Frequently Asked Question

Tools in LearningHub "Activities":

• 360 Feedback - allows students to give each other feedback. See Moodle "360-degree feedback module"
• Assignment - also known as dropbox - allows the students to electronically submit assignments. See Activities/Assignments - QuickGuide
• Attendance - allows the teacher and/or student to take attendance, it integrates with Banner. See Attendance - QuickGuide
• Certificate - creates PDF certificates/diplomas for students in a course. See Moodle "Certificate module"
• Chat - allows course participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion. See Moodle "Chat activity"
• Checklist - set up a to-do list for the students. See KB "How to Add Checklist tool to course?"
• Choice - allows a setup for the students to make selections. See Choice - QuickGuide
• Database - allows the teacher and/or students to build, display and search a bank of record entries. See Moodle "Database activity"
• Elsevier Evolve Link - publisher: coordinates with textbooks
• External Tool - used for third party integrations (see below for list and explanation of tools included)
• Feedback - allows one to create and conduct surveys to collect feedback, fully customizable. See Moodle "Feedback Activity"
• Forums/Open Forums - allows for asynchronous discussions. See Forums/Discussion/vlog - QuickGuide
• Glossary - allows the students to create collaborative definitions. See Glossary (Tool) - QuickGuide
• Hot Question - Allows the students to post and vote on a post, in response to questions asked by the teacher. See Hot Question - QuickGuide
• Interactive Content (H5P) - allows for the creation of interactive content. See Moodle "H5P activity"
• Journal - allows students to write on topics like a journal. See Journal - QuickGuide
• Lesson - designed to be adaptive and to use a student's choices to create a self-directed lesson. See Moodle "Lesson activity"
• LiveText - used primarily by the College of Education. Refer to advisor for instructions.
• Pearson MyLab - publisher: coordinates with textbooks
• Questionnaire- allows creating surveys for the students. See Questionnaire - QuickGuide
• Quiz - allows for online quizzing and testing with set dates and times. See Quizzing - QuickGuide; Exams - QuickGuide
• Read Aloud - allows students to read passages and get graded for their reading. See Read Aloud - QuickGuide
• Reengagement - a tool teachers can use to remind students to complete activities. See Moodle "Reengagement activity"
• SCORM package - technical item used when writing code and creating apps.
• Scheduler - allows for setting up appointments with the students. See Scheduler - QuickGuide
• Simple Certificate - allows a certificate to be created for completion of the course, a simpler format than "Certificate" as listed above.
• Subcourse - allows for items to be taken in other courses and applied in one course, into the grade book.
• Survey - prepopulated surveys (e.g. COLLES, ATTLS) that can be used for course feedback, not customizable. See Moodle "Survey activity"
• Turnitin Assignment 2 - directly linked into Turnitin - use only when you want to submit papers for the students. Otherwise your the Turnitin embedded function in the assignment/dropbox tool. See Turnitin - QuickGuide
• Wiki - allows the student to add and edit a collection of web pages. See Wiki - QuickGuide
• Workshop - peer assessment tool. See Moodle "Workshop activity"