Moodle
Moodle is an online Learning Management System that serves as a secure virtual-classroom for your course. It allows students and professors to access course content anywhere anytime.
Version 4.5
Adelphi updated our Moodle to version 4.5
Moodle 4.5 | Overview (Video, Quick Guide)
Moodle Info for Faculty
Faculty users can upload documents, collect assignments and add links to media and other websites. Additionally, Moodle offers many unique capabilities, allowing faculty to:
- Share resources
- Administer assessments
- Collect assignments
- Provide feedback
- Calculate grades
Moodle for Communication
Forums can be used to communicate quickly with the students enrolled within your course at large. Every course on Moodle includes an Announcements forum to which only the instructor can post.
How to Post an Announcement in Moodle (Video, Quick Guide)
Forums can be added to a course site to promote and help facilitate discussions between students, and with the instructor. A forum can contribute significantly to successful communication and community building in an online environment.
How to Add a Forum to Your Moodle Course (Video, Quick Guide)
Moodle’s Quickmail feature located on the right-hand side of your Moodle course page in the Course Block section, allows instructors to send emails to enrolled course members. Instructors who use Moodle may find Quickmail to be a convenient alternative to send a mass email, rather than going through their Gmail account.
How to Send an Email in Moodle Quickmail (Video / Quick Guide)
Moodle for Content Delivery
Instructors have various options within Moodle for providing course content to students:
Moodle’s Page Activity:
- Creates a single, scrollable screen of content.
- Versatile for text, images, audio, video, embedded code, or a mix.
- Suitable for lengthy instructions or descriptions.
Moodle’s File Resource:
- Used for individual files of any type (documents, presentations, spreadsheets, images, audio, video).
- Provides download options for students.
Web links can be added in Moodle so students can access course relevant content and other resources. Links can be added using::
- Label Activities
- URL Activities
- Within Page Activities
- Or emailed via the Quickmail feature in Moodle
How to Add File / URL Content to Moodle (Video, Quick Guide)
Faculty have expanded options for managing quiz attempts—manually, automatically, or automatically until a passing grade is achieved. Question banks are available for use and are great at organizing your quiz questions.
- How to Create a Quiz Question ( Video / Quick Guide )
- How to Create a Quiz Shell ( Video / Quick Guide )
- How to Add Questions to a Quiz ( Video / Quick Guide )
- How to Add User Overrides to a Quiz ( Video / Quick Guide )
- How to Import Questions in “.dat” or Blackboard Format ( Video / Quick Guide )
Moodle Assignments allows instructors to collect and review student work and provide grades and feedback in return. The work students submit is visible only to the instructor and not to the other students unless a group assignment is selected. Once student users have submitted their work, instructors can provide feedback using highlight and comment features.
- How to Create an Assignment ( Video / Quick Guide )
- How to Grade an Assignment ( Video / Quick Guide )
- How to Add User Overrides to an Assignment ( Video / Quick Guide )