Changing Dates on Multiple Activities or Assignments

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Welcome! In this tutorial, you will learn how to change dates on multiple activities or assignments.

You may encounter instances where you want to change the availability of many assignments all at one time. For example, maybe you teach a course that features many quizzes delivered via Moodle and you have imported the content of this course for a new semester, but the availability dates of the activities are all a little off due to the calendar change between semesters. Rather than open each activity and change its availability in the settings, you can change the availability of multiple activities in one module or block on one page. To do this, please follow the following steps:

1) Click on Reports and then Dates in the administration block

Screenshot 1: Inside the administration block, the "reports" link can be clicked to dropdown many options, the first of which is "dates."

2) Select the activity type. This could be a Forum or Quiz etc…

Screenshot 2: A red arrow points to the dropdown box of options displayed by clicking on the "activity type" bar.

3) Click on a module and all activities in that module will be displayed. The availability of each activity in that module (e.g., a quiz) can be changed one at a time, but all on the same page without having to open the settings of each individual activity, thereby saving a lot of clicking. Keep in mind that using the little calendar to change the dates might be quicker than the drop-down menus.

Screenshot 3: A view of what happens when you select activity types as "quiz." Every assignment has 2 rows of dropdown bars to select dates, one for opening the quiz, and one for closing it.

4) After you have all the dates set to your desired parameters click “Save changes” at the top of the screen.

Screenshot 4: Out of date, save changes option now in a red floating bar.

 

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