- Using the on-line Course Materials site (Moodle) -- Q & A for Professors
- New for Fall 2011
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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?
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Posting documents, managing files and folders, making files and folders available to students.
- How do I post documents or files?
- 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?
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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?
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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?
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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?