Category: Instructions

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Why don’t I see all my courses in Course overview?

The Moodle update on 10th June 2013 brought new features to Course overview. It is now possible for each user to edit the course list and thus personalize their view based on needs! Note that no course areas have been disappeared in the update.

The default setting for Course overview is to show 10 course areas in the list. If you have more than 10 course areas in Moodle and want them all to be shown in the list, edit the page:

  • On My home page, click on the Customise this page button
  • Select Always Show all in the drop-down menu
  • Edit the order of course areas in the list by dragging-and-dropping the corresponding arrow icons.
  • Click on the Stop customising this page button.

There are more thorough instructions in Finnish in the Opettajan opas at https://wiki.helsinki.fi/x/8A_jBQ.

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Plagiarism control via Moodle

The plagiarism control system Urkund is now in use via Moodle as well. Teachers can choose to activate Urkund control in the Assignment activity. Urkund use requires registration of a personal Urkund account via the web form. When the account is registered, it is combined with the main user account at UH which can be used in future.

Additional information and instructions in Finnish in Opettajan opas at Plagiaatintunnistus and Tehtävä-aktiviteetti.
You may also visit Don’t copy pages

Urkund support address: ok-plagiaatti(a)helsinki.fi

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New course category for SSKH

Course areas for the Swedish School for Social Science (SSKH) in Moodle have sofar been listed under the course category for the Faculty of Social Sciences. Now SSKH has got it’s own course category with proper heraldic theme colouring.

The IT-responsible at SSKH, Christian Lindblom, has moved most SSKH course areas to the new category. But as he has no permissions for all course areas in need of change, there are some SSKH course areas still in the Faculty of Social Sciences category.

You can check the category of your course area via the block Settings > Edit settings where the category is listed above the course area name.

If your course area is in wrong category, ask for the change via email to ok-moodle@helsinki.fi with information on the course area address (copy it from the address field in the web browser) and the category the course area should be moved to.

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Hiding your email address in Moodle may have unwanted consequences

Moodle users have the opportunity to edit their profile setting on to whom the email address will be displayed. The default and recommended value for the setting Email display is Allow only other course members to see my email address. Users may also change the value to Hide my email address from everyone.

If you have hidden your email address from everyone, please note that the address is not used even in the email messages sent from Moodle, where the most typical case is subscription of discussion forum messages. Instead, Moodle displays a noreply email address with reminder “Do not reply to this email” as the from and reply-to address in all your messages. This means that no-one can reply by email to you to any message you have written; instead the replies end up in an administrative trash folder.

Instructions for checking your profile settings can be found in English at http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/Update_profile and Student guide, Chapter 6, and in Finnish in the Teacher guide at Omat asetukset (My settings).

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Is your Moodle in Finnish?

Do you have to change the language in Moodle from Finnish to English every time you have logged in?

Instead, change the language setting in your profile; then you can use Moodle in English as default!

To change your language settings:

  • Log in.
  • Change the language to English from the drop-down menu at the upper right corner.
  • Click on the text link Your Name at the upper right corner.
  • The block Settings at the left side includes the item Edit profile. Click on it.
  • Select English in the drop-down menu for the setting Preferred language.
  • Scroll down and click on Update profile.
  • Return to My home from the text link at the upper left corner.