Moodle Help

You must turn tracking on for your course to use activity completion. (For information on how to turn on course Completion Tracking, see this tutorial: Turning On Completion Tracking)

Step 1	Create or edit an existing activity or resource.
Step 2	On the left side in the settings area, expand Activity completion. Settings include: Completion tracking: If enabled, activity completion is tracked, either manually or automatically, based on certain conditions. Multiple conditions may be set if desired. A check next to the activity name on the course page indicates that the activity is complete. Require view: If enabled, the resource or activity is considered complete when a student views the resource. Expect completed On: This setting specifies the date when the resource or activity is expected to be completed. The date is not shown to students and is only displayed in the activity completion report. Check this option to enable and set a date. Once you have set the options, choose Save and return to course or Save and Display.
Step 3	Discussions have additional activity completion settings: Require posts: Student must post discussions or replies. Require discussions: Student must create a certain number of discussions before the forum is considered complete. Require replies: Student must post a certain number of replies before the forum is considered complete. Once you have set the options, choose Save and return to course or Save and display. For more information, please see: Activity Completion Tracking (Open LMS Documentation).
Step 4	When an activity has been set as required for activity completion, students will see a "To do" message in the activity with information about what must be done to receive the "done" designation.
Step 5	When they have completed the activity, the message will change to "Done."
Step 6	Want to see what students have successfully completed in your course? Click on the Reports and on the resulting page select Activity Completion
Step 7	On the resulting screen, you'll see a table with student names and each of the activities in the columns, with green circles for any activities that were completed by the student and gray circles for those that have not yet been completed

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Creating an Ungraded Activity

This tutorial will help you set up an ungraded activity that shows in your gradebook. (Forums can be set to "ungraded" and Quizzes can be set to have 0 points, but this means that neither of these activities will show up in your Gradebook.)

Step 1	Navigate to your course's gradebook setup area by clicking on the gear icon in the upper right corner of your course, then clicking Gradebook setup.
Step 2	Whether you are using a Natural or Weighted Grade set up, you will follow the same steps. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Add category button.
Step 3	On the resulting screen, type a name in the Category name area, such as "Ungraded Items."
Step 4	Next, click Save changes. Note: you may see a screen that says "Recalculating grades" with a Continue button. Click this to return to the gradebook.
Step 5	Next, it's time to move the item you want to be ungraded into the new "Ungraded Items" category. Locate the item you wish to be ungraded. In that item's row, click the checkbox under Select.
Step 6	Scroll to the bottom of the page, and use the drop down menu next to Move selected items to: and choose the new category you made. When you release the mouse after clicking the new category, the item(s) will automatically move to that category. Note: you may see a screen that says "Recalculating grades" with a Continue button. Click this to return to the gradebook.
Step 7	The last step is to ensure that the "Ungraded Items" category is truly ungraded. In the box next to the title of the category, enter "0" and then click Save changes at the bottom of the screen. If you find you are unable to edit this box, check the little checkbox to the left of the box to make it editable. Be sure to click Save changes. This set up means the gradebook will assign 0 weight to anything in this category.

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You may move items, assignments, activities, and resources within sections/topics or into different sections/topics. There are two ways to do this. A video tutorial can be found here: Moving Activities and Resources in Your Course

Step 1	Enable the Edit button at the top right of the screen.
Step 2	Navigate to the resource or activity you wish to move and click the three dots to the right of the assignment. Select the Move option from the drop-down.
Step 3	Select where you would like to move the activity.
	OR
Step 1	Enable the Edit button at the top right of the screen.
Step 2	Hover your mouse over the activity and a four-arrow icon will appear. If you click and hold you can drag and drop the activity where you would like it.

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The Announcements forum is a special forum for general news and announcements. This forum is automatically created in a new course. By default, it is placed in the top section of the course. As this section is displayed at the top of all course materials, it is a best practice to limit the content in this area to only the Announcements forum.

The Announcements forum, includes only posts made by the instructor, and students cannot post in it. The forum has forced subscription set by default, which means that students will receive emails every time an announcement is posted.

For a video tutorial, click here.

Step 1	Navigate to the Announcements (or first) section in your course. Click on Announcements.
Step 2	On the resulting page, click Add discussion topic.
Step 3	Type a subject for your announcement and then a message in the body of the announcement. (The editing menu will allow you to add images and videos). Click Post to Forum.
Step 4	On the resulting page, click the subject line to view the announcement.
Step 5	If you wish, when viewing an announcement, you can "pin" it to the top of the Announcements forum by clicking the three dots to the right of the Announcement title and choosing Pin.

