eLearning Tips, Tricks, and Helpful Documents

If you are an instructor at UMW, here you will find various documents to help with providing the highest quality eLearning experience for your students. If you are a student, you will find documents that will help make your life easier.

You can browse the list of topics, search for topics of interest, or begin by using the quicklinks for Faculty, Students, and Moodle below.

130 documents
Faculty Support
The TEACH Act and Digital Media Sharing
The TEACH Act permits the use of much copyrighted digital media for online, educational purposes. The document provides a checklist for comploying with TEACH Act guidelines and explains how to share, but control access to, that media.
All-Campus Support
Creating OneDrive File Requests

Creating a file request in OneDrive allows users to collect files from both UMW staff, faculty, and students as well as those outside the college we must communicate with.

Moodle Support
Linking Moodle to Microsoft 365

This video demonstrates how to link Moode and Microsoft 365 accounts in order to access Microsoft Apps in Moodle and sync Moodle course calendars to Outlook.

Moodle Support
Linking Moodle and Microsoft 365

This document explains how to link Moode and Microsoft 365 accounts in order to access Microsoft Apps in Moodle and sync Moodle course calendars to Outlook.

Faculty Support, Moodle Support
Personally Addressing Students in Bulk Emails

This document explain how instructors can send one email, using the Moodle Quickmail tool, but individually address students by name.

Faculty Support, Moodle Support
Moodle Attendance Registers

This document describes how to set up a series of attedance registers for a class using the Moodle attendance activity.

Faculty Support, Moodle Support
Adjusting Dates on Moodle Attendance Activities

The document describes how to adjust dates on premade Moodle attendance registers for enrollment verification purposes

Faculty Support, Moodle Support
Adding Premade Attendance Registers to a Moodle Shell

So that faculty can verify that students are participating in classes (to meet federal financial aid requirements), eLearning makes Moodle attendance registers for each block. These Moodle activities can be added to a course so that students can actually mark their own attendance.