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Screencast showing how to “Add resource: link to a file” in Moodle, including file upload into file area

2012/02/23 Leave a comment

If you do not know how to make an MS-Word or audio or other file  accessible to your course through Moodle, you can view a demo here.  

Categories: audience-is-teachers, documentation, e-infrastructure, lms Tags: ,

How to identify graded participants in Moodle Course Activity Reports using Vlookup

2012/02/23 Leave a comment
  1. Having a chart of full names, Moodle id # and usernames would be useful (e.g. for debugging with the Activity Reports that in some cases do not resolve Moodle id# so Excel vlookup has to rescue the day once again…)
  2. The Moodle “Participants” affords the instructor a convenient list, with paging, sort, filter (by role), and different detail-level views.
  3. However, the overview does link course and student id #, but not institutional username while the detail view contain the username as part of the email, but is not truly tabular (consists of an array of tables, each containing one user; at least you can avoid the paging).
  4. Enter grepwin to extract the emails:

    grep-emails

  5. and copy paste them into the Excel created from the tabular overview:
  6. lookupIs there an easier way?
Categories: lms, service-is-testing-troubleshooting-debugging Tags: , , , , , , ,

Protected: Moodle streaming video recording assignment glitches 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8: A running log

2012/02/21 Enter your password to view comments.

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Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, audience-is-teachers, documentation, e-languages, Glitches&Errors, iMacs, Learning-logs, lms, multimedia-recording, service-is-documenting Tags: , , , , ,

Protected: Moodle-Kaltura webcam recording assignment results

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Categories: assessments, assignments, audience-is-teachers, Beginner, e-languages, German, iMacs, lms, multimedia-recording, Practice&Demos, Speaking, Videos Tags: ,

How to navigate your Moodle gradebook more easily by hiding columns

2012/02/09 Leave a comment
  1. Clicking on the minus-icon next to aggregate columns will hide the assignments in this category; clicking the plus-icon will unhide:gradebook-minus-plus-icons-marked
  2. before (wide) italian-moodle-gradebook-collapse-columns0
  3. after (narrow, better overview) italian-moodle-gradebook-collapse-columns1
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How a teacher creates a Moodle file upload assignment for writing

2012/01/30 1 comment
  1. In your Moodle course, turn editing on, choose Assignment: Advanced upload of files (required for response file from teacher). 
  2. Provide name and instructions. Choose the desired options (uploading one file is enough):w-2
  3. A gradebook column will be automatically created, and will be initially empty.w0c-gb-whole
  4. Instruct your students how to take the MS-Word upload assignment, and when (if you leave the default availability/due date on, the assignment will automatically appear in their Moodle Calendar, and can appear in their Ninermail calendar).
Categories: audience-is-teachers, documentation, lms, service-is-learning-materials-creation, Writing Tags: , ,

How to bypass a Moodle Popup Window when using Respondus lockdown browser

2012/01/24 Leave a comment
  1. Problem: when starting the Moodle Lockdown browser to take an online exam, it opens with a popup window about messages. Popup window prevents access to the underlying main Moodle browser window (and exam). When closing the popup window, the entire lockdown browser closes, including main Moodle browser window. CIMG0088
  2. Cause: Moodle can be configured to show a notification window when messages have arrived since your last login. This notification window has poor compatibility with the lockdown browser.
  3. Workaround: In the popup window, click on the tab: “Settings” and uncheck (at least for this exam session) the checkbox to show the  message box as a popup when logging in. Close the popup window. CIMG0089
  4. Result: Even if this closes the main Moodle browser window once again, when you start the Moodle Lockdown browser again, the popup window will not appear again, and you can take your exam.
Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-teachers, e-learning, Glitches&Errors, lms Tags: , ,

How to enforce deadlines on your language syllabus using Moodle

2012/01/23 1 comment
  1. Experience seems to make teachers much prefer if students “try and fight with the computer over deadlines”, or rather spend their time studying instead of arguing about excuses why not study (“Dog ate my homework"- syndrome).
  2. When you create a Moodle assignment, in each assignment type you will find a fields that allow you to create a time window
    1. before
    2. and after which the assignment is not available to students.
  3. For easier remembering, assignments with deadlines
    1. automatically appear in the Moodle Calendar
    2. and can be made to automatically show in the NINERMAIL calendar
  4. Hint: provide some extra credit to ease the pain of learning how to meet deadlines which are a requirement for progression in learning a language, especially when not doing independent study, but interacting within a cohort.
    1. Suggested: “Best 3 out of 5” for first-time users, “4 out of 5” for tech-savvy.
Categories: audience-is-teachers, e-languages, lms Tags: , ,