Brad Reamsbottom
Importing Team Members from Moodle to Crowdmark
1. To add members such as graders or facilitators to your Crowdmark Team, Click “Team.”
2. Click “Customize team”
3. You can sync your Moodle course’s teaching assistants and lab coordinators to your grading team in Crowdmark.
Click “course.”
4. Click “Sync with Moodle”
5. Choose what their roles will be in Crowdmark.
6. Once you have assigned roles to your team members, click “Update team.”
7. Sometimes, your graders are not part of your Moodle roster. In that case, you will want to add those users to your team using the steps below.
Tip: Instructors can use a secondary email to add themselves as graders. Taking this action can help with troubleshooting issues for the graders.
8. In the Team window, Click “Add by email“
9. Click the “Type (or paste) your team members’ email addresses in the field on the page. Put one address on each line.
10. Once you have entered the email addresses, Click “Continue.”
11. Click “Add 1 team member.”
12. You will now see your team member added to the roster.
Create text answer questions in Crowdmark for exams
1. Once you add questions to your assessment, note that you can have students complete a text entry assessment.
2. Choose “Text answer question” from the drop-down menu to switch to a text answer question.
You have the same editing options as other types of questions.
2. Click the “Question” field and enter your text.
That’s all there is to creating a text entry question
Creating Multiple-choice Questions in Moodle with Crowdmark
1. Crowdmark allows you to choose extra settings for your multiple-choice questions. Click “Settings.”
2. Two options are available in the drop-down menu. Students can select ONE or ALL correct answers.
A) You can set up a question where students must select ALL that apply to the question or statement or;
B) the question can have multiple correct answers, but the student only needs to select ONE of the correct answers, NOT ALL;
Alternatively, you can have the students choose ONE correct answer, and you will only have ONE correct answer identified.
5. Click this icon.
6. Choose how many(If any) points the student will lose for choosing one of the wrong answers.
Remember to click “Save” to confirm and lock in your changes.
Making Image/PDF Questions in Crowdmark
1. Click “add a question” and enter a label for the question if you wish for something different than the default.
2. Choose “Image/PDF question” from the question type drop-down menu.
3. Choose how many points your question will be worth.
4. Click in the question field and enter your question or prompt. You can attach files, link websites, and use other formatting options. Click on the formatting tips below the Question field.
Adding a Crowdmark Activity in Moodle
1. Go to the topic you wish to add the activity to.
2. Click “Add an activity or resource.”
3. Choose External Tool from the menu of choices.
4. Click the “Activity name” field, and enter a name for the activity.
5. Click the Preconfigured tool dropdown menu.
6. Choose Crowdmark Assessment from the menu.
7. Click “Grade,” then modify the Maximum Grade so it is equivalent to the grade that will come from Crowdmark.
8. If you grade a Crowdmark assessment out of 15 but forget to change the maximum grade to 15 in Moodle, you must do so before syncing all the grades to Moodle. You may run into errors when syncing your grades if you do not.
9. If you have different categories in Moodle’s grade area, you can choose the category to which the assessment belongs.
10. You are all finished the Moodle portion of the Crowdmark assessment setup
Tip: This tutorial set up the connection between Crowdmark and Moodle. You will still need to add questions to the assessment. This can be done when you click the Crowdmark assessment on the main course page.
A new Crowdmark window opens up. You can add questions and set the distribution factors in that window.
Grading with a Rubric
1. Now that the rubric is all setup, we can start grading the submissions.
Click “View all submissions” to see all the submissions so you can select specific submissions to grade.
2. Alternatively, click “Grade” to access the assignment’s grading window. This method does not allow you to choose which submission to grade; instead, it will access the first ungraded submission.
4. On the right of the screen, you will see the Rubric choices with the criteria listed.
Then, make selections for ALL of the criteria in the rubric.
5. Once you select all criteria levels and provide feedback, click “Save and show next.” This will take you to the next student to grade.
Creating a Rubric for an assignment
1. If you have already set the assignment settings, then click “Advanced grading.”
2. Select the “rubric” option from the “Change active grading method to” drop-down menu.
3. You will see a few buttons appear AFTER you select the rubric option.
Click “Define new grading form from scratch.“
4. Enter a name for your rubric.
If you have multiple rubrics, add a rubric description so it is easy to find. This will help you differentiate between rubrics.
5. Now, we need to create the functionality of the rubric.
Scroll down to the Rubric area. Click “Add levels” (details that define what the points are worth) and “Add criterion” (Thematic criteria or areas you will focus on when grading) to build the structure of your rubric.
6. Click on a level to edit it. To change it, type or paste the text into the “level” field.
If you need more than three levels, select “Add level” from the top right of the screen.
