Moodle

Moodle is the core digital platform used to support students and staff in their learning and teaching at UAL. Moodle enables staff to create secure online sites for course content, learning activities, assessments and communication with students.

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  • Moodle: Using Bootstrap for customisation 

    Bootstrap is a framework for building web content. Moodle uses this framework as the basis for its default theme, which can then be customised through modifying Bootstrap elements. These elements are also re-usable…

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  • Moodle: Quickmail

    Introduction What would I use a Quickmail for? To allow tutors to email course participants by providing a link to a tool that has a checkbox list of all participants in the course,…

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  • Moodle: Checking participants and roles

    Participants The Participants link enables teachers to easily, view, search for, and filter course participants. 2. Select Open course menu > Participants 3. The filter at the top left of the screen allows…

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  • Moodle: H5P

    H5P (HTML 5 Package) is a tool for creating interactive content, using resources such as video, audio, images and quiz functions. In Moodle H5P content can be uploaded or created from existing H5P…

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  • Moodle: Adding Blocks

    Add a Block 2. Enter your course from your list of courses 3. Click on the Edit mode top right 4. Click on the arrow to open the block drawer if not open…

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  • Moodle: Navigating the Dashboard for Students

    Dashboard Navigation Once you have successfully logged into Moodle you will be presented with your Dashboard. This page is split into 3 sections. 2. Main content 3. Block drawer Main Menu The main…

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  • Moodle: Navigating the Dashboard for Staff

    Dashboard Navigation Once you have successfully logged into Moodle you will be presented with your Dashboard. This page is split into 3 sections. 2. Main content 3. Block drawer Main Menu The main…

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  • Moodle: Weekly format

    Introduction The course is organised week by week, with each section having a date heading. Moodle will create a section for each week of your course. You can add content, forums, quizzes, and…

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  • Moodle: Topics format

    Introduction The course is organised into topic sections that a teacher can give titles to. Each topic section consists of activities, resources and labels. This is great to use if your course is…

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  • Moodle: Tiles format

    Introduction A course format which displays course topics as “Tiles”, in a grid rather than as a list. When clicked, tile content is displayed under the tile with an animated transition. The layout…

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