Moodle support resources

This page contains a collection of brief instructions and links that may help you with your Moodle question, whatever it may be.

General information

• Creating/logging into an Account 
  • See Setting up your Moodle Account
• Requesting Course Creation
  • Email Helpdesk (helpdesk@brynathyn.edu), being sure to include:
    • The full course number and title for your course
    • The term you will be teaching it
• Enrolling in a Course
  1. Log in to https://moodle.brynathyn.edu/. 
     • This opens the Course Categories page.
  2. Browse the categories to the course you wish to join and click its title.
  3. Click Enroll me.
     • In the left-hand navigation column, courses you are enrolled in appear under My courses.

Managing Course Enrollment, useful for teachers, is described here: Course enrolment - MoodleDocs

Resources for teachers

• Getting Started (Teacher Quick Guide)
• Moodle courses overview
• Editing a Moodle course homepage
• Adding resources (files, URLs) to your page 

  Please host files over 50MB on OneDrive.

• Using Moodle’s built-in text editor (Atto)
  • Includes inserting text, images, audio, and video.
• Hosting Videos
  • Users can record short video/audio (2mins or less) anywhere Atto text editor is used, e.g. in an assignment using a text submission or in editing a course topic. 
  • For longer videos, Microsoft 365 offers a video hosting product, Stream, where you can host videos you make for classes.
• Moodle assignments overview
  • Using the Assignment Activity
• Moodle Quiz activity
  • Building a Quiz
  • Question Types
• Using Safe Exam Browser 
  • Requires users download app
• Setting up a Moodle gradebook and using the grader report
• Grading assignments
• Forum Activity
• Using Forum