SECTION 1. (LOGGING IN)

A. Go to http://learn.uniswa.sz/ or navigate the UNISWA website>staff>Moodle.

B. The welcoming screen also provides login section. Click login at the bottom centre of the page.

C. Enter your campus username and password.

Note: This is the same login information you use when accessing your UNISWA webmail account.

D. To access courses assigned to you, click My courses on the left under Navigation and select the name of

the course; In the screenshot below this Instructor (Moodle Lecturer) has one course (MOOD001-

Introduction to Moodle) assigned to him/her.

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This is the same login information you use when accessing your

UNISWA webmail account

SECTION 2. ADDING FILES TO A COURSE

Instructors can add any type of file in a course for students to access. These could be Adobe Reader (.pdf files),

Microsoft Office (.doc, .ppt, and .xls), etc. Students will be able to access these files as long as they have the software

to open it.

To add files in a course follow these steps:

A. Open the course as shown in SECTION 1.D above

B. Click Turn editing on.

C. Next to the topic or week where you want to add the notes, click Add an activity or resource; e.g. add

notes in Topic 1.

D. The Add an activity and resource menu will appear, under Resources select file.

E. Click Add at the bottom of the menu.

F. Give the notes a name and a brief description.

G. Click Add.

H. The file picker window will appear, select Upload a file.

I. Click browse. The file upload window will appear; navigate to where the file is located, select the file and

click open.

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To access courses assigned to you, click My courses on the left under Navigation and select the

name of the course; In the screenshot below this Instructor (Moodle Lecturer) has one course

(MOOD001-Introduction to Moodle) assigned to him/her.

J. Click Upload this file.

K. Wait until the file has been uploaded and then click Save and return to course.

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Next to the topic or week where you want to add the notes, click Add an activity or resource; e.g. add notes in

Topic 1.

Click Turn editing on

A. The Add an activity and resource menu will appear, under Resources select file.

Add an activity or resource

Select file and click add

Give the notes a name and a brief

description.

The asterisk (*) means the fields are

mandatory.

For the browser option.

You can drag and drop files here to add them.

Select upload a file and click browse

You can drag and drop file or use file

browser option.

Wait until the file has been uploaded and then click Save and return to course.

SECTION 3. ASSIGNMENTS

3.1 EXPLANATION OF ASSIGNMENTS

The assignment module allows instructors to specify an activity that requires students to submit content by

uploading files or enter text directly online using a text editor. Instructors can grade assignments, leave comments

and upload marked assignments for students’ feedback. The different types of assignment include the following:

File submission: This type of assignment allows students to upload file(s) for marking; maximum number

of files per assignment (1-20), maximum submission size (10KB – 1MB).

Online text: This type of assignment allows students to enter their response to an assignment directly by

typing text into an editing window in their web browser.

3.2 HOW TO ADD A FILE SUBMISSION ASSIGNMENT ACTIVITY

To add file submission assignments follow these steps:

A) Turn Editing On as shown in SECTION 2 (B) above.

B) Click Add an activity or resource as shown in SECTION 2 (C) above.

C) Select the Assignments button.

D) Click ADD at the bottom of the menu.

E) Click Expand all to see all the assignment settings.

F) Under the General settings, enter the Assignment name e.g. Assignment 1; and the Description of the

assignment including instructions. N.B.: If the assignment contains questions that are in a file, the file must

be uploaded as shown in Section 2 above (Adding files).

G) The Availability settings let the instructor specify the period where submissions are allowed e.g. allow

submission from 23-April-2014 to 9-May-2014. To specify the submission period make sure Allow

submission from and Due date are enabled. NB: Note that students will still be able to submit their

assignments after the due date, but any assignments submitted after this date are marked as late. To prevent

submissions after a certain date - set the assignment Cut-off date.

H) The Submission type settings let the instructor state the type of submission required, the maximum number

of files that can be uploaded and the maximum size of submitted files. Tick the box next to the type

assignment you want students to submit e.g. File submission. Enable submission comments if you want

students to leave comments about their submissions.

I) The Feedback type settings enable the instructor to leave comments on students’ submission. If Feedback

comments is enabled, the instructor can leave a comment on the submission of the student; if Feedback

files is enabled the teacher will be able to upload files with feedback when marking the assignments. These

files may be, but are not limited to marked-up student submissions.

J) The Submission setting enables the instructor to set procedures that must be followed by students when

submitting their assignments. N.B It is recommended that you do not change the default setting.

K) The Group submission settings are used when the assignment is a group assignment. Otherwise do not

change the default settings.

L) The Notification settings enable the instructor to set notification messages such that graders (usually

teachers) receive a message whenever a student submits an assignment, early, on time and late.

M) The Grade settings enables the instructor to set grading options i.e. grade the assignment out of 100.

N) Leave the Module Settings to their default settings.

O) Click the Save and return to course button at the bottom.

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3.3 GRADING SUBMITTED ASSIGNMENTS

Once the students have made their assignment submissions i.e. after due date, the instructor can login to the course

and grade the students’ submissions.

To grade students’ submissions follow these steps:

A. Login to Moodle as show in SECTION 1 above.

B. Open the course and select the assignment.

C. Click View/grade all submissions to view students’ submissions.

D. Download the file of the student under the File submission column. NB: You can also chose to download

all students’ submissions at once in a Zip file by selecting Download all submissions under Grading

options.

E. To grade the submission (once marked); click the edit icon under the grade column of the student.

F. Enter the grade of the student in Grade out of 100; i.e. if you had set the assignment to be graded out of

100 in SECTION 3.2 (M) above.

G. You can add comments and upload feedback file(s) on the assignment of the student by using the fields

below grade, i.e. if you have enabled feedback files in SECTION 3.2 (I) above.

H. Click Save changes when you are done entering the grade of the student.

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SECTION 4 ADDING STUDENTS TO A COURSE

Moodle automatically adds all students to the course as long as they are registered for it. Although, instructors can

add students manually to a course if the cannot be found in the list of participants of the course.

To add students in a course follow these steps:

A. Login to Moodle and go to the course where you want to add the student.

B. Click Participants under Navigation.

C. Click the edit icon next to All participants.

D. Click Enrol users button and wait until the Enrol users window appears.

E. Select Student in Assign roles.

F. Enter the student’s ID number in the search box and click Search.

G. Click Enrol button.

H. Click Finish enrolling users if you are done enrolling users, otherwise repeat step F-G.

I. The student will now appear in the list of enrolled users.

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