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<div>{{Help files}}<br />
{{Course admin}}<br />
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Course settings control how the things appear to the participants in a course. It is the first page viewed after creating a course. It can be edited through the '''settings''' link in the [[Administration block]] menu. This page has links to other pages that may describe a setting in more detail. Different versions of Moodle may not have all the settings listed below.<br />
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==Category==<br />
A Moodle administrator or course creator may have set up several course categories.<br />
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For example, "Science", "Humanities", "Public Health" etc<br />
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Choose the one most applicable for your course. This choice will affect where your course is displayed on the course listing and may make it easier for students to find your course.<br />
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==Full name==<br />
The full name of the course is displayed at the top of the screen and in the course listings. More advanced users can use [[Page_content#Creative_examples|HTML code]] to add an image.<br />
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==Short name==<br />
Many institutions have a shorthand way of referring to a course, such as BP102 or COMMS. Even you don't already have such a name for your course, make one up here. It will be used in several places where the long name isn't appropriate. The most common use is in the navigation bar that is at the top of most pages.<br />
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[[Image:Assignment nav trail.jpg|The underlined part is the course Short name.]]<br />
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The the above example has the short course name, "Features". The short name also appears in the subject line of email messages that are part of the course.<br />
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==ID number==<br />
The ID number is an alpha numeric field. It has several potential uses. Generally it is not displayed to students. However, it can be used to match this course against an external system's ID, as your course catalog ID or can be used in the certificate module as a printed field.<br />
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==Summary==<br />
The summary of the course is displayed in the course listings.<br />
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==Format==<br />
A Moodle course may use one of the following three formats:<br />
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'''Weekly format'''<br />
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The course is organised week by week, with a clear start date and a finish date. Each week consists of activities. Some of them, like journals, may have "open windows" of, say, two weeks after which they become unavailable.<br />
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'''Topics format'''<br />
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Very similar to the weekly format, except that each "week" is called a topic. A "topic" is not restricted to any time limit. You don't need to specify any dates.<br />
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'''Social format'''<br />
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This format is oriented around one main forum, the Social forum, which appears listed on the main page. It is useful for situations that are more freeform. They may not even be courses. For example, it could be used as a departmental notice board.<br />
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In Moodle 1.6 this is increased by:<br />
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'''LAMS course format''' [[LAMS]]<br />
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'''SCORM format''' [[SCORM]]<br />
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'''Weekly format, CSS/no tables'''<br />
* NOTE 1: Just an educated guess: This version of the weekly format uses the more modern web layout system CSS (cascading style sheets) to place things on the web page in a more flexible way than the old method with tables.<br />
* NOTE 2 (Moodle 1.8 2007-Apr-4): Another contributor's note: Listing the page's HTML source code shows table tags, so this isn't the case.<br />
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'''non-standard formats'''<br />
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such as a patch to allow javascript-based [[layout course editing]]<br />
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==Course start date==<br />
This is where you specify the starting time of the course (in your own timezone).<br />
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If you are using a 'weekly' course format, this will affect the display of the weeks. The first week will start on the date you set here.<br />
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This setting will not affect courses using the 'social' or 'topics' formats.<br />
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However, one place this setting will have an effect is the display of logs, which use this date as the earliest possible date you can display.<br />
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In general, if your course does have a real starting date then it makes sense to set this date to that, no matter what course formats you are using.<br />
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==Enrolment plugins==<br />
{{Moodle 1.7}}<br />
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==Default role==<br />
{{Moodle 1.7}}<br />
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==Course enrollable==<br />
Yes, No or give start and end date range.<br />
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==Enrolment duration==<br />
This setting specifies the number of days a student can be enrolled in this course (starting from the moment they enroll).<br />
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If this is set, then students are automatically unenrolled after the specified time has elapsed. This is most useful for rolling courses without a specific start or end time.<br />
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If you don't set this then the student will remain in this course until they are manually unenrolled or the clean-up function to remove defunct students takes effect.<br />
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If you have selected to manage this course as a meta course, your enrolment period will not be used.<br />
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==Expired enrolment notification==<br />
Options to notify teacher, student and define threshold for notification.<br />
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==Number of weeks/topics==<br />
This setting is only used by the 'weekly' and 'topics' course formats.<br />
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In the 'weekly' format, it specifies the number of weeks that the course will run for, starting from the course starting date.<br />
