Moodle Resources for Faculty

UMOnline Help Desk: 406.243.4999 or umonline-help@umontana.edu

Online Resources for Faculty

• UMOnline 101 for Faculty:  A self-paced tutorial covering the basics of navigating and adding content to your Moodle course shell.

• Course Maintenance for Instructors: A step-by-step guide for course maintenance for the end of a semester and preparing a course for a new semester.

• Moodle FAQ's: A clickable and comprehensive resource of frequently (and not-so-frequently) asked questions of Moodle.

• Moodle Resources & Activities: An online reference site describing how to use Moodle Activities and Resources (course content). Includes text and video tutorials.

• UM Moodle Community Page: An open forum discussion for faculty and staff to share ideas and ask questions about using Moodle.

• UM Transition to Moodle Website: Information about the shift to the Moodle learning management system.

UMOnline Video Tutorials for Faculty

Be sure to check out our new Tutorial Videos below! They are organized into the following categories:

• Blackboard to Moodle Transition
• Moodle Overviews
• Administration
• Resources and Activities
• Media
• Assignments
• The Gradebook

UMOnline Video Tutorials for Faculty

Please click on the links below to watch the UMOnline Video tutorials organized by category.

Blackboard to Moodle Transition:

• Transferring & Zipping Files from Blackboard to Moodle*
•  Uploading Zip Files & Unzipping them in Moodle*
• Importing Blackboard Quizzes into the Moodle Question Bank

Moodle Overviews:

• Moodle Overview Part I
• Moodle Overview Part II
• Moodle Overview Part III
• The File Manager 
• How to Display a Course Title*

Administration:

• Assigning Roles and Allowing Guests*
• Updating Profiles*
• How to Backup your Course*
• Course Layout Options*
• Course Settings* 
• Sending Email with Quickmail*
• Copying Content from One Course to Another*

Resources and Activities:

• Resources: How to Link to a File or Website
• Resources: Creating Labels
• Resources: How to Display a Folder Directory
• Quizzes Part I: Creating a Question Bank*
• Quizzes Part II: Customizing Quiz Settings*
• Quizzes Part III: Building the Quiz with questions from the question bank*
• Quizzes Part IV:Results, Manual Grading, Regrading & Deleting Attempts*
• Questionnaire Overview*
• Forums and Subscriptions Overview*

Media:

• Creating a Lightbox Gallery
• Inserting a Video

Assignments:

• Uploading, Grading and Commenting on Assignments

The Gradebook:

• The Gradebook: Weighted Mean of Grades
• Setting up the Gradebook to display a Running Course Total as a Percentage

*available in HD