Moodle Help

How to make a course visible to students?

1. In order to make a course visible to students, “Edit settings” button should be clicked in the administration panel after logging into the Moodle system (Figure 1). Administration panel is located at the left bottom corner of the page.
   
    
   Figure 1
2. Then, "Visible" section can be changed from “Hide” to “Show” (Figure 2).
   
    
   Figure 2
3. After that, “Save changes” button which is located at the bottom of the page should be clicked (Figure 3).
   
    
   Figure 3 

How to restore archived courses?

1. First go to arsiv-moodle.boun.edu.tr. ( Figure 1 )
   
   
   Figure 1 
2. In order to login you need to use your BOUN email username which is the part before ‘@’ character of your email address and BOUN email password. Be sure you did not use your registration password in the password field. ( Figure 2 )
   
    
   Figure 2 
3. Your backups will be listed. Click the backup you want to recover. ( Figure 3 )
   
    
   Figure 3 
4. Three oprions will be listed. Read the instructions below every option. ( Figure 4 )
   
    
   Figure 4 
5. If you selected option three go to your course page you want to restore on moodle.boun.edu.tr ( Figure 5 )
   
    
   Figure 5 
6. On the Administration menu click “Edit Settings”. ( Figure 6 )
   
    
   Figure 6 
7. Under “Files and uploads” select “Maximum upload size” as “Site upload limit (8MB)” and click “Save and Display”. ( Figure 7 )
   
    
   Figure 7 
8. On the Administration menu click “Restore”. ( Figure 8 )
   
    
   Figure 8 
9. Select the .mbz file you dowloaded from arsiv-moodle.boun.edu.tr and click “Restore” button. ( Figure 9 )
   
    
   Figure 9 

How to import a course?

1. By clicking the “Import” button, which is located under “Administration” menu (Figure 4), data transfer section will appear.
   
    
   Figure 4 
2. In the “Import” page (Figure 5), current courses of the system are listed. After selecting the related radio button, which is located near to the title of the course to be imported, and clicking “Continue” button, a page that consists sections of the course to be selected (“Backup settings” page) will appear.
   
    
   Figure 5 
3. “Backup settings” page (Figure 6) shows areas of a course to be imported. After marking the sections that are to be imported in the previous (5th) step, “Next” button is clicked and other copying options will appear.
   
    
   Figure 6 
4. After marking the sections that are to be imported of a certain course, “Next” button is clicked and a page (Figure 7) that contains information about the sections to be imported will appear.
   
    
   Figure 7 
5. After completing these steps, a review page that contains information about the course (showing which sections will be imported and which will not) will appear. After confirming this information, “Perform import” button is clicked and the last step is completed (Figure 8).
   
    
   Figure 8 
6. The message that is indicated in Figure 9 tells that the process is completed successfully.
   
    
   Figure 9 
7. The data of a past course is now imported to a current and is ready to be used.
   
    
   Figure 10 

How to increase moodle course restoration upload size?

You can increase moodle course restoration upload size up to 64 MB by selecting the "Site upload limit (8MB)" option in the "Files & uploads" section of the "Edit course settings" page.

How to Reply to a Forum Topic?

1. Forum link should be clicked on the course page to access the forum. 
   Note : Students cannot reply to "News Forum".
2. To answer a discussion, the topic of the discussion should be clicked. (Figure 1).
   
    
   Figure 1
3. “Reply” link, which is on the lower right of the discussion box, should be clicked to write an answer. (Figure 2).
   
    
   Figure 2
4. On the next screen, the form should be filled and then “Post to forum” button should be clicked. The fields that have red * sign next to them are required fields (Figure 3).
   
    
   Figure 3

How to create a quiz?

1. In order to activate editing tools, “Turn editing on” should be selected in the administration panel after logging into the Moodle system (Figure 1). Administration panel is located on the left bottom corner of the page.
   
    
   Figure 1 
2. “+ Add an activity or resource” link, which is located on top of the page of the course or below the related week or topic is selected (Figure 2 and Figure 3).
   
   Link on top of the page 
    
   Figure 2
   Link below of a topic 
    
   Figure 3 

   PS: If no date is specified for the assignment, link on top of the page may be used.

3. “Quiz” link, which is located on the left side of the opening window (Figure 4), is selected and “Add” button is clicked. (Figure 4)
   
    
   Figure 4 
4. Then enter the quiz name and click "Save and display" (Figure 5)
   
    
   Figure 5 
5. Then click "Edit quiz" button (Figure 6)
   
    
   Figure 6 
6. Click "Add" link to add questions. Additionally you can decide weather the questions will be shuffled. (Figure 7)
   
    
   Figure 7 
7. Here you can create a new question, choose a question from the question bank or you can add random questions from a category in the question bank. (Figure 8) (Figure 9)
   
    
   Figure 8 
    
   Figure 9 

How to define grading categories?

1. First click "Grades" under "Course Administration" (Figure 1)
   
    
   Figure 1
2. Then, change "Grading report" to "Categories and items" under "Setup" section of the top drop down selectbox (Figure 2).
   
    
   Figure 2
3. After that, click "Add Category" button (Figure 3).
   
    
   Figure 3 
4. On this page enter the "Category name". Under "Parent category" section choose "Parent category" (Figure 4). Additionally you can click "Show more" and choose to exclude lowest X grades. (Figure 5)
   
    
   Figure 4 
    
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5. When you defined grading category, it appears on "Adding assignment" and "Adding quiz" pages under "Grade" tabs. When you are creating an assignment or quiz select the category you wanted to relate. (Figure 6)(Figure 7)
   
    
   Figure 6 
    
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Can instructors get backups of their courses?

Instructors can get backups of their courses of the previous 3 semesters from the "backup" link on the "Course administration" menu after opening the course page of which they want to get a backup.

Can instructors upload the previously created Moodle course archive to the current course? Does this have a limit?

Instructors can upload the previously created Moodle course archive to their current course. The maximum upload size limit for an archived course is 64 MB.

What happens to the previous-semester courses?

The courses of the previous 3 semesters are held as read only in Moodle. Courses from the previous 4 to 10 semesters are archived and moved to the Moodle Archive System (https://arsiv-moodle.boun.edu.tr/login). Instructors can access the previous courses and download the archives from the system using their BOUN usernames and passwords.