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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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 …
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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 …
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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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 …
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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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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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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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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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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