Course Editing Guide
Table of Contents
General technical problems (student guide)Quick start guide for new instructors
- Course management
- How to create a course?
- How to change the course name or other settings?
- How to change course header images?
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How to copy all contents from a previous course? (Import) - or copy single activities between courses (sharing cart)
- Course accessibility (Enrollment key, Hidden course, Self-enrollment)
- How to assign a student, co-teacher or TA? (add users manually from the Participants menu)
- How to give access to readings for non-CEU users (Guests)
- External accounts - for users who will not get a CEU account
- How to manage multi-group (or offline/online) courses?
- Basic Course Editing
- How to create activities (give tasks to students)
Assignment (Moodle.org guide)
- Creating an assignment and settings
- Assignment - Grading and Feedback
- Assignments with Turnitin
- Potential student problems with assignments (submit, modify after the due date)
- Originality reports
- How to create a timed, simple essay type exam in advance?
- Blind marking assignments (anonym student uploads)
- How to enable students to upload videos into Panopto (assignment folder)?
Forum (Moodle.org guide)
Other commonly used activities
- Create an exam with quiz (with multiple choice questions - Moodle.org guide)
- Ensuring Exam Security: Closed and Open-Book Exam, Safe Exam Browser
- Choice and feedback (PDF) - (Moodle.org guide)
- How to do a survey for the students with the feedback activity
- How to create an attendance sheet with the choice or checklist activity?
- How to create a sign-up sheet with a wiki? (Collaborative document editing) - (Moodle.org guide)
- How to enable easy file sharing in a course with the student folder (PDF)
- Peer review (workshop activity)
- How to create a Board for students to post and vote (Padlet substitute)?
- Other, not common activities
Important functions connected to activities
Interactive elements and activities
- Videos with Panopto - share/upload videos in Moodle
- How to enable students to upload videos into Panopto (assignment folder)?
- How to record a short video directly from Moodle (this can be used with forum posts for course introduction videos)