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Calendar - Adding Events

Adding Events to the Calendar in your Course

Assignments and quizzes with due dates will appear on the course calendar for users. However, instructors can also add calendar events for the course, which are visible to all users. Students can add User events, which are private and seen only by the user who created them.

Step 1

Navigate to the course in which you want to edit the calendar, and click on the tab that opens the Block Drawer on the right-hand side.
Step 2 Scroll down to find the Calendar and click on the Full Calendar link.  
Step 3 On the resulting screen, click the New event button.  
Step 4 Select Course for the type of event and enter the course number. Next, select Show More. The dialogue box will expand and you can enter the necessary information and dates.  
Step 5 Click Save.  
Step 6 You will now be able to navigate through the calendar to see the event you added.

For more information on the course calendar, click here.
  


Questions? Please submit a Help Ticket to SCC E-Learning (under "Select Type of Help," choose "Moodle Assistance")

Census - Tracking Student Activity via Logs

Instructors may use logs to see the actions of students in their courses, even the previous activity of students who have dropped or withdrawn from the course.

Step 1 Begin by clicking on Reports at the top of your course.

Reports highlighted in Moodle naviation menu
Step 2 Select Logs on the resulting screen.

 

Reports menu with Logs highlighted in blue
Step 3 If you're looking for a specific student, use the dropdown menu to filter down to one student. You can update other parameters here with the other dropdown menus as well.

 Logs screen with available filter options
Step 4 Once you have the parameters set, click on Get these logs.

Log screen with available filter options. The Get these Logs button is highlighted blue
Step 5 As you scroll down, you will see the actions that the student has taken, including quiz attempts, viewing the course, open forum postings, and assignment submissions.

 Example log image


Questions? Please submit a Help Ticket to SCC E-Learning (under "Select Type of Help," choose "Moodle Assistance")

Choice

Choice

The choice activity module enables a teacher to ask a single question and offer a selection of possible responses. It's a good tool to get a simple response from students. For a video of this tutorial, click here.

 Step 1 Enable the Edit button at the top right of the screen.   
Step 1

At the bottom of the section where you want to add the choice, click Add an activity or resource.

image showing the Add an activity or resource link
Step 2 On the resulting screen, click Choice

image highlighting Choice in a blue circle
Step 2 Type a name for the Choice activity and an optional description.

image showing the Name and Description fields
Step 3 Below, choose the settings you want to use for the options.

For more information on settings, click here.

image showing sample options
 
Step 4 Fill in as many Option areas as needed with possible answers.

image showing sample Options with content
Step 5 On the bottom of the screen, set any more settings you wish.

image showing various available settings
Step 6 Click Save and return to course or Save and display.

For more information about the Choice activity, click here.

image of the Save and Return to course and Save and display buttons
 


Questions? Please submit a Help Ticket to SCC E-Learning (under "Select Type of Help," choose "Moodle Assistance")

Completion Tracking

Activity completion lets students know when they have a certain number of assignments to complete or items to view; this information is displayed underneath each section in the form of "Progress" information.

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  


Questions? Please submit a Help Ticket to SCC E-Learning (under "Select Type of Help," choose "Moodle Assistance")

Concept

Definition

Copying or Importing Your Course

Importing (Copying) Your Course

The process for copying content from one course to another in Moodle is called "import." To copy content from one course to another, you will need to start in the destination course (where you wish the content to appear). For a video tutorial, click here: Copying Materials from Another Course

Step 1

Enable the Edit button at the top right of the screen. 

Edit mode button enabled.

Step 2

Moodle, navigate to your destination course. Click on the More dropdown and select course reuse

More dropdown with course reuse highlighted.

Step 3

Choose Import

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Step 4

On the resulting page, choose the course you wish to import from and click Continue.

Note: If you cannot see the course you need, be sure to include a dash in the course ID number (i.e. "ACA-111", not "ACA 111").

On the resulting screen, click Next to deselect items to avoid duplicate links to support materials.

Course search area with a course shown and selection box highlighted.

Step 4

IMPORTANT - If you use weighted categories in your gradebook, do not deselect any graded items before import. Doing so will remove the categories from your gradebook. You can delete the activities once the import is complete.

 

Alternatively, click the Jump to final step button and go to the last step of this tutorial. (This will mean that some duplicates will be copied in.)

