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Accessing a course

(Last edited: Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 03:06 PM)
Answer: After you have logged in and completed your profile, follow the link to your department from the list of departments on the front page. On the next page you will see a list of courses within your department, click the link that best relates to you. You should then see a list of units you will be doing on your course. Click the links to enrol on your classes.

Note: you may need to obtain enrolment keys from your tutors before you access classes.
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Assessments

(Last edited: Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 11:51 PM)
Answer: One of the more powerful features of Moodle is the capability to provide assessment procedures. You are able to upload assessment documents to Moodle and then allow students to download documents, complete them and re-submit them back to Moodle where you are able to view, comment on and grade them.

Also, other types of assessment are available: multiple choice, essay type, short answer, true/false and so on.

All assessment procedures are recorded in the Moodle gradebook, which can be easily viewed as well as imported to other formats like Microsoft Office Excel.
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Course structures

(Last edited: Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 03:02 PM)
Answer: This Moodle site uses a hierarchical structure for departments and courses. For example, when you log in to the site you see a list of departments on the front page - these are main categories. Inside the main categories there are sub-categories, these are used to further divide courses and the units within.
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Enrolment key

(Last edited: Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 03:04 PM)
Answer: When courses are created in Moodle there is an option to create an enrolment key for the course. This key is basically a password to let you on to the course. If you do not know your enrolment key, your tutor can find out for you.
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Lost usernames and passwords

(Last edited: Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 03:07 PM)
Answer: When you enrol at Stow College you are given a student card with a student ID number on it. Your student ID number combined with your password is used to log on to the computers at Stow. This same combination is used to log in to the Moodle site.

If you should lose your student ID number and/or password, please contact either student services to obtain your Student ID and ICT services, who can recover your password.
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Metacourses

(Last edited: Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 03:01 PM)
Answer: A metacourse is a course that is set up and which other courses are attached to. When other courses are attached to the metacourse, students only have to enrol on the metacourse to be automatically enroled on to the courses that are attached to the metacourse.

Example: A course is set up called 'notice board', this course is given an enrolment key. Another three courses are set up and attached (pointed) to the metacourse, students only have to enrol on the 'notice board' course and they are automatically enroled on the other three courses, i.e they only have to enter a key for one course instead of all three/four.
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Question:

Microsoft Office documents won't display

(Last edited: Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 03:33 PM)
Answer:

If you are finding that PowerPoint documents (and Word, Excel etc) don't display well in your Internet Explorer (IE) browser, either prompting you for a password or just showing a blank screen, then you are encountering a well-known problem with IE.

The best solution is to alter your settings so that IE doesn't try to embed the Office documents within it's own display, and instead, will download the document and tell PowerPoint to display the document normally (as a helper application).


Here's how to change the setting (in Windows):

1. Double-click My Computer.

2. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.

3. On the File Types tab, in the Registered file types box, click to select the file type that you want to change. For example, click to select PPT Microsoft PowerPointPresentation.

4. Click Advanced.

5. In the Edit File Type dialog box, click to clear the Browse in same window check box, and then click OK.

6. Click Close to close the Folder Options dialog box.


Alternatively you can use a different browser like Firefox, Google Chrome or Opera.

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Moodle Virtual Learning Environment

(Last edited: Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 03:20 PM)
Answer: The Moodle Virtual Learning Environment is an online web-based tool that provides staff and students with a range of functionality covering content creation and delivery, communication and collaboration and management, including tracking and assessment tools.
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User profile

(Last edited: Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 03:12 PM)
Answer: When you log in to Moodle for the first time, you will be required to complete your user profile. Your profile is what Moodle and Mahara uses to identify you.

Please complete your profile as much as you can, also add an image of yourself.

Note: if you do not fully complete your profile you will not be able to access any of your courses. If left uncompleted, your profile will be deleted after 7 days, requiring you to complete it again.
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View, create or change an enrolment key

(Last edited: Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 03:08 PM)
Answer: If you are a teacher on a course and you wish to view or change the enrolment key, simply go to the administration panel on the left hand side of the page, then settings. On your course settings page, scroll down until you come to 'enrolment key'. If you check 'unmask' it will show you the password. If you want to change it, enter your new key, scroll to the bottom of the page and then click 'save and return'.
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