How do I make the existing attendance activity graded?
This FAQ will walk you through updating the settings for the existing attendance activity so that the system grades it for you. By default, the attendance activity is not set to be graded. To change the attendance activity settings such that it calculates a grade, you can follow the steps below. Moodle grades the attendance...
How do I self-enroll or use an enrollment key for a resource course?
There are some resource courses in Moodle which have self-enrollment enabled. This way, if you have the enrollment key, you can manually add yourself to the course. To do this, follow the steps below. Login to Moodle. In the “Search courses” box in the center of the main page, search for the resource course in...
Fast FAQ: Adding Class Sessions to Your Attendance Activity
[Faculty Fast FAQ] The university requires that you complete daily class attendance through the Moodle Attendance activity. The system will pre-populate the Moodle attendance activity shell, but you, as the faculty member, will need to indicate when your course meets. You would do this once at the beginning of the academic term, by adding a...
Fast FAQ: Changing the Dates on Your Main Course Page
[Faculty Fast FAQ] Here is a quick video on the Moodle 3.2 process of changing the dates on your main course page! Fast FAQ Video Transcript (Microsoft Word format): Changing the Dates on Your Main Course Page English CC Available on Video <– Click on this icon in the bottom right corner of the player when...
How do I edit the dates for multiple assignments at one time?
In Moodle 3.2, Trinity has access to the report titled, “Dates,” which allows instructors to edit the dates for multiple activities on one page. This is extremely helpful when you import a previous term’s course and need to update all of the activity use dates. To access and use this report, follow the steps below....
How do I change my gradebook category’s aggregation?
You can adjust your gradebook category’s aggregation in a similar way to adjusting your entire gradebook’s aggregation. By default, the Moodle gradebook category’s aggregation (the way it adds your grade values) is ‘Simple Weighted Mean of Grades.’ If you wish to use another aggregation in your gradebook category, follow the steps below to change the...
What is the difference between a category and a grade item in the Moodle gradebook?
On the ‘Gradebook setup’ page of the Moodle gradebook, you can set-up all of the details of your specific gradebook. Category vs. Grade Item A gradebook category is not something that will be graded on its own. It is a space used to group multiple items together where the individual items are set to be...
How do I change the weekly dates on my course?
All courses are created in Moodle with weekly date ranges at the top of each week/section. By default, these weeks begin with the first date of the academic session for that course. So if you are leading a course in the WEEKLY academic session and that session begins on a Tuesday, the weekly dates in...
What is the ‘Announcements’ forum?
Every course space in Moodle comes with a forum that is set-up already for class announcements. This is the forum activity located in the top section of the course called ‘Announcements.’ Everyone enrolled in the course, both instructors and students, are automatically subscribed to this forum. When anyone posts to this forum, the entire class...
How do I enter a zero for a student who didn’t take a quiz activity?
If a student does not take an online quiz activity that you have created, you will want to enter the ‘zero’ that the student earned directly into the gradebook. To manually enter a grade for a student for a quiz activity, please follow the steps below. This is also how you would enter a grade...