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In the 'topics' format, it specifies the number of topics in the course.<br />
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Both of these translate to the number of "boxes" down the middle of the course page.<br />
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==Group mode==<br />
Here you can define the group mode at the course level. This will be the default group mode for all activities defined within that course. Learn more about [[Groups]]<br />
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Note that you don't '''need''' to change this setting to enable groups. The default setting of this and 'Force' enables each activity to have its group mode set individually.<br />
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===Force===<br />
If the group mode is "forced" at a course-level, then this particular group mode will be applied to every activity in that course. Individual group settings in each activity are then ignored.<br />
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This is useful when, for example, one wants to set up a course for a number of completely separate cohorts.<br />
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==Availability==<br />
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This option allows you to "hide" your course completely. It will not appear on any course listings, except to teachers of the course and administrators. Even if students try to access the course URL directly, they will not be allowed to enter.<br />
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==Enrolment key==<br />
A course enrolment key enables access to courses to be restricted to those who know the key.<br />
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If left blank, then anyone who has created a Moodle username on the site will be able to enrol in the course.<br />
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If a key is specified, then students who are trying to enter will be asked to supply the key. Once enrolled, Students are not required to enter an enrollment key to gain access.<br />
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The idea is that Teachers supply the key to authorised people using another means like private email, snail mail, on the phone or even verbally in a face to face class.<br />
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If this password "gets out" and you have unwanted people enrolling, you can unenrol them (see their user profile page) and change this key. Any legitimate students who have already enrolled will not be affected, but the unwanted people won't be able to get back in.<br />
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==Guest access==<br />
You have the choice of allowing [[Guest access | "guests"]] into your course or not, and if they need an enrolment key or enter without one. <br />
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People can attempt to log in as guests using the "Login as a guest" button on the course login screen.<br />
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Guests ALWAYS have "read-only" access - meaning they can't leave any posts or otherwise mess up the course for real students. No use information is stored for a guest.<br />
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This can be handy when you want to let a colleague in to look around at your work, or to let students see a course before they have decided to enrol.<br />
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Note that you have a choice between two types of guest access: with the enrolment key or without. If you choose to allow guests who have the key, then the guest will need to provide the current enrolment key EVERY TIME they log in (unlike students who only need to do it once). This lets you restrict your guests. If you choose to allow guests without a key, then anyone can get straight into your course.<br />
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==Cost==<br />
The course cost will be shown if you have selected another enrolment method except internal.<br />
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==Hidden sections==<br />
This option allows you to decide how the hidden sections in your course are displayed to students. By default, a small area is shown (in collapsed form, usually gray) to indicate where the hidden section is, though they still can not actually see the hidden activities and texts. This is particularly useful in the Weekly format, so that non-class weeks are clear.<br />
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If you choose, these can be completely hidden, so that students don't even know sections of the course are hidden.<br />
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==News items to show==<br />
A special forum called "News" appears in the "weekly" and "topics" course formats. It's a good place to post notices for all students to see. (By default, all students are subscribed to this forum, and will receive your notices by email.)<br />
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This setting determines how many recent items appear on your course home page, in a news box down the right-hand side.<br />
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If you set it to "0 news items" then the news box won't even appear.<br />
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==Show grades==<br />
Many of the activities allow grades to be set. By default, the results of all grades within the course can be seen in the Grades page, available from the main course page.<br />
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If a teacher is not interested in using grades in a course, or just wants to hide grades from students, then they can disable the display of grades with this option. This does not prevent individual activities from using or setting grades, it just disables the results being displayed to students.<br />
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==Show activity reports==<br />
Activity reports are available for each participant that show their activity in the current course. As well as listings of their contributions, these reports include detailed access logs.<br />
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Teachers always have access to these reports, using the button or tab visible on each persons's profile page.<br />
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Student access to their own reports is controlled by the teacher via this course setting. For some courses these reports can be a useful tool for a student to reflect on their involvement and appearance within the online environment, but for some courses this may not be necessary.<br />
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Another reason for turning it off is that the report can place a bit of load on the server while being generated. For large or long classes it may be more efficient to keep it off.<br />
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==Maximum upload size==<br />
