Teaching with the VLE

Click 'Rollover' from the ‘Administration’ block and select the items you wish to roll over.

Please email Digital Services and include your p number, your faculty and an example of a course.

When adding time restrictions, use the relevant section in the activity settings and not Restrict Access.

Add an Attendance activity and add sessions for which you want to record attendance. Go into each session and record attendance for individual students or in bulk.

To allow students to record their own attendance in Moodle, there are a number of settings to be configured. It can be configured so that if students fail to register they are recorded by default as Absent. It is possible to restrict how long the "register" is available to students for each session and to specify a unique password and QR code for each session to allow for recording of attendance from genuine attendees.

By changing the forum preferences for your account only or for specific forums using the course id number.

If you are subscribed to a forum or discussion in a forum, you will receive notifications. Read on to discover how you can potentially manage your subscriptions.

It is possible to set up User and Group overrides in a Moodle Quiz. This allows for the definition of different deadlines, passwords, number of attempts and time limits for specific students.

By configuring completion tracking within your course, which consists of course and activity completion.

Click the cog icon (top right of the course), then select More at the bottom of the dropdown menu.

By setting up discussion forums with either 'separate' or 'visible' groups as group mode.

Some suggested tools that allow students to ask a question anonymously

By following our accessibility checklist tutorial and using Blackboard Ally in Moodle.

By adding the Scheduler activity to your Virtual Office space in Moodle.

You are now able to schedule announcements in Moodle. Read on to discover how you can configure posts to be emailed to your students at a pre-defined time.

LockDown Browser (LDB) is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within a Moodle Quiz. Typically, an ‘in-class’ test will take place in a computer room on campus and the quiz must be launched from the Chrome browser. If your ‘in-class’ test requires students to write an essay or report then you simply set up your Moodle quiz with a single ‘Essay’ type question.

It is possible to embed or link to an individual Panopto recording within your Moodle course. You can use the Panopto LTI 'selected content' option to achieve this.

How can I set up a Moodle forum so students can ask a question anonymously using the QuAK app?