Setting up a Moodle Course

Objectives: 

• At the end of this module you will be able to add an assignment to each of your topic sessions.

• Configure your assignments so that they:

• Are completed in a certain time frame

• Run sequentially

• Can only be completed once the previous assignment has been completed.

Activities are interactive tools used to engage students in learning and assess their progress.

Moodle includes forums, assignments, and quizzes, along with collaborative activities such as wikis, glossaries, and databases. Other activities facilitate taking attendance and group self-selection to help manage your course.

Activities appear on your course page as a link proceeded by an icon indicating the activity type. The activity settings let you control conditions for submitting, grading, and assignment to groups. Activities can be graded, added, moved, hidden, and edited.

The ones we are going to go through will be Assignments, Turnitin, Glossary, Quiz, Group Self Selection.

You can have them:

• Submit files or enter content into a text box.
• Assign "offline" work not submitted through Moodle (but that can be graded in Moodle).
• Exchange comments with individual students about their submissions, grade (with the option to use a Rubric, Grading guide or Simple direct grading), and leave written feedback.