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 [...]
Category Archives: mymoodle
Moodle was updated
7.1.2013 – 19:11
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 [...]
Moodle service break on 3rd January 2013
10.12.2012 – 15:32
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 [...]
New course category for SSKH
6.11.2012 – 17:57
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. [...]
Hiding your email address in Moodle may have unwanted consequences
12.10.2012 – 16:25
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 [...]
Is your Moodle in Finnish?
12.9.2012 – 15:20
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 [...]
New course area request form
4.9.2012 – 14:38
All teachers in need of a new Moodle course area are kindly asked to use the new request form at http://ok.helsinki.fi/moodle-en/howto/request-course-area/. The course areas are usually created within a day of the request, and an email will be sent to the teacher once the course area is ready.
Moodle support on vacation 11.7.-5.8.2012
6.7.2012 – 16:08
Moodle support team will be on their summer holidays during a few weeks in July and August. Therefore email support (ok-moodle at helsinki.fi) response times will be slower than usual. Allthough all emails are read and replied to in the middle of August, at the latest. We wish you all a warm & sunny summertime! [...]
Moodle training for teachers on 21st August
26.6.2012 – 16:10
Moodle 2 – new features This course is intended for teachers who have previous experience in using Moodle. The objective of the course is to introduce the participants to new features of Moodle 2. We will take a look at the new course navigation, file management, registration methods, and other new features according to the [...]
Moodle updated – new features for teachers
18.6.2012 – 9:05
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 [...]