Moodle

Here you will find information and guides to help you get the most out of Moodle, the course management software used at Trinity College. Trinity faculty use Moodle for remote, hybrid and in-person instruction, which includes sharing resources (PDFs, links, e-books, and more) with students;  posting quizzes; participating in discussion forums; collecting and grading assignments and papers; and much more.

To login to Moodle, enter https://moodle.trincoll.edu into your browser’s address bar.  Click on ‘Login’ in the upper right, and a new window will pop up. You will need to enter your your Trinity College user credentials, using username@trincoll.edu, on this page to access the site.  After your enter the site, you will see your Dashboard with all your courses listed under Course Overview in the center of the screen, and recently-accessed courses will show at the top.

Click on a course link to access that course. At any time when working in Moodle, click on the blue question marks for help and explanations.  Also, if you hover over an icon, it will display tool tips text briefly describing the functionality of that button.

    • Most courses will have a course site created automatically approximately 90 days before the start of each semester.
    • Courses that are NOT automatically created include: Independent Study sections, TA sections and similar courses.
    • We are happy to create Moodle sites for any course, department, project etc upon request.
    • Sites are hidden from students by default, faculty members must make the course visible to students before they can access it.
    • Course enrollments are updated every morning based on the Registrar’s roster, meaning TAs and Mentors need to be added manually by the instructor.

You can find all our Moodle help articles below:

 

Getting started

    1. Making your site visible to students
    2. Using Quickmail to email your students
    3. The Announcements forum
    4. Adding a TA, Mentor or others
    5. Adding an activity or Resource
    6. Copy content from a previous course

 

Activities and resources

    1. Loading a file (Word, pdf, PowerPoint etc)
    2. Creating a Page (and why you might want to)
    3. Creating an Assignment
      1. Using the marking workflow to control the release of grades
      2. Blind grading
      3. Rubrics
    4. Discussion Forums
      1. Standard Forum and Q&A Forum (requires students to post before seeing other student’s posts)
      2. Grading a Forum
    5. Quizzes/Exams
      1. Creating a Quiz/Exam
      2. Adding questions
      3. Question banks
      4. Grading an Essay question
      5. Creating a Kaltura Video Quiz (embeds questions in videos)
      6. Setting different options for a Quiz based on Groups
    6. Gradebook
      1. Viewing the Gradebook
      2. Setting up weighting
      3. Don’t see some columns in the Gradebook?
      4. Integrating Poll Everywhere grades
    7. Kaltura
      1. Overview
      2. Viewing Streaming library reserves
      3. Quiz – embed questions in a video clip
      4. Resource – embed a video (from your library OR a library streaming reserve)
      5. Assignment – have students create and upload a video
    8. Glossary
    9. Database
    10. Wiki
    11. Workshop activity for peer review
    12. Zoom integration
    13. Poll everywhere
      1. Using Poll Everywhere (with or without Moodle)
      2. Integrating Poll Everywhere with Moodle
    14. Attendance
    15. Scheduler – to allow students to make appointments with you

 

More Useful Moodle features

    1. Groups/groupings/group self selection
    2. Managing accommodations for assignments and quizzes (extra time and extended due dates)
    3. Linking multiple sections with a Meta link
    4. Media/HTML block
    5. Editing the Course Overview block so you see the courses you want
    6. Backup/restore a course
    7. Safe exam browser
    8. Using restrictions to limit access to items based on date, users, groups etc

 

Common problems

    1. Don’t see your course in the overview list?
    2. Problems watching Kaltura videos (Safari on Macs and iPhones)