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Late Summer Assessments - 2022
All centrally managed exams, and any departmentally managed exams and assessments that took place on AssessmentUCL during the main exam period will continue to be held on AssessmentUCL in the Late Summer Assessment period. The guidance below is not relevant to exams or assessments on AssessmentUCL.
See the Staff Exams pages and Late Summer Assessments - Summer 2022 guide for more information and guidance on LSAs and AssessmentUCL.
Moodle News and Information
Please keep a lookout on this page for updates on our Moodle platform and to access student/staff guides!
Moodle Release Roadmap
The Moodle Roadmap can now be found on our Wiki pages here: See link to Moodle Roadmap
This is an effort to make our plans and direction of travel with Moodle developments more transparent and engaing. The Moodle Roadmap will show the next twelve (12) months of the platforms development planning including standard security releases, platform updates and end user feature enhacements/requests. This roadmap is intended to be a living document and will provides an active view into our internal roadmap, and will be updated on a weekly basis by the Moodle Service Owner.
The Digital Education team provide a range of UCL specific Moodle guides here. You can also browse the official Moodle guides at Moodle.org. The page 'Release Notes' lists all the latest functionality you can use with Moodle. If you are looking for information about other digital education tools aside from Moodle and Turnitin please see the Digital Education website .
Contact itservices@ucl.ac.uk if you can't find what you are looking for.
Student Digital Education Help guides are also available.
Running an exam in Moodle?
Please consult the M12a - Moodle Quiz for invigilated online exams guidance and make sure to notify the Digital Education by completing the Exam Notification Form .
Sign up for training
Digital Education offers training on Moodle, Lecturecast, Turnitin and more. Sign up now.
Known Issues
Check the Moodle Known Issues page for current issues and workaround.
General Guides, Training and FAQ's
Guides grouped by function
Courses - how to set up your courses
Editing text and embedding content - how to use the text editor
Activities - how to involve students actively in their learning
Resources - how to add static materials to your course.
Blocks - how to add extra items and information to the sides of your course page.
Questions - how to create questions for use in quizzes and Moodle's lesson module
Course enrolment - how to give students access to your course.
Grouping users - how to put students into groups and why this is useful.
Grades - how to use the gradebook, scales and advanced grading methods.
Tracking progress - how to control and display progress through a course.
Reusing activities - how to copy or recycle elements of your course.
Personalising Moodle
Guides grouped by level
All Moodle spaces should meet the UCL E-Learning Baseline .
UCL Baseline
These guides will help you meet the Baseline:
- Navigation around Moodle
- Setting up your Moodle course
- Moving elements around your course
- Adding text - Topic names, Labels and Pages
- Links, files and folders
- Reading lists
- Images
- Blocks
- Books
- Forums
- Lessons
- Profile
- Groups (if required)
Do consider also the Accessibility of your Moodle course(s).
UCL Baseline+
In addition to the Baseline, wholly online courses will need to reference:
Beyond the Baseline
To move beyond the baseline (and baseline+) you can consider the following:
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