You can also delete levels by clicking the grey “x” near the point values.
7. You can set the order of your levels to descending or ascending and choose some display options for the rubric.**
8. Be sure to save the settings before moving on.
Assignment settings to use a Rubric
1. Click on an assignment to be taken to the assignment page. Alternatively, you can add a new activity or resource and choose “Assignment.”
2. Click “Settings” to see ALL the assignment settings.
3. You can set your due dates and cut-off dates in the “Availability” section
4. Be sure to allow file submissions and limit the number and size of uploads if needed.
5. Click the “Accepted file types” field.
Type “.pdf” in the field.
Now, students can only upload PDF files. They will receive an error if they try to upload a different file type.
You can limit this to all file types if you wish. Click on the “Choose” button to see more options.
- Setting file type to Word documents only.
“.docx, .doc” will only allow Microsoft Word documents.
6. Set the appropriate feedback types for your assignment.
Since the assignment is limited to PDF submissions, we want to choose “Annotate PDF.”
7. Now, the assignment is set up to grade using the Annotated PDF feature. Click “Save and display” to start accepting submissions.
Providing Feedback Files When Grading Moodle Assignments.
1. Navigate to the assignment you are grading.
Click “View all submissions.”
2. Instead of going to each student and grading in the browser window, we will download all the submissions so we can make comments and provide feedback directly in their submission.
Click “Download all submissions.”
3. The submissions are downloaded in a Zip file; each is labelled with the student’s name in their document title.
Open the document and make comments where you have concerns with the submission. Type your comments in a different colour or easily distinguishable font from the submission fonts
.4. You can now provide a grade and upload the feedback file you just created.
Click “Grade” to perform these tasks.
5. Provide a numerical grade for the student. In this case the grade is out of 25.
6. Type general feedback in the “Feedback comments” field.
7. Now you can upload the file you commented in back to the student.
8. Click “Upload a file” and choose the file you created as the “Feedback file.”
9. Give your document a name in the “Save as” field.
Once done, click “Upload this file.”
10. Once you have input all the comments and grades, click “Save changes.”
11. Click “View all submissions”
12. You can see that “Student 11” received feedback comments, a numerical grade, and the attached uploaded feedback file.
Assignment Settings to receive Feedback files.
1. Click “Add an activity or resource.”
2. Click “Assignment”
3. Click the “Assignment name” field and enter a name and description for your assignment.
4. Click the “Enable” field.
5. Don’t forget to set all your due dates and cut-off dates.
6. Be sure to allow “File submissions” in the submission types area.
Click the “maximum number of uploaded files” dropdown and set the maximum number allowed. In this example, we will put it to “1.”
7. Lower the size of the file submission as well unless you know they will be uploading large files.
8. Type “.doc, .docx” in the “Accepted files” field.
9. Under “Feedback types,” choose “Feedback comments” and “Feedback files.” This will allow you to provide written comments appearing in the student’s Grades section, and you can upload a file with feedback written in it.
10. Change your “Maximum grade” to work with your grade scheme.
11. Once you have entered all the required settings, click “Save and Display.”
Settings for Using Inline Comments on Assignments
1. In the assignment you wish to allow inline commenting, click on the Settings tab.
2. Make sure your submission types are set to accept online text or file submissions.
3. Set the word limit for online text submissions.
4. Enter “.docx and .doc” in the “Accpeted file types” field.
5. Toggle “Feedback comments” on.
Check the “Comment inline” option on.
6. That is all for the settings.
Click “Save and Display.”
How Students View Comments and Feedback Provided with Annotated PDF Feature
1. If the assignment is graded and feedback is released, students can click on the assignment link to see their grades and any feedback given to them.
2. Here is the feedback that is first visible to the students.
3. Scrolling down, you can see that the feedback comments instruct the student to see the annotated PDF file for detailed feedback.
Click “View annotated PDF…” to see the comments placed using the annotation tool feature.
4. Students can also select the page of the document they wish to view, as there may be more feedback on the next pages.
5. If feedback comments, annotated PDFs, or Feedback files were used to provide feedback, they will also be visible to the student.
How to Grade Papers with annotated PDF feature.
1. Click on the assignment you wish to grade in your course.
2. Click “View all submissions”
3. You will have to scroll to the right in the grading area
4. Choose a student submission and click “Grade”
5. Click this button to add a comment. The colour swatch beside it can be changed to a different one to differentiate between comments.
6. Click and drag to make your comment box. Once created, type your comment inside.
7. You can use the other tools to create comments or marks on the PDF.
The document has four pages that you can switch through. Use the arrows to navigate through the pages. Be sure to grade all the pages of the submission.
