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Index
Contents Page
Introduction to Moodle 3
How to sign in Moodle 4
How to edit profile and change password 6
Moodle Home Page Structure 7
Accessing your Courses 8
Course Page in Moodle 9
Introduction of Blocks 10
Navigation Block 10
Administration Block 11
How to Add Block to Course Page 12
Blocks Types 13
Course Page Settings 14
Adding Content to Course 20
The “Add an activity or resource” menu 21
Assignment Activity 22
Chat Activity 30
Forum Activity 34
Lesson Activity 42
Quiz Activity 52
Feedback Activity 62
Introduction of Resource Files, Folders, Book, Label 68
How to add Book 69
How to add Folder 69
How to add Label 70
How to add Files 71
How to Upload PowerPoint 73
How to Import Question into Quiz 77
How to Upload Video 78
Note: Teachers who cannot log in to Moodle should contact the IT Department (Room
No 646).
To log out of Moodle, in the user menu at the top-right of the page click Log out.
Note: Be sure to quit your browser after you log out, especially if you are using a
public or shared computer.
Step2.Your preference page opens and here you can change and edit your settings
1 Link for your profile page there you can edit your profile and change
password
2 Important link button for student
3 Navigation Block contains links for Moodle pages which includes
Dashboard, My Home, Site Pages, and Courses.
Blocks
Blocks are items which may be added to the left or right or center column of any
page in Moodle. Usually blocks show information from course page or from
external web site such as twitter.
Each course page has standard blocks which you can add or delete them later.
Blocks Types
1) Navigation Block
2) Administration Block
Navigation Block
It appears in each Moodle page and it contains links for various parts of Moodle
Administration Block
It provides links for settings pages in Moodle.
Adding Blocks
Step4. You can edit block’s settings if needed by clicking on setting icon.
Blocks Types
Calendar Block
This block displays a copy of the current calendar month and shows range of
colorful events as a reminder. All course events automatically appear in the
calendar, for example, when you set a day for submitting the assignment activity,
this date will appear as a course event in the calendar.
Activities Block
The Activities block lists all activities and resources of the current course and
allows navigation between the different activities available in your course
(Forums, Quizzes, Assignments, Lesson module and so forth). The activities list
will grow as you add activities to your course. When clicking on the Resource link,
the block will display a list of all resources added in your course. See the next
figure.
Course Settings
Instructors have the ability to change course settings if they are not satisfied with
default settings that were completed in initial set up of the course. Course
settings include the layout of the course page, start date of course, availability to
the students etc.
1. General
2. Description
3. Course format
4. Appearance
5. Files and uploads
6. Groups
1)General Settings
1 You can edit Course full and short name
2 This setting determines year of course
3 This setting determines whether the course appears in the list of courses.
Apart from teachers and administrators, users are not allowed to enter
the course if this setting set to hide.
4 This setting determines the start of a course in topic format.
5 The ID number of a course is only used when matching the course against
external systems and is not displayed anywhere on the site.
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2)Description
3)Course Format
4)Appearance
This setting determines the largest size of file that can be uploaded to the course.
6)Groups
The “Add an activity or resource” menu allows you to add assignments, forums, chat, survey,
feedback, chat, virtual class room, SCROM Packages for power point slides, Book, Files, Folder
and more.
Assignment Activity
The Assignment activity lets instructors communicate tasks, collect work, set
due dates, and provide feedback and grades.
Step1. On your course page, click Turn editing on (top right). Editing icons
and links will appear.
Setp2. Locate the Section where you want to add the assignment. (If you
are using the collapsed topics format, open the Section.)
Step3. At the bottom-right of the Section, click + Add an activity or
resource. The Activity Chooser will open.
Step4. In the Activity Chooser, select Assignment and click Add. The Adding
a new Assignment page will open.
Step5. Configure the assignment options. The page opens
with General, Availability and Submission type settings in view. Click topic
headings to make additional settings for submission types, grading, groups,
etc., or click Expand all (top right) to view all possible settings. Click Save
and return to course to return to your main course page, or Save and
display to view the assignment page.
Assignment Options
1)General Settings
Description (optional)
Enter a summary of the assignment and instructions. You can also Display
description on course page. Select this option to display the description
underneath the assignment link on your course page. (This works best if the
description is very concise).
Additional files
Drag and drop files into the upload field to append the file to the
assignment Description.
2)Availability
Select Enable checkboxes to set a date and time for:
Due date
Determines when the assignment will be due. The due date will show in the
course Calendar and within the Activities Block.
