Changing The Timezone (And Why You Should!)

Occasionally I get calls/emails/texts from faculty asking about an interesting situation with students.  A faculty member would create an assignment or quiz with a specific due date, and the students would contact them because they are unable to submit their assignments.  From the faculty member's perspective, the assignment is late; but, the student would swear they were right on time.  The culprit?  Mismatched timezones.

The Moodle system is designed to allow each user to customize his or her environment.  This includes the timezone in which they reside.  If this is not set according to users' (both faculty and students) locations, time sensitive activities will not sync properly.

Fortunately, it is an easy fix.  Check out the demo below:

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Merry Moodlin'!

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Welcome to the Moodle Mania Tips & Tricks blog.  This blog will feature useful tips on how to use different elements in your Moodle courses.  I will be posting "How-To" type videos as well as instructional handouts.   At this time, the demonstrations will be using Moodle 1.9, however I will be switching the focus to Moodle 2 later this year.

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Merry Moodlin'!