These are the settings I think need to be changed by administrators to make Moodle 2 a working LMS for teachers.<\/p>\n
ADVANCED<\/p>\n
Enable outcomes, stats, RSS, completion… USERS<\/p>\n Remove emails from gradebook GRADES<\/p>\n Enable recovering of previous grades Enable static colum for student names in gradebook Enable quick feedback Enable quicker grading via AJAX LOCATION<\/p>\n Set clock at Pacific Time (or your local time) PLUGINS<\/p>\n Remove requirement for activity description on pages Continue manual marking of posts as in 1.9 Timed posts for instructors Show emoticons Make available converting URLs into links and images Ensure multimedia works Set module display to minimize navigation zone, display in all formats, and make popups bigger Customize forums SECURITY<\/p>\n Allow object and embed, post changes Prevent text warnings on instructor forum posts APPEARANCE<\/p>\n Enable html for labels Add links to view user posts Arialist theme for visible new posts Arialist theme for column size Enable AJAX and Javascript Enable course themes In addition, teacher roles need to be changed so that teachers may “login as” students, and see the grade link as part of their Activity Report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These are the settings I think need to be changed by administrators to make Moodle 2 a working LMS for teachers. ADVANCED Enable outcomes, stats, RSS, completion… Advanced settings – “Enable Outcomes” – check for yes “Enable RSS feeds” – check for yes “Enable completion tracking” – check for yes “Enable conditional access” – check […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cmslms"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10104,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions\/10104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAdvanced settings –<\/em>
\n “Enable Outcomes” – check for yes<\/em>
\n “Enable RSS feeds” – check for yes<\/em>
\n “Enable completion tracking” – check for yes<\/em>
\n “Enable conditional access” – check for yes<\/em>
\n “Enable plagiarism plugins” – check yes if MCC is using them<\/em>
\n “Enable statistics” – decide whether server load is worth it<\/em><\/p>\n
\nUsers–>Permissions–>User policies -> Show User Identity -> uncheck email<\/em><\/p>\n
\nGrades – General settings – “Recover grades default” – check box
\n<\/em>
\nEnable tab navigation in Grades
\nGrades – General settings – “Navigation method” – tabs<\/em><\/p>\n
\nGrade – Report settings – Grader report – enable “Static students column”<\/em><\/p>\n
\nGrade – Report settings – Grader report – Quick feedback – check for Yes<\/em><\/p>\n
\nGrade – Report settings – Grader report – Enable AJAX – check for Yes<\/em><\/p>\n
\nLocation – Location settings – timezone UTC-7 (for spring-fall, would be UTC-8 for fall-spring)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPlugins – Activity Modules – Page – uncheck “Require activity description”<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPlugins – Activity Modules – Forums –\u00a0Manual message read marking – check the box<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPlugins > Activity modules > Forum<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPlugins – Filters – Manage filters – Display emoticons as images (on)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPlugins – Filters – Manage filters – Convert URLs into links and images (off but available)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPlugins – Filters – Manage filters – Multimedia plugins – On – apply to content and headings<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPlugins – activity modules – URL<\/em>
\n “Frame height” – change to 100<\/em>
\n “Available display options” select all,<\/em>
\n “Popup width (in pixels) – change to 800, Advanced<\/em>
\n “Popup height (in pixels) – change to 600, Advanced<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPlugins – Activity modules – Forum –<\/em>
\n “Use email address in reply” – check for No<\/em>
\n “Read after days” – change to 160<\/em>
\n “Maximum attachment size” – change to 2 MB<\/em>
\n “Manual message read marking” – check for yes<\/em>
\n “Timed posts” – check for yes<\/em><\/p>\n
\nSecurity – Site policies – Allow EMBED and OBJECT tags check box,<\/em>
\n Max time to edit posts change to 60 minutes<\/em><\/p>\n
\nSecurity – Site policies – Enable Trusted Content<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAppearance – HTML settings – uncheck box to allow html for labels<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAppearance – Navigation – check box to add links<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAppearance – Themes – Arialist – CSS box<\/em>
\n .forumpost.unread .content {border:2px solid #D88A00;} \/*unread post border*\/ — change color to #1e00d8<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAppearance – Themes – Arialist – Column width – 250px<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAppearance – AJAX and Javascript – Enable Ajax<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAppearance – Themes – Enable course themes<\/em><\/p>\n