These are the interactive parts of your course, and allow students (and teachers) to do things.

To add a new activity to your course you must first turn editing on

Note: There are now two methods for adding activities and resources to course pages, you may either use the traditional Add activity or resource link or the new Activity chooser. 

Check the Administration block to see if you have the Activity chooser turned on or off. You may turn the chooser on or off by clicking on the entry within the Administration block.

Add an activity using the Add activity or resource link

Note: To use this method the Activity chooser must be turned off

The Add an activity or resource window will appear. Select the type of activity you wish to add and click the Add button, otherwise click Cancel to return to your course page.

Add an activity using the Activity chooser

Note: To use this method the Activity chooser must be turned on

When enabled the Activity chooser replaces the Add activity or resource link described above with two drop down boxes one for resources and one for activities.

Scroll to the bottom of the section where you wish to add the activity and click the Add and activity drop down menu. Click on the activity type you wish to add from the list that appears.

This page describes the process of adding activities to your course page, however, the process of adding resources is essentially the same.

Once students have submitted assignments, you will see this information when you visit the assignment module in your course:

Click "View/grade all submissions"

You will see a grid view of all your students and their submissions.

Students who have submitted will have a green "Submitted for grading" box under "Status".

To grade, click the small pencil icon next to it, or hover over the icon in the "Edit" column for more options.

The grading view gives you an overview of the student's assignment:

From here you can download the file, or click the "+" button above the online text to view the full online text submission. If the student has added submission comments to their assignment, they will also show here where it says "Comments (0)".

Further down you can grade the assignment using the drop down menu (if you have chosen a custom grading scale) or if you have chosen a number grade then you will get a small box to type the grade into.

There is also a box for putting your feedback into.

NB - an assignment's grade MUST be filled out or changed from "No grade" before the student can see any feedback! No grade, no feedback!

If you enabled the ability to add feedback files, you will see an upload box underneath the comments section for you to upload the feedback file to the student. This can be their own assignment, sent back to them with comments all over it.

Once you are done, either click "Save changes" if this is the only student you are giving feedback to, or "Save and show next" if you are grading all of your students.

Clicking "Cancel" or "Next" will lose your grade and feedback information!

From the "Add an activity or resource" menu, choose "Assignment"

Assignment name - Give the assignment a descriptive name

Assignment description - This is a good place for the assignment information and marking criteria

Display description on course page - checking this will display the assignment description directly below the assignment name on the course page. Otherwise students will see the description when they click on the assignment name to view the assignment.

Allow submissions from - If enabled, students will not be able to submit before this date. If disabled, students will be able to start submitting right away.

Due date - This is when the assignment is due. Submissions will still be allowed after this date but any assignments submitted after this date are marked as late. To prevent submissions after a certain date - set the assignment cut off date.

Cut-off date - If set, the assignment will not accept submissions after this date without an extension.

Always show description - If disabled, the Assignment Description above will only become visible to students at the "Allow submissions from" date.

Submission types

• File submissions - If enabled, students are able to upload one or more files as their submission.
• Online text - If enabled, students are able to type rich text directly into an editor field for their submission.
• Submission comments - If enabled, students can leave comments on their own submission. This can be used to let students alert the marker about which files the master file is in cases of inter-linked files, for instance.

Maximum number of uploaded files - If file submissions are enabled, each student will be able to upload up to this number of files for their submission.

Maximum submission size - Files uploaded by students may be up to this size.

Feedback comments - If enabled, the marker can leave feedback comments for each submission.

Offline grading worksheet - If enabled, the teacher will be able to download and upload a worksheet with student grades when marking the assignments.

Feedback files - If enabled, the teacher will be able to upload files with feedback when marking the assignments. These files may be, but are not limited to marked up student submissions, documents with comments or spoken audio feedback.

Require students click submit button - If enabled, students will have to click a Submit button to declare their submission as final. This allows students to keep a draft version of the submission on the system. If this setting is changed from "No" to "Yes" after students have already submitted those submissions will be regarded as final.

Require that students accept the submission statement - Require that students accept the submission statement for all submissions to this assignment.

Attempts reopened

Determines how student submission attempts are reopened. The available options are:

• Never - The student submission cannot be reopened.
• Manually - The student submission can be reopened by a teacher.
• Automatically until pass - The student submission is automatically reopened until the student achieves the grade to pass value set in the Gradebook (Categories and items section) for this assignment.

Maximum number of attempts - The maximum number of submissions attempts that can be made by a student. After this number of attempts has been made the student's submission will not be able to be reopened.

Students submit in groups - If enabled students will be divided into groups based on the default set of groups or a custom grouping. A group submission will be shared among group members and all members of the group will see each others changes to the submission.

Require all group members submit - If enabled, all members of the student group must click the submit button for this assignment before the group submission will be considered as submitted. If disabled, the group submission will be considered as submitted as soon as any member of the student group clicks the submit button.

Grouping for student groups - This is the grouping that the assignment will use to find groups for student groups. If not set - the default set of groups will be used.

Notify graders about submissions - If enabled, graders (usually teachers) receive a message whenever a student submits an assignment, early, on time and late. Message methods are configurable.

Notify graders about late submissions - If enabled, graders (usually teachers) receive a message whenever a student submits an assignment late. Message methods are configurable.

Grade - Select a number that the assignment is graded out of, or one of the custom scales available either from the site level or created at the course level.

Grading method

Choose the advanced grading method that should be used for calculating grades in the given context.

