Moodle Activity Hub - Available Activities

Learn about the Moodle LTI activities available from the Moodle Activity Hub in Canvas. Please reach out to ATLAS TLT (atlas-tlt@illinois.edu) with any questions.

Recommended

The following are the activities recommended by the LAS Teaching & Learning with Technology team, based on features missing from Canvas and popular activities from our current LTI users. Follow the links to view more information about each activity. 

• Attendance: Take attendance during class and allow students to view their attendance record. Customizable statuses and reports.
• Feedback: Conduct surveys to collect feedback from your students.
• H5P: Create engaging, interactive content powered by HTML5 but with no coding knowledge necessary. Examples of content types include interactive books and presentations, branching scenarios, flash cards, and much more.
• Questionnaire: Collect student feedback on your course or activities with a wide range of questions. Used to gather data from your students, rather than to assess them.
• Quiz: Want more question types than what Canvas offers? Explore auto-graded essay, short answer, select missing words, calculated question types, and more.
• Scheduler: Schedule gradable, one-on-one appointments with your students. You provide available timeslots for students to book.
• Video Assignment: Allows students to submit Illinois Media Space videos for assignments. Popular in LAS Online courses for identity verification.
• Workshop (Peer Review): With this powerful peer review tool, students submit their work, which is then distributed among their peers for assessment. 

Other Activities

• Assignment: Allow students to submit online text or upload files for grading. Complex customizable rubrics available.
• Book: Create a multi-page resource in a book-like format, with chapters and subchapters. Can contain media files in addition to text.
• Choice: Ask students a single question and offer a selection of possible responses.
• Database: Course participants can collaboratively create, maintain, and search a collection of entries.
• Forum: A tool for asynchronous discussions. There are several unique forum types available.
• Glossary: Participants can collaboratively create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary, or collect and organize resources or information.
• Journal: Collect student feedback on a certain topic.
• Lesson: Create branching scenarios with text or multimedia content.
• Wiki: Participants can collaboratively create and edit a collection of web pages.

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