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Use this tutorial to learn how to set your forum posts to be delayed and appear to students (and be emailed to them) later on. 

Step 1	Navigate to the forum where you wish to make the post, then click its title to open.
Step 2	Click Add a new discussion.
Step 3	Click on the Advanced link on the bottom left (below the forum post).
Step 4	Scroll down to the Display period options and click the box next to Enable. This will allow you to adjust the Display start date. You can also choose a date for the forum post to disappear ("Display end").
Step 5	After typing your post and making your selections in the display period area, click Post to forum. Your post will now display to students based on the date(s) you have set.

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Assignments allow students to submit work to their teacher for grading. The work may be text typed online or uploaded files of any type the teacher’s device can read.

When you create an assignment, you have the ability set it up to check for possible plagiarism using CopyLeaks. For a video tutorial, click here.

Step 1	Enable the Edit button at the top right of the screen.
Step 2	Scroll to the bottom of the section where you want to place the activity, then click Add an Activity or Resource, on the resulting page choose Assignment.
Step 3	On the resulting screen, type a name for the assignment and an optional description. The description can include instructions for the students. (If you wish to make the description available on the front page of your course, you can check the box next to Display description on course page.)
Step 4	You may set the assignment's availability in the Availability area.
Step 5	In the Submission types area, you may choose the submission types you wish to accept.
Step 5	In the Grade area, you can change the number of points allotted for this assignment. If you wish, you may change the Grading method from "Simple direct grading" to Marking guide or Rubric. If you use Grade categories, you may assign a category here as well. (For more information on creating categories, click here.)
Step 6	You may adjust any other settings you wish. For more information on Assignment settings, please click here. When you are done setting up the assignment, choose either Save and return to course or Save and display.

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You may wish to allow another attempt on an assignment for a student. Follow this tutorial for steps to do so. A video tutorial can be found here: Allowing Another Attempt on an Assignment

Step 1	Start by ensuring that the settings on your assignment will allow for another attempt to be made. Navigate to the assignment and click the three dots in the upper right corner of the assignment, then choose edit settings.
Step 2	On the resulting screen, scroll down to expand the Submission settings area. Under Attempts reopened, choose Manually. Under Maximum attempts, set any number from 2 to Unlimited.
Step 3	Click Save and display.
Step 4	On the resulting screen, click on View all submissions.
Step 5	On the next page, locate the student whose attempt you wish to re-open, and click on the Edit button.
Step 6	Choose Allow another attempt.
Step 7	The page will reload, showing "Reopened" next to the student's name. (Note that you will still have access to the student's original uploaded file on the right side of their row on this screen.)
Step 8	We recommend that you Instruct the student to return to the attempt and choose Add a new attempt (as opposed to Add a new attempt based on a previous submission).	Note: this is that students will see when they return to the assignment to submit again.

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This tutorial will walk you through editing an existing assignment.

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This tutorial will walk you through editing an existing quiz.

Step 1	Enable the Edit Mode on your course page.
Step 2	Navigate to the assignment you wish to edit. Click on the three dots then choose Edit settings.
Step 3	You may edit the name, description, and/or assignment settings on the resulting screen.
Step 4	After making any needed updates, click Save and display.

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A video tutorial can be found here: Grading Assignments

Step 1	Access student submissions, by first locating it within the course, then clicking the assignment name.
Step 2	On the resulting screen, click Grade.
	On the resulting screen, you will see the various items that need to be graded. To change the assignments that are available, click the filter icon in the upper right corner of the screen and choose the appropriate filter setting.
Step 3	You can download the student submission by clicking the file name in the right menu.
Step 4	To annotate the student submission within Moodle, once an assignment is displayed, use the icons in the upper right of the screen. This tool will generate a PDF from the student's submission (even if the submission is in a Word doc format) that the student can view after grading.
Step 6	Assign a grade by typing in the Grade text box. Optionally, provide feedback in the Feedback Comments box (This feedback can include text, images, or video.).
Step 7	Click Save and Show Next to advance to the next assignment requiring grading. If you would like to send a notification to your student that a grade has been added, ensure the check mark next to notify student is enabled.

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When students have submitted assignments after the due date set on an assignment, instructors can receive an email notifying them of this.

Step 1	You may set this setting for assignments when you first create the assignment or you can edit an existing assignment. To edit an existing assignment, click on the three dots in the upper right corner, then choose edit settings.
Step 2	Expand the Notifications option, then use the drop down menu to set Notify graders about late submissions to Yes.
Step 3	Click Save and return to course.

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