Instructor Helps

You can edit your Courses site profile fields by:

1. Logging into the Courses site and clicking on your name in the upper-right corner

2. Then clicking on Preferences > Edit Profile and edit whichever fields you need to bring your Moodle Profile up-to-date. 

You can edit and add fields such as: User Photo, Instant Messenger ID's, phone numbers, etc.

Create a new announcement

Tutorial - Posting Announcements 

You can attach files to an announcement forum that only you can post to. Click the Announcements link on the course Home page. Type your announcement, then click the Add button. Announcements are automatically sent out to every participant in the course and are viewed in the Latest News block on the course home page of your course. 

Grade Discussion Forums

Tutorial - How Do I Grade A Forum?

To grade Forum discussions that are set up with Marking Guides please see the Grading Helps section of this page. 

Grade uploaded file assignments

Grading Assignments

To grade Forum discussions that are set up with Marking Guides please see the Grading Helps section of this page.

Grade an assignment that is set up to grade with a Marking Guide or Grading Checklist?

One more more assignments in your course might be set up with a Marking Guide or Grading Checklist for you to use when you grade those assignments. Refer to the Grading Helps on this page for links to detailed information on each type of grading tool.

Viewing user activity/reports

How to See Activity Reports in Moodle 

Assign Groups

Adding Students to Groups

Create Groups

How to Create Groups in Moodle

Set Up and Use Groups

How to Add and Remove Users From a Group

Groupings (groups of groups)

How to Create Groupings in Moodle

Your Assistant Dean is your first point of contact for facilitation support.

Contact elearning@lapu.edu for course content which includes broken links within the course or technical issues you are experiencing. Do not refer students' technical support issues to  elearning@lapu.edu. Direct all students technical issues to our Technical Support page (see icon in course home and on front page of the Courses site) For grading training or other training support during normal business hours, please contact elearning@lapu.edu. You should receive a response between office hours:  8 am to 5 pm Pacific time, Monday through Friday.

During non-business hours or on weekends, contact our Technical Support company using the link found in your Dashboard or on the Courses site front page. 

The syllabus can be found in each course inside the Course Information folder. All syllabi are also made available to the public from the front page of the Courses site at course.lapu.edu. 

The My Dashboard link appears on the front page of the Courses site (course.lapu.edu) as well as in the Navigation sidebar menu. After logging in, the Dashboard page lists all assignment deadlines, status of submissions, items requiring grading and links to the assignment grading pages.

Alternatively, the Upcoming Events block also displays on the Course Home of your teaching course shell. It lists deadlines and links for assignments, quizzes and forums. It displays a limited number of impending deadlines at a time, but you can adjust the number of events to display by clicking the link at the bottom of the Upcoming Events block. You can also create your own events to add to that list, but that only you can view.

Your faculty bio appears in two places. Once you use the template to create your Faculty Bio, you will upload a PDF file of your bio to your teaching course shell (see Faculty Bio Helps on this page). After sharing the link to your Faculty Bio with elearning@lapu.edu, the eLearning team will link it to the Meet the Faculty page. The Meet the Faculty page can be accessed from the link found in the Getting Started tile on the front page of the Courses site at course.lapu.edu. 

See Roster Helps section on this page. 

Two weeks from the end date of the term, unless a Incomplete form has been approved by academic leadership and states a different extension date. See Incomplete Grade details below. 

1. Refer to the Faculty Expectations statement in your teaching contract. You will also find a link to it in the Instructor Helps block on the course home page of your teaching course shell.

2. Connect with students via the Announcements forum (in a text post or audio podcast) as often as you wish.

3. Send a message one or more students, but not the whole class, click the Participants list in the People block. Sort by Learner from the Participants list (see Roster Helps on this page for details).

4. Answer questions posted in the Ask the Prof forum (see icon on your course home page).

5. Contact individual students to address specific concerns, issues or to respond to their personal progress questions within the time specified in Faculty Expectations of teaching contract.

6. Interact/engage with students in the discussion forums as often as needed.

Students are granted a certain amount of free tutoring per term paid by the university for any writing, science or math or other subject area assistance in any course they are taking while enrolled with us. They can access Tutor.com's 24/7 tutoring services by clicking on the link in the Tutor.com block on the course home page of any of their enrolled courses. Students may request additional paid tutoring through their Success Coaches, Refer a student to the Online Tutoring page to find out more information about Tutor.com. Instructions can be found there. 

Contact your Assistant Dean and cc elearning@lapu.edu with student name, assignment/quiz title and your course number/title. This is not something Technical Support can handle for you.

Once your AD approves the extension,  our internal support staff at elearning@lapu.edu will respond directly and cc your AD via email once the extension has been applied. You must inform the student of the extended timeline. The elearning team is available during 8 am to 5 pm Pacific time, Monday through Friday to handle your support requests. 

Any work to be completed after the conclusion of the session is approved only by submission of an Incomplete Grade Petition. Students are to complete the petition and submit it via the student's email account to the instructor (see form for specific instructions).  Please note the form is to be submitted prior to the end of the session. If the petition is approved, work may be submitted up to four weeks after the conclusion of the session. Please note incomplete grades are considered for significant life events and require documentation. 

Any work outside the Late Work Policy (Undergrad) / Late Work Policy (Grad) is considered an exception and requires students to complete the Late Work Petition. Students are to complete the petition and submit it via the student's email account to the instructor (see form for specific instructions). Students can expect to receive a response within 48 hours. Please note extensions are considered for significant life events and require documentation. 

Access the Grade Change form from the Instructor Helps block within the margin of your course. It is an online form that does not require an Assistant Dean signature. The Registrar will receive the form submission and may contact you for verification. You will be notified when the grade change is complete. Please email registrar@lapu.edu for more detailed information. 

First, review the university's policy and process for making reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities. If a student who has declared a disability and completed the required documentation with the Registrar's office is enrolled in your course, you will be notified by the university typically before the term starts about accommodations you will need to make for the student's course resources and coursework.

Accommodations usually include but are not limited to deadline extensions and more time on quizzes among other curricular adjustments that are evaluated on a case by case basis. Note that adjusting deadlines and more time on quizzes is completed by the eLearning team. If a student presents you with a disability claim, please direct the student to their Success Coach and to the Registrar to begin the process of documenting the disability and creating a plan for reasonable accommodations. This process usually takes place the term prior to the student's enrollment in courses.

Students with disabilities are not required to disclose this information to their instructors nor to the other students, so it is important to not to communicate their needs or accommodations to anyone other than the student, their Success Coach, the Registrar and the Assistant Dean.