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Moodle Help

Looking for some Moodle how-tos? Start here! If you don't find what you need, just email cit@hope.edu or visit the Moodle help forum.

The Basics

Moodle is our system here at Hope for distributing materials to students, collecting assignments, giving out quizzes and tests, recording grades, and much more! Faculty and students are automatically added to Moodle courses when they are enrolled by the registrar. Learn more about how to set up your courses with the resources below.

Uploading Large Files to Moodle

Moodle has the ability to host Resources such as Files or URLs. For the health of the Moodle service and to help support the best user experience, we request that large files such as Videos and Audio files be uploaded to your Google Drive, and distributed via URL in Moodle. Instructions on how to use Google Drive for this are available in the Other How Tos section on this page.

Moodle Basics Videos

Moodle Basics 01 - Navigation
Moodle Basics 02 - Best Practices with Blocks
Moodle Basics 03 - Course Settings
Moodle Basics 04 - Getting Help
Moodle Basics 05 - The Announcement Forum
Moodle Basics 06 - Course Elements Editing
Moodle Basics 07 - The Text Editor
Moodle Basics 08 - Activity AutoLinking Filter
Moodle Basics 09 - Adding Images
Moodle Basics 10 - Best Practices for Audio and Video
Moodle Basics 11 - Adding Documents
Moodle Basics 12 - Looking at Moodle from Your Students' Point of View
Moodle Basics 13 - Hiding Gradebook Grades Until A Certain Date
Moodle Basics 14 - First Look at the Gradebook
Moodle Basics 15 - Weighting Items in Gradebook
Moodle Basics 16 - Adding Gradebook Categories
Moodle Basics 17 - More Fun With Gradebook Categories
Moodle Basics 18 - Weighted Grades and Categories
Moodle Basics 19 - Assure Your Grade Aggregation is "Natural"

Additional Resources from Moodle

Adding an Assignment

Adding a URL

Course Reports

Adding a Choice (Poll)

Forums

Quizzes

Adding a Book

Other How Tos

Clone a course from one semester to another
If you are teaching the same course again, you can copy the content from one semester to another. Follow this do-it-yourself guide, or email CIT with the course numbers if you have any trouble (for example: Clone Econ-403-01 S18 to Econ-403-01 F18).
Combine two sections into one Moodle (meta-course)
If you are teaching two sections of the same course and want to have them combined for the same moodle content, email CIT to request the creation of a meta course.
Enroll a TA in your course
Add a live Google Doc
Great for updating your syllabi on-the-fly, you can just make changes to a Google Doc instead of re-uploading a Word document.
Insert a video from Google Drive
Change the course format to Weekly or Topic
Make your course available to students