courses navigation to your course divided by semesters 2. Administration block the main area to control all settings and configurations of your course (see detailed the Administration block section below). 3. Switch role to - allows you to view your course from the roles of Non-editing teacher, Student and Guest 4. My profile settings edit your profile, view messages and check activity logs 5. Course Content - middle column where all your assignments and resources are made available to students 6. Turn editing on Clicking on this button turns your course into edit mode for managing content. 7. My Courses shows additional courses you are enrolled in. 8. Search forums block searches your forum postings 9. Latest News block location to add in news stories for your students 10. Upcoming Events block if you place items on the course calendar they are then displayed here 11. Recent Activity block shows the most recent activity by students in the course or by the instructor
Setting Up Your Course Course Administration >> Edit Settings The settings control the course name, description, course format, appearance, files and uploads, guest access and role renaming. Remember to at the bottom of the page when you have made changes to the course settings. General settings are pre-populated, no need to change them Description add a description of your course or upload one using the course summary files drags and drop box.
Course Format - determines the layout of the course page. o Single activity format - For displaying a single activity or resource (such as a Quiz or SCORM package) on the course page o Social format - A forum is displayed on the course page o Topics format - The course page is organized into topic sections o Weekly format - The course page is organized into weekly sections, with the first week starting on the course start date Appearance (optional settings) Force language for the course, select the amount of News items to show in the News block o Show gradebook to students will now default to Yes o Choose to set activity reports for each student to be able to view their activity
Files and uploads Let s you control how large of a file can be uploaded to the course. The default is 500KB. If you run into issues with students uploading files have receiving max size errors, then reset this to a larger size. Guest Access by default Guests are not allowed in courses. If you need to allow someone external from the College into your course (guest speaker), then reset this to Yes and create a password for them to use. Groups groups are used to divide the class into groups per activity and resources.
Role renaming (probably not used) - This setting allows the displayed names for roles used in the course to be changed. Only the displayed name is changed - role permissions are not affected. New role names will appear on the course participant s page and elsewhere within the course. If the renamed role is one that the administrator has selected as a course manager role, then the new role name will also appear as part of the course listings.
Import Course Content To import course content from a previous semester follow the steps below. 1. Under Administration, click on Import 2. Select the course you would like to import content from and click Continue. 3. Checkmark which items to include for initial settings and click Next.
4. Checkmark which items to include for Course Content and click Next. 5. Review your selections and click Perform Import.
6. Once the import completes click Continue. 7. Verify within your course the items selected were imported correctly.
Merging Courses Together (for cross-listed courses or multiple sections of a course) The ability to merge courses is now easily accessible through your own courses. Follow the steps below to merge a course with another course. The steps are the same whether the course is cross-listed or if you are merging multiple sections of a course together. 1. Log into Moodle and enter one of the courses you would like to merge. Under Administration, expand Users and Click on Enrollment methods. 2. On the Enrollment methods page click on the drop down for Add Method and select Choose meta link. 3. On the Course meta link page, select the course to merge with from the Link Course drop down menu and click Add method.
4. Back on the Enrollment methods page you can view that the course that was selected is now listed. 5. Go to the course you just added to the current course and hide it. Click on Edit Settings in the left-side column On the Edit course Settings page under the General section locate Visible and change to hide.
Setting Time Exempt for Learning Opportunity Students (LOC) Setting time exempt for specific students is often used for online quizzes, tests or assessments given through Moodle. 1. In your course go to the Administration block and expand Users, click on Enrolled Users. 2. On the Enrolled Users click on the plus sign next to the student who should be time exempt. 3. In the Assign Roles box, click on Student time-exempt.
4. The Student time-exempt role has been added to the student and they are now exempt from quizzes, tests or assessments for this course.
Managing Course Content Adding Files to a Course Adding files to a course may be in multiple formats such as word documents, PDF files, PowerPoints, excel workbooks and the list goes on. In Moodle 2.6, adding files is as simple as drag and drop. 1. In your course, click on Turn Editing On. 2. Locate the file you wish to add to the course. Click and hold the file and move it to the section of the course where it should be placed. Release the click and the file has been added to the course.
Forum Adding and Configuring Forums enable students to participate in discussions online. There are several forum types to choose from, such as a standard forum where anyone can start a new discussion at any time; a forum where each student can post exactly one discussion; or a question and answer forum where students must first post before being able to view other students' posts. A teacher can allow files to be attached to forum posts. Attached images are displayed in the forum post. 1. In editing mode (click Turn Editing On) select a section of the course where the forum should be placed. In that section click on. 2. In the Add an activity or resource box, choose Forum and click Add.
3. On the Adding a new Forum to Topic 3 page, provide a Forum name, description, checkmark if you would like the forum description to show on the course page and then choose the type of forum it will be. 4. Attachments and word counts if students will be posting attachments or will need to meet a word count for each posting these settings can be adjusted for the forum. 5. Subscription and tracking provides options to force every student to subscribe to the forum and allows read tracking on the forum (Bolded and un-bolded posts depicting which have been read or not).
