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Community (Moodle) Support
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Community is provided to meet the collaborative working and social needs of the campus community and campus-sponsored external communities. The site utilizes Moodle in order to provide options for information dissemination and offers a wide array of collaboration tools. Unlike the academic instruction-based site Cougar Courses, Community is not organized by term. Community assumes on-going activity throughout the year or over multiple years.
Access to Community
CSUSM Users
CSUSM students, faculty, and staff can access Community by logging in with their CSUSM username and password.
Non-CSUSM Users
Non-CSUSM users can create their own Community accounts by filling out the New Account form. Once submitted, a confirmation email will be sent to the email address you provided. In the email, click on the web link it contains. Your Community account will be confirmed and you will be logged in. This process will only add your account to Community, it will not grant you access to any containers. But once you have an account you can then be added to a container by the Owner, or use self-enrollment (if enabled by the Owner) to enroll yourself in a container.
Community Containers
CSUSM faculty and staff can request Community containers by filling out this container request form (must be logged into Community first).
Note: eWPAF and RTP containers are requested by each college. If you are a lecturer, please see our process guide for eWPAF container creation for lecturers for more information. If you are a tenure track faculty, please see our process guide for eWPAF container creation for tenure track faculty for more information.
Getting Help with Community
- First, check the guides below. If there is a guide that is not linked/working correctly, please email us at cchelp@csusm.edu and let us know.
- If you can't find the answer there, email cchelp@csusm.edu. Be sure to provide the container name as well as specific details of your issue.
- For live help we have TRC Virtual Office Hours 10 am to 4pm, Monday through Friday. Zoom meeting ID: 296496061. When you first enter you will be placed in a Waiting Room until someone is available to assist you. Once someone is available, we are limiting the sessions to 15 minutes if there is a queue. If the help will take longer than 15 minutes, we will put you in a breakout room and another person on the team will assist you.
Search Tips:
1. Use the Role field to narrow the list to show only Owner or Participant guides.
2. Select one or more categories to narrow your search.
3. Click the triangles at the top of the Category column to sort the entire list by category. You'll need to check All in the categories filter.
4. To see all of the Frequently Asked Questions, click the triangle at the top of the Label and Link column.
| Label & Link | Role | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Self Enrollment | Participant | Basics |
| Add a Profile Picture | participant | Basics |
| Using the Text Editor Toolbar | Participant | Basics |
| Track Your Completion of Course Activities | Participant | Basics |
| View your Activity Logs | Participant | Basics |
| Export Calendar | Participant | Basics |
| Using the Text Editor Toolbar | Owner | Basics |
| View your course as a Participant | Owner | Basics |
| ** FAQs About Course Setup | Owner | Setup |
| Set Course Start/End Date | Owner | Setup |
| Set course format to Weekly (dates) | Owner | Setup |
| Import Course Content | Owner | Setup |
| Backup and Restore Course Content | Owner | Setup |
| Checklist for Updating an Imported/Restored Course | Owner | Setup |
| Move Items or Topics/Weeks | Owner | Setup |
| Change Dates for Activities in One Location | Owner | Setup |
| Modify Your Blocks Layout | Owner | Setup |
| Make Your Course Visible (Available/Show) | Owner | Setup |
| ** FAQs About Course Management | Owner | Course Management |
| Add/Enroll Users or Change a User's Role | Owner | Course Management |
| Enable Self Enrollment | Owner | Course Management |
| Set up Appointment Schedules using Scheduler | Owner | Course Management |
| Reports and Analytics Graphs | Owner | Course Management |
| Track Activity Completion | Owner | Course Management |
| Completion Progress Block | Owner | Course Management |
| Restrict Access to Activities/Resources | Owner | Course Management |
| Show Participants Their Own Activity Logs | Owner | Course Management |
| See what needs to be graded with the "Grade Me" block | Owner | Course Management |
| Restore deleted resources/activities using the Recycle Bin | Owner | Course Management |
