Teacher guide

Start with a course where your role allows editing. Work through the course structure first, then add activities and decide how learners will receive feedback.

You build courses, write their pages, set work and mark it. Your courses are listed at /teaching.

A course

The course outline in edit mode: each section and activity has a checkbox, a drag handle and Move, Restrict, Edit and Permissions buttons. — In edit mode every section and activity can be moved, restricted, edited and given permissions.

A course has sections, and each section holds activities: pages, files, quizzes, assignments, forums, SCORM packages, LTI tools and more. From the course page:

Add an activity: choose the section, then the kind of activity. Every activity can have a due date, completion conditions and restrictions, such as “only after the previous quiz is passed”.
Participants (/courses/<course>/participants): who is enrolled and in which role. Enrolment methods decides how people join: added by you, self-enrolment with an optional key, a cohort, or payment.
Groups (/courses/<course>/groups): split a course so each group sees its own forum threads and submissions.
Gradebook (/courses/<course>/gradebook): every graded activity as a column. Set weights and categories under Setup, see one learner’s grades under User, and import or export a spreadsheet.
Completion: the conditions that make the course complete, which drive certificates and reports. Completion is recorded and reported for the people your organisation grades, so teachers enrolled in the course do not appear in progress reports. The gradebook lists the same people.
Content bank (/courses/<course>/content-bank): keep a file or interactive content once and reuse it. See the content bank guide.
Backup and Import: copy a course, or bring in a Moodle backup.

The Participants page, a filterable table of enrolled people with their roles, enrolment method and status. — Participants: who is enrolled, in which role and by which method.

The Groups page listing a seminar group and its members, each with a Remove button. — Groups split a course so each group can have its own forum threads and submissions.

The grader report, with a row for each learner and a column for each graded activity, and tabs for other gradebook views. — The grader report: every graded activity is a column.

Writing pages together

Open a page and choose Edit together. Everyone editing the page at the same moment sees each other’s cursors, each in their own colour with their name, and every change appears for the others as it is typed. Nothing is lost if two people type in the same sentence.

Comments: select text, write under Comment on the selected text and choose Post comment. The comment stays attached to that text even as the words around it are edited; Show in the document finds it. If the text is deleted, the thread says so rather than vanishing. Reply in the thread, and Resolve it when it is done.
Versions: give the page’s current state a name and choose Save version. Restore this version brings an earlier one back as a new change, so the restore itself can be undone.
Publish to the page: learners see your changes only when you publish. Editing together changes the draft, never what learners are reading.

If the collaborative editing service is not running on your installation, the page says so and you edit it on your own as usual.

Quizzes

The course question bank with search, category and tag filters and a list of questions. — The question bank keeps every version of every question.

A quiz draws questions from the question bank (/questions), where each question keeps its versions. Build the quiz from fixed questions or random ones from a category, set the time limit, attempts and review options, then preview it as a learner would see it. After attempts come in:

Quiz grading marks the questions that need a person, such as essays.
Regrade recalculates attempts after you correct a question.
Quiz reports show each question’s facility and discrimination, so a confusing question stands out.

Quiz reports showing the latest mark for each learner and tabs for Grades, Responses, Manual grading and Statistics. — Quiz reports: grades, responses, manual grading and statistics.

Question statistics in the bank

The same figures follow each question into the question bank. Once learners have finished attempts that use a question and the quiz statistics have been calculated, the question’s page shows Usage statistics for each version: attempts, facility index, discrimination index, discriminative efficiency and when it was last used. The figures are kept per version, pooled across every quiz that used that version, so a reworded question starts again.

A version that looks wrong is marked Needs checking, with the reason: low discrimination means review the question, and negative discrimination means check the answer key. On the bank’s list, choose Only questions that need checking to see them together. A version without enough attempts says there is not enough data rather than showing a number.

Assignments

Learners submit files or text. Open Grading on the assignment to mark submissions one after another, annotate a submitted PDF in the browser, use a rubric or marking guide, and give feedback. Extensions and overrides are per learner or per group. Marks can stay hidden until you release them all together.

Glossary

A glossary holds the terms a course writes together. An entry can be linked wherever course text mentions its concept or one of its other words: tick Link this concept wherever course text mentions it, and choose whether the match ignores capital letters and whether it matches whole words only. Teachers approve entries before others can read them, and a glossary can be imported and exported as CSV.

Learners see the links wherever they read course text: lesson pages, forum posts, the introductions of assignments, wikis, databases, chats, glossaries, interactive activities and workshops, workshop criteria, quiz question text in an attempt, and course and section summaries. The link is added when the page is shown and never saved, so editing a page does not leave links behind in it. A glossary entry is not linked to itself. If a course has too many auto-linked entries, links are not shown and the glossary says to turn auto-linking off for glossaries that do not need it.

SCORM and other packages

A SCORM or AICC activity delivers a SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004 (2nd, 3rd or 4th edition) or AICC package. SCORM 2004 packages run with their own sequencing and navigation rules, so what a learner can open next, and what stays unavailable until earlier parts are complete, follows the package. The player shows Contents, Previous and Continue, Save and leave, Exit, and Start the package over to begin a fresh attempt. Set the attempts allowed, which attempt grades and how each attempt is scored under the activity’s settings. The package’s own report shows each learner’s attempts and results.

More activity types

Appointments (scheduler): after a meeting, record on the scheduler page whether the learner attended, a grade on points or a scale, a note only staff can read and a note the learner can read. The grade goes to the gradebook as the best or the mean of their appointments, and completion can require an attended appointment.
Attendance: create sessions, repeat them every so many days or weeks until a date, edit statuses (hide one that has been used rather than deleting it), and download the report as CSV, XLSX or ODS.
Database: save a database’s fields and templates as a preset, share it with the organisation’s other courses, apply it to another database, and export or import presets in Moodle’s preset format or as Quire JSON. An imported Moodle preset reports what Quire does not keep, such as header, footer and script templates.
Feedback surveys: published instruments such as ATTLS and COLLES, including COLLES asked twice, preferred and actual, with the gap between them reported.

Shared courses

An organisation can share a course with another for use. If you teach in the organisation that takes it up, the course appears in your own course list, in the category Shared with us, and is an ordinary course of yours: you can enrol learners, mark their work and see them in your gradebook. Its quizzes, SCORM packages and other activities run as they do in any course. You can edit or delete activities in your copy. When the owner publishes a new version, activities they have added appear in your copy, and the activities you already have are left as they are. Forums, wikis, chats, workshops and databases are closed in such a course unless both organisations have agreed to open them. See sharing between organisations.

Offline learners

Learners can download a course to study without a connection (see the learner guide). What they tick off while offline is sent when they reconnect. If you changed the course in the meantime, Quire keeps the learner’s work and tells them what changed.

AI tutor transcripts

If your organisation uses the AI tutor, you can open learners’ conversations at /courses/<course>/transcripts. Opening one is recorded, and the learner sees that a member of staff read it, who, and when. Read one when you have a teaching reason to.

Language and accessibility

Write in your organisation’s language. Quire’s own labels and buttons appear in each learner’s chosen language, right to left for Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu. Add alternative text to every image and caption to every video: Quire asks for both when you upload.