Trinity Moodle

Note:

• Any items highlighted in yellow are required by the University.
  Any items highlighted in purple may be required by your collegiate unit.

TIME: One day after your receive your Trinity credentials

• Login to Moodle to verify that you have access to Moodle
• If you have been assigned to courses for the upcoming term already, explore your courses found in the right or center column "My Courses" list/block
• Update your User Profile

TIME: Three to two weeks before course begins

• Finalize your syllabus
• Determine for which assignments you will use Moodle
• Add text and/or images to the weekly summary areas
• Add file and URL resources
• Adjust the course start date, as necessary
• Embed external videos in a label resource, page resource, or weekly summary area
• Add class sessions to the existing Attendance activity
• Add any other Activities for the appropriate assignments (e.g., Quizzes, Discussions, Papers, Lessons, etc.)
  

TIME: One weeks before course begins

• Upload your syllabus as a file resource to the main page of your course
• Use Quickmail to update students
• Set up your Moodle gradebook
• Add a welcome message

TIME: A few days before first course meeting

• Check your hidden versus visible items
• Make your course available to students
• Post to the 'Announcements' forum at the top of the page announcing the course availability (this will get emailed to all enrolled users)

TIME: First course meeting

• Pull up your course page before class begins
• Take Attendance with the projector off, if possible
• Turn on projector and share your Moodle page with students

TIME: One week past the add/drop deadline

• Make sure you have created at least one class session in the attendance activity to indicate whether the student is attending class for financial aid purposes.
  

TIME: Before Midterm Grades are due

• Check your gradebook to make sure that it is calculating the way you intended

TIME: Before or on the Midterm Grades due date

• Submit the midterm progress grades for your students, if required by your collegiate unit

TIME: Before Final Grades are due

• Check your gradebook to make sure that it is still calculating the way you intended

TIME: 72 hours after your last class meeting

• Submit your final grades