Quickmail

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How do I turn on Quickmail? Where is the Quickmail block? How do I send a message to my students with the Quickmail?

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The Quickmail block adds a link to a tool that has a check box list of all students in the course, and a mail composition text area. You can check the students you like, and email those and only those. This enhances the existing communications systems of messaging (one user) and subscribed forums (all subscribers) by allowing teachers to select a specific subset of students. Continue reading to learn how to install the Quickmail block and send your students a message.

News Forum

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What does the News Forum do? How can I send a message to my students?

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The News forum is a special forum for general announcements. This forum is automatically created for each course and for the front page of the Moodle site. By default, it is placed in the top of the center section and only teachers and administrators may add posts or reply to posts. The default settings force every enrolled person to be subscribed to the News forum. As with any forum, emails can be sent to subscribed members of a News forum. Continue reading to learn how to send a message with the News Forum.

Create a Wiki

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How do I create a Wiki? What is a Wiki?

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A wiki is a collection of collaboratively authored web documents. Basically, a wiki page is a web page everyone in your class can create together, right in the browser. A wiki starts with one front page. Each author can add other pages to the wiki by simply creating a link to a page that doesn't exist yet. Continue reading to create a wiki.

Hide Grade book

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I want to enter grades in the gradebook but want it to be hidden from students until I'm finished, how? Can I remove the gradebook from my students view?

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In the course settings you have the option to make the gradebook available or unavailable to students. Continue reading to learn how to do this.

Export Gradebook to Excel

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I want to download/export my grade book to an Excel file, how? Can I have my gradebook as an Excel file for archival purposes?

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Moodle allows you to take data from your gradebook and export it to your own computer. Moodle exports grades in the following formats: Excel, Plain text file, XML file, or OpenDocument spreadsheet. The export will also include First name, Last name, ID number, and Email address. Read on to learn how to download the gradebook.

Setup Grade book | Sample 1

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How do I setup my Grade book to look like my syllabus? What are categories or graded items? 

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The gradebook provides many options to maintain course grades and to provide each student a private view of their progress in your course. It is best to configure the grade book before you create assignments, especially if you plan to place assignments into categories. Continue reading to learn how to setup your grade book.

Export/Import Quiz Questions

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How do I share my quiz questions? Can I use someone else quiz questions? How do I import another Teachers quiz questions into my course?

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 The question bank is where all of your individual question from all the quizzes in your course are stored. The question bank can be accessed from the Settings block in the left hand column. From here, you can choose to view all questions, view the categories of questions, and to import or export questions. The first time you use the question bank, there will be one category, the Default category. Continue reading to learn how to export and import quiz questions from the question bank.