Moodle Help

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.

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").

Special Requests for Moodle Content

Current Faculty/Staff/Student Requests

I am traveling and need access to past Moodle courses off-campus

We do not provide access as logins are restricted to campus. If immediate access is necessary, CIT staff will work with the faculty member to access the material needed.

I am on sabbatical and need access to past Moodle courses off-campus

We do not provide access as logins are restricted to campus. If immediate access is necessary, CIT staff will work with the faculty member to access the material needed.

I am working from home and need access to past Moodle courses off-campus

We do not provide access as logins are restricted to campus under normal circumstances. If approved for medical or other reasons we may open up the firewall for a brief time to allow access.

Non-Current Faculty/Staff/Student Requests

I have graduated from/left Hope and need to retrieve syllabi from past Moodle courses

We do not provide access as logins are tied to 1Hope accounts and restricted to campus. Previous students should contact the faculty member to request this. If the faculty member is no longer at Hope, they should contact the Office of the Associate Provost.

I have graduated from Hope and need to access previous work I’ve done from past Moodle courses

We do not provide access as logins are tied to 1Hope accounts and restricted to campus. Previous students should contact the faculty member and request any work.

I used to teach at Hope, and need to access materials from past Moodle courses

We do not provide access as logins are tied to 1Hope accounts and restricted to campus. All Moodle materials should be exported prior to the employee leaving Hope. Moodle functions as a Learning Management System and is not considered a historical repository.

I have a guest speaker/co-teacher in my class who should have access to Moodle

Request access from CIT, who will contact the registrar’s office for permission, so they can be tracked for evaluations purposes.

An accommodations contractor needs access to my current Moodle course

Providers contracted with DAR are approved to view Moodle courses in a tutor role. Accounts are created using their provided email addresses, and faculty members are requested to add the contractors via participants.

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