• Using the on-line Course Materials site (Moodle) -- Q & A for Professors
  • New for Fall 2011

  • Basic Information
  • How do I get started?
  • What do the icons mean?
  • How do I get HELP !!!!?
  • How do I use the Easy Posting Program?
  • How do I Duplicate a Course?
  • How do I navigate around my course site?

  • Posting documents, managing files and folders, making files and folders available to students.
  • How do I post documents or files?
    • How do I post a file using the Easy Posting utility?
    • Posting files using the Moodle utility
  • How do I change (edit, delete, update) a posted document?
  • Can I post copyrighted material?
  • How can I post photos to my course page?
  • Do things have to be posted multiple times for different section?
  • Should I use a meta course?
  • How can I change the name of a file I have already posted?
  • Can I save time and organize posted files with folders?
  • Can I post multiple files at the same time?

  • Controlling access to my course
  • How can prospective students see course materials?
  • What can others see?
  • How can I add student helpers, discussant colleagues, visitors, and other students to my course?
  • How can I allow guests to access my course?

  • Activities, Resources, Settings
  • How do I make links in my course to resources on the Internet?
  • Can I post a movie or audio clip in the Moodle program?
  • What is the difference between a resource and an activity?
  • How do I change the look or the language for my course?
  • When I click on a different term, why do I have to log in again?
  • Why can’t I see my courses for the next term?
  • Which should I use, a blog, forum, discussion, chat, wiki, assignment, or quiz?
  • Should I use Moodle messaging or the Eckerd email system to email students?
  • Is the Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Chrome browser better for Moodle?
  • Why don't the start and end dates in the site correspond to the actual course dates?
  • How do I set up an on-line quiz?
  • How do I have students submit written assignments on Moodle?

  • Grades
  • Should I use the Moodle grade book?
  • What are grade book categories and items?
  • How are averages calculated in the grade book?
  • Can one student see another student's grades?
  • How do I hide grade averages from student view?
  • Some squares in my grade book are brown. What does this mean?
  • Will the grades in my course site transfer automatically into the official grades?
  • Can I export grades to a spreadsheet?
  • Can I upload grades from a spreadsheet into the Moodle grade book?
  • How can I display letter rather than number grades?