No, it will not simply copy everything over even if you are teaching the same class in the semester. However, you can perform a backup of all of your current course materials and then restore it during your next class in the semester. Therefore, it is possible to duplicate your course shell, that way you will not have to create it from scratch in the future.
The ask class forum is a forum activity that comes in the Moodle shell that you and your class can utilize if you choose to do so. It is a place where students can ask any questions that they want about the class, such as a question on an assignment, an issue they may be having with an activity or something they are confused about. It also allows you as the instructor to respond along with other students who may know the answers.
All Moodle courses will be available four months before their projected start date.
Yes, when you add an activity, you will see a list of all the activities you can add (ie. assignment, label, quiz, etc.). In addition to the Add button, you'll see an "i" symbol next to each activity. When you click on that, you will get a brief description of the activity.
Scroll to the top right hand corner of your course and select Turn Editing On. From there, scroll all the way to the bottom of your course page and on the bottom left hand side, you will see the option to add a new topic. Then you can specify how many you would like to add.
Yes, when you are setting up your assignment activity, you can enable Use Mark Workflow, which can be found under the grade settings. This will allow you to select which students you wish to release the grades for and update their assignment status (eg. not marked, in marking, marking completed, released, etc.).
LATTE is based on Moodle 3. Brandeis will move forward with an upgrade to Moodle 4.
You can do this using the Restore tool in your Moodle course. Your Canvas content and activities should all restore appropriately into your Moodle course, although you may have some tweaking and touching-up to do to make sure everything looks correct.
That's it! Once you complete the Restore process, you'll have all the materials you exported from Canvas and you can make any necessary edits to prepare them for the Fall term.
Moodle courses are retained for two years per the Course Retention Policy. If it is outside of that time frame, professors can contact help@brandeis.edu and request an archived course.
Yes. For more information view the Learn LATTE page on Turnitin.
Brandeis does not support integration of Gradescope into Moodle. It is possible to export LATTE grades into a spreadsheet and import those into the LATTE Gradebook. Learn more by visiting the Library Guide on using Gradescope.
Learn more about this by visiting the Library Guide on teaching with Zoom for a LATTE course.
Yes, the following Library Guides have more information about grades and grading in LATTE:
It depends upon what you are expecting Moodle to do. As far as system languages, it supports Hebrew, but not Yiddish. Moodle has the full Hebrew character set and a right-to-left text entry option, so anyone can enter content in a Hebrew character language without a problem.
The Grading and Providing Feedback Library Guide has an introduction to gradebook setup.
There is an app for Moodle, but Brandeis ITS does not recommend using it.
Brandeis ITS recommends using Chrome or Mozilla Firefox when using Moodle.
Yes, you should be able to import the course. There might be some changes due to the version of Moodle and the settings that the previous institution used. The LibGuides page on Backup and Restoration contains more information. We recommend following the directions for Restoring Your Course from a Backup File.
We recommend performing a backup at least once per semester. The Backup and Restoration page contains more information about Moodle backups made by Information Technology Services.
This comes down to personal preference. You can learn more about this topic by visiting the Learn LATTE page on uploading readings and documents.
We will investigate this further. Right now, there does not appear to be an option to allow for students to post anonymously. One solution is to create private groups so that only the instructor can see the questions.