You may find that you aren’t making use of a particular section provided by the Topics course template. For example, if your module does not require you to deliver online seminars and the only item in the ‘Meeting\Recording links’ section is the Panopto LTI then you may consider moving it to the ‘Module Information’ section …
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Throughout Semester remember to check and review content from previous weeks. Hide content which is no longer relevant to students, especially time-dependent information. For example: Don’t show a ‘description’ on the course page if the detail in it gives instructions for something that had to be done that week. Hide an activity if it’s no …
Continue reading Organise content: Review content from previous weeks
It will soon be time to prepare your Semester 1 Moodle course. Over the coming days I will post some useful ideas and tips. The posts will include 'before' and 'after' visual examples: Throughout Semester check and review content from previous weeks: Hide content which is no longer relevant to students, especially time-dependent information. Review content …
Continue reading Moodle: Ideas for organising course content and signposting
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 …
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 …
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 …
Continue reading Promote ‘Academic integrity’ course in your modules on Moodle
Ensure that the General section has limited content. The student will have to scroll past the General section regardless of which Unit/Week section they choose to go to so it must be kept short. General section (top of the course page) Replace the placeholder text in the Course summary section (at the top of the …
Continue reading Updating your Moodle module (1) – “How do I organise the General section?”
Are you are looking for images* to use in your Moodle course? Here are some good sources for free public domain images and Brookes in-house images. Photo by nine koepfer on Unsplash External sites Free photos: Unsplash, Pixabay, Pexels You can use each of them without a credit, but it's good practice to credit the …
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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Manual enrolments of teaching staff (e.g. co-teachers, teaching assistants, course viewers) in Moodle expire in 30 days (from the day you enrolled them), unless you change the enrolment period when you first enrol them. So, when you enrol a member of your teaching team you should choose an appropriate duration or end date: How do …
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