8. Once done with comments, give a grade to the student.
9. You can also provide some written feedback outside of the submitted document. Students will see the comments in their grading area.
10. Click “Save and show next” to go to the next ungraded submission.
Understanding the Annotation Tools in Annotated PDF feature
1. This button chooses which colour the drawing tools will use.
2. This button allows you to type comments.
3. Choosing the rectangle icon and the green ink colour will produce a green rectangle.
4. Create a circle in the color chosen.
Configure Assignment to only accept PDFs for Annotated Feedback
1. If you have an assignment for which you want to accept PDF submissions, click “Settings.”
2. Make sure “File submissions” is selected as a submission type.
Then, choose the limits for the files that can be uploaded.
In this case, we will accept a maximum of 2 files that can’t be larger than 500 kb. You can choose higher settings if you think the documents they upload will be larger.
3. Next, we want to limit the types of files that can be uploaded. In this case, we only want to allow PDFs so we can use the “Annotated PDF” marking feature.
Click the “Choose” button beside the accepted file types field.
4. Expand the Document files choices. You will see the specific choices for the document files.
5. Toggle on “PDF document” and toggle off
“Document files.” This will limit submissions to PDF only.
Be sure to “Save changes.“
6. Next, we move on to “Feedback types” and choose “Feedback comments” and “Annotate PDF.”
This way, a PDF can be annotated with marks that can be highlighted, etc., and you can also type in any additional comments.
We won’t need inline comments turned on, as the text in PDFs cannot be pulled into the feedback field like it can with Word documents.
7. Be sure to set the other submission settings to your specifications.
8. Once all the settings are set, click “Save and display.“
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Using Peermark Within a Turnitin Assignment
Turnitin offers a feature that allows students in a class to review each other’s work. After the peer reviews are completed, the instructor can also review the submissions and provide feedback. Watch the video linked below to learn more.
Moodle Announcements Forum
Each Moodle course has a default forum called Announcements. This is not like most forums, it is a one-way communication tool for the instructor to relay information to students.
Transferring your Course Content
If you have a course previously taught in Moodle it is very easy to get your content moved over into a future/current semester. You are not required to create your online course component from scratch every semester, we can move your pervious course over to edit and revise as needed.
You will notice that when you login to the Moodle dashboard that you have access to the last semester from the drop down list available in the dashboard.
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Adding a YuJa Activity to Your Moodle Course
To get started using YuJa, the first step is to create a link within your course. This does a number of things:
- The first time that you do this, an account within YuJa is created for you.
- It creates a course channel within YuJa (with you as the instructor of that course channel and all of your students as student). This allows you to easily restrict content to just the course that the material is associated with (you can always share the content to a wider audience if you want).
- It allows you to quickly access your YuJa content, the video recorder, video editor, and settings for your content.
To get started, first navigate to the course that you would like to start using YuJa in and turn editing on by clicking on the toggle switch in the top right corner of your Moodle page.
Moodle Terms of Use Policy Agreement
Each semester you must agree to the Site Policy Agreement in order to use Moodle.
Displaying YuJa Content Within Your Moodle Course
This tutorial will teach you how to display Yuja content in your course.
Recording Your First PowerPoint Lecture in YuJa
This tutorial will teach you how to start making a recording with your Powerpoint in Yuja.
Be sure to set your course to visible
As we enter a new semester it is always important to make sure your course it set up properly and that the course is visible to students.
Be sure to visit the following link for a tutorial on how to set your course visibility.
Information About Booking Exams in the Testing Centre (for instructors)
If you are an instructor and want to use the Testing Centre to have your students write an exam, here is some information that you should know about how the Testing Centre operates as well as the information you will need to provide to us in the Teaching Centre so we can book your exam properly.
Self Enrolment into a Moodle Course
You may be asked to enrol yourself into a course on Moodle. Below we will provide an explanation on how this process works.
Adding Instructions in Quizzes
You may wish to add instructions or a description to a set of questions on a Moodle quiz.
How Can I Access my Exam Statistics?
Moodle is capable of providing detailed statistics of your Moodle exam. If you are interested in getting an overview of your exam results you can access the statistics for the exam quite easily.
I Can’t See my Moodle Classes
At the University of Lethbridge, not all classes will have a Moodle course component. Instructors are given the option to use Moodle if they wish. If your instructor has informed you that the course will be online in Moodle but you are unable to see the course, please check the following.
Subscribe/Unsubscribe from Forums
If you have a discussion forum in Moodle you can choose to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the forum. If you subscribe to a forum in Moodle you will not only see the post in the Moodle forum on your course page but you will also receive an email in your UofL email account to notify you that a new post was made in the forum. One exception is that if the instructor has chosen to make the forum a forced subscription you have no choice but to receive emails on every discussion posting.