Cut-off date
Determine when the assignment will no longer accept submissions.
3)Submission Types
Submission types
With Online text, students can enter text directly into an editor. If File
submissions are enabled, students can upload one or more files.
Note: To create an offline assignment where students will submit or perform
work outside Moodle, leave both Online text and File submissions unchecked. You
can still provide a description, set due dates and have the activity show in the
course Calendar and Gradebook.
4)Feedback Types
Feedback comments
If enabled, graders can provide written feedback for each submission. These
comments are from the grader to the student.
Feedback files
If enabled, graders can upload files containing feedback when marking
assignments. For example, you can upload marked up student submissions,
documents with comments, or spoken audio feedback.
Comment inline
If enabled, the submission text will be copied into the feedback comment field
during grading, making it easier to comment inline or to edit the original text.
5)Submission Settings
Attempts reopened
If set to Manually, the student's submission can be reopened by a teacher. If set
to Automatically until pass, the student's submission is automatically reopened
until the student achieves a passing grade (defined under Grade).
Maximum attempts
The maximum number of submission attempts that can be made by a student.
After this number of attempts has been made, the student's submission will not
be able to be reopened.
7)Notifications
8)Grade
Grade
Select the Grade Type:
None - The assignment will be ungraded and worth no points.
Point - Grade out of a simple number of maximum points. Enter the maximum
possible score for the assignment in the Maximum points field.
Scale - Select a preset or custom Scale from the Scale drop-down.
Grading method
Choose Simple direct grading, Rubric or Grading guide to grade the assignment.
Grade category
Select a Category in your gradebook under which you would like the assignment
grade to be placed.
Blind grading
If enabled, instructors and TAs will not see student names when grading
submissions.
Use grading workflow
When enabled, grading an assignment goes through a series of workflow
stages: Not graded, in grading, Grading completed, in review, Ready for
release, and Released.
Visibility to students
Set whether or not an assignment is visible to students. By default, new
assignments are set to Show.
ID number
Setting an ID number identifies the activity for grade calculation purposes.
Group mode, grouping
These options let you restrict the assignment to particular groups of students you
have already created in Moodle.
10)Restrict Access
Use Restrict Access settings with care and check for conflicts with other settings
you may have made for the activity. Settings may prevent students from accessing
restricted content, including grades and due dates.
To add restrictions on accessing the activity, click Add restriction... The Add
restriction window will open, containing the following options:
Date. Prevent access until (or from) a specified date and time.
Grade. Require students to achieve a specified grade.
User profile. Control access based on fields within the student’s profile.
Restriction set. Add a set of nested restrictions to apply complex logic.
If you have groups in your course, you will see the following additional options:
Group. Allow or prevent access only students who belong to a specified group, or
all groups.
Grouping. Allow or prevent access only students who belong to a group within a
specified grouping.
Edit an Assignment
While it is possible to edit the content or setup options for an existing assignment,
proceed with caution if the assignment has already been released to students --
especially if students have already submitted work. Changing some options, such
as changing participants when working with groups, may result in student
confusion and the loss of work that has already been submitted.
To change the content or options for an assignment you have already created:
Chat Activity
The Chat activity allows course members to hold real-time, text-based
conversations with other course members.
1. In the Chat sessions section, from the Next chat time drop-down menu,
select a specific date and hour for students to meet.
2. Next, from the Repeat/publish session times drop-down menu, select
whether and how often the chat will repeat. You can publish repeating
session times daily or weekly, or not at all.
Note: Setting a date and time is optional and will not restrict access to the
chat at other times; it will add the Chat to the course Calendar block, and let
your students know when they can expect to find others in the chat room.
3. From the Save past sessions drop-down menu, select how long chat logs will
be preserved in the archive. By default, this is set to Never delete
messages.
4. To allow students to view chat logs, select Yes from the Everyone can view
past sessions drop-down menu. This will allow everyone in the course to
review the text entered into the chat stream (whether or not they attended
a session). When set to No (default), only instructors and TAs will have
access to the logs for the chat room.
5. Under Common module settings you can assign the Chat activity to groups.,
6. The Restrict access area lets you set conditions for student access to
the Chat activity, either by date or by prerequisite.
Note: During periods when access is restricted, the activity is completely
hidden from students, on the course page, in the gradebook, and in the
course Calendar.
7. Click Save and return to course. Or, to open the chat room directly,
click Save and display.
1. On your course page, click the link of the Chat activity. The Chat page
opens, showing the description and a list of links.
