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If a category in Moodle contains items with different total possible points, the ability to drop the lowest grade is disabled.  In the above image there are learning outcomes attached to the assignments. The learning outcomes are scored based on the number of ratings. There are four ratings being used: optimal, sufficient, suboptimal, and no evidence. Moodle automatically assigns points to ratings in a monotonic sequence. Four rating, four points maximum.  Because the assignment are 30 points and the outcomes are four, dropping the lowest is disabled. One might reason that not including the outcomes in the aggregation would resolve this issue. In the above the outcomes are no longer included in the grade aggregation. But dropping the lowest remains disabled. The code underneath the gradebook still sees the four point student learning outcomes.  One option is to use subcategories. Moving the assignments into one category and the learning outcomes into another restores the ...

April 15  Laboratory reports in two courses are marked with rubrics. This is an exploration of the capabilities of AI assisted feedback ( AIF ) in Moodle 4.5. The AIF plug-in was configured in practice mode in assignments for both courses.  The first example is from SC 250 Botany, a thin layer chromatography analysis of plant pigments. The laboratory report is marked using a rubric as seen below.    The prompt given is seen below along with setting up Generate feedback automatically on submission for Practice mode, which is the formative feedback mode for AIF.   For AIF to use the rubric, the Grading Method must be set to rubric. For Practice mode, the marking workflow must be set to No, which effectively turns off the practice mode. There is a summative Teacher-Reviewed mode that involves a different set of settings.         The following is an example from SC 130 Physical Science Ohm's law laboratory exercise. This laboratory is also...

 The Moodle mobile app on Android has pinch-to-zoom disabled by default. In the image above, the "expansion" arrows do not expand the image. Tapping anywhere including on the arrows causes the answer options to appear when pinch-to-zoom is disabled. Moodle mobile app users on Android who want to expand an image have to enable the pinch-to-zoom setting. From the home screen of the Moodle app tap the three dot horizontal ellipsis menu at the bottom right as seen in the image above. At the bottom of the next screen is App settings. Tap on the > to access the App settings. Under App settings select General. Under General, Enable pinch-to-zoom. In the above image pinch-to-zoom has already been enabled.

The MS 150 Statistics homework assignment due dates in Moodle were set in order to make sense to students in an online section. That homework assignments were due on the same day as the lecture surprised some students. After class I took a look at the due dates issue with the intention of altering the way due dates work. I ran into the same issue I have encountered in the past: the students will wind up confused as to which homework should be done after the lecture section.  As an example, here are the homework assignments as currently configured for next week:​ The lecture on the material necessary to complete homework 2.1 will be delivered at 9:00 AM on Monday 19 January. Underneath the title of the homework is the due date, also 19 January. The lecture and homework dates match.  Behind the scenes this is the result of the following settings:​ ​The homework assignment is due on 19 January at 22:00, 10:00 PM. The homework is open for submission until 1700 (5:00 PM) on 26 Janu...

As with all of my blogs, the audience for this post is a single person, me. I use blogs as notes I can consult in the future to determine how I accomplished something, and provide a place to record formulas I used to solve particular problems. In this case I needed to connect grade exports from Moodle to class exports from MyShark to produce a list of students on early warning. As the target audience is my future self, these notes are necessarily abbreviated and may be missing steps that I know intuitively. That said, this might benefit someone somewhere when dealing with related complications. I needed advisor information for each student which is only available from an extended student data export in MyShark. I also needed grades from the Grades: Export menu in each course. Note that the export menu link is the same except for the course ID, so link editing can jump one from one export screen to another directly. If a course has multiple sections, then Groups have to be previously se...

The workshop evaluation asked faculty to respond to prompts by agreeing or disagreeing with the prompt. The responses were converted to numeric values: Strongly disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly agree Three sessions were conducted with pre-workshop titled focuses on basic training, turnitin awareness, and advanced training. The afternoon advanced training received the highest overall average rating. Combining the responses for all three sessions, the instructors found the sessions to be informative and responded that they will be able to apply what they have learned.  The basic Moodle training in the morning received the highest means for being informative and applicability. The afternoon advanced session also saw high ratings on these same two metrics. Instructors found the session to be information and useful. Comments List two things you liked most about the sessions Clear and structured  Generating Quizzes and Assignments I find all the information is useful. How to...