Teaching a Course with Moodle Learning Management System - May 13, 2026

Well, thanks for joining us. I know Emily introduced everything, which is great. So, we don't have an hour and a half today. It's great to see some of the similar folks from the other days and some new faces. So, let's get going and again, we have an hour and a half. This will be a hands-on session or sorry, it will be a demonstrated session with some time for questions. So, we have a big group of facilitators today and I just wanted to mention some of the folks that are in the room and kind of acknowledge all of the work that's everyone's been doing to do some quick preparation. So, Manuel Diaz isn't with us today, but he's a learning designer and he's helped develop these sessions. He works at CTLT. I'm a senior educational development developer at the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology. John Cheng is a learning designer at the CTLT and Emily and Reno is a senior educational consultant. Greg and Joe are both coming to our sessions from LTIC, which is wonderful. Just acknowledging that they were both working all weekend to help make this incredible transition happen and you know, really applaud the endless amount of work that they did and they're still doing on this. So, they're really here to provide some expertise and understanding about the technical processes and how that's working and they'll do a little introduction at the start. >> Great. Thanks, Lucas. I just like to begin the session recognizing that we are all joining this digital space from very many different areas around BC. I'm sure a lot of you are at the Point Grey campus or you're at home. We have folks joining us from the UBC Okanagan, so welcome. I myself am situated in East Van in my home office / living room. Uh I'm situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish people, specifically Squamish, and Squamish and Musqueam Nations. Uh we'd like to offer our gratitude to these nations for their care of the land and water since time immemorial. And we encourage everyone here today to take a moment to acknowledge the indigenous territories and keepers of the land where you are all situated. Um so just a little bit of a note. Uh again, this is day This is day three of this transition. Well, probably day five for some of us, but really day three. Um so this is our third workshop. I think we have four or five this week. I think we're a little bit lost with time. Uh and the aim of this workshop is um is to really come together and provide some resource and guidance needed to make this transition uh as manageable as possible. And that's that's a huge word, manageable. Uh but we're going to do our best. Um and we've developed this works these workshops to help you streamline your progress and ensure that your essential course materials are really ready for students as soon as possible. Um again, just a a note on the timeline. We're really unable to give you a timeline of when Canvas would be back online, will be back online. I I think that the strongest message as of today is that really you will be teaching in Moodle for Summer 1 term, uh potentially a little bit longer. Uh that's why a huge amount of work is going in to make this platform as robust and reliable for you. Um so so really uh our focus remains on providing you with that kind of stopgap measure to maintain continuity for your students and your teaching environment. Uh, so just some learning intentions for today. Uh, participants will be will be able to identify Moodle equivalents for essential Canvas tools to effectively translate their course structure into the new environment. Participants will be will be able to upload and organize instructional resources such as pages, assignments, and quizzes to ensure that your students have the immediate access to necessary content. And we'll also take a look at setting up and managing basic discussion forums, announcements, and we'll take a a really quick look at the email tool, which is not exactly like Canvas, but we'll we'll look at that. Okay, got me again. Oh. >> Sorry about that, Em. >> No, no, no, go for it. Go for it. >> Go ahead and just walk us through the agenda um, fairly quickly is what we've done is we wanted to really think about some of the questions you had and help you understand different areas of Moodle. So, at the very beginning uh, Joe and Greg of Grace have graciously agreed to share some of kind of the high-level points around importing your course, accessing your files, etc. And then we'll have a little bit of time for that large Q&A about that process. After that, we have a guided walk-through and for that walk-through, what we've done is set up some key aspects of Moodle and we're going to be walking you through those aspects and then pausing at each section for questions. At the end, we'll have some time for questions. I will say that we haven't had much time at the end. Usually, the questions are going to be confined for those spots. As follow-up for the session, we'll be sending you a session recording as well as recording the different questions that you're asking and trying to answer those. It's a little bit different than other workshops we've done in that there's going to be a number of questions today that we're not going to be able to answer and we just want to assure you that we'll be writing those down and figuring out a way to get those back to you um as we don't have all the answers right now. And some key resources and support um a reminder you're going to be one of your key areas to go right now is to the alternative course hosting site. On there you're going to find most up-to-date information about different tools and different parts of this project. Canvas redirect is where your students uh would end up if they logged in and it will go to Moodle. Um the LT Hub site is your key site where you can put in tickets. You can attend drop-ins. Um kind of anywhere you're stuck and a reminder many of you also have your local ISS. The SharePoint site is the site that you're going to go to to access your course files that have been moved from Canvas. All right, over to Emily. Oh, you're muted, Em. >> Yep. Yep. Um I I really just put this slide up yesterday because a lot of people are concerned about what's what's coming over from Canvas and what how what's what's the priority in doing all this? So really uh you can kind of tell from the the colors on the slide here the priority right now is credit courses. So again Joe and Greg and the team at LT have have really worked, I'm going to say, night and day, um to really set up credit courses as a priority and get student enrollments there. I met with lots of faculty over the last couple of days and I can see that the student