Moodle Tips for Teachers and

TAs
Contents
1. Login to lms-moodle
2. Create activities
3. Listed resources and activities
4. Create an assignment
5. Create a quiz
6. Grades
7. Enrolling users
8. Forum and its activities
9. Survey
10. Feedback
11. Switching Roles
12. Messages
13. Private files
14. Reports
15. Importing a course
Login using
LDAP account
id and
password
assigned by
administrator
Demo course generated by
administrator
Create activities in a given course

By turning
on editing
one can
add
different
activities
into the
course
Click to add activity or
resources
Listed resources and activities

1.List of
activities and
resources
2. Some of the
most popular
and most used
activities are
Assignment
and Quiz
Adding a new assignment

Add Assignment Name

Add Assignment
Description
Attach any files related
to assignment

Submission
details with
time
Submission details where we can
edit what kind of files one need to
submit,max size of files to
upload,max no of pages to upload
Grading details involves grading
method,max grade,grading
category
How does it looks like once an assignment is generated ?

Here one can see all

submissions and start grading
Adding a quiz to the course
Add questions
Here add
questions or
import from
outside
Varieties of question types are
available here like
MCQ,Numerical etc as given in the
snapshot
Question will appear like this
Grading system overview

See participant details here

Grade management When you go to grade
administration,you can
perform different task such
as
1. Import grades
2. Export grades
3. Change scales and
letters for different
percentages
Enroll users in a specific course

1. Students can be enrolled

Select to change manually by the teacher,
enrollment methods 2. Automatically by the
administrator
3. They can be allowed to enrol
themselves.
4. Students can also be added
to groups if they need to be
separated from classes
sharing the same course or if
tasks need to be
differentiated.
Adding a New Forum and Activities

1. In a course, with the editing

turned on, choose 'Forum'
from the activity chooser.
2. Give it a name and, if needed,
a description.
3. Choose your Forum type,
clicking the question mark
(?) icon for descriptions of
each type. If you're unsure, To add more discussion to this forum
use the default Standard
forum for general use.
4. Expand the other sections to
define the settings you want.
5. Click Save and display and,
optionally, add a post to get
started.
Teachers and TAs can reply
privately here to a specific
student but student can’t do
that.
Teachers additionally have
three dots to the right of the
Subscribe option, allowing them
to pin, star or lock discussions.
Survey on a specific topic
Go to a topic and add
SURVEY activity

The Survey activity types;

1. COLLES (Constructivist
On-Line Learning
Environment Survey)
2. ATTLS (Attitudes to
Thinking and Learning
Survey), which have
been found useful in
assessing and
stimulating learning in
online environments.
3. Note that the Survey is
not customisable; if you
want to create your own
survey questions, then
explore the Feedback
activity.
Feedback

1. Enables a teacher to create a custom survey

for collecting feedback from participants using
a variety of question types including multiple
choice, yes/no or text input.
2. Feedback responses may be
a. Anonymous,
b. Non-anonymous
3. Feedback activities may be used
a. For course evaluation: helping improve
the content for later participants
b. To enable participants to sign up for
course modules, events etc.
c. For guest surveys of course choices,
school policies etc.
d. For anti-bullying surveys in which
students can report incidents
anonymously
Change the setting here to keep the
feedback anonymous or
anonymous
Feedback details

Choose type of
question

Numerical answer type

Switching roles 1. The switch roles
feature allows a
user to switch
temporarily to
another role
from the user
menu 'Switch
role'
2. Can see what
the course
would look like
to someone with
that role.
Send messages to course participants
1. Go to
Participants
2. Select the
user by ticking
the checkbox
3. Go to “with
selected user”
There you can
send a
message to
the selected
participants
and/or add a
note
 1. File limit is upto 100mb per file and total
limit is 100mb too
2. Good alternative of dropbox/drive
3. Can be accessed even if internet link is
Private Files down
Reports

Reports are mainly for the

following cases;

1. Logs
2. Live Logs
3. Course participation
4. Activity
5. Activity completion
6. Competency breakdown

Reports can be downloaded in .CSV

or excel format
LOG report

Select filters from the dropdown menu to set what

kind of details you want to see in the LOG
Logs help find details of participant’s
access to anything within that course
Course participation report

You can choose which activity

participation details you want to see
in the report
How to import a course details

Select course
and continue
Moodle automatically shows a
list of possible courses to import
from
2. We can also choose what to
import and what to omit