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Showing things to students

  • How to show texts and websites to students?
  • How to put pictures in a text?
  • How to show a Word or PDF document in Moodle?
  • How to play a sound file in Moodle?
  • How to show a picture gallery in Moodle?
  • How to add an RSS-feed?
    • Easy, add the RSS block to a course or a site

Practice and grading

  • How do I very quickly make many multiple choice questions in Moodle?
  • How to make a listening quiz with Moodle?
  • How do I make drill and practice exercises (different questions in the same quiz) with Moodle?
    • Randomize questions in Quiz and do not grade. Use Lesson questions with jumps to information pages (branch tables) or create unique teacher responses for each answer.
  • How can I get an overview of the results of a test or assignment?
  • Can I export grades to Excel?

Assignments

  • How can I let my students make a report of a group task?
  • I want to let my students make a presentation. How can I collect them?
  • My students have to think harder before they bring in their assignment. How can I stimulate them?
  • Some students send it in their assignment by mistake. How can they resend it?

Setting up activities

  • How do I set up a Hot Potatoes test for students?
  • How do I set up a Workshop?

Moodle and pedagogy

  • How do you organise an online discussion with Moodle?
  • How can you let students write a text together?
  • How to use a forum in a class?
  • How can you let students collaborate on a forum?
  • What is this Moodle Pedagogy and Philosophy that might be of interest?

Course design

  • How can I design a course for different classes?
  • Whats the use of a metacourse? Metacourses
  • How can I put a background picture on my course?
  • How can I bring in parts of other courses into my course? Import course data, Backup restore
  • How do I take an old course and start it again as a new one? Roll courses forward