To disable advanced grading and switch back to the default grading mechanism, choose 'Simple direct grading'. Other options are 'Marking guide' and 'Rubric'.

Grade category - This setting controls the category in which this activity's grades are placed in the gradebook.

Blind marking - Blind marking hides the identity of students to markers. Blind marking settings will be locked once a submission or grade has been made in relation to this assignment.

Students can submit assignments by visiting the assignment activity in Moodle.

They will see a submission button (if submissions are open).

Depending on what has been set up by the teacher, a student may be asked to upload a file:

And/or write some text directly into Moodle:

When they are done they click "Save changes".

They are then given an overview of their assignment, which they may or may not be able to edit depending on the assignment settings:

Once the teacher has graded the assignment, this view may change to something like this:

And feedback appears underneath:

The chat activity module enables participants to have text-based, real-time synchronous discussions.

The chat may be a one-time activity or it may be repeated at the same time each day or each week. Chat sessions are saved and can be made available for everyone to view or restricted to users with the capability to view chat session logs.

Chats are especially useful when the group chatting is not able to meet face-to-face, such as

• Regular meetings of students participating in online courses to enable them to share experiences with others in the same course but in a different location
• A student temporarily unable to attend in person chatting with their teacher to catch up with work
• Students out on work experience getting together to discuss their experiences with each other and their teacher
• Younger children using chat at home in the evenings as a controlled (monitored) introduction to the world of social networking
• A question and answer session with an invited speaker in a different location
• Sessions to help students prepare for tests where the teacher, or other students, would pose sample questions

Choose "Chat" from the "Add an activity or resource" menu.

Give your chat room a name.

Write a brief description (maybe what you wish the students to use the chat room for, some general guidelines/rules).

Display description on course page - If enabled, the description above will be displayed on the course page just below the link to the activity or resource.

If you want students to be made aware of times that you will be in the chat room, choose a session time.

Repeat/publish session times - Choose whether a session time will be published in the course calendar, and how often you are repeating this session time.

NOTE - the chat room remains open at all times even outside of the published session times. If you don't want students to use the chat room outside of the published session times, please use the eye to hide the chat room from students.

Save past sessions - this determines how long Moodle keeps a record/transcript of chat sessions.

Everyone can view past sessions - If set to No, only users have mod/chat:readlog capability are able to see the chat logs (teachers, non-editing teachers). If set to Yes, students can also view past chat sessions.

Visit the chat room on your course page.

This will show you:

• Name of chat room
• Chat room description
• A link to open the chat room
• A link to a more accessible version of the chat room (good for older browsers or screen readers)
• A link to past chat sessions (if any)
• A list of people currently in the chat room (if any)

Click to enter the chat room.

This is a simple three-panel chat interface.

Top left you see any messages users have posted. Note you will only see messages from the time you enter the room until the time you leave the room. To see messages posted when you're not in the room, view the chat logs.

Bottom left is where you can type your messages. Press enter/return on your keyboard to post them to the chat window.

The right panel is the list of users in the room. It shows you how long the user has been idle, and gives you a link to "beep" the user (this will make a beeping sound on their computer if they have sound turned on).

To leave the room, simply close the chat room window.

The choice activity module enables a teacher to ask a single question and offer a selection of possible responses.

Choice results may be published after students have answered, after a certain date, or not at all. Results may be published with student names or anonymously.

A choice activity may be used

• As a quick poll to stimulate thinking about a topic
• To quickly test students' understanding
• To facilitate student decision-making, for example allowing students to vote on a direction for the course.

Select "Choice" from the "Add an activity or resource" menu.

Choice name - Give the activity a name. This will display on the course page and at the top of the page when viewing the activity.

Description - This is a good place to put the question you are asking the students to answer.

Display description on course page - If enabled, the description above will be displayed on the course page just below the link to the activity or resource.

Display mode for the options

• Display horizontally - will display the possible selections/answers listed horizontally across the page
• Display vertically - will display the possible selections/answers listed vertically on the page

Allow choice to be updated - Allows the student to change their mind/choice even after they have answered.

Limit the number of responses allowed - This lets you put a limit on each option. For example, you can get students to arrange themselves into groups of 4 using the choice activity, so you would limit each option to 4 users. Once 4 users have chosen that option, no more can choose it, they must choose another. If this is left on No, then the "Limit" fields remain disabled.

Options - At least one option must be given. Any fields left blank will not be included.

Limits - If you set "limit the number of responses" to Yes, then these fields will become enabled and you can choose how many students/users can choose each option.

Restrict answering to this time period - By checking this box, you can select a time during which students can use the activity and make their choices. After the time is closed, students can still view the activity and choices they made, but can no longer make changes or new choices.

Publish results

• Do not publish results to students - Students never see responses, only teachers see responses
• Show results to students after they answer - Responses are hidden from student until they have made their own choice
• Show results to students only after choice is closed - Only use this option if you have set the availability start and end date, otherwise it won't work.
• Always show results to students - Students see other responses even if they haven't answered themselves.

Privacy of results

• Publish anonymous results, do not show student names - This produces a simple bar graph of responses with no names.
• Publish full results, showing names and their choices - This produces a chart showing which students have responded to which choice.

NOTE - teachers always see which students have answered which choice, no matter the settings above.

Once you have a choice activity set up it is simple to use.

Students visit the choice activity, select the option they wish to answer, and click "Save my choice".

If they see anonymous results, they may see a bar graph like this:

You as the teacher would also see this bar graph, but you also have a link near the top right that says "View X responses" where X is the number of users/students who have answered the choice activity.