enrollment is in there, which is great. Learning Learning the system is something a little bit different, um but that is their priority now and that's working fairly well. Joe will talk a little bit more about that. Uh we also had some people in the session yesterday because they are Canvas and Canvas Catalog is highly used for uh revenue-generating courses. There may be a few questions from people in the session today. Uh and while it's set to a yellow color, really some high-level critical conversations are going on about the revenue-generating courses because, as you know, they bring in money to UBC. And so those are an absolute priority. Um for the non-credit courses, and I I teach in a couple of non-credit spaces as I know Lucas does. I do the TDP for new faculty. I do the UDL. There's Go Global. So there's lots of non-credit workshops that were hosted in canvas.ubc.ca. Um and again, there are definitely conversations going on about getting over getting those over to Moodle. Uh sorry, Moodle. Um and I can speak to a little bit about those as I do have my non-credit courses moved over, but again, you can see what the priority um strategy is for kind of one and two. >> Wonderful, and I'm going to turn it over to Joe Zerdin now, who's going to discuss some of the higher-level uh technical aspects of this project. Go ahead, Joe. >> Thanks, Lucas. Maybe I'll just start by showing my Canvas redirect page. >> That'd be great. >> So, this is if anyone goes tries to log into Canvas at all right now, this is the page that they'll see. Um students will see this, instructors will see it. We've we've kind of spun up a thing called the course directory where we're encouraging instructors to um log into the course directory with their CWL and add their course information. Um Let me just log in quickly. Um so, this is a kind of a one-stop shop right now for students to find up-to-date information about where your courses are going to be running and maybe um upload like you can upload your syllabus if you'd like. There's a couple options here just to be able to communicate with your students about what's going on right now. Um there's also like an open area to add notes and and things like that. If you make any If you If you make any mistakes or if anything changes on this, you do have the ability to update whatever you put in. So, you don't need to worry about that. Um so, that's good to know. Um the other thing that we've done here is link to Canvas export files. So, we've been working hard to get all your materials out of Canvas and may we've made them available in different a few different formats. Um over the past few days, our guidance that we've been providing has kind of evolved. Um the latest today is to request a Moodle course for your for your summer course. And um if you want any of your materials imported from Canvas, make sure you include that, too. Originally, we we had it set up so instructors could import their own materials, but as of 4:00 yesterday, um they were we were just having too many issues with them failing. So, we've had to kind of queue them up on the back end. Um and the best way to do that right now is to just have the LT Hub do the imports for you. So, when you open a ticket with the LT Hub, it it's important to include what course materials you want in. Um like if if you were teaching from a previous um term and you like hadn't had a chance to import your materials into your summer section in Canvas, then you need you should outline that in the ticket. Um I don't know if Greg, if you want to jump in with anything on this part. >> Um nothing nothing too dramatic at work. Um we've we've made a lot of improvements on the the export files, so hopefully this we'll be able to open this up again once um we have fewer errors that are slowing things down. >> Great. Um So, yeah, in short, we've kind of simplified it cuz you can't do the imports yourself right now. Um oh, one other thing we're working really hard to get instructional support people access to to the courses in within their faculties. Um and instructional support people should will be able to do the imports for you, too. So, you'll be able to work with them. It's not quite available yet. Um hopefully this afternoon. But I think there's still a little bit more testing to be done. But that's kind of all I That's the current state right now. >> So, what we're going to do now is a guided walk-through of Moodle with the idea of just orienting you to different aspects of teaching and learning with Moodle. I'm going to use mostly an empty course shell with it, but we also have a couple course shells that we've added to. So, Emily may show those as she goes through. So, the guided walk-through, we're going to start by talking about your overall site structure and admin, kind of how to set up your modules, thinking about your settings. Then we're going to look at some different ways of building and editing content. And I know for some of you you're going to be editing content quite a bit. Then Emily's going to look at communications with you, discussions, announcements, and messages. And then finally, we're going to end up Emily and I are going to talk about assessments, and we're going to end off with the gradebook. And we'll have some questions after each of those sections. And we're going to do this through Moodle. Um just kind of walk you through how these different processes work. I want to start by walking you through setting up your course overall and thinking about content. So, what I'm going to look at with you in a moment is uh editing features in Moodle, hiding and unhiding your course, finding your course dates, and perhaps setting a format for your course. Then we'll take a look at organizing organization and content. So, how do we organize that overall course structure? How do we add activities and how do we add content? How do we upload and upload files and share them? And finally, how do we edit and create pages? So, without further ado, I'm going to walk through that with you now. And after that, we're going to pause for some specific questions around content. So, this this is my course area in Moodle, and you can log into this in moodle.ubc.ca, assuming you have a Moodle course set up. You'll see in this area, I have a my courses area, looks very much like Canvas in the way they set it up, and these are going to be all of the courses that you're enrolled in. I'm going to start by going into my sandbox here. And what you're seeing is a kind of a semi-populated course. So, it's not full of content. I've added a little bit. Now, I want to show you a just a couple views before we jump in and go a little bit deeper. So, one of them is if you look on the top right of your screen, Moodle has