6. Post threshold for blocking - Students can be blocked from posting more than a given number of posts in a given time period. 7. Grade choose which grade category from the gradebook the forum should belong to. 8. Ratings enable rating for the forum, set the scale and restrict the time limit for rating posts.
9. Common module settings set visibility of the forum within the course, setup group mode and grouping. 10. Once all settings for the forum have been decided upon click on Save and return to course or Save and display at the bottom of the page.
Assignments Adding and Configuring Assignments allow for the collection of digital documents such as word-processed documents, spreadsheets, images, PowerPoint or audio and video files. 1. Choose a section within the course for the assignment and click on. 2. In the Add an activity or resource choose Assignment and click on Add. 3. General Provide an Assignment name and Description; choose if the description should show on the course page. 4. Availability Set the Allow submission from date, due date and cut-off date. Choose to have these dates to show in the description. 5. Submission types Choose between Online text (student is provided with an editor to type directly into within the course) or File submissions (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, audio or video files). Set the maximum
number of uploads and the size of the file uploads. 6. Feedback types Choose the feedback type that is right for you. Click on the for each feedback description. 7. Submission Settings Choose how students submit their work, if they need to accept a submission statement, attempts reopened and maximum attempts.
8. Group submission settings If using groups change Students submit in groups to Yes, require all group members submit to either yes or no depending on your situation and set Grouping for student groups to Yes. 9. Notifications Used for notifying graders of the assignment when students have submitted papers and when they are submitted late. 10. Grade Grade - Set how many points this assignment is worth. Grading method Select the method of grading. If you have devised a rubric within Moodle then choose Rubric otherwise leave at Simple direct grading. Grade category Select the category this grade should be recorded in within the gradebook. Blind marking - Hides the identity of students to the graders. User marking workflow If enabled, graders will go through a series of workflow stages before being released to students. Use marking allocation Use together with marking workflow, graders can be allocated to particular students.
11. Common module settings Visible Show or Hide assignments to students ID number for advanced grading Group mode Select if groups are enabled on this assignment Grouping Used with Group mode, select which group this assignment belongs to 12. Choose Save and return to course or Save and display to save your settings. Choose Cancel to not save any changes.
Quiz/Tests/Assessments Adding and Configuring The quiz activity enables a teacher to create quizzes comprising questions of various types, including multiple choice, matching, short-answer and numerical. Part I Quiz Settings/Configuration 1. Within your course site on Moodle click Turn editing on and then select the section where the quiz should be placed. Click on. 2. In the Add an Activity or Resource box, select Quiz and click Add at the bottom. 3. On the Adding a new Quiz page under the section General, give the quiz a name and description. Choose if the description should show on the course page.
4. Timing Open the quiz/close the quiz - To use the Open and Close dates and times for the quiz, check Enable and then set the dates and times. Time limit Check enable and set how many minutes the quiz should remain open for. When time expires This setting controls what happens if the Student fails to submit their quiz attempt before time expires. If the student is actively working on the quiz at the time, then the countdown timer will always automatically submit the attempt for them. Select one of the following: Submission grace period - If what to do when time expires is set to 'Allow a grace period to submit, but not change any responses', the amount of extra time that is allowed. 5. Grade Grade category choose a category from the gradebook which all quiz grades should go into Attempts allowed make sure to change this to 1 for most configurations Grading method used for multiple attempts of the same quiz
6. Layout Question Order Select how the questions show on the quiz. New page set how many pages the questions should be divided between Navigation Method - When sequential navigation is enabled a student must progress through the quiz in order and may not return to previous pages nor skip ahead. 7. Question Behavior Shuffle within questions - If enabled, the parts making up each question will be randomly shuffled each time a student attempts the quiz, provided the option is also enabled in the question settings. This setting only applies to questions that have multiple parts, such as multiple choice or matching questions. How questions behave - Students can interact with the questions in the quiz in various different ways. For example, you may wish the students to enter an answer to each question and then submit the entire quiz, before anything is graded or they get any feedback. That would be 'Deferred feedback' mode. Alternatively, you may wish for students to submit each question as they go along to get immediate feedback, and if they do not get it right immediately, have another try for fewer marks. That would be 'Interactive with multiple tries' mode. Those are probably the two most commonly used modes of behavior. Each attempt builds on the last - If multiple attempts are allowed and this setting is enabled, each new quiz attempt will contain the results of the previous attempt. This allows a quiz to be completed over several attempts. 8. Review options These options control what information students can see when they review a quiz attempt or look at the quiz reports. During the attempt settings are only relevant for some behaviors, like 'interactive with multiple tries', which may display feedback during the attempt.