You will see all responses, who responded what, and have the option of deleting responses or downloading all responses in various formats.

In order to collect data, you need to add fields to your database.

It is best to plan out in advance exactly what information you wish to collect.

Field types

• Checkbox - tick list that allows multiple answers to be selected
• Date - a date
• File - allows the upload of a file (any file type)
• Latlong - latitude and longitude, global position, location
• Menu - drop down menu with the ability to select one option
• Multimenu - menu with the ability to make multiple selections
• Number - accepts only numbers entered into this field
• Picture - allows the upload of an image (png, jpg, gif)
• Radio button - list that allows only one option to be selected
• Text area - larger text area with full HTML editor
• Text input - a single line of text
• URL - a link to a website

Things that are automatically collected (don't need fields added):

• User - the logged in user who added the entry
• Date of entry - the date the entry was made
• Date of last update - the date the entry was last updated

Adding a field:

1. Go to the "Fields" tab when viewing your database
2. Under "Create a new field" choose the field type from the drop down menu.
3. Every field will ask for a Name and Description. These are arbitrary, make them something short you will associate with the data being collected (and the name and description can be the same thing).
4. Depending on the field type there may be other settings. Please see the link above to the MoodleDocs page for more information on each field setting.

Choose "Database" from the "Add an activity or resource" menu.

Name - Give your database a name

Description - Give your database a description. This will display at the top of your database.

Display description on course page - If enabled, the description above will be displayed on the course page just below the link to the activity or resource.

Approval required - If enabled, entries require approving by a teacher before they are viewable by everyone.

Allow comment on entries - This allows teachers and students to comment on database entries.

Entries required for completion - The number of entries a student is required to submit before the activity can be considered complete.

Entries required before viewing - The number of entries a student is required to submit before they can view entries from other students.

Note: If entries are required before viewing, the database auto-linking filter should be disabled. This is because the database auto-linking filter can't determine whether a user has submitted the required number of entries.

Maximum number of entries - The maximum number of entries a student is allowed to submit for this activity.

Available from and to is when the database may have entries added to it.

Read only from and to is when the database can still be viewed but can no longer have any entries added to it (or edited).

If you are feeding the entries of this database out using an RSS feed (either into another course or an external site), here you can determine how many entries are included in the RSS feed.

Grade category - This setting controls the category in which this activity's grades are placed in the gradebook.

Roles with permission to rate - To submit ratings users require the moodle/rating:rate capability and any module specific capabilities. Users assigned the following roles should be able to rate items. The list of roles may be amended via the permissions link in the administration block.

Aggregate type - The aggregate type defines how ratings are combined to form the final grade in the gradebook.

• Average of ratings - The mean of all ratings
• Count of ratings - The number of rated items becomes the final grade. Note that the total cannot exceed the maximum grade for the activity.
• Maximum - The highest rating becomes the final grade
• Minimum - The smallest rating becomes the final grade
• Sum - All ratings are added together. Note that the total cannot exceed the maximum grade for the activity.

If "No ratings" is selected, then the activity will not appear in the gradebook.

Scale - If ratings are enabled, choose which scale will be used.

Restrict ratings to items with dates in this range - If enabled, only entries made between the dates specified can be rated. If entries are made outside of those times, they cannot be rated.

Templates are how the database looks on your Moodle page.

There are three main templates you need to worry about:

• List view
• Single entry view
• Add template

All others can be left on their default settings.

List view

This is the default view when people first arrive in the database activity. It shows multiple entries, usually stacked vertically one after the other. If there are a lot of entries in the database, and the entries are long, it may be worth making this a reduced view (with just a title and entry author) which can click through to the single entry.

Single entry view

This shows just a single database entry. It will contain all the information.

Add template

This determines what the page looks like when a student (or teacher) adds a new entry to the database. It will also contain all the possible fields for the participant to fill out, laid out in a way and order that makes sense.

The external tool activity module enables students to interact with learning resources and activities on other web sites. For example, an external tool could provide access to a new activity type or learning materials from a publisher.

For example, to Add Echo360 activity, you can select "Echo360' from the 'External too type' drop down menu:

The feedback activity module enables a teacher to create a custom survey for collecting feedback from participants using a variety of question types including multiple choice, yes/no or text input.

Feedback responses may be anonymous if desired, and results may be shown to all participants or restricted to teachers only. Any feedback activities on the site front page may also be completed by non-logged-in users.

Feedback activities may be used

• For course evaluations, helping improve the content for later participants
• To enable participants to sign up for course modules, events etc.
• For guest surveys of course choices, school policies etc.
• For anti-bullying surveys in which students can report incidents anonymously

Using the tabs along the top of the activity, choose "Edit questions"

There will be no questions there yet.

Choose a question type:

• Add a page break
• Captcha - A test to make sure a real person is filling in the form and not an automatic spamming program of some sort. Asks a person to write out some distorted text which is displayed on screen. You normally won't need this unless you find you are getting spammed a lot.
• Information - This allows you to choose to display one of three types of information: the time of responding; the course and/ or the category where the feedback is located.
• Label - Like a standard Moodle label, this allows you to add abritrary text between questions allowing for extra explanation or to divide the Feedback into sections.
• Longer text answer - This option is for creating a text box (you specify how big it will appear in rows and columns) which people can write a long answer into.
• Multiple choice - This will give you a series of radio buttons, which starts on 'Not selected' and then has your options afterwards. Only one can be chosen and 'Not selected' is a valid answer if the question is not set to 'required'.
• Multiple choice (rated) -

  This is similar to the other multiple choice options, except that each option has a numerical value associated with it. You have the choice of using radio buttons or a drop-down list to display the answers.