something that Canvas didn't, and that's an edit mode on and off. What that does is if I toggle that off, it's just going to give me a clean editing a clean screen, so I can take a look at how my course looks uh without the editing features. If I turn it on, that's going to open up all of the editing features. I'd say the big thing with edit mode on and off is if you're if a tool or something isn't working properly, you've probably toggled it off by mistake. I've I've finding I'm doing that quite a bit. The other view that I wanted to mention is the student view. And it's a little bit buried uh compared to Canvas, but if you click on the icon or the word mark that is your name, you can scroll down that, and you can switch role to a student. Once you're in a student role, you're going to be able to see what the course looks like as a student. However, you can take assignments, but from my understanding, at least for now, I've not seen the assignment grades within my gradebook. So, I may need to check on that. Canvas actually enrolled a student for their test student to get that. And so, that's just a couple views to mention, and I'm going to leave my student view now. So, I'll just return to my normal role, and want to show you a other couple other high-level settings before we move in and talk about the overall course. So, this is your course settings page, and you'll recognize this very similar to Canvas again. Um you'll see that your course name is here, your course dates are here. From my understanding, you won't be able to change your course dates. I do need to confirm that now, but I would guess with SIS courses, those course dates will be um locked in for your course. Um but again, uh I will double-check that. An important point here though is in Canvas, you had a publish and an unpublish button. In Moodle, you have a show and hide button. So, in order to make your course available to students, you will need to show your course. That's going to make it available. Hiding your course is going to make it unavailable. Couple other things scrolling down here. Um if you click on course format, and course layout, you're going to decide if you want to show one section per page or all the sections per page. Um in terms of format, you can set your course as a weekly format or custom sections, and I'll show you what that looks like. Now, I think most people are just using custom sections and changing those. So, I'm just going to save now and let's look a little bit more at the course page and how that's set up. So, I'm just going to turn my edit mode on and we'll take a look at the course page. If you take a look at week one or general, both of those are called sections. So, in Canvas, we called sections modules and a section is a container that holds the different resources and activities within it. So, students are often accessing all the week one materials and activities, all the week two materials activities, and so on. So, for each section, um when you get your migrated course or get your course that you've uploaded materials into, you may need to go in and change some of these sections. So, I'm just going to call this section welcome. Oops, try that again. And we can just change our sections like that. Scrolling to the very bottom, if we want to add a new section, we can do that here. If you want to move sections or move things within sections, if you go to your sidebar on your left, you'll be able to drag different elements in order to reorder them quickly. So, this is our overall course navigation and let's just take a look in student view and see how students would be navigating it. One moment. So, we have our course and students are either going to be given a choice of scrolling down or they're going to be able to navigate the course through the sidebar. And this is very much like the Canvas module view. I'm just going to return to my normal role again. One moment. Perfect. So, another thing that you're going to do once you move your course in, is to start either filling out filling in these sections with different activities or resources, or editing the resources that have already been put in there for you. So, I'm just going to start by uploading a file. Some of your files will be coming over, but you also may need to upload files at times. So, to do that, I'm going to click on add an activity, and I'm going to go resources. So, this is where all of the different resources you can add. A couple things about these resources that are worth knowing. Text and media area is similar to a subheader in Canvas. So, it's going to allow you to add a little bit of information to organize things below it. Generally, I'm not using it in my building. Files are PDFs or other files that you upload to the system, and pages are HTML pages that you can make very simply with a little bit of text and links, or make into complex pages for students. As well as URLs. I'm going to start with a file, and I can give that a file name. I'll just call it test file. Not very creative at this point. Nor good at spelling. From there, you can give your file a description, which is nice for organization, and I'll show you what that looks like on the front. If I display my description, students will be able to see that on the main page. When I go to files, I can actually drag and drop from my computer. Um, if I want to drag and drop individual files that way. I can also click on this plus sign to get the file picker. And there's a couple places I can pull files from. One is server files and this is going to include all the files uploaded into your course. So, you can grab files there. Or you can upload a file directly. So, I'm going to upload a file now. Open it up. And I'll just save that. We can give it a license. If you use Creative Commons licenses, you can add them there. And then I'm going to upload the file. It's just going to appear as a link. If I go to appearance, I could change it to a fully embedded file where it shows up fully on the screen. Personally, I haven't found it looks that good in Moodle. I tend to link to the files right now. So, I'm going to save that. And return to course. And in a moment, we should have this test file that we've just created. When students click on it, depending on their browser settings, it's going to download or open up full screen for them. The next thing I wanted to show you in another way that you may be sharing content is through pages. And I've created a page here called AI and learning shortcutting to take a look at what editing a page might look like. So, when your course comes over, if you have quite a bit of content and then I know Nick mentioned that he had a large asynchronous courses. In those cases, often we build quite a bit of content on these pages