To Returning Faculty Familiar with Moodle:

A Moodle Refresher - What to Do Before Class Begins

Why Use Moodle with a Face-to-Face Class

1. Be prepared for snow days.

2. Interact easily with more students, including reluctant students.

3. Encourage interaction and cooperation between students outside class.

4. Encourage active learning activities.

Make Your Course Visible to Students

By default, courses are not visible to students so that you can work on them. When the course name is light gray, it is hidden. When it is visible it will be blue.

When you make your course visible, also change course dates.

  1. Click on the gear in the upper right corner
  2. Click “Edit Settings”
  3. Go to the 4th line, “Visible,” and change “Hide” to “Show”
  4. Save at the bottom
  5. Change the visibility of the course back to gray at the end of the semester

Set Course Dates

The newest version of Moodle does not have the feature to sort your courses on your dashboard by dragging and dropping. At this point, the only way to sort is to add an end date to all of your courses for all semesters. Once you set an end date, your courses will be sorted into the three categories on your dashboard.

In Progress - courses with a start date of today's date, or previous date, appear here.

Future - courses with a start date greater than today's date

Past - courses where an end date is set to be today's date, or previous

To set course dates:

  1. Click on the gear in the upper right corner
  2. Click “Edit Settings”
  3. In the General section, Change the Course Start Date for spring, 2018 to January 8, 2018
  4. Next to “Course End Date,” click “Enable”
  5. Set the end date to a date after grades are due
  6. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click “Save and Display”

Add Topics

Multiple topics are no longer listed by default. Do not add course content under Announcements. Add a new Topic so that students will see all content.

  1. Click on the gear in the upper right corner
  2. Click “Turn Editing On”
  3. In the content area, under Add an Activity or Resource, click “Add topics.” In the pop-up box, add as many topics as you like and click “Add topics”
  4. Your can change the first topic to Syllabus, or another introductory heading, and proceed

Move Content from Previous Semester

Call ATS if you would like content moved from a previous semester or follow these instructions to do it yourself.

  1. Go to the new course where you want content moved
  2. Click on the gear in the upper right corner
  3. Click on “Import”
  4. Find the course from which you want to move content or use the search box to find it. Click “Continue”
  5. By default, all content is selected. Click “Next” when you have selected content
  6. Confirm and review, click “Next”
  7. Click “Perform Import” and “Continue”

TIPS

  1. VISIBILITY. Decide when you want students to access the course. By default, courses are not visible, but you may choose to give students advance access, particularly for an upper level class for majors. Once the course is visible, all materials are visible. You may want to hide some materials so as to not overwhelm the students, or to keep them focused.
  2. GRADEBOOK. Set up your gradebook. In Moodle you add categories to your gradebook, such as Assignments, Quizzes, so that you can assign categories to assignments as you create them. This ensures that grades go to the gradebook in the correct places. Take a workshop or contact ATS to learn more.
  3. ATTENDANCE. This tool allows you to assign grade points for attendance, lateness, or absence.
  4. RESPONSE TIMES. Communicate clearly with students when you will respond to emails, discussion posts and other communications. This allows you time off and gives them assurance of times you are available. Likewise, communicate your expectations of your students.
  5. Review the Course Planning Checklist. Contact ATS to discuss course planning and development.

Re-Set Your Moodle Password

Use your Lincoln email username as your Moodle username,for example, if your email address is , your usernameis bsmith.

This first time you log in to Moodle, you must re-set your password. Lincoln’s Moodle log-in page can be found by going to QuickLinksat the top of the Lincoln home page, then Lincoln Online, or log in directly to

1. Go to

2. In the upper right corner, click“Log in”

3. Skip the username and password boxes and click “Forgotten your username or password?”

4.Follow the instructions - Type your Username OR your email address and click “Search”

5. You will receive an email with instructions to confirm and set your password

6. Return to and follow the instructions to set your password

7. Your new password must consist of at least eight characters, at least one number, character ($ # !, etc.) and capital letter

Questions

Contact ATS with any questions at 484-365-7888, or extension 7888, or

Nancy Evans, Director, ATS, ext. 8148,

Brenda Snider, Technology Specialist, ATS, ext. 7355,

Moodle Helpline for Faculty and Students

1-800-340-5462, ext. 7840

Open 8:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., First Floor Library

IT Helpline for WebAdvisor and Email

(484) 365-8134

Open 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., Modulars (doors facing the Chapel Parking Lot)

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