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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...

Assessing Student Learning with Core 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...

Helping 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 to get started If you are not familiar with the process to create a quiz in Moodle, you can watch the Quizzing in Moodle...

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 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

Instructors can create activities or resources and make them available but hidden from students and then link to those activities/resources.

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?

Overview of H5P

H5P is a tool in Moodle that allows you to create interactive content and activities for quick, low-stakes knowledge checks and practice. This 30-minute session...

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...

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 covers basic steps for creating an online course at NC State. The resources will help you incorporate some best practices and instructional design...

Exam Best Practices

Unmonitored Assessments If possible, use alternative authentic assessments to assess your students in an unmonitored setting rather than using an exam. If your exams are...

Real-time Assessments and Check-ins

Great teachers understand that learning is a conversation, not a monologue.  – Sir Ken Robinson Simple and quick, real-time assessments and check-ins are excellent tools...