General
1. How do I allow guests to access my course?
2. My course is currently unavailable. How can I let a particular student access it?
3. How do I send a message to several users?
4. How can I record attendance through the semester?
5. How do I grade Attendance?
6. How can I use the Checklist to enable students to track their progress in a self-paced course?
How do I allow guests to access my course?
By default, during the first four weeks of the semester, any authenticated user (i.e. everyone in HUJI) can access your course.
You can change this period of time, disable guest access entirely or enable it also for unauthenticated users (i.e. open your course to the world), and/or set a guest password, as follows:
Note: Guest access to a CSE course is limited to CSE users (unless the course is open to the world).
The value of Use CSE authentication in the course settings determines whether the course is recognized as a CSE course.
See Tools for CSE courses.
My course is currently unavailable. How can I let a particular student access it?
Assign capability moodle/course:viewhiddencourses to one of the Utility user roles as follows:
How do I send a message to several users?
You can send a message to several users in one of two ways.
How can I record attendance through the semester?
Suppose: There is a lesson every Monday at 10:00, students must record their attendance during the first ten minutes, and get one point for every lesson attended:
in the relevant entry in the Sessions tab).
Students can then scan the QRcode from their MoodleMobile app (by clicking on ••• at the bottom of any page).
If you are using a fixed password, students will have to first find the Attendance activity on the course website or in the MoodleMobile app.
How do I grade Attendance?
The grade in the Gradebook for an Attendance activity is the sum of the grades in all the sessions for which the student's attendance was recorded, out of the maximum possible for just those sessions.
Thus assuming four sessions with a default Status set (Present => 2, Late => 1, Excused => 1, Absent =>0), if the student was marked as Present in two, Late in one and not at all in the other, his grade would be 5/6 i.e. 83.33%.
It is therefore important to check the radiobox in column Automatically set when not marked for one of the statuses - presumably Absent
As an alternative to checking Automatically set when not marked, one can enable option Sum grades in the Attendance settings.
Using the above example, the student's grade would be 5.
If the Maximum grade in the Attendance settings is set to 8, his Gradebook grade would then be 5/8 i.e. 62.5%.
Note: After toggling Sum grades, one must save at least one session (even without making any changes) in order to update the grades in the Gradebook.
This works nicely also if there are multiple Attendance activities, e.g. one for each group.
Simply create a category in the Gradebook and move all the Attendance activities to it.
Then the student's grade for the category is the sum of his grades in all sessions in all Attendance activities for which his attendance was marked.
Option Sum grades is a HUJI feature.
How can I use the Checklist to enable students to track their progress in a self-paced course?
Assume the course is graded and the student has to complete various activities.
As soon as a student completes an activity the progress bar will advance
2. My course is currently unavailable. How can I let a particular student access it?
3. How do I send a message to several users?
4. How can I record attendance through the semester?
5. How do I grade Attendance?
6. How can I use the Checklist to enable students to track their progress in a self-paced course?
How do I allow guests to access my course?
By default, during the first four weeks of the semester, any authenticated user (i.e. everyone in HUJI) can access your course.
You can change this period of time, disable guest access entirely or enable it also for unauthenticated users (i.e. open your course to the world), and/or set a guest password, as follows:
- In the Administration block, under Course administration, click on Users
- Click on Enrolment methods
- Click on Guest access
- Modify any of the fields and click on Save changes
Note: Guest access to a CSE course is limited to CSE users (unless the course is open to the world).
The value of Use CSE authentication in the course settings determines whether the course is recognized as a CSE course.
See Tools for CSE courses.
My course is currently unavailable. How can I let a particular student access it?
Assign capability moodle/course:viewhiddencourses to one of the Utility user roles as follows:
- In the Course administration block, under Users, click on Permissions
- In the Advanced role override menu, choose e.g. Utility user 1
- Search for entry moodle/course:viewhiddencourses
- Check its Allow checkbox and click on Save changes at the bottom of the page
- Go to page Participants
- Find the student's entry
- Click on the
icon in column Roles.
- Click on ▼
- Select role Utility user 1
- Click on
to save
How do I send a message to several users?
You can send a message to several users in one of two ways.
- Using a Moodle group and the Messaging drawer
- Create a group or use an existing group.
- Ensure that Group messaging is enabled and that you are also a member of the group.
- Open the Messaging drawer using the balloon icon or dropdown menu in the top bar.
- Select the group from the Group section of the Messaging drawer
- From the Participants page:
- Select the users you wish to send a message to.
- Select option Send a message from the With selected users... menu
How can I record attendance through the semester?
Suppose: There is a lesson every Monday at 10:00, students must record their attendance during the first ten minutes, and get one point for every lesson attended:
- Create an Attendance activity:
- Set the Maximum grade (section Grade) to the number of weeks in the semester
- Set Sum grades to Yes. (See recipe below.)
- Click on tab Add session
- Set Date to the first day of the semester
- Set Time to 10:00-11:00
- In section Multiple sessions
- Check Repeat the session above as follows
- Check Monday
- Set Repeat until to the last day of the semester
- In section Attendance recording:
- Set Allow students to record attendance to Yes
- Either enter a password or check Include QR code and then Rotate QR code
- Click on button Add
- Click on tab Status set
- For entry Present, set Points to 1 and Available for to 10
- Click on button Update
Students can then scan the QRcode from their MoodleMobile app (by clicking on ••• at the bottom of any page).
If you are using a fixed password, students will have to first find the Attendance activity on the course website or in the MoodleMobile app.
How do I grade Attendance?
The grade in the Gradebook for an Attendance activity is the sum of the grades in all the sessions for which the student's attendance was recorded, out of the maximum possible for just those sessions.
Thus assuming four sessions with a default Status set (Present => 2, Late => 1, Excused => 1, Absent =>0), if the student was marked as Present in two, Late in one and not at all in the other, his grade would be 5/6 i.e. 83.33%.
It is therefore important to check the radiobox in column Automatically set when not marked for one of the statuses - presumably Absent
As an alternative to checking Automatically set when not marked, one can enable option Sum grades in the Attendance settings.
Using the above example, the student's grade would be 5.
If the Maximum grade in the Attendance settings is set to 8, his Gradebook grade would then be 5/8 i.e. 62.5%.
Note: After toggling Sum grades, one must save at least one session (even without making any changes) in order to update the grades in the Gradebook.
This works nicely also if there are multiple Attendance activities, e.g. one for each group.
Simply create a category in the Gradebook and move all the Attendance activities to it.
Then the student's grade for the category is the sum of his grades in all sessions in all Attendance activities for which his attendance was marked.
Option Sum grades is a HUJI feature.
How can I use the Checklist to enable students to track their progress in a self-paced course?
Assume the course is graded and the student has to complete various activities.
- Set Enable completion tracking in course Settings
- Create a Checklist with name e.g. Course progress
Set Updates by to Teacher only
Set Show course modules in checklist to Whole course
Notes:- Whole course does not include items in the top section
- Items in which Course completion is set to None are also included in the list.
The default completion condition for the activity then applies.
(One can view/edit the default conditions by clicking on the Course completion settings menu at the top of the Course completion page and selecting Default activity completion)
Note: If Course completion is set to None, the item is included in the Checklist but not in the overall Course completion, or in the completion shown by the Grid and Tiles format
- Create a Checklist block
Set Checklist overview to No
Set Choose checklist to the Checklist that you just created
As soon as a student completes an activity the progress bar will advance