  For example:

  How much do you enjoy being in class?
  I love it
  I like it
  It's OK
  I don't like it
  I hate it

  It's not possible to (easily) get out an "average" score - particularly if you're asking the same question before and after an event or course. If the Drop-down List (rated) option is used, then numerical values are associated with each option, allowing an average or other measurements of any responses.

  The above question might look like:

  How much do you enjoy being in class?
  [5] I love it
  [4] I like it
  [3] Its OK
  [2] I don't like it
  [1] I hate it

  Which might allow for an average (e.g. "4.5 this term, up from 3.9 last term") to be calculated.

• Numeric answer - Here, you ask a question which must have a number as an answer and specify the acceptable range e.g. "How many arms would you like, if more than 2 were possible? (please specify 0-10)" with a range of 0-10 set in the options. It helps if you specify the acceptable range in the question text.
• Short text answer - This option lets you specify a single line answer, with an input box which is a set number of characters long (you choose). You also specify the maximum number of characters you will accept, so that the answer is not too long and/or does not run over the length of the box on screen.

As you add questions you will see them appear in the preview section below.

As a teacher you cannot answer the questions in the feedback form.

For more detailed information on building your feedback form, please see the MoodleDocs.

Choose "Feedback" from the "Add an activity or resource" menu.

Give your feedback activity a name.

Write a brief description (maybe why you are gathering this feedback).

Display description on course page - If enabled, the description above will be displayed on the course page just below the link to the activity or resource.

You can leave these disabled.

Otherwise, choose a date range where students can submit feedback.

Record user names

• Anonymous - you cannot see who has submitted the feedback
• User's name will be logged and shown with answers - explains itself

Allow multiple submissions - If enabled for anonymous surveys, users can submit feedback an unlimited number of times.

Enable notification of submissions - If enabled, teachers will receive notification of feedback submissions.

Auto number questions - Enables or disables automated numbers for each question.

Show analysis page - Allows the students to see an analysis page after they've submitted feedback.

Completion message - You can enter a message, maybe a quick thank you, which is displayed after a student submits feedback.

Link to next activity - After submitting the feedback, a continue button is displayed, which links to the course page. Alternatively, it may link to the next activity if the URL of the activity is entered here.

The forum activity module enables participants to have asynchronous discussions i.e. discussions that take place over an extended period of time.

There are several forum types to choose from, such as a standard forum where anyone can start a new discussion at any time; a forum where each student can post exactly one discussion; or a question and answer forum where students must first post before being able to view other students' posts. A teacher can allow files to be attached to forum posts. Attached images are displayed in the forum post.

Participants can subscribe to a forum to receive notifications of new forum posts. A teacher can set the subscription mode to optional, forced or auto, or prevent subscription completely. If required, students can be blocked from posting more than a given number of posts in a given time period; this can prevent individuals from dominating discussions.

Forum posts can be rated by teachers or students (peer evaluation). Ratings can be aggregated to form a final grade which is recorded in the gradebook.

Forums have many uses, such as

• A social space for students to get to know each other
• For course announcements (using a news forum with forced subscription)
• For discussing course content or reading materials
• For continuing online an issue raised previously in a face-to-face session
• For teacher-only discussions (using a hidden forum)
• A help centre where tutors and students can give advice
• A one-on-one support area for private student-teacher communications (using a forum with separate groups and with one student per group)
• For extension activities, for example ‘brain teasers’ for students to ponder and suggest solutions to

Forum settings

Using a forum

Forum FAQ

The glossary activity module enables participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary, or to collect and organise resources or information.

A teacher can allow files to be attached to glossary entries. Attached images are displayed in the entry. Entries can be searched or browsed alphabetically or by category, date or author. Entries can be approved by default or require approval by a teacher before they are viewable by everyone.

If the glossary auto-linking filter is enabled, entries will be automatically linked where the concept words and/or phrases appear within the course.

A teacher can allow comments on entries. Entries can also be rated by teachers or students (peer evaluation). Ratings can be aggregated to form a final grade which is recorded in the gradebook.

Glossaries have many uses, such as

• A collaborative bank of key terms
• A ‘getting to know you’ space where new students add their name and personal details
• A ‘handy tips’ resource of best practice in a practical subject
• A sharing area of useful videos, images or sound files
• A revision resource of facts to remember

Glossary settings

Using Glossary

Glossary FAQ

The HotPot module allows teachers to distribute interactive learning materials to their students via Moodle and view reports on the students' responses and results.

A single HotPot activity consists of an optional entry page, a single elearning exercise, and an optional exit page. The elearning exercise may be a static web page or an interactive web page which offers students text, audio and visual prompts and records their responses. The elearning exercise is created on the teacher's computer using authoring software and then uploaded to Moodle.

A HotPot activity can handle exercises created with the following authoring software:

Hot Potatoes (version 6)

• Qedoc
• Xerte
• iSpring
• any HTML editor

The lesson activity module enables a teacher to deliver content and/or practice activities in interesting and flexible ways. A teacher can use the lesson to create a linear set of content pages or instructional activities that offer a variety of paths or options for the learner. In either case, teachers can choose to increase engagement and ensure understanding by including a variety of questions, such as multiple choice, matching and short answer. Depending on the student's choice of answer and how the teacher develops the lesson, students may progress to the next page, be taken back to a previous page or redirected down a different path entirely.

A lesson may be graded, with the grade recorded in the gradebook.

