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.

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.

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).

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.

Moodle updated – new features for teachers

The UH Moodle has been updated to a new version (2.2.2). Most of the old functionality is intact, the most notable changes include

  • New Navigation and Settings blocks, which make the user interface more consistent. Watch a video demonstration (1 minute) of the new user interface.
  • Setting up enrolment keys is no longer done in course settings. Watch a video (1 minute) describing the process.
  • Enrolling a user manually is no longer done from ‘Administration / Assing roles’ but from ‘Settings / Course administration / Users / Enrolled users’.

There are four new activities:

The most important new features include

Best place for documentation in English is http://docs.moodle.org.

There’s a 3-hour course for Moodle teachers on 21st August.

Questions? Contact us at ok-moodle@helsinki.fi.