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Restoring Course Data: Troubleshooting [Faculty]
In the process of restoring your course, you may encounter some problems. There are some things you can do to help your course restore cleanly.
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.
Hide/Show a Course [Faculty]
Course availability affects whether or not students are able to access the course on Moodle ISU.
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.
Backing Up and Restoring a Moodle ISU Course [Faculty]
Backup course content, or add information from an old course into a new course.
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.
Blocks in Moodle ISU [Faculty]
Blocks are items which may be added to the right of your Moodle page. Blocks can be very helpful in adding functionality to your Moodle ISU course.
Glossary Activity: Adding a New Entry [Faculty & Student]
The Glossary activity allows participants to create and maintain a list of definitions similar to a dictionary. This guide will be focused on entries and categories if you would like more information you can find it in the Glossary guide.
Forum Activity: Subscribe and Unsubscribe [Faculty and Student]
Forum notifications and responses can be sent to your ISU email after you have entered in a forum post, or if you have subscribed to a forum.
Workshop Activity (8): The Closed Phase
During the Closed Phase, the calculated grades will be pushed to the gradebook. Students will also be able to see their submissions, their assessments and the published submissions.
Workshop Activity (7): The Grading Evaluation Phase [Faculty]
During the Grading Evaluation Phase, students can no longer modify their submissions or their assessments. The instructor can use the grading evaluation tools to calculate final grades, manually override grades, provide feedback for authors and reviewers and select example submissions to be published for all students to view after the workshop is closed.
Workshop Activity (6): The Assessment Phase [Faculty]
During the Assessment Phase, submissions will be assessed using the Assessment form created during the Setup Phase.
Wiki Activity [Faculty]
Wiki is a collaborative Moodle tool whereby students and professors may add content of many forms in order to create a “webpage” without needing experience with HTML.
URL Resource [Faculty]
You can add links to external websites as a way to include online articles, videos, podcasts and other resources in your course.
Survey Activity [Faculty]
The Survey module is a course activity that provides a number of preset survey instruments.
SCORM Activity [Faculty]
The SCORM module enables you to upload any SCORM or AICC package to include in your course.
Quiz Activity 4.2: Downloading Quiz Results [Faculty]
Learn how instructors can download student data from a quiz for research or archive purposes.
Quiz Activity 3.1: Adding Questions to a Quiz in Moodle ISU [Faculty]
Before adding questions to your quiz, you should have already created questions in your Question bank, and have created a Quiz activity in your course.
Quiz Activity 2.1: Creating Quizzes in Moodle ISU [Faculty]
The quiz activity allows you to create tests and adaptive learning assessments. Moodle ISU can automatically grade many of the question types and place the overall score in the Gradebook.
Quiz Activity 1.5: Importing Questions from ExamView [Faculty]
If your textbook came with access to ExamView, this guide will help you import the questions into your Moodle ISU question bank. If you have received access to TestGen or EZTest, contact the ITRC - (208) 282-5880 or email itrc@isu.edu so that they can look at the question bank and help you find the best process for importing those questions.