Lessons may be used

• For self-directed learning of a new topic
• For scenarios or simulations/decision-making exercises
• For differentiated revision, with different sets of revision questions depending upon answers given to initial questions

The quiz activity enables a teacher to create quizzes comprising questions of various types, including multiple choice, matching, short-answer and numerical.

The teacher can allow the quiz to be attempted multiple times, with the questions shuffled or randomly selected from the question bank. A time limit may be set.

Each attempt is marked automatically, with the exception of essay questions, and the grade is recorded in the gradebook.

The teacher can choose when and if hints, feedback and correct answers are shown to students.

Quizzes may be used

• As course exams
• As mini tests for reading assignments or at the end of a topic
• As exam practice using questions from past exams
• To deliver immediate feedback about performance
• For self-assessment

Quiz settings

Building Quiz

Using Quiz

Quiz reports

Quiz FAQ

Video Resources:

1. The video below shows how to add and remove Quiz questions - click the square box icon in bottom right corner to make it play in full screen.

2. This video shows how to check your students quiz results

Back to activities

A SCORM package is a collection of files which are packaged according to an agreed standard for learning objects. The SCORM activity module enables SCORM or AICC packages to be uploaded as a zip file and added to a course.

Content is usually displayed over several pages, with navigation between the pages. There are various options for displaying content in a pop-up window, with a table of contents, with navigation buttons etc. SCORM activities generally include questions, with grades being recorded in the gradebook.

SCORM activities may be used

• For presenting multimedia content and animations
• As an assessment tool

• How to create and attach a rubric to Turnitin.
  
• How to check similarity report and give feedback to students.
  
• How to grade using the rubric.
  

The wiki activity module enables participants to add and edit a collection of web pages. A wiki can be collaborative, with everyone being able to edit it, or individual, where everyone has their own wiki which only they can edit.

A history of previous versions of each page in the wiki is kept, listing the edits made by each participant.

Wikis have many uses, such as

• For group lecture notes or study guides
• For members of a faculty to plan a scheme of work or meeting agenda together
• For students to collaboratively author an online book, creating content on a topic set by their tutor
• For collaborative storytelling or poetry creation, where each participant writes a line or verse
• As a personal journal for examination notes or revision (using an individual wiki).

How to edit a wiki:

1. Turn editing on

2. Click the wiki

3. Click the edit tab

4, Delete or Add the text you want to change.

5. To edit the table (ie add more rows), click the icon in the top left corner of the edit window, then click the 'table' icon

6. Click save

The workshop activity module enables the collection, review and peer assessment of students' work.

Students can submit any digital content (files), such as word-processed documents or spreadsheets and can also type text directly into a field using the text editor.

Submissions are assessed using a multi-criteria assessment form defined by the teacher. The process of peer assessment and understanding the assessment form can be practised in advance with example submissions provided by the teacher, together with a reference assessment. Students are given the opportunity to assess one or more of their peers' submissions. Submissions and reviewers may be anonymous if required.

Students obtain two grades in a workshop activity - a grade for their submission and a grade for their assessment of their peers' submissions. Both grades are recorded in the gradebook.

Back to activities

Sometimes you will want to add a link to a file or other Moodle resource inside a Moodle page - like your Assessments page or your Welcome page.

Instructions:

1. Go to the resource on your Moodle course page
2. Right click it and choose "Copy link"
3. Go to the page you want to edit (add the link to)
4. Edit the page (often by clicking "Edit settings" in the administration menu)
5. Type a sentence that the link will be attached to (like "Click here for this file")
6. Highlight it
7. Click the link button on the Moodle toolbar (it looks like a chain)
8. Paste in the link you've copied into the URL field (you can use control+v (windows) or command+v (mac) to paste)
9. Click Insert
10. Save!

There are various sites that provide free images. Some give you the tools to create the images yourself, and some provide royalty free or creative commons images for you to use.

We have bolded the ones we recommend for quality of images and ease of use.

NB: If photos have people on them, there may be a model-release involved. Please check for these.

Image creators

• Canva - free to create an account
• OpenBadges.me - enter an email address and create free badges from a range of shapes and templates
• Piktochart - create your own infographics or graphics, option for collaboration, easy to use templates
• Powtoon - create free animated videos and presentations, everything you need is provided

Royalty free or creative commons images ready to use

• Pixabay - free to use images, no attribution required
• CGTextures - textures and backgrounds, requires login to download, free account creation
• Historical Stock Photos - free historical photographs, big American focus
• Gratisography - free high resolution artistic photos, no strings
• ImageBase - free high resolution photographs, organised by category, no strings
• Kave Wall Stock - abstract photographs, backgrounds, textures, free to use (attribution required)
• OpenPhoto.net- easy to search and navigate, photo attribution easy to copy, full resolution images free to download
• NASA ArtSpace - royalty free images from NASA
• PhotoGen - amateur high resolution photos, free, no strings
• Pixel Perfect Digital - free high resolution professional photos, extra options such as colours sometimes available, attribution information shows when downloading
• StockPholio - nice photos, easily searchable, copy and paste the credit, downloadable in a range of formats
• RGBStock - completely free photos, good quality, need registration to download
• Public Domain Photos - photos of mixed quality, click to get full resolution, no strings
• Freepik - nice graphic designs, icons, careful of clicking to premium sites, files in Adobe Illustrator format (only for people with graphic design experience)
• 4freephotos - free photographs, diverse range, a lot of ads, can be difficult to browse
• Bigfoto - good photographs, lots of ads, can be difficult to browse
• Free Photos Bank - good photographs, difficult to navigate and find the free ones
• Freepixels - absolutely free images, limited range of images, cluttered site
• Freerange Stock - amateur photos for free, quite cluttered site, must be registered to download, free registration

Image editors - resize, crop, apply effects to your own images

• Autodesk Pixlr - browser-based image editor, lots of features, also Mac and Windows native apps available

Other useful resources

• Digital NZ
• 7 ways to find creative commons images
• Library guide to copyright and Library guide to creative commons
• Collections Online - Te Papa

Yes, If you changed a question in the Question Bank, it will change in all the quizzes it appears in.

