When faculty members are teaching more than one section of the same course, we actually create separate Moodle courses for each individual section, along with a merged course that combines the enrollments of the individual sections. Faculty members very oftenRead More
Finding Your Instructor’s GradeMark Comments in Turnitin
Bucknell has integrated Turnitin’s originality checking service within Moodle. When a faculty member creates a Turnitin Assignment in a course, all student work submitted to that assignment gets checked against Turnitin’s database of previously submitted and publicly available work. AlthoughRead More
Adding a Link to a Lynda.com Course to Your Moodle Course
Bucknell has a site license for Lynda.com course content, allowing faculty, staff, and students to access the full catalog of courses available at Lynda.com. Lynda.com has nearly 13,000 video tutorials covering multiple software packages and other technology-related skills. If yourRead More
Weighting Grades in Moodle
Our current version of Moodle – Moodle 2.8 – changed the interface for how you set up your Gradebook and choose weights for your weighting scheme. Instead of clicking on a drop-down menu to choose Categories and Items and thenRead More
Copying Past Moodle Courses Using Backup and Restore – The Most Challenging Steps
As I mentioned in my detailed instructions on how to copy courses from our Moodle Archive Server to our main Moodle Server, the “Restore” part of the process requires the most careful attention. During that “Restore” process, you need toRead More
Partial Demonstration – Moodle Backup and Restore
Now that we have two Moodle servers – the Main Moodle Server and the Moodle Archive Server – there are two different ways of copying Moodle content from a past course to a current course: The Import Course process that allows youRead More