Turnitin: Printing Originality Reports

Step 1. Go to your main course page and click in the Turnitin activity.



Step 2. Click the “Submission Inbox” tab


 Step 3. Click in the “Similarity %” for the student and the report will open



 Step 4. A new window will open with the student report (It will take a bit to open, around 10 seconds). Make sure that the selected tab in to top-left is ‘Originality’



Step 5. In the bottom-left of the page, click in the “Printer Icon” and choose the option “Download pdf of current view for printing”. You can now print the PDF by going to the place where it has been saved in your computer.

Restore grades: Student accidentally unenrolled from a course

To restore the grades you will need to...

Go to administration -> grades -> general settings, I checked "recover grades default".
Open a new self enrolment  with a new password and make the student enroll again.
Once the student is enrolled back in the course, go to every quiz in the course, select the student name, and click "regrade selected attempts".



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Useful Plugins in Moodle

I will be listing below some useful plugins. The list will be increasing with time...

1. Sharing Cart
2. Configurable Reports
3. Certificate
4. Sign in Sheet

Progress Bar

Collapsed Topics Plugin is a very useful plugin when you have a lot of topics/weeks and it prevent users from getting tired scrolling down in a course. The plugin has been updated to Moodle 3.0.

See bellow how it work...

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Plugin lists in other blogs...

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CUL Activity Stream Block

List installed plugins in Moodle

If you need a list of the installed plugins in your Moodle you need to click in 'Plugins overview' in the next path...
Home / ► Site administration / ► Plugins / ► Plugins overview

You will see a list of all plugins with the version number, release, availability (enabled or disabled) and settings link.

As well you can filter the list and 'Show additional plugins only'

Plugin updating from within Moodle

An administrator can enable updates deployment in Administration > Site Administration > Server > Update notifications. Then when updates are available, 'Install this update' buttons are shown on the Plugins overview page.

Replace Active Directory authentication with authentication against a External Database

This method uses an external database table to check whether a given username and password is valid. If the user does not currently exist in Moodle a new account will be created and their information copied from the external database.

I will draw in this post the big picture about how to change the user authentication type in the user database table from "LDAP" to "external database".

1. Activate the external database here: Home / ► Site administration / ► Plugins / ► Authentication / ► Manage authentication



2. Configure the external database. Click in the settings link of the 'external database' and point it to the right table in the database: mdl_user`.

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Find Out Which Sites Have Embedded Your YouTube Video

1. When you are logged into your YouTube account go to the next url: https://www.youtube.com/analytics
2. In the right menu, click in Playback Locations
3. Now you are in the right place, please go to step three in this link to read the next steps

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Licences and embedding YouTube videos into Moodle

Any of the Youtube licences allow you to embed videos as we can see when having a look to the 'Terms of Service' in Youtube in section 8...

Terms of Service A. to YouTube, a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence (with right to sub-licence) to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that Content in connection with the provision of the Service and otherwise in connection with the provision of the Service and YouTube's business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels;  B. to each user of the Service, a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to access your Content through the Service, and to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform such Content to the extent permitted by the functionality of the Service and under these Terms.

The text text in red refers to  embedding too, but you need to be careful as if anyone uploaded a video that contains copyrighted content them if you embed that contains copyrighted content, the license to embed the video on your site is not going to protect you from a copyright infringement claim. Please read more in the youtube 'Terms of Service' here.

As an example, if I create an upload a video to Youtube that includes a song from an U2 album I will be infringing the copyright associated with the song. If you embed the video in your site you are as well. I am the person who created the video and uploaded it first but it doesn't relieve you from infringing the licence too.


I got inspired from the article here.

NOTE: There is a button to avoid other from embedding the videos you upload to Youtube but most of the people do not know it. 

The content on this blog is intended to be educational and is not specific legal advice for your situation. The information is not updated. 

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