Questions really live in the Question Bank. When you add a question to the quiz, you are just making a link from the quiz to the question in the Question Bank.

So, you can add one question to many quizzes, and then if you edit it, it will change in all quizzes.

If you want to change any question, you have to:

1. Duplicate the question in the Question Bank
   
2. Edit the duplicated question in the Question Bank
   
3. In Quiz, add the modified question from the Question Bank and remove the old question.
   
4. The old question will stay in the Question Bank untouched and may exist in some other existing Quizzes, so you can leave it there if there’s nothing wrong with it. 
   
5. If you do want to remove the old question from the Question Bank, you can. But it will only be removed from the list - actually, it will stay forever in the system under the checkbox ‘Also show old questions’.
   

What happens if you change the correct answer, but the Quiz has closed and the students have already been graded?

• The changes will show in the Question Bank.
  
• The past quiz result will remain untouched, even though the correct answer has been changed.
  
• The ongoing quiz will be marked with the new correct answer.
  
• You can also duplicate the question in the Question Bank, change the answer and add the new one in. This way, you leave everything in the past quiz as it was.

Adding images or pictures to your course page can sometimes be done by dragging the picture into the editing window. This doesn't really add the picture properly, though, and it is recommended that you use the picture uploader tool instead.

NB: you must have the image saved to your computer first! Best formats are PNG, JPG or GIF. 

1. In the editing toolbar you will see a picture button- click this.
2. Click "Find or upload an image".
3. If the middle panel doesn't already have a "Browse" button, click "Upload a file" off to the left, then click "Browse".
4. Find the image on your computer and select it.
5. You may want to edit the author and license information for the image. By default the author is the person who is logged in and uploading the image, and the license is "All rights reserved". (Click here for more information on licenses.)
6. Click "Upload this file".
7. It is important to fill out a description. If someone uses screenreading software (because they are vision impaired) then the description is what is read out to them when the software encounters an image!
8. Under the "Appearance" tab you can choose other options like how the image is displayed with text, set a size for the image, border etc.
9. Click "Insert" when you are done.

NB: To edit any of these things after you've uploaded an image, simply select the image (so that it is highlighted) and click the insert/edit image icon again. You will be taken back to the same window, and the button will say "Update" instead of "Insert".

To reduce the file size of an image (so it loads quicker in Moodle):

(If the file size of an image is too big, your Moodle course can be slow too load, and it will take up lots of space).

1. Hover over the image to check file size eg 12kB
2. Right click and scroll to 'open with'
3. Choose 'Paint'
4. click resize
5. select pixels
6. Fill in Horizontal as e.g.180 (vertical will adjust automatically) 
7. ok
8. save as
9. now you can insert it to Moodle

Option 1:  (Copy) says Create Duplicates, New Turnitin Class....
This one looks at the current course to find which Turntin class it links to and creates a new class in Turnitin to link to, then for each Moodle Direct activity, creates a new version of each Turnitin assignment in the newly created class with the exact same assignment options. (This is generally the one most folks will choose). It is not destructive and will keep copies of the previous class and assignments containing submissions in Turnitin but will create new activities linked to brand new empty replicas of the Turnitin assignments

Option 2:  (Replace) Replace Assignment Parts, Reuse Turnitin Class
This one is similar to the above but instead of creating a brand new class it will reuse the previously linked class and create brand new replicas of the assignments in it rather than use a new class. Downside to this method is you keep the previous Turnitin cohort of students. This option is pretty specific to certain use cases and is generally not used very often.

Option 3: Untouched
As you say, leaves the class and assignment linkage the same and basically does nothing to the Moodle Direct activities.

These are items containing information/knowledge that a teacher offers to support learning.

To add a new resource to your course you must first turn editing on

Note: There are now two methods for adding activities and resources to course pages, you may either use the traditional Add activity or resource link or the new Activity chooser. 

Check the Administration block to see if you have the Activity chooser turned on or off. You may turn the chooser on or off by clicking on the entry within the Administration block.

Add an resource using the Add activity or resource link

Note: To use this method the Activity chooser must be turned off

The Add an activity or resource window will appear. Scroll past the list of activities to select the type of resource you wish to add and click the Add button, otherwise click Cancel to return to your course page.

Add a resource using the Activity chooser

Note: To use this method the Activity chooser must be turned on

When enabled the Activity chooser replaces the Add activity or resource link described above with two drop down boxes one for resources and one for activities.

Scroll to the bottom of the section where you wish to add the resource and click the Add a resource drop-down menu. Click on the resource type you wish to add from the list that appears.

This page describes the process of adding resources to your course page, however, the process of adding activities is essentially the same.

Presents content in a textbook format, allowing for chapters and subchapters (2 levels only). Pages can be enhanced by multimedia.

Setting up a book:

Choose "Book" from the "Add an activity or resource" menu.

Give the book a name.

You can give it a description, though this is not necessary.

