'Getting Started' Archive
Workshop sessions will be held in the Language Learning Center (LLC), located in Canaday 315 . Each of these sessions will run for an hour. Please RSVP using this link: “Moodle Workshops.” You are more than welcome to attend multiple sessions, since each session will be structured around participant knowledge and participant interest, changing with [...]
Heard about Moodle, but not sure how to get in? Not a problem! Here is the URL to Moodle: https://moodle.brynmawr.edu Bryn Mawr Students: Use your email username and password to log in. There is no “bmc.” in the front and no “@brynmawr.edu” at the end. Your username is just the first part of your email [...]
Moodle Transition Information As you may be aware, last year the Tri-Colleges conducted a major product review comparing Blackboard with a popular alternative called Moodle. Blackboard is the dominant commercial software company in higher education. Moodle is free, open source software that has been adopted by many institutions of higher education, including many liberal arts [...]
Occasionally things just go wrong. When they do, you can always come to us and we will do our best to find a solution as quickly as possible. That being said, however, there are some questions that are asked more often than others. These questions have simple solutions that can be explained briefly here. If [...]
Moodle gives faculty the option of deciding when to make their courses available to their students. By default, all academic courses are made available to students, meaning any student who has preregistered for the course can access it on Moodle. However, there is the option to make it unavailable until it is ready. This is [...]
Want to start working on your course, but don’t want your students to see an unfinished product? Want to post things ahead of time? Moodle lets you hide things that you upload or create, making it invisible to the students, but always available to you. Here are step-by-step instructions for hiding items in your course, [...]
You know that some sites are better viewed in one browser over another. So which browser should you use for Moodle? Moodle should be fully supported in any browser that you use. However, when using Campus Pack activities, it is highly recommended that you use Mozilla Firefox. That includes: Internet Explorer Safari Mozilla Firefox Google [...]
Don’t like your picture in Moodle? It’s easy to change! To do this, first look for your name in the upper right-hand corner of Moodle. (You should be able to see this from almost any page on the Moodle site.) Click on your name, and you’ll be brought to your profile. You should see some [...]
Occasionally you may wish to offer access to students that are not enrolled in your class (perhaps during the first week or two before enrollments are settled). You can do this easily in Moodle simply by creating an enrollment key and giving it to the students that you wish to allow access to Moodle. (Note: [...]
Need to update your course’s Participants list? Have a TA or a colleague that you wish to add to your course? Here are step-by-step instructions on how to add/remove people from your courses.