themselves. Um, you may need to go in and make some edits on your pages. And I'll give you an example here. So, you'll see my page here. I'm just going to remove my image here and a video here because one of the challenges of pages is that videos and images haven't been coming over. So, one thing that you may need to do is go in and add images or fix images and add videos from learningmedia.ubc.ca. So, let me start with adding an image. If I want to add an image to this, I need to go here. Again, I can drag and drop an image or I can insert it. I'm definitely not going to put a headshot there. And I can upload my image from there. I can add my alt text here. And I can save it there. And that's going to add a full-size image um which I can adjust in the editor there. So, it's a fairly uh typical uh WYSIWYG or HTML editor. With the videos right now, um if you've uploaded videos in Canvas, you probably were using something called Kaltura. Kaltura is UBC's video video enterprise system. And it allowed you to upload videos into something in Canvas called My Media. What's nice about My Media is that it also all the videos are also available on this site, learning.video.ca. So, I'm just going to click on My Media and log in. And what I'm going to see in a moment is all of the videos that I've ever created and uploaded through My Media at UBC. I can actually go back all the way to Blackboard videos and you can see me age about 10 years, which is quite frightening and we won't do that. But if I want to grab a video, I can click on it here. And I can click share. And from there, I can grab this embed code. There's some different players I've found at least right now, the responsive player wasn't working that well for me. I'm going to grab this smaller player. Copy the embed code. Go back to my page and this gets a little bit tricky. Uh there may be different integrations for video in the future. What you need to do now is go into the source code. I've put a video placeholder for me to understand where this goes. And I'm going to paste into there. Let's see if our video comes out. There we are. So now I've added my video. It still lives in my media, but I've now added it to a page within Moodle. So now we have our pages, we have our files. Again, we can move these around on the side. Last thing I wanted to show you around setup and content is hiding. As when you get your course, there may be lots and lots of different files. Some of them you want to be visible to students, some of them you don't. To hide something in Canvas, click on the three dots next to it. And hide it. And that's going to make it not visible for students. You can always go back and show it. So that is a brief kind of tour of the overall setup as well as some um points about how to add and upload content. I'm going to stop sharing now and I'm going to take a few minutes, probably about 4 minutes, for some questions that have come up for you so far. So what questions do you have? Yeah, Emily. >> Um I have a question. So, you showed how to get older videos from Canvas. Is there also a way to upload like Zoom recordings from like for online classes into Moodle as well, so they have those videos accessible? >> now a couple things. They are looking at integrations with Zoom, and we still don't know where that's at. In the previous integration, as you know, there was access to recordings within the integration. >> Mhm. >> That is one possibility. I'm not sure where that's going to go. Another way you could do it right now in the interim is um if you get if you go to learning.media, download your Zoom videos out of Zoom. This is actually better practice anyways cuz it's moving video content off of Zoom into Kaltura. You go to create, and you're going to upload your media. Uh let me share screens with you. I actually thought I was there. Sorry about that. So, you're actually you're going to go to this learning media site, go create, and go upload. Grab that Zoom video, upload it into there. You can add captioning to it there as well. So, that's probably what I would do for now, but I would keep an eye out for integrations coming out because that would make it a lot easier. >> Okay. Perfect. >> Does that answer your question? >> Yeah, it does. Thank you. >> Perfect. Other questions? Other questions particular on setup or content? Yeah, Tariq. I see you. >> Hi. Yeah, a quick question about the videos on Kaltura. Um I've been changing like when when I look at the listing it says private and I've been having to change I've just been changing them to unlisted. Is that a step I need to do because I or I just leave you do have to do that. >> unlisted would work. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. So they all came in as private for you? >> Yeah. >> Okay, thanks. So that's something I'll add to our documentation that we have to toggle that off to make them visible. >> Yeah, okay, cool. Cheers. >> Other questions? All right, I wanted to show one other thing before we move on and that's something that um Actually, I'm going to leave that for now. Let me turn things over to my colleague Emily now. >> Okay. Thanks, Lucas. I'm going to share my screen. Let's try this. Okay. Okay. So I'm going to walk us through at a very high level announcements, discussions, and the very scaled-back email tool. So I'm going to go into This is a course I created the other day um and as a side note, I'm just kind of collapsing everything here. I in all in all transparency, I've been learning Moodle. I keep saying Canvas. The last 5 days. I've been cramming since since it went down Thursday afternoon. So this course I created really I wanted it to make I wanted to make it look like Canvas ever so slightly. So that's why I built it from scratch. For the rest of you going into your course, it's probably going to be content imported from Canvas. So it's going to actually look fairly similar to your Canvas course. So for this one what I did I just created buckets that actually look like Canvas, so that's why I have class discussions, my assignments are all bunched in together, and my quizzes are bunched in together. So, in terms of class discussions, again, they're in this bucket here. And you always want to make sure, sorry, I'm actually in the student view. I'm going to go back to my normal view. Oop. I am in my normal view. You always want to make sure your editing mode is on. That's always a bit of a a code of cell there. So, in terms of class discussions, again, I have my own little section here. So, I'm just going to go, I'm going to collapse everything. It makes it helps it for me when I have to and probably a lot of you, you're going to have a lot of content, so collapsing everything is really probably handy. Um So, I've already