Keep Your Moodle Course Lean

Keep Your Moodle Course Lean

Keeping your Moodle course from getting too large can make it easier to manage, back up, reuse, and carry forward from semester to semester. A few simple habits can help: It’s also worth doing a little cleanup when reusing a course. Remove outdated resources, duplicate …

Gradebook: Change Grade Display Type

Gradebook: Change Grade Display Type

Rather than a grade showing up as a point value in your gradebook, would you prefer your student grades to be a percentage or a letter? You have the option of changing this setting by editing your ‘Grade Display Type’. By default, the display type …

Stay on track with Moodle calendars

Stay on track with Moodle calendars

Did you know that there are calendars available in multiple spots on Moodle to help faculty and students stay on top of deadlines and due dates? You can even choose to sync your Moodle calendar with Google. Dashboard Calendar The first place to find a …

Ensure access to PDF documents

Ensure access to PDF documents

Often books or paper documents are photocopied and saved as a PDF in such a way that results in an “image” of the document rather than real text.  Image-based PDFs can also result if a digital document printed to Adobe PDF. People who have low …

Add an attractive header image to your course

Add an attractive header image to your course

Moodle tends to be bland in appearance.  Follow the steps below to add some color and personality to your Moodle course by incorporating an attractive header to the course home page as in this example.  Find an image.  Search for images that convey the theme …