Section outline

  • Welcome to the advanced skills course for instructors.

    The goal of this course is to help instructors like you strengthen your existing skills, find new ways to implement your teaching strategies, and introduce new tools for managing the administrative aspects of your courses.

    • Please read this book prior to starting the course as it outlines information about the course design and functionality.

  • In This Section:
    • Importing content from courses you've already created
    • Using the Recycle Bin to restore accidentally deleted content
  • In This Section:
    • Identifying overlooked and easily missed features that provide more functionality to existing content
    • Applying methods of tracking user progress in a course
    • This book explores features you may have overlooked while building or managing your course content. 

    • Your course has powerful, built-in features for tracking (and communicating) student progress. Learn more about them in this book. 

  • In This Section:
    • Exploring different aggregation methods
    • Exploring different grading methods for individual activities
    • Avoiding common pitfalls and issues in your gradebook
  • In This Section:
    • Identifying advanced Forum features and options
    • Selecting strategies for grading virtual discussions
    • Building on what you learned in the Moodle™ Basics course, this book will go further into advanced settings and uses for Forums.

    • Take this quiz to test your forum knowledge.

  • In This Section:
    • Incorporating automatic feedback into quizzes
    • Exploring the various reports that can be pulled for quizzes
    • Configuring review options settings to control what information students will be shown during a quiz, immediately after completion, and after the quiz is closed
    • Learning new ways to use quizzes in your courses can improve the user experience, and offer you new ways to more easily assess learners. 

    • This quiz contains a sampling of several basic question types so you can see how they display to a learner.

    • Safe Exam Browser (SEB), if enabled, will provide a level of protection for learners taking online exams. SEB does require learners download and install an application to their device to take protected quizzes. 

    • This lesson module will introduce you to testing within Moodle using the Quiz module. 


  • In This Section:
    • Creating an Attendance activity
    • Creating sessions and tracking attendance for learners
    • This resource will walk you through how to set up and use the Attendance activity. 

  • In This Section:
    • Using self-and-peer assessment in your course
    • Setting up the Workshop activity
  • Congratulations! You have successfully completed the Advanced Usage of Moodle™ training course for instructors. If your site administrator has set up badges within your course, and you have successfully completed all required items, you will earn a badge.  This badge will display in your user profile as evidence of your success.