set up a bunch here, but I'll but I'll do another one. Again, in Canvas, sorry, in Moodle, the terminology is called a forum. So, it's not really called a discussion, but you'll see there's a button to create a new discussion, so I'd like to talk to the developers around their their thinking around this. So, they they're kind of using those terms interchangeably. So, again, I created a standard form, which is something that looks absolutely similar similar to Canvas. You post, and then you can have threaded replies. There's a blog look and feel one, which I'll show you. I I really like this, actually. And there's a Q&A, which I'm really testing, so I I won't go over that. So, in terms of adding a new discussion, again, Lucas talked about this. I'm going to add an activity. And again, these are called forums now. And I I'm not looking at the chat, so Lucas, if anything comes through, let me know, okay? So, I'm just going to call this week four. Again, I'm being being very specific with my titles here. Uh this is where your instructions are going to go for students. So, there's a couple of different forum types. This is the standard forum for general use. This is again, this is replicates really what's happening in Canvas. It posts um your initial uh posting from the instructor, and then students can reply to that, or they can start their own topic within that area. Uh again, um there's a Q&A forum. I'm testing it. I'm still getting used to it. Don't really know. And there's a there's a blog one. So, this is just the standard one. Again, there's availability. These are all very similar to Canvas. You can put uh maybe it's available from a Monday to a Friday, and they have to post. There is attachments and word counts. Um there's locking features. So, maybe you have contributions for 1 week, and then you lock it down. There's grading. So, you can have a scale, or there's a point. If you did a scale, you can add um you can add rubrics into there. I'll just do a point here. And again, every time you create a gradable item in Moodle, it's going to create a column in the grade center grade center, just like Canvas. Um you can again create group discussions. We won't go over that today, but we will hopefully have some workshop created by next Tuesday or Wednesday. It's very similar to Canvas. You can create groups. Uh so, group group one, group two, group three. And then you can actually assign your groups to their private discussion areas. I think that's good for now. So, again, And is just your standard one. So, as the as the instructor, I would go in and I would say, "I don't know. Welcome to week four." Or that word. Uh and you would put your instructions here. What would you like them to talk about debate, etc.? Do you want them to reply to one or two colleagues? So very similar to instructions in in Canvas. And you'll notice here, this is the word they they're using these interchangeably. Add a discussion topic, post to the forum. Why? I don't really know. Um but that's what they're doing. So, what this looks like on the student side is I can see I'm Emily, obviously. And I posted to the the initial topic. And students have the ability to go into my topic and they can reply to it. So, what starts to happen is it creates a threaded reply. So, you can see there's an indent here. If if a student did another reply to that, reply two, it starts to create a thread of thread of replies, which is the same as in Canvas. In the same discussion area, again it's called week four, students have the ability to start their own topic. So, you can adjust that if you want them to only reply in your initial posting and create those threaded replies, you can also do that. Or they have the ability to start a new discussion thread. So, it it's fairly open. Again, this is very similar to Canvas. Um one thing I wanted to show you, and again you'll see view grades here because I made this uh worth one point. Um so again, um as students start to contribute to this, there's another page you can go to and it shows all the contributions. and if they have multiple contributions, you can select all those threads and you can read through them for a specific user and grade them that way. So, week three, I actually made a blog and I I actually really like how this is laid out. Um so, again, I I just created the initial discussion topic. I selected the blog look and feel. Uh and you'll notice here, this is my initial posting. And then what I like about this is it says discuss this topic and they can start to really see how many replies are embedded in that contextual area there. The same with this. And if they want to reply, they can discuss this topic and they can go in and start to contribute to this overall threaded area within that initial blog posting. Okay. Um Lucas, I'm I'm not going to stop for questions. I'm just going to do announcements and email and then we'll take questions. >> Perfect. >> Okay. So, this is my I'm going to get out of the student view. Lots of going back and forth on this. My Otis student Yeah, I am. Okay. So, this is my announcements area. Um so, you might notice in your course I'm just shifting all my windows around, so please excuse me. You might see in your course that when it comes over from Canvas, it's called I think it's called general. It was initially called general. So, again, I wanted to make this really as close to Canvas as possible. So, again, you can change that heading. It's editable. And you'll see all announcements. So, what happens is they're not kind of itemized down the menu bar. They're clustered, consolidated, whatever in the announcements area here. So again, here's this ad discussion topic. Misnamed absolutely, but that's just how it is. So really that's how you're creating a new announcement. You'll notice here this is the general news and announcements area. And again, similar to how you're using Canvas and I have imported a couple of courses and all my announcements come over. Obviously they there may be dates on them, so you're going to have to edit those. But the good thing is they all came over. Um let's say week five, that would help maybe. And um so yeah. So I was with an an instructor this morning. This is a good a good case study and she has two she's teaching two sections in Moodle, which they're really figuring out how sections work. So she wants to have different announcements for her sections. Um so I won't go over sections right now, but similar to Canvas you can create a section and then you can actually release customized announcements per section. So for this one it's going to be all participants. I'm going to post to the forum. Notice it said a new discussion topic. It should say new announcement. It doesn't. I'm going to post to the