Chapter numbering

• None - Chapter and subchapter titles have no formatting
• Numbers - Chapters and subchapter titles are numbered 1, 1.1, 1.2, 2, ...
• Bullets - Subchapters are indented and displayed with bullets in the table of contents
• Indented - Subchapters are indented in the table of contents

Custom titles

Normally the chapter title is displayed in the table of contents (TOC) AND as a heading above the content.

If the custom titles checkbox is ticked, the chapter title is NOT displayed as a heading above the content. A different title (perhaps longer than the chapter title) may be entered as part of the content.

You will be prompted to add your first page (chapter) when you create the book. Add in a title (this will show in the book table of contents) and content (this will display in the main page area).

Adding pages (chapters and subchapters):

Make sure you have editing on when you are viewing your book to edit and add chapters. You will know if you do, because the table of contents will have editing icons after each chapter/page like this:

• Cog - edits the page
• Cross - deletes the page
• Eye - hides the page
• Plus - adds a new page after the selected page

When adding a page you have the option to make it a 'sub-chapter'. This nests the page under the one you clicked the plus icon by.

When you have multiple pages, there will be another icon which lets you change the order of pages in your book:

A document presented for students to download - PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, image...

Adding a file:

Drag and drop the file onto your course page (make sure you have editing turned on before doing this).

OR

Choose "File" from the "Add an activity or resource" menu.

Give it a name.

Description is optional.

Drag the file into the drag and drop box or choose the "Add..." button to browse for the file on your computer.

Once the file appears in the box on the Moodle page, you can continue.

Appearance

Display

This setting, together with the file type and whether the browser allows embedding, determines how the file is displayed. Options may include:

• • Automatic - The best display option for the file type is selected automatically
  • Embed - The file is displayed within the page below the navigation bar together with the file description and any blocks
  • Force download - The user is prompted to download the file
  • Open - Only the file is displayed in the browser window
  • In pop-up - The file is displayed in a new browser window without menus or an address bar
  • In frame - The file is displayed within a frame below the navigation bar and file description
  • New window - The file is displayed in a new browser window with menus and an address bar

Display size

Displays the file size, such as '3.1 MB', beside links to the file. If there are multiple files in this resource, the total size of all files is displayed.

Display type

Displays the type of the file, such as 'Word document', beside links to the file. If there are multiple files in this resource, the start file type is displayed. If the file type is not known to the system, it will not display.

This page describes a method for creating read-only links for students to view office documents directly in the browser.

Description

It is common for teachers to want to put content on a Moodle course for students to access.

This may be in the form of Microsoft Office documents such as Word, Powerpoint or Excel.

Traditionally a teacher might upload these documents as File resources, either as the original file type (eg. doc, ppt, xls) or exported to PDF first. This method works fine, but these resources need to be carefully maintained should the content of the file need changes in future.

An alternative solution may be to create read-only links for students to view live documents directly in their browser, while also allowing the teacher to edit the content without any need to update or otherwise maintain links in Moodle.

Step 1: Get a link for your office document

This requires your document to be stored in OneDrive or SharePoint and the document open in your web browser. 

Once the document is open and you are satisfied the content is ready to share with your students, click the Share button in the top right corner of the window.

 or 

This will bring up the sharing popup, click on Get a link on the left hand side, then click on the drop down list to select appropriate security options.

If you wish to restrict access to Unitec students only; select View link - account in your organization required, otherwise if you want anyone to be able to view the document; select View link - no sign in required.

Once you have selected the appropriate View link - option you are ready to select and copy the URL link provided.

Right click on the URL box and select copy from the drop down menu (or use control-c to copy the text).

You are now ready to move onto the next step.

Step 2: Create a URL resource in moodle and link to your document

Go to your moodle course page and Turn editing on, then use the activity picker to create a new URL resource.

Give your link a meaningful name, and an optional description if you wish.

Paste your URL into the External URL box

It's a good idea to check that your URL resource is setup to open in a new window so that students don't lose their place in Moodle by following your link. This is done under appearance.

Check any other settings you might wish to change, for example displaying the description on the course page and automatic completion tracking when students view the resource.

Finally, click Save and Return to Course and you are done.

Turn editing off for your course and check your newly created link works correctly.

This entry contains suggestions for how to tidy up your moodle course. 

1. If you’re not using it, delete it, or drag it to a hidden section

2. Put links into a Glossary or a Page (to reduce scroll of death)

Glossary features:

• searchable by author /date / letter
• alphabetical
  
• make your own categories - or it can be updated by date 
  
• your students to contribute their links (if you set up for this)
  
• share with other teachers or keep to yourself / your class
  
• can insert .pdf files
• can link to words in forum entries

Page features:

• name it whatever you want
  
• edit it right there inside moodle
• can curate the links i.e. describe what the link is and why students should access it (required reading / recommended reading / helpful for assessment 2 etc)
• can copy and paste from MS Word doc into 'page', then don't have to delete docs and re-upload if out of date. 

3. Put files e.g PDF, Word or PPT into Folders (or Glossary) or do 5. below

Folder features:

• name it whatever you want
  
• can contain related files altogether eg all files for assessment 1, or topic 1 or week 1
• reduces scroll of death

4. Videos and images

Put videos into a 'page' by either adding a link or inserting the embed code. Don't put the video on your course homepage, as it will take time to load.

Reduce your image size - otherwise, it will take time to load. 

