LibGuides: Moodle Tutorials: Hiding and Revealing Items (2024)

FAQs

How do I view hidden content in Moodle? ›

If you do not see your course listed as either hidden or available to students, make sure that you have requested the course in SPIRE (you must request Moodle courses each semester you will teach them), and that it is ready to use (you will receive an email when the course has been created).

Click File > Options > Display, and then under Always show these formatting marks on the screen, select the Hidden text check box. Click File > Options > Advanced, and then under Show document content, select the Show drawings and text boxes on screen check box.

In the upper right corner of the screen, click on the "gear" icon. From the resulting drop-down list, choose Edit settings. In the General section of the settings, click the Course visibility menu and select Show. Scroll to the end of the page and click Save and display.

Can professors see what students have done in Moodle? Yes. Moodle has a very robust logging system that tracks every time a user visits a page or clicks a link. It records when files are uploaded, when quizzes are taken, when students log in, and even when students view an item.

On the Course Management panel, under Course Settings, select Edit course settings. The Edit course settings page will open. On the Edit course settings page, under General, for Course visibility, select Hide or Show.

How do I hide a course list in Moodle? ›

Open the course you want to hide. Click Edit Settings from the "Course administration" menu. In the "General settings" section, you can set the course visibility options to Hide or Show. Make sure to scroll down and click Save when you have made your selection.

To the right of the Section name for the section you wish to hide, select Edit. The Edit drop-down menu will appear. To hide the section, select Hide section. The section will be dimmed, indicating it is hidden.

Where are the restrict access settings? 'Conditional access' needs to be enabled by an administrator in Administration > Site administration > Advanced features and a teacher will then see "restrict access" options in the set-up screen of each activity.

Instead of deep diving into your Android phone's convoluted settings, you can use a simple dialer code to access your device information quickly. All you have to do is open up your phone's dialer app and type *#*#4636#*#* into it. Once you've entered the code, your phone's testing menu will pop open.

You could use a variety of methods to find hidden text and links. Some of the fastest are hitting 'ctrl-a' (select all) to see if any text or links light up that were hidden before.

To show hidden files, you need to include the /a:h modifier in that command. So, dir /a:h C:your-folder will do the trick. CMD also has specific commands for showing directories and folders. /a:d shows all hidden directories, and /a shows hidden folders.

Open the folder that contains the hidden files, go to "View", and check "Hidden items". Option 2. Go to "Control Panel" > "File Explorer Options", go to the "View" tab, and check "Show hidden files, folders, and drives". Actually, there is another way to show hidden files in Windows 10, which is to use Command Prompt.

Hide a course

Log into Moodle and open the course you wish to hide. Click (gear icon) to open the Actions menu. Choose Edit Settings. Set Course Visibility to Hide.

How do I customize a course in Moodle? ›

Check visibility settings

Set the filter to In progress to show only your current courses (that is, courses with a past start date and a future end date). Set it to All to show every course you are or have been enrolled in.

Registered Students and Auditors in Moodle course can only see their own usage data, submissions, and grades. Teachers and Non-Editing Teachers in a Moodle course can see course-level usage data, submissions, and grades for all course participants.

Disadvantages Of Using Moodle

The first big issue is the fact that Moodle is not fully developed to cope with big projects. While it may be useful for colleges or universities of small to medium size, the system might not work efficiently with larger schools or serve as a great way to conduct all classes in a city.

Moodle proctoring plugin is a quizaccess plugin to capture a user's picture via webcam to identify who is attempting the Moodle quiz. It will capture the picture of the user's webcam automatically every 30 seconds and store it as a PNG image.

View the Participants List. Click the top left Menu icon to toggle open the sidebar, and click Participants, or click the Course Management Gear at the top of the screen and then Participants (new for Fall 2022: both links go to the same screen).

1. Moodle can prevent students from sharing answers or working together on assignments. 2. It can track students' progress and identify any unusual activity that could suggest cheating.

Moodle allows you monitor attendance at classes by making use of the Attendance activity. This activity is essentially an online roll. You can add one Attendance activity for each Moodle module and within this activity you can identify the days, times and duration of classes for the duration of the module.