2. Click View past chat sessions. The Chat sessions page opens showing a list
of sessions and participants with a count of how many messages each
participant sent. The sessions are listed in reverse-chronological order, with
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4. To view a particular session, click See this session (at right). A log will open
showing the exchange of messages between participants.
4. browser typically saves downloads. You can view the file in a browser, or
open it in a word processing application such as MS Word.
5. To return to the previous page after downloading, click Return to where
you were.
6. To return to the Chat sessions page, click Continue.
Forum
Instructors and students can communicate and collaborate using Moodle Forums.
Instructors can create discussion topics or, depending on the forum type, allow
students to originate topics. Course members can then post replies, and subscribe
if they want to receive an email copy of each post made to a particular forum.
Forum Types
There are multiple forum types in Moodle. Some forum types allow only the
instructor to start a new topic, and others allow students to start new topics.
Choose the type of forum that makes sense for the activity you are asking your
students to do:
Q and A forum
An instructor posts one topic, for example, posing a question to students. Students
must post their response before they can view other students’ responses.
1)General
Forum name (required)
This name displays as a link to the forum on your course page. Use something
unique that clearly identifies this forum from other course activities. We also
recommend keeping the name short.
Description (required)
Explain the purpose of the forum to your students. For example, you might
describe how often students should post, how many posts and replies they should
make, and/or the expectations about post content. The Description will be visible
to students when they click the forum link.
Forum type
Select a forum type from the drop-down menu. The default is Standard forum for
general use.
Subscription mode
Subscription mode is set to Optional subscription by default (recommended). This
allows students to choose to subscribe to the forum and receive an email copy of
each post made. Other choices are:
2)RSS
Aggregate type
The aggregate type defines how ratings are combined to form the final grade in
the gradebook. Choose from one of the following options in the Aggregate
type drop-down menu:
Average of ratings - The mean of all ratings.
Count of ratings - The number of rated items becomes the final grade. Note that
the total cannot exceed the maximum grade for the activity.
Maximum - The highest rating becomes the final grade.
Minimum - The smallest rating becomes the final grade.
Sum - All ratings are added together. Note that the total cannot exceed the
maximum grade for the activity.
Note: If No ratings is selected, then the activity will not appear in the gradebook.
Scale
If an aggregate type has been selected, you may select the type of grading used
for this activity. If Scale is chosen, you can then choose the scale from
the Scale drop-down menu. If using Point grading, you can then enter the
maximum grade available for this activity.
Visible
Set whether or not an assignment is visible to students. By default, new
assignments are set to Show.
ID number
Setting an ID number identifies the activity for grade calculation purposes. Group
mode and Grouping
These options let you restrict the assignment to particular groups of students you
have already created in Moodle.
Restrict Access
To add restrictions on accessing the activity, click Add restriction. The Add
restriction window will open, containing the following options:
Date. Prevent access until (or from) a specified date and time.
Grade. Require students to achieve a specified grade.
User profile. Control access based on fields within the student’s profile.
Restriction set. Add a set of nested restrictions to apply complex logic.
If you have groups in your course, you will see the following additional options:
Group. Allow only students who belong to a specified group, or all groups.
Grouping. Allow only students who belong to a group within a specified grouping.
1. Click the link to the forum activity (not the edit icon, but the link to open
the forum). The Forum page will open, showing the description you
provided when you set up the activity. If no topics or posts have been
added, you see "There are no discussion topics yet in this forum."
2. If working with groups in the forum:
To post a topic that will be visible to all groups to read, but to which
only a particular group can reply, the Group mode for the forum must
be set to Visible (on the Settings page for the forum), and on
the Forum page, from the Groups drop-down menu (at top of page),
select the group name.
To post the same topic for all groups, leave the Groups menu set
to All participants.
3. Click Add a new discussion topic (for a Q & A forum click Add a new
question). The Your new discussion topic page will open.
4. Enter a subject and a message (both required).
5. If subscription is set to Optional in the forum's settings, select
the Discussion subscription check box to receive email copies of posts
made to this forum. (This will affect you, not your students.)
6. You may choose to add an attachment.
7. Select the Mail now checkbox if you do not want the standard 30-minute
delay before subscribers receive an email.
8. Click Post to forum to post your message.
9. Click Continue to return to the Forum page. Your discussion topic will be
listed, and course members will now be able to reply.
10.Once replies have been made, click the link to the topic to view replies or
add additional replies to the thread. (If read tracking is enabled, the
number of unread posts will be indicated and links highlighted.)