5. Instead of uploading Word, Ppt, Excel etc files , use Office 365 and link from there.

Benefits:

• you only update your file in Office365, and because it is linked into Moodle, students will see the update immediately. (check sharing permissions)

 6. Contact Te Puna Ako staff for help with how to do any of these steps (or search in the Guide to Moodle for the relevant word e.g. page/glossary)

..........

enjoy your tidy course!!

To submit a paper to Turnitin, your paper must meet our requirements.  

Turnitin will currently accept the following file types to generate Originality Reports: 

• Microsoft Word® (.doc / .docx)¹
  
• OpenOffice Text (.odt)²
  
• Google Docs via Google Drive™ (.gdoc files are NOT acceptable)³
  
• WordPerfect®  (.wpd)
  
• PostScript (.ps/.eps)
  
• Adobe® PDF⁴
  
• Microsoft PowerPoint® (.pptx, .ppt, .ppsx, and .pps)⁵
  
• Microsoft Excel® (.xls and .xlsx)⁶
  
• HTML 
  
• Rich text format (.rtf) 
  
• Plain text (.txt)
  
• Hangul Word Processor file (.hwp)

The paper being submitted must contain more than 20 words, must be under 20MB (or approximately one million characters), must not exceed 200 pages in length, and must not contain spaces in between every letter (l i k e  t h i s). 

Please note that we do not support:

• Microsoft® Works (.wps) file types.
  
• Apple Pages file types.
  
• Spreadsheets created outside of Microsoft Excel (i.e. .ods).
  
• GDOC files (.gdoc) which are just links to online Google Document files, but don't actually contain text or the document's content. Google Drive must be used to upload Google Docs.
  
• Prezi Presentations
  
• M-Files (.m format)

Therefore, if an unsupported word processor is being used, you may need to save the file as a TXT or RTF file in order to upload to Turnitin.

If a file format issue is occurring, please re-open the file in a word processor, and save the file again using the "save as" function and choosing a different format from the file type pull down menu (try RTF or TXT as they are the most "safe"). Occasionally content in document headers and footers can prevent a file from being accepted by the Turnitin service. If you encounter issues uploading a document that contains headers and footers, editing or removing the content may resolve the issue.

Footnotes: 

1. Microsoft Word: We do not accept Microsoft Word 2007 macros-enabled (.docm) files (we do accept the standard .docx files). Whatever macro is encoded in the file is stripped away when submitted to Turnitin. For example, when using a "letter replacement macro," we strip the macro from the Wordfile, and whatever characters the student originally had in the file will appear (i.e. "a~"). Also, we do NOT accept password protected files.
   
2. Open Office Text: Turnitin will not accept .odt files created and downloaded from Google Docs online. Turnitin will not accept ".doc" files created using OpenOffice since OpenOffice ".doc" files are not 100% Microsoft Word equivalent.
   
3. Google Docs: GDOC files (*.gdoc) which are just links to online Google Document files, but don't actually contain text or the document's content are not supported. Google Drive must be used to upload Google Docs.
   
4. Adobe® PDF: Turnitin will not accept PDF image files, forms, or portfolios. PDF files which do not contain highlightable text (e.g., a "scanned" file, which is often simply a picture of text) are unacceptable. PDF portfolio documents containing multiple files are not supported. 
   
5. Microsoft PowerPoint: It is possible to submit PowerPoint files. Turnitin converts the PowerPoint slide deck into a static PDF, leaving all text and images in their original format but leaving out features such as presenter notes, embedded video, and animations. Text with visual effects is not supported, and it is recommended that any visual effects such as shadows and 3-D be removed prior to submitting to Turnitin. 
6. Microsoft Excel: The version of the file that can be viewed in the Document Viewer will look the same as it would if the Excel file had been saved as a PDF and submitted to Turnitin. We highly recommend that users pay attention to the image preview provided in the single file submission to verify that the file is presented in an acceptable manner.  Users can adjust the way the file looks by editing the page setup and print area settings for the file prior to saving it and submitting it to Turnitin.  

If you are using Mac

• just hold the vowel and you will see a list of options.
• You can copy/paste it from: http://maori.typeit.org/
• You can using the Māori keyboard: https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kimihia/musingaori-keyboard

If you are using Windows

• make sure you have the Maori keyboard installed (Unitec Managed builds will have this - talk to IMS)
• in your task bar click the little keyboard icon and switch to Maori keyboard mode
• type ` (usually to the left of the 1 on your keyboard) followed directly by the vowel and it will become one with a macron
• when you are done make sure to return to US keyboard mode

We cannot recommend moodle for submissions of files of this size, file submission data is stored in the moodle database which is both very expensive and limited. This is in addition to potentially causing problems for the server when uploading and downloading files of this size. 

Our recommendation is that students share their files with you using OneDrive, this is a Microsoft service provided for students by Unitec, unlike moodle it is intended for file storage and sharing.

1. Go to myportal.unitec.ac.nz in your browser.
   
2. Sign in with your Unitec login and password details, students should use smithj07@myunitec.ac.nz format for their login.
   
3. Click the blue and white “grid” icon in the top left (also known as the “waffle”).
   
4. Once OneDrive loads in a new tab, you can drag files into the area where it says “Drag files here to upload”.
   
5. Once uploaded right click on the file and select Share.
   
6. Here you have a number of options about how to share your file, the easiest (but least secure) is to click “Copy Link” and paste that into an email to your lecturer.
   
   
   Alternatively click on the drop down and untick the box that says allow editing, then Apply, then “Copy Link”.
   
   
   
   There are also options for sharing for specific people, which is recommended for more security. But I will let you explore those options once you gain familiarity with sharing using the above steps.