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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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Moodle was updated

Moodle was updated during the service break on third January. There were no drastic changes, mostly small improvements to the user experience.

This video (18 minutes) summarizes the most important improvements:

Two things mentioned in the video are note applicable to the UH Moodle installation:

(Starting at 8:50 in the video.) UH Moodle does not have the private files area enabled. File linking is however possible by selecting course files via the Server files repository.

(At 11:40.) UH Moodle will only have the new assignment module available. Old assignments will be converted automatically to the new module during the upgrade. The grading interface has slightly changed; for more information, please read the instructions at Moodle.org.

Full list of changes in Moodle 2.3: http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.3_release_notes.

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Moodle service break on 3rd January 2013

Moodle is going to have a service break on Thursday the third of January 2013 starting at 10 o’clock. The break will last for a couple of hours and is expected to be over by 2 o’clock pm. During the service break Moodle will be unavailable. Please remember to schedule your working plans accordingly!

During the break Moodle will be updated. If you want to learn about the improvements already in advance, please take a look at the video below.

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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).