Moodle Tips

Know how to login and find your courses

You can always login to your Moodle portal with your UP email and password through the myapps.up.edu Single Sign On page.

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Learning and working in Moodle Tips

  • Your courses will have assignments or quizzes that open or are due at different times. By default they will display in Pacific Standard Time. If you are not in the Pacific Time Zone you can change your timezone setting in Moodle to automatically see due dates in your local time.
  • Your courses will likely include discussion boards that you will want to keep up with – learn how to set-up your Forum notification preferences
  • You can connect Office 365 to your Moodle to sync due dates in Moodle to your calendar, or add cloud files to Moodle. That way you can keep organized and use Office tools in Moodle easily.

How to Submit an Assignment

Learn how to submit an assignment through the Moodle portal! See the video below or check out an additional assignment help guide shared by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

How to Comment on a Forum

Learn how to comment on various types of forums that you may encounter in your online courses.

Creating Video Content

If you need to create videos as a part of your online assignments, you want to demonstrate some software or show the Help Desk a computer problem, or it’s just easier to make a video than to type out a long email, UP has free and easy tools you can use.

Online Proctoring

Some of your online courses may include midterms, finals or other assessments that require online proctoring. Please review the following getting started info about online proctoring: