Moodle

Moodle is an online Learning Management System that serves as a secure virtual-classroom for your course. It allows students and professors to access course content anywhere anytime.

Version 4.1

Adelphi updated our Moodle to version 4.1 in May 2024.

Moodle Info for Faculty

Faculty users can upload documents, collect assignments and add links to media and other websites. Additionally, Moodle offers many unique capabilities, allowing faculty to:

• Share resources
• Administer assessments
• Collect assignments
• Provide feedback
• Calculate grades

Moodle FAQ for Faculty

Moodle Info for Students

Moodle’s activities allow students to:

• Access multimedia course materials
• Submit assignments electronically
• Communicate with their professor
• Participate in forums and discussions
• Complete branching lessons

Moodle FAQ for Students

Moodle for Communication

Announcements

Moodle Announcement Forums can be used to communicate quickly with the students enrolled within your course at large. Every course on Moodle includes an Announcements forum to which only the instructor can post. This posted announcement is distributed to student emails after a 30-minute grace period that allows you to edit the message before it is sent.

Discussions

Moodle Discussion Forums can be added to a course site to promote and help facilitate discussions between students, and with the instructor. A forum can contribute significantly to successful communication and community building in an online environment.

Content Delivery Through Moodle

Using Panopto to Record Lectures, PPTs, and Make Content

Panopto is an excellent choice for creating your own content, including but not limited to capturing live lectures, recording narrated PowerPoint presentations, and developing interactive course materials. Panopto empowers users to capture, edit, and share their expertise seamlessly. Whether delivering in-depth lectures, narrating PowerPoint presentations, or creating interactive content as part of a collaborative project, Panopto provides a user-friendly platform to enhance learning.

Once your Panopto video has been made, you can share it on your Moodle course via the following methods:

• embed videos within Moodle Pages
• link Panopto folders directly to Moodle courses with a Panopto block
• share the direct link to a Panopto recording within Moodle forums, announcements, or other activities

Providing Course Notes

Instructors have various options within Moodle for providing course notes to students:

Moodle’s Book Resource:

• Ideal for organizing course notes into a multi-page, book-like format.
• Offers a table of contents for easy navigation.
• Supports embedding multimedia (images, videos, audio).

Moodle’s Page Resource:

• Creates a single, scrollable screen of content.
• Versatile for text, images, audio, video, embedded code, or a mix.
• Suitable for lengthy instructions or descriptions.

Moodle’s File Resource:

• Used for individual files of any type (documents, presentations, spreadsheets, images, audio, video).
• Provides download options for students.

Providing Links

Web links can be added in Moodle so students can access course relevant content and other resources. Links can be added as:

• Labels
• URLS
• Pages
• Or Emailed via the Quickmail feature in Moodle

Assignment Collection

There are two main choices an instructor has when considering assignments on Moodle.

Moodle Assignments

Moodle Assignments allows instructors to collect and review student work and provide grades and feedback in return. The work students submit is visible only to the instructor and not to the other students unless a group assignment is selected. Once student users have submitted their work, instructors can provide feedback using highlight and comment features.

Google Assignments

Google Assignment offers an alternative approach to the Assignment activity found in Moodle, allowing student and instructor users to integrate their Google accounts with Moodle for more seamless interaction between the two platforms. Within the Google Assignments interface on Moodle, instructors can effortlessly distribute a template document, automatically creating a copy for each student in the course. Once students officially turn in their Google Doc assignment, instructors can also set grading criteria via rubric, use comment banks, and provide valuable feedback as suggestions directly on the platform. Grades are synced with the Moodle gradebook.54

If you wish to run an assignment through Turnitin for Plagiarism and AI detection, you would need to set up the assignment through Moodle’s Turnitin Tool.