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Moodle has badges. Badges are under the More menu on your course homepage. Badges are tracked on the badges home page and new badges can be added here. A notification informs the student that a badge has been earned. Opening the notification displays the badge. Below the above is a description of the meaning of the badge that was entered by the instructor when they created the badge.

The short answer quiz question type in Moodle, known in Canvas as fill in the blank, only shows the first correct answer when there are multiple correct answers. For the above question there are actually 17 correct answers. The first correct answer happens to be kartop, the name of the plant in one of the local languages. In the above image the student has answered correctly for their language, and they were awarded full credit. The question behaved properly. All questions, whether correct or not, display the first correct answer as seen above, upon submission of the quiz or test. Learning is facilitated by immediacy of feedback, in this course tests display correct answers upon submission.  The result of displaying the first correct answer, in this case kartop, causes confusion for both students who answered correctly and those who answered incorrectly. In the above case the student might not notice that they were awarded full credit for their correct Kosraean answer. In the above...

Students can customize their Moodle Dashboard to help them find assignments and be informed of upcoming work. Many students do not realize that they can customize their own Dashboard.  To customize the Dashboard the student enables the Edit mode at the upper right side of the page in the desktop/laptop view of Moodle.  With the Edit mode enabled, the student can Add a block to the Dashboard. To move a block click on the four way arrow in the upper right corner of the block. To delete an unwanted block, click on the three dot vertical ellipsis menus at the upper right. Move and the three dot menu are only visible with Edit mode enabled. When done, turn off the edit mode.  While users control their own Dashboard blocks, the blocks drawer in courses is controlled by the instructor. By default the block drawer shows only the Activities block.  Students are not all aware of the course block drawer. Although open by default, the student may have closed the block drawer ear...

One way to tackle early warning lists is to export the grade book. The Export option is at the very bottom of the drop down menu and may require scrolling the drop down menu to see this item. On the Export page scroll down to the bottom. Click on the Select all/none to deselect the items. Then select only the Course total item. This will reduce the number of columns in the export.     In the Export format options include the percentage and, if desired, the letter grade. Then click on Download in the lower right corner of the page. The file will download as an OpenDocument Spreadsheet, the format used by LibreOffice.org . LibreOffice is a free open source office suite available for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. Moodle, also being open source, intentionally chooses to use open document format. The issue of missing assignments and how empty grades are treated (null grades, not zeros, displayed as hyphens in the grade book) can be seen above. There are 144 points to ...

For an assignment requiring a scatter graph, a chart such as the following is a sign that the student has incorrectly chosen a line chart with points displayed instead of a line.  The data that was used to generate the chart was as the following table. In a scatter graph the x-axis should be labeled with equally spaced increasing number values, not the x-axis values. A scatter graph also usually has a grid of vertical and horizontal grid lines. The line chart may not. A chart such as the one above would be an indication that the wrong graph type was chosen. This is the scatter graph for the same data. The x-axis is not labeled with data values from the first column and there are vertical grid lines. This is a graph as displayed in the Moodle assignment grader. The resolution is as displayed in the grader. This would appear to be a line chart type, not a scatter graph.  Upon downloading the assignment, however, the chart is revealed to actually be a true scatter graph chart. No...

In Moodle matching questions the left side is a rich text field. This allows matching to images with the images on the left side.    A drop down list of matching options is displayed to the student on the right. This is a random reassortment of the right hand side answers. This is not a special form of matching, all matching questions use a rich text field on the left.  The set up in the question editor can be seen above. The question displayed as seen in the Moodle app on a mobile device. The Moodle app also reformats the drop down list to be mobile friendly.  The images in a matching question should be reduced from the large sizes produced by a modern cell phone. The images seen above were reduced using SnapSeed to 800 px on the longest edge. This benefits students on limited bandwidth connections. To learn how to use SnapSeed, a free app, see, in particular slides 14 and 15 of a presentation that included use of SnapSeed . That presentation covered the reduction t...