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Moodle service break on 2nd January 2014

Moodle is going to have a service break on Thursday the second of January 2014 from 10 am to 1 pm. The break may be over even sooner. During the service break Moodle will be unavailable. Please remember to schedule your working plans accordingly!

During the break Moodle will be updated. The list of new features published by the international Moodle community presents the most noticeable improvements for teachers and students. Note that at least badges will most likely not be taken to use in UH Moodle.

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Student, don’t you find your course?

It is easiest to search and find courses in Moodle with the search feature, instead of search through categories by hand.

Now you find the Search courses field before login on the main page as well as after login on your My home page, below the My courses list.

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The change in the Urkund document process

There has made the change in processing the document in Urkund last week.
In the future, the documents will be automatic deleted Urkund after seven weeks from submitting.

Until now, the submitter has been able to choose to delete the document from Urkund reference material. This option has been available via web link in the confirmation receipt which submitter has received after sending or uploading the document.

However, the copyright holder has the right to decide on the use of the document as a reference material. By allowing the use of the document  the copyright defence will better because the other person is more difficult to use your work or parts of it in their own name. Save your work to the Urkund database in Moodle via the assignment submission text link “Save the document in Urkund” or by using the link provided in the email you receive after the report has been generated.

More information about Urkund and the use of the plagiarism detection system at the University of Helsinki at
https://blogs.helsinki.fi/alakopsaa/?lang=en

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The support services of Moodle on vacation during weeks 29-31

Summer holidays are coming! The support services of Moodle are also on vacation during forthcoming weeks, especially at the end of July. We are, unfortunately, not able to answer any Moodle questions or the requests of new course areas during the weeks 29 – 31.

All questions sent to ok-moodle@helsinki.fi during the summertime will be answered at the beginning of August, retrospectively, in the order of arrival. Despite, there will be longer delays in answering times than usually. Therefore we kindly ask you to act before the holiday time. If you need a new course area or have something to ask us about Moodle, please send your requests to us at the beginning of July at the latest!

Happy summertime to all our Moodle-users!

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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.