Times and Timings In this post, I'm going to focus on the 'Timing' section of the Moodle Quiz settings page; this is where start and end date/times are defined along with a permitted duration of an attempt. The image above shows the 'Timings' section within the settings page of a Moodle Quiz activity; below, I …
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Question types Before delving into the Quiz activity itself and the different configuration options, it's perhaps worth initially looking at the different question types - after all, what's a quiz without questions?! When adding a new question to the Moodle question bank, you are prompted to choose from over 20 different question types. On selecting …
"Why use a Quiz?" Over the next few weeks, I'll be taking a look at the Moodle Quiz - a feature-rich activity in Moodle that can be used for both formative and summative assessment. At a time where classroom-based learning is limited, it is the perfect tool to give confidence to both students and tutors …
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I was recently asked how best to share a file with students but prevent them from downloading it to their computer/device - in this particular instance, it was sharing an assignment submission from a previous semester as an example for current students. Moodle offers ways to share files with students but with browsers becoming more …
I was recently contacted to provide some information about Jamboard so I thought this was a good opportunity to write a blog post where I could collate some of the online resources that we recommend and share some tips around its use. What is Jamboard? Jamboard is essentially an online collaborative whiteboard tool which we …
If course content has been "rolled over" from Semester 1 to populate content in an upcoming Semester 2 Moodle course then any video recordings stored in the Semester 1 course folder of Panopto will not have been rolled over. If you’re re-running a Semester 1 course in Semester 2 (with a new set of students) …
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We've had a few emails recently about grades missing from the Moodle Gradebook - specifically grades that have been awarded to students using Turnitin Assignments. One reason for this may be down to a known issue around synchronisation of grades from Turnitin to the Moodle gradebook in that synchronisation is not always automatic but the …
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A few academics have recently contacted us with regards to not having their upcoming Moodle modules listed on their Dashboard in Moodle. This can sometimes be an enrolment issue but the first thing to check is the filter settings on the 'Course overview' block on your Dashboard. Upcoming Moodle modules are likely to have their …
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To contact all your students in a module, the most reliable way is to use the Announcements forum normally found in the top section of a Moodle course. The Announcements forum is a passive forum in that it only allows teaching staff to post; students are not able to post to the forum. It is …
Ensure you have upgraded to the latest version of Zoom desktop client or mobile app to use this feature. If you're setting up Breakout rooms in Zoom, as of October 2020 students can now select which breakout room they want to join. To allow participants to change/change switch rooms, you have to enable the feature …
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