forum. So again, this is what everybody is going to see. Whereas if you do want to do customized announcements per section, you have to set up your section first. And then you'll notice here I can assign if I just uh highlight uh section one, the these are the announcements, only the announcements they're going to see. So really I wanted them to see everything about the midterm both sections. I wanted them to see any everything about you know, um welcome to this course. And then there's customized announcements within these sections. So, how you would do that is not there. Is you go into, let's say, this one. So, my section one week two. So, when you're setting it up Nope, back up. Sorry. I'm going to edit this one. Edit, edit, edit, edit. Edit, um Oh, where is it? Sorry, everybody. All announcements, Going into this, is it here? Unstar. Okay, well, I won't spend too much time on this. But anyways, when you're setting up that announcement, there's there is an area drop-down area where you can send it to a section, or you made up you might have created a group. So, I think a lot of faculty I've talked to they're they're actually have multiple sections that they're going to be potentially teaching. So, this is a way to customize messages. I'm sorry, I'll find that drop-down menu where you actually select the actual section. Okay. So, email. Hm. So, there's no there's no dedicated email tool like there is in Canvas or inbox as we know it on the left-hand side. The only way really to connect with your students via email is, I'm back on the main course page. I'm going to go into participants. And you're going to notice here I only have five people enrolled in this course. I'm going to select them all, but again you can select them individually. Uh I was working with an instructor this morning. She had 280 people in her course and it only showed a certain amount per page. And so along the bottom there was a menu that she had to skip from one page to the next to the next. She couldn't select the entire course. Which I can hear a huge groan in the room here. She had to go one page by page. And there's a with selected users option below and she can send a message. And so you'll notice I'm sending it to five people. So Lucas and I have been testing this the last couple of days. What that's going to do is that is going to go out via email to everybody that has an email in in Moodle which they do uh because they have an email in Workday. Uh so that will go out via email and they will get notified in their at ubc.ca account or Gmail, whatever they have in Workday, uh of what that notification is. Um now there's no outbox. However, there is a record of that conversation or that notification that's gone out to them. At the very top of the page here beside your initials, so this is mine, there's a little chat bubble. And so I can see here um that that message has gone out to them. Uh and again I've clicked I've sent this message a couple of times to people. So again, that is when it what went out. Now, Lucas remind me, it doesn't actually show the five people that notification went out to. >> I'm not sure if I can. >> Yeah, okay. So, again, we're doing a lot of testing. Um but I can see that at least there's some sort of date stamp on here and it's gone out to them. Unless Greg and um Joe knows. And there's dead silence. Okay. >> I do not, sorry. >> That's okay. That's okay. >> I missed the question. >> That's okay. That's okay. That's okay. So, I'm going to stop there. Um the good thing is is that the email has gone out. I can see it's already in my inbox and probably looks as it too. So, I I think at Canvas they had to sign up they had to adjust their notifications to get something at their uh inbox. So, this way it actually goes out automatically. And the same with the announcement. I forgot to say that. >> It goes out automatically, but they could I think remove the notification. I think it's the notification is default to go out automatically. >> Okay. Yeah. >> But a student could change that and then it wouldn't go out automatically from my understanding. >> Okay. Okay, thanks. I'm going to stop there and take a breath. And um if there's any questions, please I will try and answer them. >> I have a question for uh Emily. Um can you explain how you created those buckets on the left-hand side? >> Um so Well, um so again, you know, most people probably that are teaching this summer are going to get imported cla- imported courses, so it's going to look very different. And I'll just make a comparison. I I imported this course yesterday cuz I'm teach- I'm also teaching um again a course. So, I don't those buckets you just saw, that's not what they look like. My buckets in this course I imported from Canvas, it really looks identical. You can see uh And so, the thing is with this course, my my quizzes and my assignments are actually all over my course. So, that's what's going to happen because you're importing a course over uh that looks like Canvas. Whereas, the course I just showed you that I did my um my um demo in, I actually created this from scratch. So, I made this myself. So, that's why I had way more control over what I called these buckets. >> Mhm. But, you can always go in and change them, right? >> Yeah, for sure. I could change all the names. Um, I can move them around, right? I can move the order of these. So, really this course you're looking at and I and I can't see who asked the question. This was created from scratch. That That's why I really highly customize what these buckets were called. So, assignments is really similar to Canvas uh when you bring everything over. Um all the descriptions come over. Some of the due dates are there, you'll probably have to adjust those. I made a couple of new assignments here, so I'll just walk you through that. So, again, like Lucas mentioned, add an activity or resource. I have my own assignments area. And it's going to be called an assignment. There it is. And I think I'll call this assignment. Uh, let's go with number four. So, some things to think about. Again, Lucas talked a little bit about this earlier. You can put anything you want in this box, right? You could link. You You your If you have your Word a Word document, you can put your description in here. You could add a PDF in here. Uh as well, you could also upload if if you have a PDF with your instructions, you can offline, you can upload that here. Um there are availability release dates here, similar to Canvas. Um I think this is an interesting one here, remind me by. That puts a That'll send you a reminder when submissions have come in, and you can actually uh start grading them. Uh submission file types. Um Oh, accepted file types, that's an important one. Uh I tend to use, and hopefully this pop-up window comes up. I tend to just use the default one here. Uh and I select a PDF. If you want to make it more uh flexible for students, you could do a Word doc, etc. I'm just going to save that. Um so, like Canvas, there's a speed grader. So, um I'll show you that in a minute. Annotate your PDF, that's great. Inline comments, I'd like to do that. Submission sessions. Uh this I haven't I think I tested on Sunday. Um that's kind of just a uh a confirmation that they have submitted their um their submission to the instructor, and then there's a final yes, I did button. How many attempts would you like to give them? Similar to Canvas. I tend to do two because um again, I teach a course of 40 people, and sometimes people submit the wrong you know, they're they're going to their desktop, and they're actually submitting the wrong submission to me. Um again, uh we won't cover this today, but we're going to get on this as soon as possible, is creating um groups. There's another area under the participants area that you would create your groups. And then you can actually you can actually assign groups uh, group one, group two, group three, and you can do group assignments. I wonder if I Oh, yeah. I So, I did that earlier. I have group one, group two. If you have different instructions or different uh, submission dates for groups. And I think this maybe is an interesting one, too. So, I think similar to in Canvas, do you want one person in the group to submit on behalf of the group or do you want everybody to submit? Uh, yeah. Okay. I'm just going to say no to this cuz I don't really want I want this to be like that. Okay. Uh, grading. I'm going to make this 25 points. Uh, here you this so, simple grading is really just going to open the PDF and you're going to go in here you're going to do some inline feedback, provide a grade, and overall feedback. You can create a marking guide, and then you can attach rubrics. So, and I think I did some testing on the weekend my rubrics from Canvas came over if the rubric was embedded inside the assignment because I think in Canvas there's two options. There's a rubric area, and then I had rubrics that were contextual for the assignment. I have to do more testing in all in all transparency. Um, what else do I have here? Right. Okay. I'm going to save that. Okay. So, what this looks like from a student's perspective. I'm going to go in I'm going to switch my role as usual. And I'm going to go into I think I'm going to go into this assignment here. Actually, you know what? I'm going to I'm going to just add So, what students are going to see is I don't know the wording in Canvas. I guess it said submit the assignment. I can't remember. Students are going to see this. They're going to get a little bit of information here. Um And again, I didn't create a You know what? I'm going to go into this one. I'm so sorry. Let's try that. So, what they're going to see they're going to see the instructions which I didn't do in the assignment number four. Um etc. So, that's one thing I did skip. I'm sorry. So, what they're going to do is they're going to go to their desktop. They're going to find a file. It's just like in Canvas. Think I'll just grab this one here. I have a student submission. I'm going to upload it. And again, remember I'm on as a student. I'm going to save the changes. So, I can see I have I uh submitted um an attempt. It's not graded yet, etc. So, what that looks like in this one for a student. Again, I have instructions here, right? But again, this one's actually been graded. And um there was my submission as a student. So, on the instructor side or TA This is where as a TA or instructor I can see the instruction the assignment's not hidden. Uh I have one participant in this course cuz it's a it's a test course. And it's it's been submitted. So, I'm going to grade this. So, what comes up is the PDF and Witeboard or speed grader in Canvas. And again, you have your inline feedback area here. So, I can do some grade and I can provide some inline feedback to them. I can assign the grade here. Again, I already graded this this morning. Really similar and I can do some overall feedback here. I can also download it and keep it offline. And I can save the changes. I don't really want to notify the student. That's fine. I can save and show next. I don't have another user. I'm the only one in this course. And so, it saves it. And then you'll find that again, this is similar. I'm going to go back to the course. I'm going to go back to What's under submissions? Yeah, under submissions. So, again, I only have me in this course, but I can see there's Emily. She got a 22 on 25. And again, if you have TAs in there, everybody has access to this. They haven't really to my knowledge haven't separated out some of the roles. So, the students really have the same access as the teachers. And you can see the mark the marking's there. It's kept in the grades and then overall feedback and they two TAs or another TA could actually go into that PDF and add additional comments or the or the instructor can view what the TA said. Okay. I will stop there. Lucas? Any questions coming? Yeah. >> Thanks for showing that. I wanted to Thanks, everyone. I wanted to go through a couple more aspects around assessments and the grade book. But before I do that, Um, had the question about moving things and I just wanted to mention one thing that might help you is bulk actions. Um, so you can use bulk actions. I'm just going to get out of there now and I was thinking in Nick's case and I'm sure this would be helpful for some of you. If you click on bulk actions and you go down here, you'll see there's a checklist of all your different activities and resources. You could check off specific activities or whatever you wanted to move to a certain and you can move them all at once. So >> Thanks for looking that up Lucas. >> in your case you could just go down there. You're checking off what you want to move into assignments and then you move all the assignments together. It's still not the same as having an assignment area, but it should be a lot faster uh >> But but he could create the assignment section and then move them all in there. >> That's what I was thinking just create an assignment section at the top, go through, click everything off and >> And you have to remember in Canvas you can you could create an assignment in the assignments area in Canvas and then you could also link a copy of it in multiple places >> Yeah. >> in your course. So that's not what the bulk this bulk move would do that >> bulk the bulk movement is just moving things around. >> It's relocating them. Yeah. >> in your course fast. That's right. All right. So now back to grading and