During this academic session the University is moving the module evaluation surveys to an online system called EvaSys. The My Module Evaluations block has been placed on the Moodle dashboard alongside your course list (not within individual modules). It provides students with links to available evaluations in EvaSys, and provides staff with …
The Universty is looking to capture the student voice and respond proactively, and will be seeking to gain student feedback on their experience through a range of different mechanisms. The touchpoint survey has been developed as a helpful tool to enhance the practice that currently goes on across the University, …
Moodle has been upgraded to version 3.4 and here you will find details of the most noticeable changes. These include a new plugin for plagiarism checking within Moodle Assignments, a new plugin for creating interactive content, and a range of other enhancements designed to improve course design and management. Managing …
A reoccurring concern from students is the volume of unwanted emails in their University inbox which makes it harder for them to notice important messages. Busy email inboxes is a fact of life for everyone and we all make use of Outlook ‘rules’ to manage incoming messages. This article describes …
A set of eSubmission Guidelines have been created to support staff with setting up, downloading and processing student coursework submissions. eSubmission refers to the process of students submitting their work online, and many modules already use this method successfully with Turnitin or Moodle Assignments. View the eSubmission page for an overview of …
If you have a number of quizzes and assignments then you may want to present students with grade totals that more accurately reflect the formative and summative activities in your module. This involves creating two grade categories which we will call summative and formative. You can create any categories you like as shown in …
If you have a spreadsheet of students groups then here’s a way you can upload them to Moodle and use the Group Choice activity to allow them to see which groups they are in. While there are several ways to automatically group your students, these are either based on the programme code/year, …
Feedback Studio only works with values so the PG Scale requires a few extra steps in order to calculate and display accurately to students in Moodle Grades. In essence we have 2 methods for grading on the PG Scale: Create a rubric that returns a value (ideally an integer) between …
Moodle was upgraded to version 3.2 during the summer and here you will find details of the most noticeable changes.
Organising Grade Items can make your calculations easier and improve student understanding of their User Report. As described in the Gradebook and User Report page, when each activity is added to a Moodle course a corresponding Grade Item is created. To begin with each of these will be placed within the Courses default category, …