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Allowing Extra Time in Moodle Quiz

The article outlines the process for overriding Moodle quiz settings for individual students in specific situations, such as when a student misses the quiz timeframe or requires accommodations.

Cleaning an IDEA Whiteboard

This article describes the best way to clean projection whiteboards on campus.

Getting started with Moodle 3.11 Gradebook

This article provides a comprehensive overview of using the Moodle Gradebook, including tutorials, documentation, and a step-by-step guide for manually adding grades.

Google Assignments in Moodle

This article provides a step-by-step guide to using the Moodle Google Assignments plugin for paperless assignment management.

How to Request Equipment in Reftab

This is a description of how to request advanced audiovisual gear.

Import Questions into the Moodle Question Bank

This article explains how to import quiz questions into the Moodle Question Bank using the Aiken format, which allows for simple creation of multiple-choice and true-false questions in a plain text file.

Importing a Moodle Course into another

This is a guide for moving older courses' content into a newer site on Moodle.

Installing and Launching Kaltura Capture

Kaltura Capture is a great tool for recording lectures and other multi-faceted set-ups You can record two camera inputs at once, two screens, or a camera and a screen. These recordings are then easily uploaded into the Kaltura MediaSpace video portal to be shared with others.

Managing Zoom Cloud Recordings

Zoom permits meeting and webinar hosts to record their sessions. To prevent this cloud storage from filling up ITS offers several options for managing your Zoom Cloud recordings.

Manually Enrolling a User into a Moodle Course Site

Moodle, a learning platform and course management system, allows for manual enrollment of user into a course (as a teacher or student)

Moodle – Uploading Multiple Feedback Files

This guide outlines the process of downloading student files from Moodle, adding feedback offline, and re-uploading the edited submissions back to the platform.

Moodle Discussion Forum

This article discusses how Moodle discussion forums facilitate idea exchange between students and teachers, enhancing communication and community building in online learning environments.

Moodle FAQs

This article outlines several common questions around Moodle.

Moodle Groups

This article outlines Moodle's groups feature for assigning students to groups and managing collaborative tasks, along with resources for help.

Quizzes in Moodle

This guide provides an overview of how to use Moodle's Quiz activity to design and manage quizzes with various question types.

Record Audio and Video into Moodle

This article explains how to use Moodle's audio and video recording features in the editing box.

Recording a Second Screen with Kaltura Classroom

This article describes how to change Kaltura Classroom's recorded input to match the projector.

Recording with Kaltura Capture

Kaltura Capture is a recording software allowing for easy screen and webcam recording and uploading onto video.colby.edu.

Recording with Kaltura Classroom

This article describes how to create an ad hoc recording using Kaltura Classroom.

Scheduling a Recording in Kaltura

How to schedule an event using Kaltura (only available to limited users).

Screen Recording with Kaltura Capture

Kaltura Capture can be used to save short video and audio clips on a computer.

Setting Moodle Course Site Visibility

This is a guide for changing courses from hidden to visible and vice versa in Moodle.

Sharing a Kaltura Video

This article describes different methods for sharing a video using the Kaltura video platform.

Time Take-home Quiz on Moodle

This article provides a step-by-step guide for creating a timed take-home quiz in Moodle, focusing on setting up a quiz activity, adding an essay question with file upload capabilities, and preparing students for online submissions.

Transcribing Audio with Kaltura

This how-to guide provides information on how to export machine captioning information for a Kaltura audio or video entry.

Uploading a Video to Kaltura

This article describes the process for putting your video files into Kaltura's online platform.

Using Safe Exam Browser (SEB) in Moodle

This guide explains how to access and complete Moodle exams using Safe Exam Browser (SEB). SEB secures the exam environment by restricting access to other websites and applications during the test.

Using the Kaltura Player

This articles describes how to use multi-channel aspects of the video player in Kaltura