TCAL Groups and Overrides in Moodle Quizzes

Create a TCAL Group in Moodle Course
Add remove users from the TCAL group
Create a Group override in a Moodle quiz for extra time accommodation.

Set Tramble Centre for Accessible Learning (TCAL) timing accommodations in Moodle quizzes

This article is intended to help professors and course instructors with the process of setting time accommodations for a Moodle quiz (exam, test, quiz, etc.) in Moodle with students who are being supported by the Tramble Centre for Accessible Learning. This article requires you to have editing level privileges in Moodle.

The recommended process involves three distinct steps.

Step 1: Create a Tramble Centre for Accessible Learning (TCAL) group in Moodle.

Step 2: Manage group membership (add students who have Tramble Centre accommodations to the TCAL group in Moodle).

Step 3: Create a TCAL group override and adjust the timing as needed.

 

Please follow the steps in order as shown

Step 1: Create the Tramble Centre for Accessible Learning (TCAL) group in Moodle

Note: This group membership must be kept confidential for privacy reasons. This group should never be part of any link that reveals group membership.

Create the TCAL Group

1. Log in to Moodle and open the course you want to work with.

2. Click Participants tab at the top of the Moodle course page directly under the course name.

3. Select Groups In the dropdown menu at the top left of the page (default shows Enrolled Users).

4. The system displays the Group screen with two panels. If you see a group named TCAL in the left panel, go directly to Step 2: Manage Group Membership in Moodle section below for help on adding/removing students from an existing group.

 

5. If there is no TCAL group already showing in the left panel:

• Click Create Group (from the options near the bottom of the page in the Manage section. You may have to scroll to see this).
• Type TCAL For Group name field.
• Ignore both the Group ID number field.
• Ignore Group description field.
• Ignore the Enrolment key field. This field may pick up a saved password from the browser, if it does make sure to remove it.
• Select Visible (Visible is the default setting) in the Group membership visibility field. This is important for protecting the privacy of the TCAL group members.
• Remove the checkmark next to the Show group in dropdown menu for activities in group mode. This is important for protecting the privacy of the TCAL group members.
• Select No (No is the default setting) for Group messaging field. This is important for protecting the privacy of the TCAL group members.
• Ignore New picture field.
• Click Save changes.
• The system displays the Groups screen with the two panels.
• Click the TCAL group in the left panel.
• Click Edit group settings (from the options near the bottom of the page in the With selected section).
• Scroll to Enrolment key field and make sure it is empty. (It should say “Click here to enter text”). If there is other text in this field, remove it.
• Click Save changes.

Your TCAL group is now created but has no members. Proceed to Step 2: Manage Group Membership in Moodle section below.

 

 

Step 2: Manage group membership in Moodle

Add/remove students to/from a group

1. After completing Step 1, the system displays the Group screen with two panels.

2. Click TCAL group in the left panel of the new window that opens.

3. Click Add/remove users (under the right panel).

4. The system displays a new screen with two panels:

• The left panel displays current members of the group.
• The right panel displays a list of all the other people in the course (students, professor, teaching assistants) who are not members of the group.
• Adding a student to the group
  • Click the name of the student to be added to this group (from the right panel).
  • Click Add.
  • The student’s name moves to the left panel, and they are now a member of that group.
  • Repeat for any other students to be added to this group.
  • When finished click Back to groups (below the two panels).
  • Click Course at the top of the Moodle course page directly under the course name, to get back to the main course page.
• Removing a student from the group
  • Click on the name of the student to be removed from this group (from the left panel).
  • Click Remove.
  • The student’s name moves from the left panel to the right panel, and they are no longer a member of that group.
  • Repeat for any other students to be removed from this group.
  • When finished click Back to groups (below the two panels).
• Click Course at the top of the Moodle course page directly under the course name, to get back to the main course page.

Step 3: Create TCAL group override

1. Log in to Moodle and open the course you want to work with.
2. Click the name of the Quiz you will be working with.
3. Click More tab at the top of the Moodle course page directly under the course name.
4. Select Overrides.
5. Select Group overrides from the dropdown button on the left (at the top under the tabs).
6. Click Add group override (blue button).
7. The system displays the Override screen with several fields you can change
8. Select TCAL for the Override group field.
9. Ignore password. If you did not set one for the quiz itself, there will not be one here. If you did set a password for the quiz itself, the one shown here should be the same.
10. Ignore Open and Close dates, they will normally be the same as the quiz itself.
11. Type the Time limit (usually double the normal exam time) by entering the value and using the dropdown to set the units (e.g., minutes, hours, etc.)
12. Ignore Attempts allowed. There are only special cases where there would be more than one attempt allowed for a Test or Exam.
13. Click Save.
14. The system will display a screen showing the override group name and the list of overrides set.
15. Your group override is now set.

Click Quiz tab at the top of the Moodle course page directly under the course name, to take you back to the main quiz area.

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