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Moodle is a widely used open-source learning management system that enables educators to provide online courses and training to learners. The University of Bath is one of many institutions to use Moodle to provide its students with engaging and interactive online learning experiences to extend and supplement their in-person studies.

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For Moodle instructional guides please see the Moodle section of our guidance portal or download our basic Getting Started with Moodle 4.1 guide.

Highlights from our Moodle guidance articles

Recordings from previous years

Introduction The terms of the Teaching Capture Policy mean that the University must ensure data is stored and processed in Panopto in line with the policy. Each year previous academic year recordings are moved for retention purposes and the appropriate staff and students continue to have access to them. Recordings from previous years Each…

How to create an Assignment

Before you start The steps below outline the basic steps to create an Assignment activity in your unit. Please also see our recommended approaches to creating formative and summative Individual, Group and offline Assignments Create an Assignment You can now give your assignment a clear and meaningful title and description, and…

Editing your Moodle space

Turn Editing on With the exception of the (course space) Settings found in the tabbed section at the top of a Moodle space, Edit mode needs to be enabled in order to make any changes to the space. The Edit mode toggle switch appears at the top right of the…

How to mark an Assignment offline and upload feedback

Preparing to grade an Assignment Download submissions/Mark offline/Upload Annotated submissions It is possible to download student submissions in order to annotate them offline. Moodle allows all submissions to be downloaded in a single zip file and to be returned after annotation, with any additional files if desired, in the same…

Sharing recordings with multiple cohorts of students

Introduction There are three options to ensure that both current and previous students can access shared recordings: Option 1 – Share individual recordings. Option 2 – Share the entire Moodle-linked folder The recently added cohort will appear in the group list. The recordings will continue to appear in the Panopto…