Using rubrics in Moodle can make teaching and grading feel clearer, easier, and more supportive for both you and your students. This talk introduces rubrics and ranged rubrics in simple, practical terms, focusing on how they can help teachers who are new to online learning tools. Rubrics lay out what “good work” looks like by breaking an assignment into clear criteria, so students understand...
Moodle offers an incredible amount of flexibility and useful features, but many new users don’t always realize just how powerful it can be right from the start. That’s where the “3 Rs” come in—Recycle, Reuse, and Reduce. Instead of reinventing the wheel every time you create a course, why not take advantage of Moodle’s built-in tools that make saving time and effort simple and seamless?
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Many learning environments worldwide face significant barriers to digital education due to unreliable or absent Internet connectivity. This study presents the development of a fully offline Moodle ecosystem hosted on a local server and shared with multiple client computers via a standalone network. Learners access course content, activities, and assessments through a local web address,...
A Moodle Association of Japan R&D funding report.
As a recipient of 2025 MAJ R&D funding, I had English- and Japanese-language documentation prepared for the Video Assessment Module (VAM) plugin. It is an open-source plugin available for free download from the Moodle plugin database and GitHub. The purpose of VAM is to support rubric-based formative assessment of video recordings of...
Moodle is widely used for quiz-based assessment, with strict import formats for creating and managing question banks. As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to support assessment authoring, their practical usefulness in Moodle depends on their ability to generate quiz files that conform to these format requirements and can be imported with minimal instructor intervention.
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