Student Guide to Moodle

Our Platform: MS Office

SOU's official suite of desktop applications is Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.). Here are some tips and tools for using Office programs in Moodle:

• Consider drafting long discussion forum responses in Word rather than in Moodle. If your Internet connection times out while you are reflecting and writing, you can lose your work.
• When you draft forum or other text responses in Word, you may see the best results for copying and pasting into Moodle if you use the clear formatting icon in the textbox toolbar. Using this tool will reduce formatting problems in Moodle text boxes. Select the text you have pasted into the textbox, then click on the Format link in the toolbar and select Clear formatting to remove the messy code that comes over from Word or Google.