Lesson Activity
The lesson module presents a series of HTML pages to the student who is usually
asked to make some sort of choice underneath the content area. The choice will
send them to a specific page in the Lesson. In a Lesson page's simplest form, the
student can select a continue button at the bottom of the page, which will send
them to the next page in the Lesson.
With the editing turned on, in the section you wish to add your lesson, click
the "Add an activity or resource" link (or, if not present, the "Add an activity"
drop down menu) and choose Lesson All settings may expanded by clicking the
"Expand all" link top right.
1.General
Name
Whatever you type here will form the link learners click on to view the lesson so it
is helpful to give it a name that suggests its purpose.
Description
Add a description of your lesson here.
2.Appearance
(These settings are collapsed by default)
File pop
If you want to include a link to a file on the lesson page for students to refer to,
upload it here.
Progress bar
Choose this to show a bar at the bottom of the page showing how far into the
lesson the student has got.
For lessons containing only Content pages, once a lesson has been taken to
the end, if that same lesson is re-taken, the progress bar will not be "reset",
i.e. it will show a 100% progress from page 1!
For lessons containing Question pages and set to "Re-take" Yes, the progress
bar is always "reset" at 0% upon re-take.
Note that the Lesson Progress bar only works correctly for lessons with a
"straightforward" navigation, such as page 1 -> page 2 -> page n -> end of
lesson. It is not guaranteed to work with pages "jumping all over the place".
Slideshow
Slideshow height, width and background colour are set for the whole site by an
administrator in Settings > Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules >
Lesson.
3.Availability
(These settings are collapsed by default)
Available from/Deadline
Here you can set a start and end date and time for your Lesson.
Time limit
This allows you to set a time limit on the lesson which can now be seconds,
minutes, hours, days or weeks. Students will see a countdown counter in a block
as they work.
The timer does not stop them doing the lesson when the time is up, but correct
answers are no longer scored.
Change to "Yes" and enter the password if you want students only to access it
when they know the password.
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Prerequisite lesson
Note: You will only see this setting if you have a course with prerequisite
lessons upgraded from an earlier version of Moodle.
You will see a warning that prerequisites are due to be removed completely.
Please use access restrictions instead. See Conditional activities for more
information.
4.Flow control
(These settings are collapsed by default)
Decide here how many times you want students to be able to attempt
each question. When they reach the maximum, they will be taken
automatically to the next page.
When 'provide an option to try again' is set to No, students will be able
to retake the question as many times as it is set here, with a score
penalty.
When 'provide an option to try again' is set to Yes, then students will be
able to retake the question as many times as it set here without a score
penalty. In this case an extra dialogue appears.
Consequently, when the relevant jump 'this page' is used in wrong answer
while the 'provide an option to try again' is set to No and 'maximum
number of attempts' is set to 1, a student that will answer wrongly will be
moved into the next page, since he/she has the change to try the question
just once.
Tip: Ensure you check lesson using a real student account, as the teacher
preview or the 'switch role to student' may not give you the exact picture.
5.Grade
(These settings are collapsed by default.)
Custom Scoring
Use this to give a particular number score (negative or positive) to each
answer
Re-takes allowed
Choose this if you want your students to be able to do the lesson more
than once.
Note that this setting only applies to lessons containing Question pages.
Lessons consisting only of Content pages can be re-taken even if 'Re-takes
allowed' is set to No.
Handling of re-take
If you allow your students to re-take the lesson, then decide here if the
grade for all lesson attempts is the mean or the maximum.
Note that the Question Analysis always uses the answers from the first tries
of the lesson. Re-takes by students are ignored.
Quiz
The Quiz activity module allows the teacher to design and build quizzes consisting
of a large variety of Question types, including multiple choice, true-false, short
answer and drag and drop images and text. These questions are kept in
the Question bank and can be re-used in different quizzes.
Step2. Within the required Week or Topic section, click Add an Activity or
Resource link.
1 Name: - Enter the quiz name which will appear on the course
page to the students as link
2 Description: Write description of the quiz that defines the
purpose of the quiz and provide instructions to the students
or background information, links etc.
3 Display description on course page: If ticked, the quiz
description will appear on the course page directly under the
quiz name.
1 Open the Quiz: this setting allows you to specify times (date and hour)
when the quiz is accessible for students to make attempts
2 Close the quiz after the closing time, the students will not be able to start
new attempts.
3 Time limit enabled, the time limit is stated on the initial quiz page and a
countdown timer is displayed in the quiz navigation block. By default,
quizzes do not have a time limit, which allows students as much time as
they need to complete the quiz.
