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This blog is for the Moodle support news feed at University of Helsinki.

Moodle is found at moodle.helsinki.fi.

Latest news listed below can be read through the Moodle main page side block News.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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