Did you know that it's possible for course participants to see how many unread posts they have in a Moodle forum? To ensure users are kept up-to-date with discussions in course forums, we normally recommend that course participants are subscribed to the forums so that any new post will be sent as an email to …
Author: Richard Hall
Recording ‘Breakout rooms’ in Zoom
We recently received a query about 'breakout rooms' in Zoom and, specifically if they were included in a standard meeting recording. The following post answers that question along with advising how you can sensibly manage other participants recording content in your meeting.
Plan ahead by scheduling Forum posts
A recent change to Moodle now provides the opportunity to schedule forum posts. This now means that if you want an announcement to be sent to your students at a particular time then you no longer have to log in to Moodle at that specific time to send it! I've recently written an article on …
Promote ‘Academic integrity’ course in your modules on Moodle
It is recommended that all students complete the 'Academic Integrity' course in Moodle before starting their first piece of assessed work to ensure that students are following good practice and have no academic conduct problems with their assignments. All Module Leaders should add a link to the 'Academic integrity' course in Moodle and position this …
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Current issue in Zoom (and a temporary workaround)
UPDATE (06/07/2021)We understand that this issue has now been resolved and so, whilst the steps described below will still work, it may be preferable to revert to the previous method for creating meetings with pre-assigned breakout rooms (ie. scheduling the meeting via the Zoom LTI and then pre-assigning the breakout rooms via https://brookes.zoom.us) Unfortunately the …
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In Focus: Moodle Quiz (7) – Reporting
Reporting Once your students have started submitting attempts for the quiz, you will want to check on how they've performed. Quiz reports There are a number of reports available ranging from a table listing all quiz attempts through to statistical reports on specific questions. In this post, I will explain the difference between the various …
In Focus: Moodle Quiz (6) – Managing attempts
Managing attempts With many students attempting the quiz (potentially multiple times), you may like to exercise some degree of control over which attempts are retained and also over how many times a quiz can be attempted. This post focusses on the different options available to you and suggestions for how different scenarios can be managed. …
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In Focus: Moodle Quiz (5) – Building a quiz
Building a quiz Having created questions and added - and configured - a quiz activity, the next logical action is to add questions to your quiz. Edit quiz For want of a better name, I'll refer to the place where questions are added to your quiz as the "quiz building page". There are two ways …
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In Focus: Moodle Quiz (4) – Giving feedback
Giving Feedback One of the huge benefits of using the Moodle Quiz activity, particularly when there is a focus on remote-learning, is its provision for immediate feedback to students; this feedback can range from specific feedback (granular feedback dependent on the answer given to a question) to overall feedback on a student's general performance in …
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Managing marking in the Moodle Assignment activity
I've recently received a number of queries about controlling the visibility of grades and feedback for students in relation to marking student submissions to a Moodle Assignment activity. Whilst it's true that you can simply hide an Assignment activity from the students, this does make it tricky to begin marking whilst waiting for late submissions …
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