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Best Practices for Designing Your Moodle Course

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/best-practices-for-designing-your-moodle-course/ What does a well-designed course look like in Moodle?

Why Gamify Your Moodle Course?

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/why-gamify-your-moodle-course/ Overview Gamification is the practice of introducing principles and design concepts from games into non-game environments to increase participation, engagement, and performance. The Gamification Plugin...

Group Work in Moodle

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/group-work-in-moodle/ Moodle Basics Series Learner-to-learner interactions can impact student success in a course and in their future endeavors. Group work encourages diverse perspectives, fosters creativity, and...

Use Moodle Checklists to Help Students Get Organized and Track Progress

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/moodle-checklist/ How can you help students plan for completing course tasks? The Checklist activity is a tool in Moodle that can be used to help students...

Assessing Student Learning with Core Moodle Tools

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/assess-with-moodle-tools/ Moodle Basics Series Assessment and feedback are a critical part of the teaching and learning process. You might want to create a low-stakes assessment that...

Help Students Stay Organized in Moodle

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/help-students-stay-organized/ How can you help reduce student frustration and stress in your Moodle course? By providing clear explanations and lists to help students stay organized, instructors...

Gamify Your Moodle Course

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/gamify/ Gamification can be a great way to strengthen self-regulation and engagement

Promoting Academic Integrity in Moodle Quizzes

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/quiz-academic-integrity/ How can you configure your online quizzes and exams to make them more secure? While there is no silver bullet to defeat all types of...

Finding and Teaching with Digital Library Resources in Moodle

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/digital-library-resources-in-moodle/ There are different strategies for finding resources that work for your classes and then integrating them into Moodle to provide easy access for you and your students.

Customize Learning Experiences for Students: Moodle Lesson Activity

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/moodle-lesson/ The Moodle Lesson Activity allows instructors to create branching exercises where students are presented with content and then, depending on their responses or choices, are directed to the next stage of the lesson.

Moodle Gradebook: Basic Setup, Display and Functionality

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/moodle-gradebook/ The Moodle gradebook is a tool that allows instructors to enter grades for course activities and to view a summary of their students’ grades in one place.

Moodle Course Roadmap Overview

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/moodle-roadmap-overview/ Roadmap is a Moodle activity you can build into your course to provide students with an interactive visualization of course activities and assessments.

Stealth Activities in Moodle

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/stealth-activities-in-moodle/ Instructors can create activities or resources and make them available but hidden from students and then link to those activities/resources.

Customize Learning Experiences for Students: Moodle Activity Completion and Restricting Access

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/custom-learning-moodle-activity-completion-restrict-access/ Using the Moodle “Activity Completion” and “Restrict Access” features with content and activities can help students progress through a course while keeping track of their proficiency and completion at different points.

Tips for Organizing Your Moodle Course

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/organizing-your-moodle-course/ How can you organize the layout of your Moodle course so that students can focus their energy on learning?

Google Assignments in Moodle

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/google-assignments/ With Google Assignments, you can collect assignments and give feedback by integrating Google Drive and Moodle. What does this mean? You can harness Google’s rich...

Using H5P Interactive Content in Moodle

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/h5p-interactive-content/ H5P allows you to create a variety of tasks to provide interactive content delivery and quick knowledge checks alongside your course content within Moodle.

Get Your Students Talking Online

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/get-your-students-talking-online/ Workshop Information If there are no workshops available, you may request an instructional consultation about this topic. Interactions between students are a valuable part of...

Micro-Learning with Videos and Multimedia

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/micro-learning-with-videos-and-multimedia/ Workshop Links If there are no available workshops, you can request an instructional consultation about this topic. Over the past few years, teaching practices and...

Step-by-Step Online Course Space Creation Guide

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/step-by-step-online-course-creation-2/ This guide conveys our recommended approach to setting up a basic course in Moodle at NC State. These suggestions and resources will help you incorporate...

VoiceThread: Interactive Presentations and Student Discussions

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/voicethread/ Workshop Links If there are no workshops available, you may request an instructional consultation about this topic. VoiceThread is an asynchronous multimedia slideshow tool that...

Ungrading Toolkit: Learning vs. Earning

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/ungrading-toolkit/ Ungrading is a movement to reduce or eliminate the role of grades in formal learning environments. Ungrading shifts the focus from traditional grades to self-monitoring...

How To Choose and Assess a Learning Tool

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/choose-and-assess-learning-tools/ Selecting and evaluating a learning tool requires careful consideration. It involves various steps, such as choosing instructional tools that align with your goals for student...

Make Your Course More Mobile-Friendly

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/mobile-friendly-course/ With more students using smartphones and tablets to access their courses through the NC State Moodle mobile app, it’s crucial to design your content with...

Make A More Student-Friendly Gradebook

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/student-friendly-gradebook/ Students monitor their performance based on feedback in order to reflect and grow, a process that is part self-regulated learning (Pintrich, 2004). As the Moodle...

