Using Moodle

Accessing Your Moodle Course

In this tutorial, you will learn the basics of getting around your Moodle courses.

Click here for a video of this tutorial.

Tutorial Steps:

Step 1	Click My Courses at the top of the e-Campus site.
Step 2	Click on the course you want to enter.
Step 3	Once in your course, you will see a course index menu on the left. This displays all of the sections (also called "topics" or "modules" or sections) in the course. Click on the name of each section to view it.
Step 4	At the top of every page in Moodle, you will see the Get Help Menu, where you can find links to resources to assist you.
Step 5	To access another course, click on My Courses at the top of the screen again.

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

Some courses use "activity completion" which shows you clearly what resources you must review and what activities you must do to "complete" a module/topic in a course. If your course is using Activity Completion, you'll also see a percentage complete on the course card on your My Courses page. 

 For an example of Activity Completion in action, you can look at the Moodle Orientation for Students course. (You may need to click the button to self-enroll.)

Step 1	Navigate to the course with Activity Completion. You will know Activity Completion is turned on if you see a small circle next to a resource or activity in the course index, as seen in the image to the right. If the circle is empty, the activity hasn't been completed. Once it's complete, the circle will turn solid.
Step 2	Look for any resources or activities that have the circle by them in the course index. This indicates that the activity must be completed.
Step 3	When you open an activity with activity completion enabled, you will see actions labelled "To do" with information about what you must for the item to be marked complete, and they will be checked off as "Done" once the criteria have been met.

Questions? Please email e-learning@southwesterncc.edu.

This tutorial shows you how to add a video to an assignment submission. Please note: To do this, your instructor must set the submission settings on the assignment to allow for a video submission. Below you'll find links to the other video upload tutorials.

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

Submitting an Assignment

This tutorial shows you how to submit an assignment in Moodle.

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

Changing the Read&Write Toolbar Settings

In this tutorial, you will learn how to change the read-aloud settings of the Read&Write Tool.

Tutorial Steps

Step 1	Open a document in Google Docs or navigate to a website, and make sure that the Read&Write toolbar is visible by clicking the purple Read&Write puzzle piece in the Chrome extensions area  to open the Read&Write toolbar.
Step 2	You may also see a Read&Write tab - click the tab to expand the toolbar.
Step 3	The toolbar has three different modes: horizontal, vertical, and writing.  Click More , on the far right of the toolbar, and then click Settings to open Read&Write’s Settings window. On the left of the window, click General. The General page contains settings that control how the Read&Write toolbar appears. Choose the style you prefer.
Step 4	You can change the voice and reading speed as well.  Click More , on the far right of the toolbar, and then click Settings to open Read&Write’s Settings window. On the left of the window, click Speech, which contains settings that control how Read&Write speaks. Select a different voice from the Voice dropdown list. The list contains all the voices available to you.
Step 5	Use the Speed slider to change reading speed. When you are done making your selections, you can exit out of the window and your changes will be saved.

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

This tutorial shows you how to create a discussion forum post including a video.

Click the Video Icon to either upload a video you have recorded or record a video using your computer's webcam and microphone. (If you do not have one of these devices they can be borrowed from the Holt Library). 

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

This tutorial shows you how to add a YouTube video to an assignment submission.

Please note: To do this, your instructor must set the submission settings on the assignment to allow for a video submission.

Adding a YouTube Video to a Forum discussion

Step 1	Navigate to the forum in the course and click on the name of the assignment. On the resulting screen, click Add Discussion topic.
Step 2	On the resulting screen, under Online text, click on the Yuja Video icon in the text editor bar.
Step 3	The media chooser will pop up. If you haven’t already added the video to your Yuja library, select Upload Media.   Select the URL tab and then the YouTube tab.
Step 4	Copy and paste the YouTube URL address into the YouTube Link field.
Step 5	After inputting the link a warning will appear asking to confirm that using an outside video will limit some Yuja features. Select Yes to use the video.
Step 6	Once you title the video, you can add a description and tags if you would like.   When done entering information select Start Upload.
Step 7	The media chooser will pop up again, showing your recent upload as the first video in the list. Select the video and click Insert Content to finish the embed.
Step 8	The video will appear embedded in the text box of the forum.   When you have adjusted any other settings required, select Save Changes and then Submit.

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

This tutorial shows you how to create a discussion forum post, including how to add images and attachments.

Please also note that there is a 15-minute delay between when you submit your post before it displays on the forum page. You can edit your post during this delay if needed.

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

Forum Email Notification Preferences

This tutorial shows you how to update your email notification preferences for forums you're subscribed to in a course. 

This tutorial shows you how to change from the default setting of receiving an email each time someone posts to a forum to which you are subscribed to a new setting of receiving an email digest (one email per day) of the posts. (If you are receiving digests and wish to receive individual posts, simply follow this tutorial but in Step 3, change your setting to "Default (No digest)".)

Step 1	In the upper right-hand corner of the screen, click on your photo (or your initials if you haven't uploaded a profile photo).
Step 2	Click on Preferences.
Step 3	In the leftmost column, click on Forum preferences.  Choose Complete posts to get a single daily email that includes all the posts made to this discussion forum. Choose Subjects only to get a single daily email that includes only the subject lines of any posts made to this discussion forum. Once you make your choice, it will save automatically, and you can update other forums on this page as well.

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

The forum activity allows students and teachers to exchange ideas by posting comments as part of a "thread." Faculty and students may receive emails when users post to the forum. If you wish to unsubscribe from these emails, please use this tutorial.

Please note: If you unsubscribe from a forum but then post to it again, you will automatically be resubscribed to the forum. To avoid being resubscribed, you can click on the Use advanced editor and additional options link, then choose I don't want to be notified of new posts in this forum in the drop-down menu under Subscription before posting.

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