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.
Learn more about the gradebook
Assignment
A portal for students to submit assignments and for instructors to grades and feedback.
Choice
Multiple choice questions students can answer to share their opinions, choose presentation topics, self-report their learning, and other forms of feedback.
Learn more about choice activities
Quiz
Assess students’ knowledge of course content with the option of automated feedback and grading for some types of questions.
Learn more about quiz activities
Safe Exam for Moodle Quizzes
Safe Exam Browser (SEB) is a specialized web browser that temporarily "locks down" a computer during an online assessment in Moodle. It turns a standard laptop into a secure workstation, ensuring that the only thing a student can access is the Moodle quiz you have designed.
Learn more about Safe Exam Browser (PDF)
Chat
A live text-based chat forum that allows students to communicate with faculty and with each other during designated times.
Learn more about the chat feature
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.
Learn more about collecting feedback
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.
Learn more about workshop activities
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.