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Leo Migdal

-Dec 12, 2025, 1:21 AM

Moodle has several new features that allow you to customize how your course appears to students and guests. Before you start, you may need the following: The course image replaces the default colored boxes shown above a course title in the Dashboard and My courses pages. The course summary only appears when browsing or searching courses on the Moodle Home page. You can make it easier for students to find what they need in the collapsible course index and the Moodle course page and minimize cognitive load with a few simple formatting tweaks. The Timeline and Calendar features on the Moodle Dashboard are designed to help students manage their time and responsibilities.

By default, Bionic creates a Moodle course for every section of a multi-section academic course. If you plan to use the same content and activities in multiple sections, we can create a merged course shell that enrolls all students from those sections so you only have one course to... You can merge the courses yourself or request that LITS do it for you. To re-use course materials from a previous semester in a current course, see Moodle: Copy content from another course instead. You will need the course subject and number (BIOLB101, etc.) and the section numbers (00A, 00B, etc.) of the courses you want us to merge. You should also decide whether you want us to create a Group for each section when we perform the merge.

Section groups are useful if you sometimes need to e-mail sections separately or limit access to resources or activities by section. The next available Moodle system admin will create the merged course and email you when it is complete or they have questions. We will hide the original course shells for you so only the merged course is visible to students. Instructors of record and Other editing teachers can merge their own courses if they are in the same subject (AFST, ARCH, etc.) and semester. (If need other courses merged, request that LITS merge them instead.) Moodle has two activities that can be used for course management tasks.

Choice is useful for polls, voting or housekeeping tasks like signing up for project groups or presentation dates. Add a Scheduler activity to enable student course participants to sign up for appointments with instructors and TAs in the course, who can track their participation, add notes or grades, and send reminders as... (For non-course-related appointment booking, Zoom Scheduler may be a better option; see Comparison with Zoom Scheduler, below.) Before you start, you may need the following: A Choice activity presents students with a set of options to choose from. Its versatility stems from settings that control whether and how results are displayed and how many times an option can be chosen.

For example, for a poll you can configure Choice to display responses to students anonymously after the poll closes, but for a sign-up activity you can cap the number of people who can choose... (See also Moodle's Choice Activity demo video for examples.) Use Moodle's Scheduler activity to enable students in a single course to book appointments with the instructor or TAs in that course (anyone with an Instructor of record, Other editing teacher or Non-editing teacher... An Instructor of record or Other editing teacher will need to add and update slots for Non-editing teachers, since they cannot edit Moodle activities directly. Within Moodle, you can hide entire courses or parts of courses. The latter includes sections, subsections, activities and resources.

Hiding will prevent Registered students, Auditors and guests from seeing them. Hiding a course makes it invisible to students and unenrolled viewers. Course participants with teaching or editing roles can still see and enter the course, but the course title will appear grayed out in category listings. Warning: Hiding an academic course during registration can mislead students: when it disappears from their Moodle Dashboards, they may think they've been dropped! If classes have started, please leave the course visible and hide sections instead. Manually hide course sections, subsections, activities or resources that you don't wish students and guests to see (teaching and editing roles will still see them, just marked as Hidden from students).

Add date restrictions to hide or reveal a course section, subsection, activity or resource to students and guests at a future date and time (teaching and editing roles will still see them, just marked... Moodle is Bryn Mawr College's supported Learning Management System (LMS). Moodle allows you to create a one-stop place for all of your hybrid or online course contents including readings, video lectures, and assignments. On Moodle, students can submit assignments as digital files and can even work with each other in groups online for collaborative projects. Forums in Moodle allow faculty and students to communicate in a discussion-board format, including posting media, so that conversations can continue online. In addition, Moodle integrations with College-supported platforms such as Zoom and Panopto allow instructors to easily manage video content across these platforms.

For more information on Moodle features, visit our service catalog. This LinkedIn Learning course teaches you everything you need to know including: To access this video on LinkedIn Learning, sign in with your Bryn Mawr College account. To view these workshops, you must sign into Panopto using your Bryn Mawr College credentials. Instructors can copy content from one course to another to reuse course activities, resources, and question banks. Alternatively, they can also request LITS copy a course for them, including courses from Fall 2017 to Fall 2022, which are archived outside of Moodle.

Depending on the course contents, you may also need to copy the question bank and/or Panopto videos separately. LITS staff can copy the entire contents of an old course (from Fall 2017 onwards) into a new course shell for you. The copy will include all resources and activities, and any questions that are included in activities. If you need to copy Panopto videos or other questions as well, please let us know. There are several different ways to copy course content. The recommended method is to Import content from one course to another.

Other options include the Sharing Cart and restoring from a backup file. IMPORTANT: If you are copying Panopto videos linked to or embedded in a course page, you must ALSO copy the recordings themselves in Panopto to give students in the new course permission to view... See Panopto: Copy recordings to a new course. The Import process is the recommended method for copying course content from another course in Moodle. You can use it to import all of another course's content, or you can import select activities, resources, or sections. Transform how you care for patients and succeed as a business with our comprehensive, AI-native, healthcare solution.

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