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Prepare Your Moodle Course for the Start of the Semester

Getting a course ready to re-teach in Moodle during a new semester involves a variety of housekeeping tasks to ensure that your semester runs smoothly for you and your students. This page lists the recommended tasks with some tips, and we have provided a convenient checklist for you to use each time you are teaching a course again in Moodle.

Step-by-Step Online Course Space Creation Guide

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...

Make A More 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...

Group Work in Moodle: Introduction and Examples

This article discusses the benefits of group work, gives guidance on what sorts of assignments and activities work well for group work, and offers some...

Assessing Student Learning with Core Moodle Tools

Assessment and feedback are critical to teaching and learning. Low-stakes assessments can be “formative,” meaning they administered before or during the learning process to guide...

Help Students Stay Organized in Moodle

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...

Promoting Academic Integrity in Moodle Quizzes

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

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

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

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

Roadmap is a Moodle activity you can build into your course to provide students with an interactive visualization of course activities and assessments.

Turnitin: Writing Feedback, Plagiarism Checks, and Peer Review

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...

Tips for 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

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

H5P allows you to create a variety of tasks to provide interactive content delivery and quick knowledge checks alongside your course content within Moodle.

Helping Students Get Started in an Online Class

First impressions make a big difference in the online classroom. How can you ensure that your online learners feel welcome in the class and that...

Academic Technology

How can you use technology effectively when designing and teaching courses? Here you’ll find workshop resources, tutorials and videos to help you implement best practices...

Step-by-Step Online Course Creation Guide

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...

Administering Online Exams

For assistance with assessment options, feel free to contact DELTA Testing Services or request a LearnTech instructional consultation. Moodle Exam Resources If you need help...

Real-time Assessments and Check-ins

Workshop Links If there are no workshops available, you may request an instructional consultation about this topic. Great teachers understand that learning is a conversation,...

Group Work With Digital Tools

Group work is one way to facilitate interaction between students, but it is often challenging for instructors. Group work can be made easier with digital...