General Moodle Help
Topic outline
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Course enrolment
Student and staff enrolment in courses on Moodle.
Programme-specific
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Introductory staff training
Useful resources for staff who are completely new to Moodle
Profile
Editing your profile, uploading a picture, changing forum digest settings, editing your notification settings.
Navigation
Getting around the Moodle site using the custom drop-down menu, navigation block and "my home" page.
The dock is a completely new feature in Moodle 2. Now, if you don't want to see all the blocks in the course, you can dock them by clicking a little icon in the corner. They then move to the dock area where they hide until you need them. The great thing is you don't need to do it every time you visit your course. It remembers which blocks you docked!Logging in and navigating around Unitec's Moodle site Page
This video will show you the basics of how to log in to the new Moodle 2 and options for navigating the site
Navigation structure diagram File
This diagram is intended to help Departments and Programmes to customise their pages to support students studying with them.
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Staff Logins
Creating new staff logins, troubleshooting staff login issues, removing staff accounts on exit from Unitec.
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Student Logins
How student logins are created, troubleshooting student login issues (checking PeopleSoft information and student login status in Moodle)
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Course management
Creating, deleting, renaming courses. Archiving, resetting, importing content.
End of semester and preparing for the new semester
If your course uses automatic enrolment, the old students will be unenrolled and the new students will be enrolled during the semester break.
If you are using Moodle student artefacts for grades you will need to complete your grading before the students are unenrolled.
If you want all old student data removed and your course to be reset before the new students are enrolled, here is the process.
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Resources
Book, file, folder, IMS, label, page, URL
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Activities
Assignment, chat, choice, database, external tool, feedback, forum, glossary, hotpot, journal, lesson, questionnaire, quiz, SCORM, survey, wiki, workshop
Posts to a blog type forum are displayed like a blog with comments enabled. The first post displays as the blog post, and any replies are displayed as comments. Unlike a blog, which stays in the chronological order of the initial post, posts in this forum type will organise themselves in order of those that have been replied to most recently being at the top.
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Blocks
Activities, admin bookmarks, blog menu, blog tags, calendar, comments, course completion status, course/site description, courses, feedback, HTML, latest news, logged in user, mentees, messages, mooprofile, my private files, navigation, online users, people, quiz results, random glossary entry, recent activity, recent blog entries, remote RSS feed, search forums, section links, self-completion, settings, tags, upcoming events
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Completion and Conditional Access
Completion criteria can be set on all resources and activities within a course, but the sort of criteria depends on the type of activity. For example, this is a label. The only completion that can be done for this is for the student to manually mark it as complete. There is no interaction in this resource, students don't need to open it to see it. Click the checkbox to the right of this activity to mark it complete for yourself! → → →
This is all well and good, but how do you as a teacher see what the student has "completed"?
See the video resource below:
As a student in this course, you can see how conditional activities could work for a student.
Click the activity below:
Once you have viewed the above page resource, you should see that it has automatically ticked itself complete.
Now that you have completed the first activity, click the link below to continue!
So how is this all set up?
See the video resource below:
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Plagiarism Detection
Unitec currently uses Turnitin's Originality Check service to help scaffold students' quality of academic writing, and to assist instructors in checking for referencing errors and potential plagiarism.
Once a teacher or student has submitted an assignment to Turnitin, it creates a report showing where in the assignment there appear to be matches with other web-based sources including web-sites, online documents and journal databases, and previously submitted student work.
Turnitin Help for Teachers
Turnitin Links for Students
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