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Topic summary / Text and media area

Topic summary In a Moodle course, course contents are organized into sections. The first section is General section, which appears in all Moodle courses. It is then followed by 1 to 52 sections as defined in the course setting. Each section corresponds to a topic or a week, depending on the course format. Section summary is a short […]

Course Format

Topics outline The default outline for an HKU Moodle course is by Topics. Edit your course in topic outline You can arrange the course materials by topic format. Please turn on “Edit mode” to edit your Moodle course. In each topic, you can click the icon  to update the general information of the topic. You […]

My eLearning @ HKU Portal

Quick Links “My eLearning” is created for the convenience of both teaching staff and students to access the Learning Management System through HKU Portal. In the “My eLearning”, teachers can access and manage their Moodle courses, if any. Students can also access their online Moodle courses in the page. Access my Moodle courses Teachers can […]

HKU Student e-Portfolio

Quick Links The purpose of HKU e-Portfolio is to document students’ learning progress over time and evaluate students’ learning progress in applicable scenarios. Students can share their e-learning records with their advisors, teachers, mentors, peer students or external users. Files accepted Only image and PDF files are accepted on the e-Portfolio system. The upload quota […]

Import Groups with Members

Teachers/TA/admin can now import groups and enrolled users by uploading .csv filein the Moodle course. We go for Groups under Participant List of the course. Click “Import groups with users”. Click “example.csv” to download the excel template for importing groups. Enter “student_number”, “name” and “group_name” in column A, B and C respectively. Please note that […]

Tutorial Sign-up Management Application (for Teachers and Course Administrators)

The Tutorial Sign-up Management application is designed for the course teachers and course administrators to manage the students’ tutorial group registration. The Tutorial Sign-up Management application can be accessed through the My eLearning page of HKU Portal. (Note: Tutorial groups should be created in Class Planner and Room Booking System (CPRB) first in order to be displayed […]

Change Moodle course theme

If you would like to change the Moodle theme (ie. page layout and “look and feels”) of the Moodle course webpage, there are several themes for your selection. To change the theme for your Moodle course, please follow the procedure below. Go to Course Settings. In the course setting page, you will find Appearance section. You […]

Quick Start

Recommended Browser Users are recommended to use “Firefox” or “Chrome” browser to access the Moodle platform since they have a better performance on browsing the Moodle platform. Access Moodle Moodle can be accessed via HKU Portal. A list of courses you are teaching is retrieved from Student Information System (SIS). Steps: Login HKU Portal at https://hkuportal.hku.hk. Select My […]

Share files in OneDrive and link to Moodle

Quick Links The maximum file size accepted in Moodle platform is 300MB per file. If you wish to share large files in Moodle platform, the easiest way is to upload your files to OneDrive and share the file link to your students in Moodle. Upload a file to OneDrive Log in your OneDrive account at […]