Moodle – the University Learning Management System
MOODLE is an open-source learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised learning environments. The University of Lethbridge hosts its own customized version to meet local instructional needs and ensure secure data storage.
Moodle has many functions for you to choose from, including hosting online discussions, online assignments, managing the course gradebook, creating sign-up sheets for course assignments, hosting online tests, as well as being a place to post web links, course readings, the syllabus, or other course materials. Moodle is supported by the Teaching Centre. If you need support in using Moodle, would like a brief tutorial, or would like more information about the system, contact the Teaching Centre.
You have the freedom to choose Moodle as one of your teaching tools, but there is no requirement that you do.
ACCESS TO COURSE AFTER COMPLETION OF TERM
ACCESS A COURSE AFTER A TERM HAS ENDED
You can access your courses even after a term has ended. The servers on which you course is stored will be active for a year after the start of the specific term you were teaching the course. As an example, if you had taught a course in the Summer Session II 2017, you could still access it by entering the following url: https://moodle.uleth.ca/201702/.
COURSE TRANSFER
For courses last taught more than a year ago, you can either do a backup of the course yourself and store it on your computer until you need it again or you can request a course transfer. See instructions for both here.
MOODLE FOR BEGINNERS COURSE
Teaching with Moodle allows you to choose from a wide range of features, including content storage, multi-media embedding, set up of gradable activities and quizzes, just to mention a few. You might want to check out this Moodle introductory course for some ideas how to use some of the functions available. NOTE that this course is stored on the long-term server, which is NOT usually accessed by faculty and instructors. You will thus need to register on that server first, before you can access any kind of course there.
LONG-TERM SERVER ACCESS
For long-term server access, please click on this link. You will then only need to sign in with your university username and associated password to activate your access to that server.
REQUEST ASSISTANCE
You can request help through our ticket system or book individual appointments with our technical and/ or pedagogical developers for the personalized support you might need. We also maintain a website with basic Moodle tutorials for instructors for you to browse at your convenience.