Learn@Illinois Moodle - Instructor Help
Having trouble with your Moodle course site? We are here to help. If you don't find what you are looking for here, scroll down to the bottom of the page for other ways to get help.
For a permanent link to this information, please use: http://go.illinois.edu/MoodleHelp
Please contact atlas-tlt@illinois.edu for any of your teaching and learning with technology needs.
Grading
See our Gradebook Help page for questions about how to set up your gradebook, extending deadlines for activities, or managing students' grades.
Activities and Resources
See our Activities and Resources Help page for questions about a particular activity like Assignment, Forum or Quiz. "Activities" and "resources" are tools that you can add to your course site from the "Add an activity or resource" link. Also find Zoom help here.
Blocks
See our Blocks Help page for a full list of blocks and learn what each block can do. Blocks are the little boxes that appear on the left or right of your main course page that have various functions. The default ones are Administration, Navigation, Quickmail, Search Forums, Latest Announcements. Other popular ones are i-Card Photos, i>clicker, and Mass Actions.
Groups and Groupings
See our Groups and Groupings Help page to learn how to create and use groups.
How do I...?
Get started
- Request a course site
- Log in to my course site This page is also accessible to your students.
- Change or reset my password This page is also accessible to your students.
- Make my course site visible
- Change my course format
- Edit sections
- Import content from an old course site
- Add users
- Manage permissions with roles
- Edit elements on my course homepage This page is on Moodle.org.
- View the gradebook and course as a student
- Help students who can't view my course site This page is also accessible to your students.
- Update my profile This page is also accessible to your students.
- Organize courses on my Dashboard This page is also accessible to your students.
Send announcements and emails
- Make announcements
- Use the Quickmail block to email students
- Change forum subscription settings (Make sure students are getting email notifications for forums.)
- Manage email from forums This page is also accessible to your students.
- Help students change their notification preferences This page is also accessible to your students.
Integrate images, audio, and video
- Insert an image This page is also accessible to your students.
- Use Illinois Media Space for audio recording This page is also accessible to your students.
- Embed audio or video from Illinois Media Space This page is also accessible to your students.
- Add a YouTube video via Illinois Media Space
- Add CITL-recorded video lectures to your course
- Embed videos using code (from IMS, YouTube, or Vimeo)
Autolink
- Autolink and preventing autolinking
- Use "Make available" a.k.a. "Stealth mode" (Get rid of the list of activities in each section when you're using autolinks instead)
Use the text editor
- Use the Tiny MCE text editor This page is also accessible to your students.
- Use the Atto HTML text editor This page is also accessible to your students.
- Change my text editor This page is also accessible to your students.
Miscellaneous
- Online Proctoring Options
- Use ProctorU This page is on citl.illinois.edu.
- Use i>clicker
- Connect with Digication e-Portfolio
- Inserting equations
- Using EquatIO
- Survey my students or choose a student response tool (for surveys or self-selected student groups)
- Use log reports to see student activity
- View the activity of a dropped student
- Consider copyright when uploading and linking to articles
- Install and log in to the Moodle Mobile App for iPhone This page is also accessible to your students.
- Install and log in to the Moodle Mobile App for Android This page is also accessible to your students.
- Edit multiple activities
- Link to McGraw-Hill Connect
- Use custom CSS
- Restrict access
- Minimize and expand the left menu
- Manually export your course from Moodle to Canvas