Moodle Support for Faculty and Students
You can further narrow the available resources by using the search box to find information specifically students or faculty. You can also search for documents that will help you learn about submitting assignments for example.


Teachers can create groups in Moodle to facilitate student collaboration in an online environment. This document provides information about the different group modes and how to create then edit groups.

This short asynchronous workshop covers priniciples of good online course design. Completing the workshop should take approximately 30 minutes.

This short asynchronous workshop covers applying best practices in undergraduate education to online courses. Completing the workshop should take approximately 30 minutes.

UMW English Faculty Bethany Blankenship shares how she customizes her Moodle site and uses Speechify to increase accessibility. Recorded in Fall of 2020 as part of UMW’s Faculty Conference.

This short courses will walk you through setting up a Moodle quiz and adding/editing questions. You must be a part of the faculty Moodle 101 course to access this resource.

This short course will cover creating and using Moodle Open Forums to create online discussions. You must be a part of the faculty Moodle 101 course to access this resource.

This short course will walk through setting up Assignment folders in Moodle to collect student work. You must be a part of the faculty Moodle 101 course to access this resource.

This short course will explain how to add some various content types to Moodle. You must be a part of the faculty Moodle 101 course to access this resource.

The short course will explain the basics of Moodle course layout, navigation, and editing. You must be a part of the faculty Moodle 101 course to access this resource.

Since downloading documents in Moodle can take several clicks, you can make students’ lives a bit easier by using a sharable link to a OneDrive document instead of uploading that document to Moodle. Plus, this trick makes it easier on you when you must update the document.)

Instructional Designer Jason Myrick explains how wildcards can make the student experience better when taking fill-in-the-blank questions on Moodle quizzes. (Part of the 2020 Short Talks series.)

Learn some basics about setting up a Moodle gradebook and have it accurately reflect the students’ grades–as well as make them display in an easy-to-understand fashion.

Information about logging on and finding your classes in Moodle.

Directions for embedding (rather than linking to) external tools into Moodle.

Information about setting up a Moodle gradebook to match the grading method established in the syllabus.

Moodle gradebook allows teachers to establish categories to organize grades.

Moodle provides teachers with several settings that can help students easily understand their grades.

Moodle allows teachers to hide blocks on specific pages when needed.

Information about how Moodle calculates grades and displays them to students.

Adding the Sharing Cart to Moodle course shells allows instructors to transfer items between sites.

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