Blind marking is a feature of Moodle assignments that, when enabled, allows for submissions to be marked without personally identifiable information being visible to the marker. Instead of student names, you will see randomly generated participant numbers.

How do I hide activity after completion in Moodle? ›

Select Edit next to the Resource or Activity you want to hide. Select Hide. The Resource/Activity will then become greyed out to show its hidden state and will display a message underneath - Hidden from students. Select Edit and select Show to make the Resource/Activity visible again.

On your Courses page in Blackboard, click the three dots next to a course and choose Hide Course. If you would like to unhide your course, click the Filter menu and choose "Hidden from me." Click the three dots next to a course and choose "Show Course."

Log in to Moodle. From the Course Overview panel, scroll and to find the course you want to hide. Select the three dot button in the course tile. Then select "Remove from view".

Yes, Moodle lets teachers track detailed reports about student actions and behavior. Teachers can see if students are trying to access outside sources during a test.

It will capture your picture and screenshot automatically every 30 seconds. For the Webcam proctoring tool to function, you need to provide camera & screen sharing permissions. Once you have provided the permissions, you will see your picture and will then be able to complete the Quiz assessment.

The hidden attribute hides the <section> element. You can specify either 'hidden' (without value) or 'hidden="hidden"'. Both are valid. A hidden <section> element is not visible, but it maintains its position on the page.

Blocks are items which may be added to the side inside the block drawer of any page in Moodle. Different themes allow blocks to be added to the left, right or both sides. They may also be added to the centre of the Dashboard.

If you don't want students to be able to modify their assignment submissions past a certain point, you can lock submissions. Typically you would do that after the due date, or while a multi-stage assignment was in a review and feedback stage.

How do I access restricted content in Moodle? ›

To use the restrict access feature, it must be enabled by an administrator by checking the "Enable restricted access" box in Administration > Site administration > Advanced features.

Some of the fastest are hitting 'ctrl-a' (select all) to see if any text or links light up that were hidden before. Unfortunately, this tactic only shows text and links hidden by using the oldest method in the book: making them the same color as the background behind them.

Open a module to check its availability to students. If it is hidden to students, the text Module is hidden will display underneath the module title. Select the Show Module button. If you are certain you want to make the module visible to students select Yes in the Confirm screen that displays.

Unblock websites using a VPN. Using a VPN is the easiest and most reliable way to get around content blocks and unlock the URLs you want. A VPN (virtual private network) routes your internet traffic through a remote server, letting you choose your virtual location.

Registered Students and Auditors in Moodle course can only see their own usage data, submissions, and grades. Teachers and Non-Editing Teachers in a Moodle course can see course-level usage data, submissions, and grades for all course participants.

Permissions for a course can be changed on the course page via the Actions menu > More > Users tab > Permissions (Boost-based themes) or Course administration > Users > Permissions (Classic-based themes).

The hidden attribute is used to indicate that the content of an element should not be presented to the user. This attribute can take any one of the following values: an empty string. the keyword hidden. the keyword until-found.

The hidden Web (or invisible Web or deep Web) is the name given to pages on the World Wide Web that are not indexed by search engines. It consists of pages which are not linked to by other pages, such as dynamic Web pages based on responses to database queries.

When screen sharing is active, Chrome will still alert users that they received a notification, but its contents will be hidden. As they come in, you'll be given an updated count of how many you've yet to read, with Chrome reminding you how “content is hidden while you're sharing your screen.”

How can Moodle detect cheating? ›

One way that Moodle tracks cheating and helps teachers prevent it is by providing additional statistics about each student's performance, such as how long they spent on each question. If a student takes a particularly long time on the questions, that could be a red flag that they are cheating.

The block title shows as "My courses" and allows one-click access to a course's home page. There is also the option to list All courses... available within the Moodle site. This will display a list of course types and a click on one of the types will reveal all the courses in that category.

There are several reasons why your course might not be showing in Moodle. Your instructor has not set the course to 'Visible' yet. All courses are hidden by default. Please see this link for help with course visibility.