Create a Sandpit Course and Enrolment Keys A sandpit course is a practice course in which an instructor develops and tests content and functionality before transferring it to a public (or teaching) course and making it available to students…
Moodle Assignments Moodle Assignment allows academics to create a submission inbox page for students to submit work for grading. It is a commonly used assessment activity that allows for grading, inline feedback,…
Moodle Quiz The Moodle Quiz is a page where academics can build and release sets of questions for students to complete within a timeframe. It can meet many teaching needs, from simple, multiple-choice knowledge…
Turnitin AI Writing Detection On April 5th, 2023, Turnitin released an AI writing detection tool. It appears as an additional box within a submission’s Similarity report. The box will give a percentage of the paper that has been…
Communicating with Students Academics can communicate with students via the Moodle course messaging options or a communication-focused activity. The most commonly used options are: Sending an email via the course…
Moodle Lesson The Moodle Lesson activity allows staff to create self-paced learning modules with interactive content and assessments. It enables the creation of branching scenarios where students progress through…
Block Drawer The Block Drawer is an expandable section, located at the right-hand side of all Moodle course pages. It houses small 'blocks' of content, which provide additional information such as instructor…
Moodle Course Home Page The course home page is the main page of any Moodle course. It's where the topics or weekly modules are displayed, and the related lists of resources and activities. The Moodle Enhance Project…