4 When time expires: There are three options as to what will happen
when the time limit is up.
Choose the one you need from the dropdown menu:
1. Open attempts are submitted automatically (This is the default)
2. There is a grace period when open attempts can be submitted, but no
more questions answered
3. Attempts must be submitted before time expires, or they are not
counted. If you choose this setting, then students who failed to submit
will not be graded.
5 if you select "There is a grace period..." then you can check the box to
enable the "Submission grace period" and specify a period of time
during which learners may still submit the quiz after the time is up.
1 Shuffle within questions: If set to 'yes', the parts making up each question
will be randomly shuffled each time a student attempts the quiz,
provided the option is also enabled in the question settings. This setting
only applies to questions that have multiple parts, such as multiple
choice or matching questions.
2 How questions behave: this setting determines how the students
interact with the questions in quiz.
o 'Deferred feedback' mode: you may wish the students to enter an
answer to each question and then submit the entire quiz, before
anything is graded or they get any feedback.
o 'Interactive with multiple tries' mode: you may wish for students to
submit each question as they go along to get immediate feedback, and if
they do not get it right immediately, they will have another try for fewer
marks.
o Immediate feedback: Similar to interactive mode in that the student
can submit their response immediately during the quiz attempt, and get
it graded. However, they can only submit one response, they cannot
change it later.
3 Allow redo within an attempt: if enabled, then when students have
finished attempting particular question, they will see a Redo question
button. This allows them to attempt another version of the same
question, without having to submit the entire quiz attempt and start
another one.
4 If multiple attempts are allowed and “Each attempt build on last” setting is
enabled, each new quiz attempt will contain the results of the previous
attempt. This allows a quiz to be completed over several attempts.
1 Show the user's picture If enabled, the student's name and picture will be
shown on-screen during the attempt
2 Decimal places in grades This setting specifies the number of digits shown
after the decimal point when displaying grades.
3 Decimal places in question grades this setting specifies the number of
digits shown after the decimal point when displaying the grades for
individual questions.
4 Show blocks during quiz attempts If set to yes then normal blocks will be
shown during quiz attempts
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1 Require password: you can set a password for the quiz; a student
must enter it in order to attempt the quiz.
2 Require network address: Quiz access may be restricted to particular
subnets on the LAN or Internet by specifying a comma-separated list
of partial or full IP address numbers.
3 Enforced delay between attempts: You can set a time (from seconds
to weeks) between the first and second attempt of a quiz.
4 You can also (or alternatively) set a time from seconds to weeks for
subsequent attempts after the second attempt. Thus, you might allow
a student to take the quiz twice immediately with no delay, but if they
want to improve their score with a third attempt, they are forced to
wait a week and use the time for extra revision.
5 Browser security: If "Full screen pop-up with some JavaScript
security" is selected,
o the quiz will only start if the student has a JavaScript-enabled
web-browser
o the quiz appears in a full screen popup window that covers all
the other windows and has no navigation controls Students are
prevented, as far as is possible, from using facilities like copy
and paste
9)Overall Feedback:
Overall feedback is text that is shown after a quiz has been attempted. By
specifying additional grade boundaries (as a percentage or as a number), the text
shown can depend on the grade obtained.
Feedback
The Feedback module allows you to create and conduct surveys to collect
feedback. The Feedback activity is ideal for the likes of course or teacher
evaluations.
2) Availability:
Here you can choose when students can complete feedback. Select the
Enable check boxes and select date, month, year, hour and minutes into the
Allow answers from and the Allow answers to fields.
4)After submission:
The Edit questions page is where you create questions for your Feedback
activity and decide on the layout for your survey.
Create Questions
1) Click on the newly created Feedback link
3) On the Edit questions page, select a question type and complete the
resulting page as appropriate
Resource
A resource is an item that a teacher can use to support learning, such as a file or
link. Moodle supports a range of resource types which teachers can add to their
courses. In edit mode, a teacher can add resources via a drop down menu.
Resources appear as a single link with an icon in front of it that represents the
type of resource.
Note: - over-use of multimedia (sound, video) in labels can slow down the loading
of a course page so always add video in lesson activity.
First Method:
Drag the file and drop it in the required section.
Second Method:
3. Within the required Week or Topic section click Add Activity or Resource link.
4. In the “add an activity or resource window” scroll down to Resource option and
select file then click add.
5. In the file setting page add the file settings and press save button.
4. Click Publish.
5. Choose the file format (Flash or HTML5), check “Generate SCORM 1.2 Compliant
course” and click Publish.
Example: