Moodle is the College’s learning management system that provides an online course space for every course section. All instructors and students are automatically enrolled. Visit the College’s Moodle at moodle.wooster.edu.
Please review the information listed on the Moodle homepage including new features and plugins.
You are invited to consult PDF handouts on the various topics outlined below.
Moodle for Course Management
Refer to the “Moodle for Course Management” handout
Learn how to manage settings, layout, activities, assignments, grades, and more.
Office 365 Connector
Refer to the “Office 365 Features in Moodle” handout
Faculty and students can connect their Office 365 account to Moodle to streamline uploading files from OneDrive, accessing Outlook email, and syncing Moodle events with one’s Outlook calendar.
Adding students/TAs/other teachers
Communicating with your students
Refer to the “Email Students in Your Course” handout
- Outlook: You can send an email to your class by addressing it to the Moodle shortname for your course in Outlook or Mail, e. g., IDPT-49900-01-1920FA@wooster.edu
- Moodle: You can add the Quickmail block to your course and use it from within Moodle
- Self-Service: Under the Faculty menu, select your course section and on the Roster tab, click the Email All button
Grading Assignments
Refer to the “Moodle Grading Assignments” handout
Use the Grade button – view, comment, annotate PDFs submissions, and score assignments in the browser
Use the View all submissions button – use Quick grading or Download all submissions at once, add feedback by annotating PDFs or using track changes or comments in Word, and upload all feedback files to each student at once.
Features
Refer to the “Moodle New Features” handout
Poll, Analytics Graph, Quiz Analytics, Scheduler