Ally is a tool that improves the accessibility of digital files in Moodle. This helps the university to meet its legal responsibilities and ensure that the content we share is easily accessible to as many people as possible. Ally Indicators Addressing accessibility issues with your course content can improve …
We are excited to announce that our Virtual Learning Environment ‘Moodle’ is getting an upgrade. We are currently running Moodle 3.9 and we will be upgrading to Moodle 4.1. This upgrade will bring a fresh new design, additional features and improved performance. These changes will improve both teaching and learning …
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, …
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, …