Moodle

=Moodle= 1. How do we get rid of last year's courses or courses we no longer require? You can not delete them - only I can do that. So - once you have decided what you want to getbridmof either I delete them or we move them to the archive space. It's a pretty simple task - just let me know. (rob) 2. How do we get a blank copy of last year's course but not with last year's students? See my notes on cloning a course. Alternative is to manually unenroll last years lot. 3. If this year's students sign up to an existing course, will they be deleted if a blank copy is subsequently made? 4. Can we not have the rights to deal with our own courses? We don't want to have to wait any longer to get things up and running. We already have marking that needs to be put onto moodle but we can't until we have the right courses set up with the right students enrolled in them. Yes - you should all have course editing once course set. Susan - you shld have creation ability. 5. Why is the Turn Editing On button sometimes visible and sometimes not? Editing is role based - if you are a teacher on the course you have it - if a student or guest,you won't. 6. MO has created some new courses but the students say they cannot enrol themselves. I have to enrol them. But they can enrol in other courses. What is the difference? How do I make it that the students can enrol themselves? Answer: Go into your course, choose Users, Enrolment methods and un-hide the 'allow student self enrolment' line || Feb || ES || I think the reason I can edit settings and change the name of some of the courses but not others is that I set them up originally. But I can't change the courses that other teachers set up (if they didn't add my name as a participating teacher.) However we used to be able to add teachers to our courses but can't seem to do it now. How do we do this? Answer: open the course, go to Users, Enroled users and from there you can select the teacher, give them 'teacher' status and that might then give them access to edit the course too. (MO) || TA || With MO going from the beginning using MO's set of updated instructions. || Open required course, click on users/enrolled users, click on small red cross in small box on right hand side of student you want to unenrol, click on continue and it's done || Answer: did you get Kath Woods' email? I did what it said and the error message hasn't been back MO || When adding links in this new version of Moodle using the URL function, change display option to 'open', otherwise students have to click through two pages to get to the link. Created a 'glossary' (Add an activity -> glossary) for Year 9 class (see screenshot - It comes up with a random vocab word on the right-hand side of the page from glossary entries that you create. You can also just view an alphabetical list of all the entries. You can import glossary entries, but they have to be in a special XML format - easier to just create them through Moodle). The only potential problem is that students have the ability to add new glossary entries (which could of course end badly) (Update: It seems all you have to do if you don't want students editing the glossary is to 'hide' the glossary from students by clicking the 'eye' button next to it. Of course, you may want students to be able to edit a glossary if you're making some kind of collaborative word list/glossary on a specific topic). || Feb || ES || Worked out how to unenrol students and unenrolled last year's students form all classes. Still unable to edit courses if I haven't created them (as I can't open the course and go to users). But will ask Rob to delete them. || Answer: Leo has found us way of making this work but putting the templates into a table. He has kindly offered (been coerced into) to moodle-ify our common templates for our use after camp. Yay!! || March || YA and WG || Spent one period doing Moodle together creating courses and editing different year levels. We basically revised what we did last year so that we could move on from there. We both found it really happy to work together. || MO tidied up Moodle pages, changed order of topics etc. || Wondering if there's a way to make feedback text bigger (in terms of what students see), as the text seems very small compared to all the other text on Moodle - See screenshot (actual size): || Just wondering how you do accents when posting comments and notices ...? || //Answer (MO) - If you select the text, and choose the abc (select background colour) it highlights the word and its background (not the whole box, but better than just the word),// || Update (22 March): The rubrics do work, it just seems that a Teacher can't see the same view as the student in terms of rubric grades. Here's a screenshot to show you how it would look with a (very basic) example rubric - You can give overall feedback, as well as feedback for specific criteria within the rubric, if you have several: || March || WG || Susan helped me with inserting marking criteria into the Moodle in period one today; thanks a lot. ||
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 * 1 Feb || MO || This is just an example to show how this table can look. We can use it to track our progress, learn from each other. If you see somehting that someone has done and it looks good, ask them to teach you how they did it! ||
 * 13 Feb || MO || While TA, WJ, LW, BS were with Rob at the beginner's training, the rest of us pooled our knowledge and problems. Specific questions/issues include:
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 * 20 Feb || MO, WJ, LW,
 * 20 Feb || WN, WJ || Sat down with Joelle and went through how to create an offline assignment, and an assigment where a file has to be uploaded. We also looked at adding titles and descriptions to topics and how to upload files ||
 * 20 Feb || AN || Managed to unenrol users from one of last year's courses.
