Adding Activities

Activities, such as forums, quizzes and wikis enable interactive content to be added to the course. Some are only suitable for a tutor/teacher supported course (tutor only) rather than a free standing open educational resource.

  • Assignment allows learners to submit assignments for grading (tutor only)
  • Blog allows for creation of blogs within a course (tutor only)
  • Choice enables a tutor to ask a question and offer possible responses (tutor only)
  • Custom Certificate is your preferred design, rather than standard Statement of Participation
  • Forum provides a discussion Moodle forum facility (tutor only)
  • Glossary can be a list of definitions, like a dictionary, or resources for information.  
  • H5P HTML5 Package of interactive content (presentations, videos, multimedia, questions etc).
  • Lesson enables sharing content and/or practice activities in flexible ways (tutor only). 
  • Questionnaire allows survey construction using a variety of survey question types.
  • Quiz enables a course author to create quizzes comprising questions of various types.
  • SCORM package Shareable Content Object Reference Model collection of files.   
  • StudentQuiz allows students to add questions for the crowd (tutor only).
  • Wiki lets users edit a set of linked pages, often a collaborative activity (tutor only). 
  • Workshop enables collection, review and peer assessment of students' work (tutor only)


1. Assignment

Assignment is used for learners to submit assignments for grading by a teacher.

You need to have the Course Manager or Teacher role to be able to set up Assignment in OpenLearn Create, so will need to complete the Data Declaration form to get this role (please contact the OpenLearn create mailbox to request the form). 

There is detailed guidance on the Moodle site about how to use Assignment.

See Assignment activity - MoodleDocs and Assignment settings - MoodleDocs and Using Assignment - MoodleDocs for further information about grading in Moodle assignment.

For setting grading in Assignment, in the assignment settings screen, go to Grade. There are three options for ‘type’ of grading – None, Scale or Point. The default is ‘Point’. If you want to grade ‘Pass’ or ‘Fail’, you need to select ‘Scale’ then select the options from the dropdown, which currently does not have ‘Pass / Fail’ as it is something which needs to be set up so it will appear on the list. See Grade points - MoodleDocs and Scales - MoodleDocs.

The teacher should always use the feedback functionality in Assignment to contact the learner, see the above links about the assignment activity. The teacher should never use the learner’s email address (which they will be able to see in some reports) to contact the learner as that has GDPR implications.