Activities are for students to participate and interact with, which can support collaborative learning and teaching and can be graded or ungraded. Resources are for students to view or download unit content and information
Learn how activities and resources can support common learning activities and choose the activity or resource that meets your needs.
Learn how to add a Moodle activity or resource to your Moodle unit.
Learn how to rename, move, show, hide, duplicate or delete an activity or resource from your Moodle unit. You can also perform some of these actions in bulk with Mass actions.
Learn how you can restrict access to activities and resources in Moodle. This includes conditional access restrictions based on activity completion, group mode and past Moodle unit access.
Learn how to enable completion tracking, define criteria that students must meet to complete activities and resources and view or download the completion report.
Learn how to import activities and resources from one unit into another Moodle unit, provided you have the lecturer role in both courses. This can be a quick and simple way to reuse existing activities and resources.
Learn how to display an “expected completion” date for an activity or resource for students in the task tracker.
Learn how to use the shadow link activity to create a link to an activity or resource in a section under the Learning tab, while also being displayed in the Assessment tab.
Learn how to display supplementary and non-weighted activities that support assessment in the Assessment summary table.
Learn how to add an academic integrity notice to any graded activity that students must accept before they can progress, in addition to the academic integrity notice set up in the Turnitin similarity report settings.
NoteCurrently, administrator's are unable to make 3rd party content, Learning capture, external tools and lessons available for students who have completed and passed the unit. Monash is working on amending this. |
Students who have completed their Moodle unit with a pass mark can access resources and activities in previous units but not submit, post or take part in them, for at least 12 months from the date the unit was completed. Below are the default permissions granted to access previous unit content. If required, this can be modified by a lecturer or designer at the unit level or by a Moodle administrator at the category level.
Given the vast amount of Moodle activities and resources, students will need clear instructions and some guidance for navigating a Moodle page and engaging with activities and resources.
There are a number of ways that you can support your students with Moodle activities and resources.
Additional tips for structuring your Moodle site can be found here.
An excellent resource that will help students learn how to navigate Moodle. The resource inlcludes guidance on how to set up individual preferences, submit assessments, and post in forums.
If students are experiencing technical issues, they can submit a request through the MyIT catalogue, or contact the ServiceDesk.
There are a number of additional guides and resources to support building Moodle activities and resources.
Activity | Description |
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Assignments can be used to assess and provide feedback for many types of student work including individual or group submissions, in-class work, online and/or file submissions. | |
The Attendance activity allows online marking of attendance. A teacher can take attendance, print reports and allow students to view their own record. | |
The Chat activity creates a space for you and your students to have real-time discussion. | |
The Choice activity in Moodle allows students to respond to a single multiple choice question. You can view the number of responses and the responses. | |
The database activity allows you and your students to develop and search a bank of records entries. | |
The Feedback activity in Moodle allows you to create and conduct surveys to collect feedback from your students. | |
Forums allow participants to share and discuss concepts and ideas by posting comments. | |
The glossary activity in Moodle allows you and/or your students to build, display and search a list and its definitions, like a dictionary. | |
The Group self-selection activity enables students to choose their own group within a grouping set for an activity. | |
H5P activities allow you to create a range of interactive content that can be embedded directly in Moodle, for example a 'Test your understanding' quiz within a book or lesson, or an information accordion within a label. | |
The Moodle Lesson activity presents content and questions that each student navigates through individually according to their responses to the questions or choices posed. | |
Using the Quiz activity in Moodle, you can create quizzes using multiple choice, true-false, matching and other question types. | |
Stealth activity | Stealth activities are Moodle activities (or resources) available to students but not shown on the Unit home page. |
Turnitin is a Moodle-integrated similarity checking system. | |
The Wiki activity in Moodle allows you to enable participants to add and edit a collection of web pages individually or collaboratively. | |
Workshops are a student-focused learning activity that allows students to engage in peer review and assessment in a structured multi-part activity. |
Resource | Description |
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A book is a multi-page resource that provides a table of contents. | |
Folders may be added to Moodle to organise uploaded files. | |
Labels enable you to add additional text or graphics to your course page. | |
Pages function as a webpage, where text and content can be added. | |
A URL to link to a website displayed simply as a hyperlink on your Moodle page. |
The Education Performance Standards identify the expectations of education practice at Monash – See the Education Performance Standards for more details.
Impact on student learning | Impact on educational knowledge | Impact on educational environment | |||||
Effective teaching and learning | Responsive program design | Student- centred orientation | Professional learning engagement | Pedagogical content knowledge | Education research performance | Education innovation | Education leadership |
✓ | ✓ | ||||||
You could address these Practice Elements by providing evidence of how you:
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