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Profile setup
You can change the settings in your profile so that you only get one email per day from forum posts. To change the assignment notification you need to change the message settings Double check: Have you selected the correct timezone? You may wish to double check, since an incorrect timezone may lead to incorrect deadlines being set. Your profile change will only alter the dates / times provided by the system, and only you will be able to see them in this format. If you are working in a different timezone, you can double-check you have applied the correct UK timings by reverting to the ‘Server timezone (Europe/London)’ setting. Note that if you click the ‘Show more’ button you have the option to include ‘repeating’ events. As ‘recurring’ Zoom meetings only appear as one event in the Moodle calendar you could add the remaining meetings to the calendar using this option (if they are repeated weekly). Select ‘Repeat this event’ and enter the number of weekly repeats you would like, before saving. You can view all events across all Moodle courses by visiting Home > Dashboard > Calendar. The newly named calendar becomes an option in your list of calendars which you can toggle on/off. Please note that Microsoft report that it can take 24 hours for Outlook to update subscribed calendars. It is also possible to use the generated calendar link to add a calendar to a Gmail calendar. Moodle Boards enables a post-it board activity for students. This is a collaborative activity where the teachers sets out a number of columns with optional names and then participants can add contributions to the columns. Students posts are anonymous (however, it is recommended to inform students that Teachers will be able to access creation details, such as names). For further information see our Moodle Board Overview and FAQs page. Watch the 6-minute video below for instructions on how to enable a Board on your Moodle page. It will also show you how participants can add posts. < How to set Default Enrolment Duration: You can set a Default enrolment duration for participants that are Manual enrolments and/or Self enrolment (Student). The Default enrolment duration does not affect SAMIS enrolled students. The Default enrolment duration will remove participants once they have reached the allocated enrolment time on the unit. Setting the default enrolment duration may limit the number of manual and self-enrolled participants you will need to manually remove from your unit. To set the Default enrolment durations: 2. Then click on the cog for the dropdown menu. To manually unenrol an individual or group of users please watch the guidance video below. It is recommended to check your course enrolment before the start of each semester and remove any manually enrolled users no longer needed. If the Short code for the Moodle page is a SAMIS unit or programme code, then the corresponding cohort of students will be automatically enrolled (assuming they are correctly registered in SAMIS). This is called the “default mapping”. You may additionally add a bespoke mapping, enabling additional (non-default) cohorts to be added to the course. These can be removed at any point if required. At this point, a new window will open up. This window will display a list of all of the courses that you have Teacher access to. Identify the course to which you wish to add additional cohorts, and expand the reference to it by pressing the expand If a cohort is registered on SAMIS for a unit for Semester 1 or Semester 2 then they have access to the Moodle course for a defined duration. To see the Unenrol Date, you can select “View Enrolled Users” after adding the cohort. Note: Programme mappings can also be created (enabling Teachers to enrol a specific year group/all year groups as required) On occasion you may want to immediately synchronise enrolments in your Moodle course with the information held in SAMIS, rather than waiting for a scheduled automatic sync. To do so follow the instructions in the screencast below: Find out more about Using Reporting Tools to Explore Online Activity 4. Mix and Match + other strategies
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Managing users & student data
3. From the dropdown menu choose Enrolment methods.
4. Click on the cog in the row you wish to alter the enrolment duration.
5. Choose the Default role you would like to set the enrolment duration for. Then enable the Default enrolment duration and choose the enrolment duration. You can also choose to notify participants when their enrolment time expires. When you are happy with your changes click Save changes.
6. Once a student is unenrolled (in this way or any other) you will no longer see any of their assignment submissions. If you want to access those submissions, you can re-enrol the student and as long as the group feature is not in use for the unit, the assignment will reappear.
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Sync
Specified Date
You can select any future date when the cohort will be automatically unenrolled from the Moodle course.
Below are instructions on how to unenrol from a unit depending on your role: Teacher
Student
Non-editing Teacher As a Non-editing Teacher you are unable to unenrol yourself from the Moodle course. You will need someone with Teacher access to remove you from the unit.
Pedagogical Support
1. Online Moodle Grading – see overview video and our Moodle course instructions
2. Moodle Offline Grading- see video and our Moodle course instructions
3. Rubrics and Marking Guides see video and Moodle course instructions
Accessibility and Inclusivity
Technical Questions
Orientation, Structure and Navigation
The tabs provide staff with a consistent layout to help them present key unit information to students. Please read the Moodle Essential Unit Information Area – Quick Guide for more details. You can import content from your previous course to this fresh Moodle course. However, any Teacher or Non-editing teacher enrolled in the course, will also be able to see the ‘private’ posts, and receive email notifications. When replying to a post click the Reply privately check box. To enable grading, in the forum settings go to the section ‘Whole forum grading‘, and set the grade type to Point (or Scale). You can then choose a grading method; and for now we recommend the simple direct grading (marking guide or rubric are possible but are currently hindered by a user interface problem that has yet to be fixed). After saving the forum settings, you’ll find a ‘Grade users’ button on the forum page. In the forum grading screen you will be able to scroll through the participants and see their posts/discussions. You can add a grade and save it and choose whether to notify the student. You can then choose which format you’d like to export. Click the ‘human-readable dates‘ option and Export. You can also export posts from individuals using the summary report (see the following FAQ). You can then see the overview, export posts from selected individuals or export the table in a format you’d like to use. Click the ‘human-readable dates’ option and Export. It is also possible for staff to share content with students via their University of Bath OneDrive Account. Please contact tel@bath.ac.uk if these solutions don’t work for you. To do delete unwanted Groups from your course, follow the steps in the short video below. It is now possible to create and populate Moodle Groups using a CSV file which can be made with Excel. For details, please see the video below: If you have been struggling or spending hours adding students manually into empty groups, the new Course Group Upload block will save you time. First, log into Moodle, navigate to the relevant course page and ‘Turn Editing On’. Later go to the left menu and scroll down to the bottom of the page until you find the option ‘add a block’ and click on it as shown below. Then a pop-up box will appear, find the option ‘Course group upload‘ and click on it. The block will be added to the left menu below the ‘Course Toolkit’. To prepare your source file, you must create a CSV UTF-8 document in Excel. In the spreadsheet, add the following headers in the first row: email, group and grouping. Then, populate all the information within each corresponding column. If you are not using the grouping function in your course, leave this column blank as seen in the example below. When the CSV is ready, go to the block and click on ‘Import file page’. A new page will appear, you can either ‘drag and drop‘ your CSV file into the box (option B), or you can click on ‘Choose a file‘ and select a document from your computer or your OneDrive (option A). After uploading your CSV file, click on ‘update’. Then the page will display a table with the emails and groups imported from the CSV file. Click on ‘submit’ to complete the data upload. Finally, it will display a message to confirm that the data was successfully imported. You can check if the groups have been added correctly by clicking on ‘Go to group/grouping view page’. Note: there is now a group import block that allows you to upload a .csv file to allocate students to groups. Remember: this procedure will copy ALL enrolments from Moodle Course 1 to Moodle Course 2, including any manual enrolments. It is the responsibility of the user to clear up any additional enrolments in Moodle course 2 following Import. Please see our dedicated page on Moodle Quiz Settings Setup and FAQ. Please see our dedicated pages on:Moodle Forum
Managing resources
Please note, the recycle bin is only available if there if you have deleted contents in the last 30 days. It may take up to 30 minutes for the activity to appear in the recycle bin. Managing groups
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