Preparing your Moodle Quizzes on Moodle and adding them to Canvas

You and your TA's will need to continue to use Moodle on a Moodle Integrated Course. Clicking any Moodle Activity with a teacher role will automatically log you into Moodle. Please note that this also applies in Canvas student view, clicking on any Moodle activity in student view will log you out of Moodle and log in the test student account. If you find there is no Moodle UI when visiting https://moodle.cs.colorado.edu you are currently logged in as a student in Moodle. Paste this link into a new tab to logout https://moodle.cs.colorado.edu/login/logout.php

Should you desire to login to Moodle directly via FedAuth, that is also fine. Logging in via either method will drop you into the same Moodle account.

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Step 1: Select Moodle Activities for Canvas

Once we complete the setup of your Moodle course, we ask that you move all Activities you want available in Canvas in the following Moodle Topic. Once finished, notify us by replying to your open case on ServiceNow. We will then prepare those as provider tools and pull their configuration from the database. ATAP has developed a tool to take in our database export that will add them to Canvas.

Once linked, you can continue to make changes and modify your activity. If you however delete the activity, this process will need to be performed again. If you currently have no activities but are planning to have them, you can create empty activities, link them now, and finish working on them in Moodle at a later time.

A warning on restrictions: Please note that all Moodle restrictions still apply. If a quiz is hidden or restricted, students will not be able to access it from Canvas.

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Step 2: Locate your Moodle Activities in Canvas Assignments

Once the import is complete, your Moodle activities will be available in Canvas Assignments. You may need to assign a point value. If point values in Canvas mismatch your Moodle gradebook point value, it will scale accordingly. To make things easier, match point values.

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These can then be added as regular assignments within your Canvas course.

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