Jump to Final step and Next buttons, with Next highlighted.

Step 5

On the next page, deselect any items that you don't want duplicated in the new term's course.

These might include the Announcements forum, Course Syllabus link, Tutoring link, Student Tech Support Link, and links to the Academic Integrity Module and Moodle Orientation.

These links are created in every new curriculum course, so these will be duplicated if you copy them all over.

List of course components with check boxes next to titles.

Step 6

Continue to click Next through the pages (no other adjustments will be needed), and then click Perform import.

Checked Topic with Next button highlighted.

Step 7

The process of importing may take a few minutes. When you see Import Complete, click Continue to finish and return to the course.

Continue button with Import Complete message shown above

Copying Part of Your Course to Another Course

A video tutorial can be found here: Copying Materials from Another Course

 Step 1 Enable the Edit button at the top right of the screen.   Edit mode toggle
Step 2

In Moodle, navigate to your destination course. Click on More below the title of the course, and select Course resuse.

 More drop-down from Moodle navigation menu with course reuse highlighted
Step 3  On the resulting page, choose the course you wish to import from and click Continue.  Course list from search function
Step 4  Depending on what you want to import, you may wish to deselect some of the items on this page (such as the Include question bank option, as this will bring over all the questions from quizzes in the course).

Click the Next button.		  Import settings page
Step 5  On the resulting screen, deselect anything you do not want to bring over to the destination course.

At the bottom of the screen, click Next.		  Import selections highlighted.
Step 6  On the resulting screen, review your choices and either choose Previous to change your selections or click Perform import to continue.  Perform Import buttton highlighted
Step 7  The process of importing may take a few minutes. When you see Import complete. Click continue to return the course, click Continue to finish.  Continue button highlighted


Questions? Please submit a Help Ticket to SCC E-Learning (under "Select Type of Help," choose "Moodle Assistance")

Copyleaks (Plagiarism Evaluation)

Copyleaks is a plagiarism and cheating detection tool that can be used in assignments, forums, and quizzes. To enable Copyleaks for an activity, follow the steps below.

Step 1

Access the Copyleaks settings when creating a new assignment or editing an existing assignment. 

Image of CopyLeaks settings Highlighted in blue
Step 2  Check the Enable Copyleaks checkbox.

Image showing Copyleaks Enabled
Step 3 Leave the Disable view of database for students option checked. Click the checkbox for any other settings you'd like to use for the scan.

Image of example options
Step 4  Click Save and return to course.

Image of the Save and Return to course button

Questions? Please email e-learning@southwesterncc.edu or call (828) 339-4400.

Copyleaks - Putting a Copyleaks Resource in Your Course

This resource allows you to submit files to Copyleaks. It can be very useful for submissions that were not automatically submitted.

 

Step 1

Enable the Edit Mode on your Moodle course

Top right of Moodle page, with edit mode enabled.

Step 2

Scroll down to the bottom of the Topic you would like the resource to go in. Select Add an Activity or Resource.

Add activity or resource button with plus mark to the left.

Step 3

In the resulting window, select Copyleaks Teacher Scan Tool.

Copyleaks external tool thumbnail

Step 4

Click on select content. A window will appear that loads for a moment and then disappears. 

General setting for external tools, showing select content and Activity name.

Step 5

Make sure this activity is hidden on your course page. You can select this in the Common Module Settings under Availability. Once done, choose Save and Display. 

Common module settings with Hide on Course Page highlighted

Step 6

You can drag and drop or upload files to be checked on the resulting screen

Upload area for Copyleaks tool for submission.


Questions? Please submit a Help Ticket to SCC E-Learning (under "Select Type of Help," choose "Moodle Assistance")

Course Card Images

Adding a Course Card Image

If you wish to add some personalization to your course, you may want to add a course image that will appear on the "My Courses" page.

Step 1 Navigate to the Moodle course where you want to add the course image. At the top of the course, click Settings.   
Step 2 Scroll down until you see the Course Image area and click in the open space or on the Add File button in the top left corner of the box.  
Step 3 On the resulting screen, choose the image you want to add to your course and click Open.  
Step 4 Scroll to the bottom of the settings page and click Save and display.   
Step 5 The image will now appear on your My courses page.  


Questions? Please submit a Help Ticket to SCC E-Learning (under "Select Type of Help," choose "Moodle Assistance")