Moodle Help

Frequently Asked Questions

• How do I access my course?
• How do I hide my course from students/show it to students? 
• How do I reuse content from a previous semester? 
• What if my course is too big to reuse?
• How do I add my course syllabus?
• How do I format my course?
• How do I upload a file?
• How do I add a link (files or videos)?
• How do I set up attendance?
• How do I add an assignment?
• How do I add a TA or co-teacher to my course?
• How do I add or drop students from my Moodle course, or is that taken care of for me?
• How do I create a quiz?
• How do I communicate with my class?
• How do I set up Gradebook?
• How do I keep the highest or drop the lowest grade? 
• How do I combine more than one section of the same course in Moodle ? (Also called Metacourse)
• How do I export my Moodle course calendar into Google?
• How do I export my Moodle course calendar into Zimbra?
• Where does the funny name, Moodle, come from?
• How do I grant extensions to assignments and/or course access?

Course Visibility & Cross-listed Courses

Making Course Visible to Students

Moodle courses used to become visible to students automagically before course start date. Now you will need to manually unhide the course when it is ready for students as outlined here.

Cross-listed Courses

We’re using a new enrollment system that generates multiple Moodle course shells for cross-listed courses. When building your course content, use the one that displays multiple course reference numbers (CRNs) at the top, as shown in the screenshot below. The image with the check indicates the correct course.

Another way to confirm you have the right Moodle course is to ensure ALL the students you are expecting are enrolled. The good news is that students will not see all the different shells, as the unused ones will remain hidden from their view. To remove unused courses from your My Courses view, select the 3 dots located on the card for a given course, as shown below:

More Help with Moodle

You can contact an Earlham librarian for support at helpdesk@earlham.edu. In addition, you can go to Moodle.org to explore documentation, user forums, example videos, and more. Finally, you can work with the instructional designer.

Shannon Barnes is Earlham’s Instructional Designer, and has been working for the college since 2022. As the Instructional Designer, she supports faculty by:

• Identifying technological tools that align with course objectives.
• Discussing ways to engage students in and out of the classroom.
• Providing tutorials on Moodle Gradebook usage.
• Hosting professional development workshops on topics such as accessibility and general Moodle usage.
• Resolving Moodle queries

Shannon hosts open office hours Mondays from 9-10:30 and Thursdays from 10-11.

Pass Final Grades from Moodle to Banner

1. From the main page of your Moodle course (not the gradebook), toggle on "edit mode" in the top right corner of the screen.
2. Select the grey arrow on the right side of the screen to open block drawer (as shown below).
3. Select add a block. Choose ILP Integration.
4. Select Final Grades.
5. Moodle will display the students' current Moodle grade in a column next to where you enter final grade. For final grade, you can choose to manually type their grade, or autofill it by selecting, "Populate final grade from current grade," then "final grade" from the dropdown. Once autofilled, grades can still be changed before submitting. Note: if your course is a Credit/No Credit course, it will not allow you to submit a letter grade. Enter CR (Credit) or NCR (No Credit) instead.
6. For expire date, leave this field blank.
7. For last date of attendance, leave this field blank.
8. Select submit grades. Your grades are now in Banner.

Note: you can only submit a grade for each student from Moodle once. After you have submitted it from Moodle, you will need to make any changes in Banner (from the Heart, under Teaching Quick Links card, choose "Grade Entry").