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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. Be sure to include the course number if applicable!

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.

CIT creates a new instance of Moodle for every semester, which you can find listed at courses.hope.edu. There, you will also find listed one instance of Moodle that doesn't change from semester to semester, groups.hope.edu. This instance contains "courses" that are used to organize student organizations, student employee training, committees, study groups, and other things that don't belong to just one semester. Request a new course on groups.hope.edu by putting in a CIT work order.

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.

Cloning Courses

You have the ability to back up the entirety of a Moodle course as one downloaded file, then restore it to another course. This is useful for moving from semester to semester, or for sharing previous courses with colleagues.

Video walkthrough for cloning a Moodle course Written instructions for cloning a Moodle course

CIT is happy to provide extra help if you need it. Email us with the course numbers if you would like assistance (for example: "Clone Econ-403-01 Spring 2022 to Econ-403-01 Fall 2022").

Other How Tos

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 or other participants in your course
Add a live Google Doc
Great for updating your syllabi or other documents on-the-fly. When in Google Drive, changes that you make to a Google Doc are seen immediately, without needing to re-upload an edited file.
Configuring restricted browser settings for quizzes, tests and exams
Insert a video from Google Drive
Change the course format to "Weekly" or "Topic"
Make your course available to students
Gradebook Import and Export
Moodle Basics Videos by Beth Trembley