This setting defines the largest size of file that can be uploaded by students in this course, limited by the site wide setting created by the administrator.<br />
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[[Image:Changeupload.jpg]]<br />
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It is possible to further restrict this size through settings within each activity module.<br />
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==Your word for Teacher/Teachers/Student/Students==<br />
You can change the words for teacher and student for a particular course.<br />
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==Force language==<br />
If you force a language in a course, the interface of Moodle in this course will be in this particular language, even if a student has selected a different preferred language in his/her personal profile.<br />
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==Is this a meta course?==<br />
A [[Metacourses|metacourse]] automatically enrols its participants from other courses. For example, for every course that is a "child" of the metacourse, all students in the child course are enroled in the metacourse.<br />
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[[Category:Teacher|Course/edit]]<br />
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[[ja:コース設定]]</div>Tbarronhttps://docs.moodle.org/22/en/index.php?title=Files&diff=21055Files2007-03-04T03:43:57Z<p>Tbarron: /* Make a folder */</p>
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<div>{{Course admin}}<br />
[[Image:Files_icon.JPG]] <br />
The Files menu is located in the course [[Administration block|administration block]]. Depending upon [[Roles|roles]], it is a place to upload files and find Moodle created files such as backup(s)of the course. The files area can contain PDFs, HTML, Multimedia, word processing, presentations or any digital content for inclusion in an [[Teacher_documentation#Activity_modules|activity]], [[Teacher_documentation#Resources|resource]], [[Course sections|course section]], link or a direct download. <br />
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The files link shows a list of files and folders, depending upon the viewer's role. The list will contain the name, size, last time modified and potential action(s) to modify that item.<br />
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To preview any file or drill down, click on its name. Your web browser will take care of either displaying it or downloading it to your computer.<br />
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==Tools==<br />
===Move, delete, archive ===<br />
It is possible to move, delete completely or zip archive one or more items. First select the items on the list by ticking the box on the left. Then use the "With Choosen files" pull down menu at the bottom of the list to take the action. <br />
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===Make a folder===<br />
The "Make a folder" button is at the bottom of the list. The initial file structure for a course is simple. Modules within Moodle may create their own folder. Generally speaking,a teacher can make one or more folders any place in the "files" area. These folders can be seen when adding an image or resource from within the course.<br />
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===Upload a file===<br />
On the bottom of every files screen is a "Upload a file" button. This will allow a single file upload. Uploading a file with the same name as an existing file it will automatically overwrite the existing file without a warning.<br />
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Tip: By first zipping a group of files or a folder of files, you can upload that file and Moodle will recognize this and give you an unzip action link. The unzip action will create the files and or folders in that place in the administrative files section.<br />
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===Editing some files===<br />
HTML and text files can be edited when the edit action is displayed on the left. Other files will need to be edited on your local computer and uploaded again. <br />
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==Student views of files==<br />
Using the add resource menu, the teacher can give access to a directory (folder) and everything under it.<br />
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==Special sub-directories==<br />
There are two standard sub-directories that are used by Moodle for storing data, namely the [[backupdata]] and moddata directories which are not available to students and teachers without editing privileges. <br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Site files]] - for the site home page<br />
*[[Repository API]] - future Moodle file structure<br />
*[[File manager block]] - non standard block that manages files and includes students<br />
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[[Category:Files]]<br />
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<div>{{Forums}}<br />
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In your course, click "Turn Editing On", and go to the topic or week section in which you want to create the forum. From the drop-down list labeled "Add an activity", select "Forum". This will take you to the "Adding a new forum" page.<br />
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==Forum name==<br />
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A short name of the forum (e.g. "Favourite colour"), which will be displayed on the course homepage.<br />
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==Forum type==<br />
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For now, there are four forum types to choose from:<br />
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# '''A single simple discussion''' - a single topic discussion developed on one page, which is useful for short focussed discussions<br />
# '''Standard forum for general use''' - an open forum where anyone can start a new topic at any time; this is the best general-purpose forum<br />
# '''Each person posts one discussion''' - each person can post exactly one new discussion topic (everyone can reply to them though); this is useful when you want each student to start a discussion about, say, their reflections on the week's topic, and everyone else responds to these<br />
# '''Q and A Forum''' - Instead of initiating discussions Teachers (only) pose a question in the initial post of a discussion. Students may reply with an answer, but they will not see the replies of other Students to the question in that discussion until they have themselves replied to the same discussion.<br />
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==Forum introduction==<br />
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Type the description of the forum here. Include precise instructions for students regarding the subject of the forum and, if necessary, the grading criteria.<br />
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==Can a student post to this forum?==<br />
