Turnitin Assignment Similarity Checker – Test Your Text

(Estimated reading time: 2 min 30) At the University of Nottingham, like in other institutions, student assignment papers often undergo assessment through the Turnitin service. This post will cover frequently asked questions about Turnitin and the Test Your Text service available to students at the university. 1: What is a similarity report? Once you have …

Moving to Monthly Moodle Updates

We’re improving how we manage Moodle updates. We’re moving to a monthly schedule that will deliver new features and fixes more efficiently. Updates will now occur monthly on Wednesday afternoons from 3:30pm. These regular, shorter updates will reduce overall system downtime and help us maintain a more stable service. We’ve selected this timing to minimise …

Moodle on the go: Accessing form your Mobile Device 

It’s likely that as students at the University of Nottingham, you will access Moodle on a regular basis to visit your module sites, download and view important learning materials and submit your assessed work. There are many tasks which can be completed on Moodle and it is the main resource for your learning here at …

Moodle Quizzes: Writing Effective Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQs)

Introduction And here it is, the final post to complete our Moodle quiz month on the blog. We’ve covered top Hints and Tips, Certainty-Based Marking, and Adaptive mode. This post is all about writing multiple-choice quiz questions. Writing high-quality multiple-choice questions (MCQs) is a meticulous process that demands significant time and effort. Building a comprehensive …

Using Adaptive Mode in Moodle Quizzes: A Personalised Learning Approach

(Estimated reading time: 3 min 30) We’re back for the third installment of our Moodle quiz month! As lecturers increasingly seek ways to create more dynamic and personalised learning experiences, Moodle’s adaptive mode for quizzes is worthy of consideration for formative assessments. In this blog post, we’ll explore what adaptive mode is, why it’s useful, …

Enhancing Student Assessment with Certainty-Based Marking in Moodle Quizzes

(Estimated reading time – 3 min) It’s Moodle Quiz Month on the Learning Tech Blog! Last week, we shared Helpful Hints and Tips to improve your formative quiz setup, and this week, we continue our focus on Moodle quizzes by turning our attention to question behaviours—exploring how they can shape the quiz experience and their …

Hints and Tips for Creating and Managing Moodle Quizzes

(Estimated reading time – 4 min) Moodle quizzes are a great tool for the formative assessment of student progress and promote engagement with the learning material. So we thought, why not provide a special month-long series of blog posts dedicated to helping you make the most of Moodle Quizzes? This week, we’ll kick things off …

Moodle 4.3: Enhanced Features and Improved Usability

Since the last academic term, Moodle has been upgraded to version 4.3. While there are no major changes, this new version includes several usability enhancements, making certain features more accessible within your module site. Below, we have highlighted some of the key features introduced in Moodle 4.3. Additionally, based on feedback from students and staff …

Moodle 4.3 Upgrade – 17th July 2024

Moodle will be upgraded on Wednesday 17th July 3pm UK time (10pm China/Malaysia) for approximately 2 hours. This is for some minor changes – no big changes to look and feel or to functionality. While there are no significant changes, the new version of Moodle (4.3) brings some key usability improvements and makes certain features of …

Bulk Editing Moodle Question Banks

In today’s post, I want to discuss the process of making of bulk editing Moodle question bank questions, primarily to make them more accessible. This is a topic we have been discussing for a number of months in the Faculty of Science. We are currently in the middle of the Moodle Rollover ahead of the …