Exporting Grades from the Gradebook
If you wish, you can export your grades or your student list from Moodle into an Excel Spreadsheet.
Importing Aiken Formatted Questions
Rather than creating individual questions in Moodle you can have multiple questions constructed in a text document that you can then import into Moodle. The Aiken Format provides you with an easy way to import multiple choice questions into Moodle.
Adding a Resource to Moodle (Files, URLs, Folders)
This article will walk you through the difference between the following resource items: Files, Folders, Pages, Labels, IMS packages, and URL’s. It will help you understand why you may want to use one resource type over another.
Adding a Course Syllabus to Moodle
Moodle allows you to add a variety of files and activities to course sections. This tutorial will specifically show you how to add a syllabus to your Moodle course.
Adding a Teaching Assistant to Your Course
If you have a Teaching Assistant, you can give them access to your Moodle course to assist in grading or content management.
Changing Topic Titles
By default, Moodle names your topics with a sequential numbering system (topic 1, topic 2, etc.) These topics may be customized. For example: Chapter 1, Week 1, Introduction to Pottery, etc.
Uploading Multiple Files in Moodle
If you have multiple files you wish to add to Moodle, rather than uploading each file individually, you can zip the folder containing those files and upload the zipped file into Moodle.
Getting Started with YuJa
Learn the basics of getting Yuja running in your course.
YuJa is a cloud-based video capture, editing and streaming service that the University has purchased access to for faculty, staff and students. It can be utilized as an integrated tool within Moodle or as a stand-alone product. To access YuJa directly – navigate to https://uleth.yuja.com, and login with your U of L credentials.
Creating a Crowdmark Assessment
The following tutorials will teach you how to set up and assessment using Crowdmark.
Did you know you can store files on Moodle?
Sometimes you have multiple sections on Moodle and your classes may have enough overlap that one assignment helps you complete another.
To make this a little easier you can upload these types of files to the private files area.
Students Can’t Access Moodle Home-based Exams
If you are giving an exam on Moodle that is open to take from anywhere, and students are unable to access the exam, you may want to first troubleshoot these two steps.
Grading with File Feedback in Assignment Drop Box
When you set up an Assignment Drop Box in Moodle you are able to upload a file back to students with feedback for grading purposes.
Adding a Zoom Link to Moodle
If you have course lectures over Zoom, you will most likely want to include those Zoom meeting link(s) on your Moodle course page.
Moving Content in Moodle and Changing File Order
It is very easy to move content around in Moodle. You can easily rearrange sections or files within your Moodle course.
If you want to change the order of files within a section, first make sure editing is turned on by clicking Turn Editing On at the top right of your Moodle page.
You should now notice the move arrow beside each of the items. Click and drag the arrow icon into the desired position.
There is no need to save, Moodle will automatically save your changes when moving content around your Moodle page.
Randomizing Quiz Questions in Moodle
When adding questions to a quiz in Moodle you can choose to keep those questions in order, randomly select from categories, or create new questions as you go along. In this tutorial, we will show you how to randomize questions in your Moodle quiz.
How to Release Quiz Grades to Students
This tutorial will show you how to release your exam marks to students. (this can also include any feedback given to students on the exam)
Changing the Letter Grade Scale
Moodle has a default letter grade scale which may or may not reflect the scale of your course letter grades.
You can very easily change the scale to reflect your course.
Submitting Final Grades
You can submit your final grades directly from Moodle to the Bridge (Registrar’s Office). This is very convenient if you have a large class size.
In order to submit final grades, the instructor of record must be logged into the course.
Importing Essay and Short Answer Questions
Rather than creating individual questions in Moodle you can import a document with multiple questions at a time. To import short answer and/or essay questions into Moodle you must follow some simple formatting and save the file as a GIFT file format for importing into Moodle.
Creating and Using Groups
Moodle has the ability to designate groups within your course. You can have Moodle randomly allocate groups or you can create groups manually. We will show you how to create both in this tutorial.
How To Grade Assignments and Provide Feedback with inLine Comments
1. In your course, click on the assignment for which grading is required.
2. You can click “View all submissions ” to choose a specific student to grade.
3. Choose the student whom you wish to grade. Click “Grade”
4. You can see how many words were submitted and can click on the “+” icon to “View full”
5. In the “Feedback comments” area, the text submitted by the student is pulled into the “Feedback comments” field so that you can provide feedback inline.
6. Once you are done providing grades and comments for this submission, click “Save and Show Next” to go to the next student submission.