How To Add Images to Moodle Quickly
1. In Word or Powerpoint, zoom till the size of the image is about what you want it to be. (add an arrow if you want )
2. Copy a screenshot to the clipboard.
On a Mac Type CMD+Shift+4, Then hold down CTRL while you click and drag over the image. Release the mouse
On a PC with Windows XP you can hold down ALT+PrntScrn, but you get the whole screen. Later versions have the ‘snipping tool’
3. In Moodle, Click your profile picture (top right)>My Profile, Then on the Left “Edit Profile’
4. Scroll down to ‘Preferences’
5. Change the Text editor to ‘Atto HTML editor’
6. Open your quiz, or label, or whichever textbox you are trying to put the picture into.
7. Paste (Rt Click or CMD+V, or CTRL+V)
A video is available at How To Copy Image Into Moodle Quickly on the staff support page.
Finding Images on the Web
As tempting as it is to use Google Images to search for useful images to add to your powerpoint presentations or online presence, many of those images are copyright protected and may cost money to use legally. As we all want to do the right thing when it comes to copyright, here are a few links to some sources for images which can legally be used.
Please note that it is important to check creative commons license to determine the level of citation needed to fulfil licensing.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikimedia commons is a wiki for creative commons licensed images
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/results.aspx?qu=Medicine&ex=1
Microsoft images are freely useable if you have a licensed copy of Microsoft Office. This search page shows the images/clipart available with the search “Medicine”.
Sadly, Microsoft is no longer making their clipart available online.
http://search.creativecommons.org
A one stop shop for searching creative commons licensed media
If you want to be sure that you are using your images correctly, take a look at https://thevisualcommunicationguy.com/using-images-the-right-way-handout/ which includes a handy visual.
Although it is Americentric, it does still give a good idea about whether you can go ahead and use that perfect image you found on the web.
Happy image hunting!
Confidential Moodle Forums
Discussion forums are useful in many ways, for example for peer/teacher discussion around a clinical case. However, making sure your forum remains confidential for particular staff involved, along with students (or a particular student group) is important.
To adjust the permissions regarding who is allowed to view the discussions.
1. Click on the forum that you have made.
2. Under the ‘Administration’ block (to the left of the page) you will see ‘Forum administration’. Under this heading, click on ‘Permissions’.
3. Scroll down and under the heading ‘Activity: Forum’ find ‘View discussions’.
4. You will see all the roles that can view the discussion board that you have just created. This list is the Moodle default list for viewing Forums.
5. Delete all the roles that you don’t want to view the forum using the ‘x’ button and add any roles with ‘+’ button. To make it private between students and staff, delete all the roles except the roles of ‘Editor’ (the steps above for selected staff), ‘Convenor’ (anyone who is a Convenor for that module) and ‘Local student’ (the students involved in the forum for that module).
Organising the permissions in this way allows only the roles selected to view the forum. As the people you have chosen to view the forum have been given the additional role of ‘Editor’ they can access the forum, along with whoever has the role of ‘Convenor’. If you want the ‘Administrator’ to view the forums, then just add the role of ‘Administrator’.
It is important remove the ‘Staff’ role. This is because all staff enrolled in Moodle are enrolled as ‘Staff’ by default. With this default ‘Staff’ role, you can view most pages on Moodle, which includes all pages made ‘visible’ to ELM and ALM. This means that if someone with the ‘Staff’ role member accidentally clicks on a forum on any page, they will not be able to access the discussions. This is why the role of ‘Editor’ is assigned to the particular staff member(s). It blocks unwanted ‘Staff’ from accidentally clicking on the forum and possibly viewing confidential material, while allowing selected staff to view the discussions.
If you want help setting up forums, please email med.moodle@otago.ac.nz to get in contact with someone to guide you through the process or ask additional questions.
Full instructions with screenshots can be found at Setting-up forums to maintain confidentiality
A Framework for Analyzing any Copyright Problem
One of the most difficult issues for educators and librarians, when faced with a copyright problem, is simply knowing where to begin — which parts of the legal rules and doctrines apply to this specific problem.
To deal with this uncertainty, we suggest working through the following five questions, in the order they are presented. They are simple questions, but they are not easy to answer; all of the material we cover in this course is relevant to addressing one or more of them. But by working through them in order, it is possible to identify which of the parts of copyright law apply to the specific problem or fact pattern that you need to address. Continue reading
One Quiz – Many Groups
Often, it is difficult to get all your students in a room at the same time to take a quiz online, usually because the computer lab is not big enough for everyone. One way to deal with this is to create two copies of the same quiz and set one for one group of students with a particular start and end time and the other for the other group of students with its own start and end time.
Although this can work perfectly well, it begins to get messy if you want to make a change to the quiz because now you have two copies you have to remember to change.
Enter the Group Override. You can set a single quiz for your course and using group overrides, and even user overrides, specify open and close times and permissions for the quiz by group.
To do this, all you need to do is create your quiz as usual. Then, in the Quiz Administration block, you will see there is an option for Group Overrides. Click this and add a new Group Override. Complete the required fields for the override, and then you can either Save, or Save and Create Another Group Override. When you have completed all the group overrides you need, you can leave the screen. Now your quiz will obey the group overrides you have set and open and close for each group based on those overrides. And you only have one quiz to tweak when it is time to make changes.
Moving items easily on Moodle page
Assuming you have hit the “Turn Editing On” button in a course.
Double click the 4way arrow, and you can easily position the item, either up or down a long list of resources within a course.
