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Using Moodle features

Gradebook

Tracks and publicizes student grades. Assessments may be organized into different categories with different weights assigned to different assessments and different categories.

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Assignment

A portal for students to submit assignments and for instructors to grades and feedback.

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Choice

Multiple choice questions students can answer to share their opinions, choose presentation topics, self-report their learning, and other forms of feedback.

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Quiz

Assess students’ knowledge of course content with the option of automated feedback and grading for some types of questions.

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Chat

A live text-based chat forum that allows students to communicate with faculty and with each other during designated times.

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Feedback

Solicit students’ opinions and experiences with surveys that can include several types of questions (e.g., multiple choice, long answer). Questions can be displayed or hidden based on answers to earlier questions.

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Workshop

Structure peer review of students’ work. Reviews can be anonymized. Reviewers can be assigned at random. Criteria for reviews can be provided to reviewers in different forms. Participation and or reviewers ratings can be incorporated into students’ grades.

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Groups

Students can be organized into groups for group assignments. One group member can submit an assignment for the entire group. Grades given to the group are automatically given to all group members.

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