Updated Articles

  1. Withdrawn students and report for the last day of attendance

    Instructors are able to run an activity log for the course and then filter for the student's last date of the activity in the course. To display the last date of attendance in a course: Select the gear icon in the Moodle course banner Then s...
  2. Adding a SmarterProctoring to a Course

    Once the External Tool has been created, then it can be added to a course's content. This section will walk-through placing a SmarterProctoring link in a course. Navigate to the course dashboard. Click on Add an activity or resource  li...
  3. Guide to SmarterProctoring

    Adding the SmarterProctoring Tool to a Course How to set up a Practice Exam in a Course.  Faculty members need to use practice exams when testing exams in sandbox courses or when allowing students to test the SmarterProctoring tool in a...
  4. How to Add an Exam using SmarterProctoring to McNeese's Moodle (step by step instructions)

    How to set up a Practice Exam in a Course. Faculty members need to use practice exams when testing exams in sandbox courses or when allowing students to test the SmarterProctoring tool in a course because the university will not be charged for pract...
  5. Sort the Moodle Course Using Groups

    When teaching a course with multiple sections, especially when a course has a large number of students, using groups in a course can be useful. Multi-section courses (Meta-linked courses) automatically have groups created for each section, which y...
  6. Enable Group Mode in Your Course or Course Activity

    To use group filtering in your gradebook or course activity, group mode needs to be enabled in your course settings. Open Course Select the gear icon from the Course banner > Edit settings > Scroll down to Groups. You will see No Groups, S...
  7. Create and Edit Groups and Groupings in Moodle

    When teaching a course with multiple sections, especially when a course has a large number of students, using groups makes it much easier to filter student data. Multi-section courses (Meta-linked courses) automatically have groups created for each ...
  8. Course Import Error Message and ReMap Respondus Dashboard Block (For Faculty Members Only)

    Course Import Error Message If you received an error message while trying to import a prior semester course into a new Moodle course shell, please use one of the two options below. Open the prior semester course that you would like to use for t...
  9. Group modes in Moodle

    Instructors can use Group modes to control how groups of students interact with an activity and what students can see from other groups. Group Mode Options Moodle has three Group modes available for individual activities,or as course-wide settin...
  10. Classroom Management

    The key to a high quality course is its instructors’ ability to manage an online classroom.  Many instructors who are new to teaching online don’t realize that the best practices used in a traditional environment should not be d...