quizzing. I wanted to show quizzing now and we're just going to spend a little bit on it, but we did have requests to show this and we'll try to emphasize this a little bit more tomorrow. Um, so if I wanted to add to a week, I'll just make sure my editing mode is on. And if I want to add an activity or resource, quiz is one of the activities that's going to be added here and this is to be your quizzes. So it's a little bit similar to Canvas here. There's a overall quiz setting screen. I'll just call it quiz settings. I don't know why. There's a quiz description area similar and then we can do things here like setting our timing. So when our quiz opens, when it closes, our time limit. Um if we want to use a grade category for and grade categories are similar to grade groups in Canvas. Um they allow you to cluster things together so that you can have you can weight them. You can have attempts here. As well as layout, new page every question or how many questions do you want per page. You get into question behavior then. What's probably important and it's quite complex is review options in Canvas. So what your students are able to see while they do attempts and what they're able to see when the quiz is open. So quite a few different options there. Appearance of the quiz. Safe exam browser from my understanding we are not using this at UBC. We're looking into lockdown browser um and how that can be integrated um as a way to lockdown a browser for proctoring. Um under overall feedback, you'll see you can add overall feedback here as well as a grade boundary. So once you've set all that you can save and display and again this is a little bit similar to Canvas. You can add a question. And from there if I click here on add question that's going to allow me to create a question or add a question from a question bank. I haven't checked this but I'm assuming that many of your questions, when they come over, are going to be in question banks. I'll try to double-check on that and get back to folks. But, if I wanted to add a new question now, these are the question types that we have. So, quite a few different question types. If I wanted to add, say, a true false question, I can add it here. Give it a question name. Is it sunny? I can give it a default mark, generalized feedback, correct answer, all of my feedback there. And then save and continue editing. Oh. Let's see if we can get this to work. Perfect. So, now we have our questions. So, we're starting to build out our quizzes here. For students, they are going to when they're in the course, they will see the quiz here, where we created it. And let's just pop into our student view here. If we go into here, they'll be able to attempt the quiz. And finish their attempt. Submit. And finish all. And then, depending on how you set the review screen, that's what we're going to see. So, a real quick intro to quizzes, again, from what I've heard, generally, depend even in complex courses, the quizzes came over quite well. So, hopefully, there isn't too much work you have to do in this area. The last piece I wanted to touch on is grading in Canvas. And grades in Canvas are found in the menu bar under grades. Let me just pop out of my student view again and turn on my edit mode. So, a couple of views to think about in grades. One view that's important is the grade report. This is going to be your default view that you land on in grades. You'll see what you'll see here is all of your different assignments. When you add an assignment, it's automatically going to have a grading column created for it. So, I can use this section to grade my particular assignments. If I If I scroll to the end, you will see my total and by default it's totaled by score. Um what it does have and I haven't used this in Moodle, but it does have an edit calculation. So, you can enter your own calculated grade formulas in here. And just broadly looking at the Canvas grade book, sorry, the Canvas grades compared to the Moodle grade book, the Moodle grade book is going to be far closer in functionality to something like Blackboard or Vista where you can do much more complex computation at the back end rather than the Canvas grade book. The other thing I'll mention about So, that's one view is the grade report view. Another view that may be important to you is the user report view. What the user report view does is it gives you I don't have a user in here right now, but it will give you what they see exactly when they go to their grades. So, it's like a student view of grades. The other place though that's probably important for you is gradebook setup. And a couple things here. This is where you can do your overall setup. If you click on add here at the on the top right, this is where you can add grading items, which means adding a column into your gradebook. So, if I add a grade item here, I'll call this participation. I can give it a maximum or minimum, an adjusted weight, and I'm going to save that. So, I've now added a column to my gradebook, and I can see that there. The other thing I can do here is I can change my weighting. So, it by default it's going to weight by score. This allows you to go in there and change the percentage weighting for each of the grades in order to calculate them. The other thing that the gradebook has and we won't be getting into this today is grade categories. What grade categories are is they're similar to grade groups in Canvas. They allow you to have a whole set of activities. Say you have 20 quizzes for participation throughout your term, you can cluster all those quizzes into a single grade category, give them a percentage, drop the lowest grades, and so on. So, a couple different ways that we can play with weighting. The last thing I wanted to show you about the gradebook is import export. For many faculty, importing and exporting their gradebook into a tool where they can manipulate it and re-uploading it is something they do at the end of term. You can do that here through the export and import your new uh your changed gradebook. And it gives you instructions there in terms of how to format the uploaded gradebook. So, that is a quick um tour through the quizzing functionality as well as for the Moodle gradebook. So, thank you for taking the time today. Um we know that it's a challenging time, but I hope through these sessions you can kind of see how Moodle works, see some of the differences with Canvas, and see some of the ways that you can get support in this space. So, thank you for doing that. We'll be doing workshops tomorrow and in future weeks we're going to hopefully be doing some workshops a little bit more focused on specific areas. I know one area that's been brought up multiple times is assessments, assignments, and the gradebook.