 * 20 Feb || AN || How can we stop the stupid little box that asks us "stop running the script?" from appearing all the time?
 * 20 Feb || AY || Unenrolled students from last year's Year 10 course (seem to have to do it student by student though). Also managed to enrol users from the same page by clicking the 'enrol users' button (for students who haven't enrolled themselves yet) - enrolling users is MUCH esaier than unenrolling them, as you can enrol multiple users very quickly.
 * 21feb || wj || entered all my classes on moodle and tests for this week and helped florence with hers!!! whoa ! ||
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 * 21 Feb || Rob || Guys - just wanted to say that I really appreciate the work that you are doing. And this wiki idea is great - I hope that you keep using it. I'll check in from time totime, but I'm also quite happy for you to drop by and ask. Susan does - you can too! Also - I will share your progress with other faculties too - wikis are a great way to share knowledge. Maybe try one with your classes too? You don't need to do it - let the kids create it and have student responsible for updating each week with what has happened in class. Particularly at junior hs - you could have a weekly editor and, weekly photographer - they update the wiki for that week as their homework task...just a thought. ||
 * 22 Feb || MO || Bad news - for the time being (until Rob finds a way) you can't copy and paste Assessment commentary-like templates into the feedback section any more. We could do this last year. Any suggestions how to cope with this in the meantime? Just give the numbers and comment and the students will know what it means against their master template?
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 * 05 March || MO || Introduced the new "Moodle in a Minute" concept - quick, simple things that make life faster/simpler etc are shared. Today was:
 * Allow quick marking for marks/grades only (with short comment)
 * Toggle key between small and full size feedback screens
 * Ability to expand the feedback box in "allow quick marking' mode, by clicking and dragging the corner of the box.
 * Use Google Chrome rather than internet Explorer for faster 'clicks' between pages on Moodle
 * 05 March || AY || Updated Year 7 and 8 Latin moodle courses and unenrolled students from last year.
 * 05 March || LW || My first entry! Students are enrolled and I have notified 8SPA and 10FRE about upcoming vocab and culture tests.
 * 05 March || ES || Updated and loaded Year 9 Geography assignment onto moodle. Found a good online french course and put it on the French General, year 11 and ab initio French sites. (Worked out how to add a website link - copy the link and paste it on a label! - I was trying to upload it as a resource but couldn't find anywhere to add a link - you can only upload files that way?) ||
 * 12 March || YA || Uploaded Year9Jap moodlefriendly assessment schedule for culture assignment and tried to write comments and shading it - it works! Would also like to shade the entire box of NA, A, M, or E on the bottom, but only the writing can be shaded in different colours.
 * 12 March || MO for Faculty || Moodle in a Minute focused on creating Moodle friendly assessment commentaries (grouping the content in a table) and inserting them into the feedback box. Then, highlight the appropriate criteria to show overall grades. MO has done all IB (new and old course) Moodle friendly assessment commentaries, but each teacher is responsible for creating their own for other year levels (particularly for culture and speaking assessments) ||
 * 12 March || AY || Looked at creating 'rubrics' for assessments, using the 'advanced grading' feature - Could be quite beneficial, once rubrics are set up (generic rubrics could be set up for the modern languages, and then used by all teachers). The only issue is, do students get to see the whole rubric (which is partially the point of creating/using them), as when I trialled using one, it didn't seem to show up?
 * 23 March || WG and YA || Worked on moodle for 25 minutes - mainly playlist and what we learned in PD the day before ||
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