Digital Accessibility Guide

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/digital-accessibility-guide/ About this guide Use this guide to make make images, text, audio, video, and tables in your course more accessible, and to improve course readability...

Student Blogging Assignments

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/student-blogging-assignments/ Workshop Links When we think of blogs, memories of early internet diaries may come to mind. However, the evolution of this writing genre has given...

Supporting Neurodiverse Students Through Course Design

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/course-design-for-neurodiverse-students/ You’ve doubtless heard the expression “Great minds think alike,” but the reality is that great minds work in countless different ways. There is no “right”...

Get Your Students Talking with Yellowdig

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/yellowdig/ Yellowdig is an online discussion platform that puts students in the driver’s seat. It’s designed according to the Community of Inquiry framework, which highlights the...

Using ChatGPT and Generative AI for Efficient Teaching and Work

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/using-chatgpt-and-ai-for-teaching-and-work/ Generative AI tools like ChatGPT can simplify and enhance academic work by automating content creation, providing personalized feedback, writing course objectives, summarizing course content, providing...

Hybrid Teaching: Best Practices

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/hybrid-teaching-best-practices/ Overview At NC State, there are a number of course modalities offered, including in-person (aka face to face), hybrid (a mix of online and in-person...

Using Intelliboard Data to Improve Student Success

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/utilizing-data-from-intelliboard/ Overview Intelliboard is a powerful data visualization tool that gives you user-friendly reports about Moodle data. Intelliboard takes information about your online courses from Moodle...

HyFlex Teaching: Best Practices

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/hyflex-teaching-best-practices/ Overview HyFlex courses are those that provide a multimodal approach to learning, combining online and in-person students within the same course (Beatty, 2019). The term...

Elevate your Content with Universal Design for Learning

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/elevate-your-content-with-udl/ Universal Design for Learning (UDL) recognizes that learners vary along many spectra, some of which might create barriers to learning when students are only given...

Boost Motivation with Universal Design for Learning

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/boost-motivation-with-universal-design-for-learning/ Universal Design for Learning (UDL) recognizes that variability exists in student populations along many spectra, and guides the design of learning experiences that present as...

Designing Online Training

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/designing-online-training/ Training should be an ongoing process and shouldn’t stop with onboarding. Employees who receive continuous online training are more: Asynchronous training is convenient for employees....

Use a Course Map Template

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/use-a-course-map-template/ A course map is a document that is helpful in planning the structure of your course before you start to organize it in Moodle. A...

Gradescope: Streamline the Grading Experience

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/gradescope/ Gradescope is grading software that is designed to make assignment submission and grading easier. It allows instructors to create variable-length assignments (problem sets & projects)...

Perusall: Interactive Reading Assignments

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/perusall/ Workshop Links If no workshops are available, you can contact learntech@ncsu.edu to request a consultation about using Perusall in your courses. Perusall is a text-based...

Customize Learning Experiences for Students: Adaptive and Personalized Pathways

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/customize-learning-experiences/ Workshop Links Custom learning experiences for students include personalized and adaptive course activities in which students have different learning experiences based on their choices or...

Create a Class Website with WolfWare WordPress

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/wolfware-wordpress/ Workshop Links Are you interested in making a public homepage for your course or using a website for delivering instructional content? WordPress is available as...

Using Top Hat for Student Engagement

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/top-hat/ Do your students struggle to stay engaged during class? Do you want to encourage more participation, engagement and active learning, even in large courses? Top...

Mid-Semester Check-Ins

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/mid-semester-check-ins/ What are mid-semester check-ins? Mid-semester is a great time to check in with your students in order to make any adjustments or course corrections based...

Humanizing Your Online Course

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/humanizing-your-online-course/ Workshop Links “Human connection is the antidote for the emotional disruption that prevents many students from performing to their full potential and in online courses,...

Turnitin: Writing Feedback, Plagiarism Checks, and Peer Review

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/turnitin/ Turnitin is software accessed through Moodle that compares submitted written work with other sources (determined by the instructor) to look for similarities. Turnitin can also...

Create Short “Just Right” Videos for Your Course

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/just-right-videos/ When teaching online, it is essential to establish a teaching presence. This has been correlated with increased affect and motivation, a sense of classroom community,...

Common Accessibility Issues in Online Courses, and How to Fix Them

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/common-accessibility-issues/ View Our More Up-to-date Resource The information here has moved over to our online Digital Accessibility Guide. Please change your bookmarks and use that resource...

Peer Review With Digital Tools

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/peer-review-with-digital-tools/ Interactions are a key component of student learning in online and face-to-face settings including student-instructor interactions, student-content interactions, and student-student interactions. Peer review is one...

Example Courses

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/example-courses/ Have you ever wondered what a really well-designed course looks like? These NC State courses have all been certified through the nationally recognized Quality Matters...

Panopto Basics

https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/panopto-basics/ Overview Are you looking to create videos to enhance your course and improve the learning experience for your students? Panopto is an all-inclusive video management...