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Activity Completion Setup [Faculty]

Activity completion or progress tracking, allows the instructor to monitor student progress through the course. Setting the activity completion options dictates when an activity will be marked as complete. When an activity is marked complete, the student will see a checkmark next to the activity on the course page and in the progress tracking report.

Backing Up and Restoring a Moodle ISU Course [Faculty]

Backup course content, or add information from an old course into a new course.

Change dates for my Moodle Activities [Faculty]

The Dates report lets an instructor review and change due dates, access dates, cut-off dates, etc., for multiple Activities or Resources at once. This feature is especially useful for instructors who are reusing a previous course.

Export Moodle ISU Student Data for ePortfolio [Faculty]

Faculty members are responsible for backing up their own course materials at the end of each semester.

Forum Preferences [Faculty & Student]

Forum Preferences allows the user to adjust forum notifications, subscriptions, and tracking of read and unread posts in forums.

General Technology Software for Online/Hybrid Courses

This document lists the minimum software requirements for courses in Moodle along with instructions and links to download the software. Your courses may require additional software. Please go through each section to ensure that you have the minimum software and that it is up to date.

Groups and Groupings Setup [Faculty]

The Groups and Groupings options provide a way for instructors to divide the students in order to work together on activities, give participants access to specific content, and help organize the Gradebook and participant list.

Importing Content into a New Moodle ISU Course [Faculty]

The Import function allows course content to be moved from one course to another within the same instance of Moodle.

Indenting Activities and Resources in Moodle ISU [Faculty]

Activities and resources can be indented in Moodle to help organize and style your course. By default, this option is turned off in Moodle ISU, but you can enable it in your course using the course settings.

Moodle ISU Notification Preferences [Faculty & Student]

Moodle Notification Preferences allow the user to adjust Moodle notifications over the web, email, or mobile app. You can choose to turn off notifications, or opt-in to receiving notifications such as the “New Sign-in to your Moodle ISU Account” notifications.

Quick Guide to HTML [Faculty or Student]

HTML is a markup language for structuring web page content.

Update Moodle ISU Profile [Faculty & Student]

Users can customize Moodle to their own personal preferences. They can change general information such as their location, timezones, preferred languages and themes. They can add a profile picture and a brief description about themselves. Users can also change preferred settings such as how their email will be displayed and the format. Users can change subscription types and tracking forums.

Withdrawn Students: Suspended Enrollment [Faculty]

Students who withdraw from a course after the designated add/drop date will be placed in a suspended enrollment status in Moodle ISU.

Add a Person into a Course [Faculty]

Add another teacher to share ideas, collaborate with peers, and to help improve the overall quality of your learning materials.

Hide/Show a Course [Faculty]

Course availability affects whether or not students are able to access the course on Moodle ISU.