| ** FAQs About Resources | Owner | Adding Resources |
| Add Files | Owner | Adding Resources |
| Add Links (URLs) | Owner | Adding Resources |
| Add File Folders | Owner | Adding Resources |
| Add Pages | Owner | Adding Resources |
| Add Labels to Organize Your Content | Owner | Adding Resources |
| Add a Book (collection of pages) | Owner | Adding Resources |
| Communication Options in Community (Instructors) | Owner | Communication Tools |
| Post an Announcement | Owner | Communication Tools |
| How to create and use the Chat tool | Owner | Communication Tools |
| How to Create and use the Choice Tool | Owner | Communication Tools |
| Use Questionnaire to Survey Participants | Owner | Communication Tools |
| Use Feedback to Survey Participants | Owner | Communication Tools |
| Communication Options in Community (Participants) | Participant | Communication Tools |
| ** FAQs About Assignments and Turnitin | Owner | Assignments and TurnItIn |
| Which Assignment Type and Options to choose? | Owner | Assignments and TurnItIn |
| Create Assignments | Owner | Assignments and TurnItIn |
| Add a Rubric/Grading Guide to an Assignment | Owner | Assignments and Turnitin |
| Manage Assignment Submissions | Owner | Assignments and TurnItIn |
| Assignment Grader | Owner | Assignments and TurnItIn |
| Create Turnitin Assignment | Owner | Assignments and TurnItIn |
| Turnitin Instructor Guides - Similarity Report | Owner | Assignments and TurnItIn |
| Turnitin Instructor Guides - Commenting Tools | Owner | Assignments and Turnitin |
| Submitting a File to an Assignment | Participant | Assignments and TurnItIn |
| Submitting Online Text to an Assignment | Participant | Assignments and TurnItIn |
| Adding YouTube Links to an Online Text Submission | Participant | Assignments and Turnitin |
| Turnitin - submissions, viewing similarity report and feedback | Participant | Assignments and TurnItIn |
| ** FAQs About Quizzes | Owner | Quiz |
| Create a Quiz | Owner | Quiz |
| Create and Manage Quiz Questions | Owner | Quiz |
| Create Audio, Video or Image Response Questions | Owner | Quiz |
| Create an Essay Question | Owner | Quiz |
| Import MC and TF Questions from Word (Aiken type) | Owner | Quiz |
| Import Questions from a Publisher | Owner | Quiz |
| Add Questions from the Question Bank | Owner | Quiz |
| Adaptive and Interactive Quizzes | Owner | Quiz |
| Add Extra Time or Change Quiz Timing for 1 or More Participants (User Override) | Owner | Quiz |
| Group Overrides for Quizzes | Owner | Quiz |
| Grade Essay Questions | Owner | Quiz |
| Correct and Re-Grade Questions | Owner | Quiz |
| Quiz Results, Responses and Statistics | Owner | Quiz |
| Taking a Quiz | Participant | Quiz |
| ** FAQs about Groups | Owner | Groups |
| Best Practices for Group Work | Owner | Groups |
| Create Groups and Groupings | Owner | Groups |
| Group Self-Selection | Owner | Groups |
| Group Override for Quizzes | Owner | Groups |
| Participant View of Groups | Participant | Groups |
| ** FAQs About Forums and Blogs | Owner | Forums and Blogs |
| About Forums | Owner | Forums and Blogs |
| Crafting Online Forums: Guiding Questions and Rubric | Owner | Forums and Blogs |
| Set up Forums | Owner | Forums and Blogs |
| Add a Rubric/Grading Guide to a Forum | Owner | Forums and Blogs |
| Manage Forums | Owner | Forums and Blogs |
| Turn Off Forum Auto Subscribe | Owner | Forums and Blogs |
| Email Replies to Forum Posts | Owner | Forums and Blogs |
| Grade Forums | Owner | Forums and Blogs |
| Create and Grade OU Blogs | Owner | Forums and Blogs |
| Email Replies to Forum Posts | Participant | Forums and Blogs |
| Forum Subscription and Tracking | Participant | Forums and Blogs |
| Posting and Replying to a Forum | Participant | Forums and Blogs |
| Create a Glossary | Owner | Collaborative Activities |
| Setup and Grade OU Wikis | Owner | Collaborative Activities |
| Workshop for Peer Reviews | Owner | Collaborative Activities |
| Using the Glossary | Participant | Collaborative Activities |
| Using OU Wiki | Participant | Collaborative Activities |
| The Lesson activity | Owner | Other Activities |
| ** FAQs About Gradebook | Owner | Gradebook |
| Create Manual Grade Items | Owner | Gradebook |
| Extra Credit Grade Items | Owner | Gradebook |
| Create Categories (req. for weighted gradebook) | Owner | Gradebook |
| Drop the Lowest Grade | Owner | Gradebook |
| Create and Grade Negative Grade Items | Owner | Gradebook |
| Enter Grades Manually | Owner | Gradebook |
| Import Grades from Excel | Owner | Gradebook |
| End of Semester Gradebook Tasks | Owner | Gradebook |
| Participant View of the Gradebook | Participant | Gradebook |