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This option allows you to restrict students from posting new content in this forum. Again you have three options to choose from:<br />
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# '''Discussions and replies are allowed''' This option leaves students unrestricted, which is the case for most forums. Thus, you choose to allow them to start new discussion topics (threads), and also to post replies within those threads.<br />
# '''No discussions, but replies are allowed''' This option should be chosen if only teachers are to be allowed to start new discussions. Students will still be allowed to reply within those threads (for example within the news forum on the site home page). <br />
# '''No discussions, no replies''' Choosing this option bars students from starting new discussion topics and replying within those threads. This is useful for the News forum when you only want teachers to post new items that appear on the course main page.<br />
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==Force everyone to be subscribed?==<br />
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When a person is subscribed to a forum it means that they will be sent email copies of every post in that forum (posts are sent about 30 minutes after the post was first written). <br />
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People can usually choose whether or not they want to be subscribed to each forum. <br />
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However, if you choose to force subscription on a particular forum then all course users will be subscribed automatically, even those that enrol at a later time. <br />
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This is especially useful in the News forum and in forums towards the beginning of the course (before everyone has worked out that they can subscribe to these emails themselves). <br />
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If you choose the option "Yes, initially" then all current and future course users will be subscribed initially but they can unsubscribe themselves at any time. If you choose "Yes, forever" then they will not be able to unsubscribe themselves. <br />
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Note how the "Yes, initially" option behaves when you update an existing forum: Changing from "Yes, initially" to "No" will not unsubscribe existing users, it will only affect future course users. Similarly changing later to "Yes, initially" will not subscribe existing course users but only those enrolling later.<br />
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From Moodle 1.6 onwards there is an "Subscriptions not allowed" setting which prevents Students from subscribing to a Forum. Teachers may choose to be subscribed if they wish.<br />
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==Read tracking for this forum?==<br />
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If 'read tracking' for forums is enabled, users can track read and unread messages in forums and discussions. The instructor can choose to force a tracking type on a forum using this setting. <br />
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There are three choice for this setting:<br />
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# '''Optional [default]''' - students can turn tracking on or off for the forum at their discretion <br />
# '''On''' - tracking is always on<br />
# '''Off''' - tracking is always off<br />
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==Maximum attachment size==<br />
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Attachments can be limited to a certain size file, chosen by the person who set up the forum.<br />
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Sometimes it is possible to upload a file larger than this size, but the file will not be saved on the server and you might see an error.<br />
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==Allow posts to be rated?==<br />
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Here you will have to consider whether or not enable two options: <br />
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====Use ratings====<br />
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If you decide to rate posts on the forum, you will have to define settings of the three following aspects: <br />
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* '''Users'''<br />
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If you want everybody to rate posts, choose 'Everyone can rate posts'. Otherwise, pick 'Only teachers can rate posts'. <br />
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* '''View'''<br />
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If you want to keep the grades known only to the individual students graded, you should choose the option 'Students can only see their own ratings'. If there is no such a need, opt for 'Students can see everyone's ratings'.<br />
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* '''Grade'''<br />
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There are several grading scales you can choose from. You can give a number of points to each post (from 1 to 100) or you can opt for two other scales: '''Scale: satisfactory''' (Outstanding, Satisfactory and Not satisfactory) or '''Separate and Connected ways of knowing''' (Mostly Connected Knowing, Separate and Connected, Mostly Separate Knowing). More information about the latter one are to be found [[Separate and Connected ways of knowing|here]]. <br />
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====Restrict ratings to posts with dates in this range====<br />
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If you enable the '''Use ratings''' option, you will also face the necessity of choosing whether or not enable another option restricting ratings to posts in terms of time.<br />
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==Post threshold for warning==<br />
Students (only) will be blocked from posting after a specified number of posts in a given period - this option is for setting the number of posts a Student may make before receiving a warning.<br />
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Set to 0 to disable warnings. <br />
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==Post threshold for blocking==<br />
This option is for setting the number of posts a Student may make in the period defined below.<br />
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Set to 0 to disable blocking. If blocking is disabled, warnings will automatically be disabled.<br />
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==Time period for blocking==<br />
This option defines the period in which a student may make a the number of posts specified in "Post threshold for blocking".<br />
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==Visible to students==<br />
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You can hide the activity from students by selecting "Hide" here. It is useful if you wouldn't like to make the activity available immediately.<br />
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