Technology & Instruction for UNEX

Moodle provides a variety of ways to check on student activity in classes. This lesson covers three ways to see individual and group activity in your class. Note: personal information has been obscured for privacy reasons. Check last login To see the last time anyone on the roster logged in to the class, click on Users and then Enrolled users in the Administration block. List of Enrolled users In the list of enrolled users, you can see the last login information in the second column, Last access to course . Detail on student activity To see a detailed report on student activity in the class, click the icon/image to the left of the student's name. Once the student's name has appeared at the top of the screen (1), open Profile settings in the Administration block and then click Activity reports . View All logs Several reports are available, but to see a bar chart of student activity throughout the class along with a detailed r

Adding audio files to your Moodle class can be a good way to increase the variety of course content for your students. Whether you record your own audio, download podcasts, or find audio from another source, it is easy to add the audio to your class. Moodle can play .mp3 and .wav audio files, so it is best to stick with those formats. Login and turn editing on Login to your class and then turn editing on. Method 1 - Add a file Locate the section of your class where the audio file will be added. Click Add an activity or resource . Add a File Resource Scroll down until you see the list of Resources , then click the radio button next to File . Click the Add button to get started. Fill in the File form Fill in the Name (1) and Description (2) fields with the appropriate information. If you want the Description to be visible to students on the class home page, click the box next to Display description on course page (3) . The next step will be to

This lesson covers the steps involved in adding a link to a web resource to your Moodle class. In the language of Moodle, you will be adding a URL resource. In these examples, the link is added to the class home page. It is also possible to insert links in web pages or documents, but that is not covered here. Turn editing on Access your class and turn editing on. Locate the week or section where you want to add the link Click the Add an activity or resource menu in the section of the class where the link will be added. Scroll to the bottom of the list of activities and resources URL is the last item in the list. Choose URL Click the radio button next to URL and then click the Add button. Copy the link you want to add If you have not already copied the URL you are linking to, open it in a new window or tab and copy the URL from the

A great video about the failure of various new technologies to have a significant impact on education was added to YouTube last week. It's only about 7 minutes long, but it makes some great points and is nicely edited.

In this lesson, we will see how to set up categories in the Moodle grade book and use the categories to generate a weighted final grade. In most cases, this is an easier method than creating a custom formula for the final grade. Access the Grade Book Once you have added the graded activities to your class, login and click on the Grades link in the Settings block. Grade book The grade book's default view, Grader report , will list each graded item, with one column for each item and one row for each student. We will be organizing the items into categories and adding a total number of points to each category based on a 100 point scale. For each category, we will use the average score, assuming that all items in the category carry equal weight towards the final grade. Locate the Grader report menu in the upper left. Change to Full View Click on the Grader report menu and choose Full view . Full view Full view displays the graded items