Here is a list of Unitec programmes with their ID codes and school codes that provide these programmes:

Removing staff or students from your course works exactly the same.

You can remove staff and students who have been manually enrolled or self-enrolled.

You cannot remove students who have been enrolled by "external database" (PeopleSoft).

Staff or students enrolled by "course meta link" must be unenrolled from the source course to be unenrolled from yours.

Staff (or sometimes students) who are enrolled by "category enrolment" cannot be removed by you, as they have been assigned to their role at the category level to all courses in that category. If you feel that there are staff there by mistake, please contact your programme administrator or elearn@unitec.ac.nz to clarify.

Instructions for removing manually or self-enrolled students:

1. Course administration > Users > Enrolled users
2. Find the user you wish to unenrol and click the X to the very far right by their enrolment method information
3. Confirm that you wish to unenrol the user

Done!

Instructions for removing meta course enrolled users

1. Course administration > Users > Enrolled users
2. Check which course the users are being enrolled from
3. Go to that course and follow the instructions above for removing manually or self-enrolled users

This lets students enrol themselves in your course. You can put a password on so that not every student can just enrol.

NB: students who have self-enrolled must either unenrol themselves from the course when they are done, or the teacher must unenrol them manually. They will not be removed automatically when the course finishes.

Instructions:

1. Course administration > Users > Enrolment methods
2. Open the eye on self-enrolment and click the edit button, or add self-enrolment using the "Add method" drop down menu if it's not already there
3. Click the cog wheel to choose your settings, taking note of password if you want. Use the ? icon to clarify what any of the settings do
4. Click "Save changes"

(we recommend deleting guest access as this will make the 'Enrol me' button to be located in an obvious pace)

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

A block that teachers can add to courses so as to quickly find ungraded assessments.

Turn editing on > Add a block > Grade Me

The grader report is the grid view that teachers see. Students see the user report, as they can only see their own grades.

There can be quite a bit of sideways scroll on this page, so be prepared to scroll to the bottom, then scroll to the right.

Do not alter assignment grades through the grader report! Use the assignment grading page.

Only manual grade items should be altered through the grader report.

Back to grades

Sometimes it is desirable to modify a student's grade from what moodle has generated (for example a quiz grade). This is called manual grade override.

Setting these overrides is very easy it's typically just a matter of clicking on the grade while reviewing an activity attempt or submission and typing in a new one.

Clearing these overrides is not so straight forward, it requires going into the gradebook setup and removing it.

Marking workflow allows for results of assignment type activities to sit in a number of different states prior to being released to students. This is only available for assignment type activities not quiz.

On a basic level this allows results to be hidden from students until you're ready, but also allows for assessors to keep track of the state of individual student's assignment through a mark->review->release workflow.

Enable marking workflow

Edit the settings for the assignment activity:

Under the Grade area of the Edit settings page, set Use marking workflow to Yes

Save your changes, you have now enabled marking workflow for this assignment.

Using marking workflow

When you are ready to grade an assignment click on the assignment and then View/grade all submissions as normal

In the grading page is where you can start to see marking workflow options appear, the default marking workflow state is Not marked, you can see this under the status column of the assignment grading page.

When grading an individual assessment there is now an option to set marking workflow state, any state other than "Released" will hide the current grade from the student.

Changing the marking workflow state of multiple submissions

It is also possible to change the marking workflow state for multiple or all students who have participated in an assignment.

Go to the assignment grading page and use the check boxes down the left hand side to select multiple or all participants in the list.

Now down the bottom you have an option to act on the selected participants

Click Go and you will be taken to a Set marking workflow state for (multiple) users page, scroll to the bottom of the page and select the new marking workflow state and then click Save changes.

All the selected participants activities are now set to this new marking workflow state

It is important to differentiate between the moodle gradebook found on your moodle course and the Unitec gradebook accessed through The Nest. These two systems are not the same and are not linked together.

It is however possible to make the moodle gradebook in your moodle course correctly align with the weightings for the various assessment activities. This will provide better feedback for your students about their current progress and make your final input of grades into the Unitec gradebook much simpler.

Teachers can see individual user reports for students.

Students always only see the individual user report.

Teachers, to see individual user reports:

1. Course administration > Grades
2. Change the "Grader report" drop down menu in top left to "User report"
3. On the right, select the student you would like to view from the drop down menu labelled "Select all or one user"