Immediately after the attempt settings apply for the first two minutes after 'Submit all and finish' is clicked. Later, while the quiz is still open settings apply after this, and before the quiz close date. After the quiz is closed settings apply after the quiz close date has passed. If the quiz does not have a close date, this state is never reached. 9. Display Show the user s picture for proctored exams this shows the image of the student on the quiz during the quiz. Decimal places in grades choose how many decimal points grades should have Decimal places in question grades choose how many decimal points question grades should have Show blocks during quiz attempts gives you the ability to hide the left and right column during the quiz. 10. Extra restrictions on attempts Require password set a password for the quiz Require network address only works for on campus subnet ranges Enforced delay between 1 st and 2 nd attempts sets the amount of time between the first and second attempt Enforced delay between later attempts sets the amount of time between the 2 nd and third attempt
Browser Security uses Java script to trim the browser to only the quiz, best used in a lab/proctored environment 11. Overall feedback provide feedback between grade boundaries such as 90% - 100%, 80% - 90% and so on. 12. Common module settings Visible show or hide the quiz ID number used for advance grading Group mode Set if using groups, separate groups or visible groups Grouping If using groups assign the quiz to a grouping 13. Click Save and return to course or Save and display to save changes. Click Cancel to discard change.
Part II Creating and Adding Questions to a Quiz 1. Once your quiz settings have been saved, click on your quiz and locate Quiz administration under the Administration block in the left column. 2. Click on Edit Quiz. 3. On the Editing Quiz page click on Add a question
4. Choose a question type to Add and click Next. 5. For a Multiple Choice question provide the following: Question name this is just the name of the question, not what is seen by the students. Question text the question which students will see Default mark points assigned to the question General Feedback provide questions feedback One or multiple answers choose either the question s has one answer to multiple Shuffle the choices shuffle the answer choices Number the choices a,b,c or 1,2,3, etc.
6. Answers Choice 1 5 provide an answer, leave blank the 5 th choice if you only have 4 answers Grade 100% if the choice is correct, None if the choice is incorrect Feedback enter feedback per answer if needed 7. Combined feedback Pre-existing text which will show once the questions are graded. Edit as needed. 8. Multiple tries If the quiz is set for more than one attempt use the Multiple Tries section to apply penalties and
hints. 9. Tags not used 10. Save changes to add the question to the quiz. 11. Once saved the question is listed on Page 1 and also added to the Question bank for future use.
Part III Managing the Quiz and Questions Once all questions have been added to the quiz, make sure to set Maximum grade to total the same as your Total of marks. If you need to add more pages click on Add page here button. To move questions between pages click on the move icon:. To delete a question from a quiz click on the red x:. To preview your quiz, locate Preview under Quiz Administration.
To view the Quiz results, click on the Quiz to open. Click on Attempts
Turn It In Assignments 1. In the Moodle course Turn Editing On and click on Add an Activity or resource.\ 2. Choose Turnitin Assignment and click Add
3. Fill in the General section for the assignment with a Name, Summary, choose if the summary should display on the course page, choose submission type, number of parts, file size and if you would like originality reports with this assignment. 4. Turnitin Advanced Options leave all as default
5. Grade set the points for the assignment and which grade category the grade should be recorded to within the grade book. 6. Common module settings unless dividing assignments by groups for turn in, these can be left default. Turn It In Assignment Review Turn It In is provided through a third party. For information regarding how to grade and leave feedback using GradeMark and Originality Checking see http://turnitin.com/en_us/training/instructor-training.
Gradebook Moodle has a built in gradebook which auto-associates gradebook columns with activities as the course is designed. While there are many settings within the Gradebook to use for each course for custom grading, the basic setup and management of the gradebook is given below. For detailed information about the gradebook refer to the Moodle documentation: http://docs.moodle.org/26/en/gradebook. Add a Grade Category 1. Locate Administration>>Course Administration>>Grades and click on Grades. By default the Grader Report view is shown. As shown below two columns are already present in the Gradebook because the activity was created in the course (Upload word docs and test quiz). 2. To setup gradebook categories go to Administration >> Grade administration locate Categories and items, click on Simple View. 3. On the Edit categories and items: Simple View page click Add category to add a category.
4. Provide a Category Name, select the Aggregation for the Grade Category. For advanced settings click on Show more if needed (http://docs.moodle.org/26/en/grade_categories ). Aggregation Definitions The aggregation determines how grades in a category are combined, such as Mean of grades - The sum of all grades divided by the total number of grades Median of grades - The middle grade when grades are arranged in order of size Lowest grade Highest grade Mode of grades - The grade that occurs the most frequently Sum of grades - The sum of all grade values, with scale grades being ignored 5. Category Total leave all the defaults, set Maximum grade for the category as needed. For detailed settings click on Show more if needed (http://docs.moodle.org/26/en/grade_categories). 6. Click on Save changes to save.
Move an Activity to a Grade Category 1. Once the Category is created, move the associated activities into it by clicking on the cross arrows icon next to the activity to move. 2. Click on the white box under the category where the activity should be placed.
3. Verify the activity move is correct and click on Save Changes. Add a Grade Item If an additional column is needed within the gradebook add a grade item for this purpose. 1. On the Edit categories and items: Simple View page (Administration >> Grades Administration >> Categories and items >> Simple View), click on Add grade item.
2. Grade item provide a name, maximum grade and if needed use the Show more for additional settings. (http://docs.moodle.org/26/en/grade_items#manual_grade_items ). 3. Parent Category choose the existing category the grade item should be listed under. 4. Click on Save change.
User Report - Student Grade View 1. To view a certain student s grades, click on Grade under Administration. 2. Under Grade administration click on User Report. 3. Choose a student from the list to view their grades.