About Moodle FAQ

Showing things to students

• How to show texts and websites to students?
  • Add Resources to your course like a text page or web page or
  • use HTML linking in a content areas
• How to put pictures in a text?
  • The HTML editor makes it easy in WYSIWYG, or use HTML in text mode
• How to show a Word or PDF document in Moodle?
  • Use "link to file" in Resources
• 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?
  • Import questions
• 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 Wiki?
• How do I set up a Lesson?
  • See the lesson index or MoodleDoc pages Lesson module, Lesson Pages or Adding/editing a lesson

• 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?

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