Tag: Moodle

Using NameCoach and Moodle to hear student names

NameCoach is a Moodle activity that allows your students to record their names so you can pronounce their names correctly in class. NameCoach Instructions for Moodle There are two NameCoach activities that can be tied into Moodle. The first allows each member of the course to record their own name. This can be found as an item called NameCoach Recording...

Categories Activities/Getting Started/Pedagogy

How to Grade A Single Moodle Quiz Question for All Students

You might find it useful at times to grade a single question in Moodle for all students at once rather than navigating through each student’s quiz to the particular question you want to grade. This can help greatly as a time saving measure. It may also help with the objectivity of grading or in the discovery of trends when it...

Categories Assessment/Uncategorized

Limiting Accepted File Types for Moodle Assignments

When you use an Assignment in Moodle, you have various options for how students will submit their work. One of these options includes limiting the types of files students can submit. This can be useful for streamlining your grading — if, say, you want students to turn work into a PDF before submission — or if you want to prevent...

Categories Assignments

Using Essay Quiz Question Type for File Upload (and How to Bulk Download the Responses)

The Quiz activity in Moodle allows faculty to set start and end times for when work can be collected and for how long students have from when they begin a submission to when they complete it. The Essay quiz question type can be set up to allow students to upload a file to Moodle using the Quiz activity. This question...

Categories Assessment

Getting Started

If you’re just getting started designing your course and don’t know where to begin, the links below will help you get started with the very basics of some of the tools at your disposal. Getting Started with Zoom at Macalester Moodle Basics Tech Kit Start Up Communicating with Students

Categories Getting Started

Grading with an iPad & Apple Pencil in Moodle

The iPad and Apple Pencil, two tools that come in the tech kit, enable teachers to provide handwritten feedback to students. Watch this video to learn how to grade assignments using the iPad, Apple Pencil, and Moodle’s built-in PDF grader.

Categories Access and Inclusion/Annotation/Assignments/Whiteboard

Moodle Workshop Recordings

For those looking to learn more about Moodle, watch these workshops to learn about some of Moodle’s basic and advanced features!

Categories News and Announcements

Moodle Basics – Boost Templates

The Moodle Boost template enables a teacher to edit the general settings and appearance of their Moodle course so that it is easily viewed using a tablet or phone. Use this how-to to learn how to edit your Moodle course using the Boost template!

Categories Asynchronous/Flipped Classroom

Moodle Basics – Getting Started

The Moodle site enables a teacher to edit the general settings and appearance of their Moodle course. Use this how-to to learn how to edit your Moodle course!

Categories Asynchronous/Flipped Classroom

Moodle Book Resource

The Moodle Book resource enables a teacher to organize their course content into concise, easy-to-navigate chapters. Use this how-to to learn how to create a Moodle Book for your Moodle course!

Categories Lecture/Syllabus Design