The moment has arrived. You've set up the content and quizzing in your Blended Teaching textbook, and you're ready to bring it into Moodle.
Moodle connects to Blended Teaching a little differently from Canvas and Blackboard. Before you install, this guide covers how the two work together and helps you choose how you'll run your quizzes and exams, then walks you through the installation itself.
It covers:
How Moodle Works with Blended Teaching
Choosing How to Run Your Quizzes and Exams
Setting Your Points and Dates
Installing Your Textbook into Moodle
Getting Grades into Your Moodle Gradebook
Adding or Updating Individual Content Later
Other Setup Steps
1. How Moodle Works with Blended Teaching
Your textbook exports as a Moodle Backup (.mbz) file, and restoring it builds a complete Moodle course:
Your modules become Moodle sections, carrying their real names.
Your chapters, module overviews, and practice quizzes arrive as Moodle Pages.
Your graded quizzes, exams, assignments, and Goals arrive as Moodle Assignments, each with a gradebook column named exactly as it is in Blended Teaching, its real point value, and its open and due dates.
Only published content is included.
Everything opens Blended Teaching in a new tab: the same videos, notes, and quizzes your students see anywhere else. Students take their assessments and are graded in Blended Teaching, so a graded item's Moodle page shows its description, its dates, and an Open in Blended Teaching link. Moodle also tells students plainly that "this assignment does not require you to submit anything online." There's nothing to hand in inside Moodle, because the work happens in Blended Teaching.
There's one thing to know up front. Canvas and Blackboard have a direct integration with Blended Teaching, which lets grades flow automatically into the LMS gradebook. Moodle connects through these course links instead, so grades don't sync automatically to the Moodle gradebook. Your students' scores are recorded in your Blended Teaching gradebook, and you move them across whenever you'd like, into columns the install has already built for you. Section 5 covers that.
It's worth being precise about what's live and what's a copy, because the two behave differently:
Your content is always live. Every link opens the current version of your textbook, so if you edit something inside a chapter or a quiz, your students see the update straight away. There's nothing to redo in Moodle.
Your course structure is a copy, taken when you exported. The list of items, their names, their points, and their dates are your course as it stood at that moment. Blended Teaching stays the system of record: it's where assessments run, where dates are enforced, and where grades live. If the structure changes later, sections 4, 5, and 6 cover how to keep Moodle in step.
📝 A note on proctoring: Blended Teaching's built-in proctoring (Honorlock and Respondus) connects through an integrated LMS, so it isn't available when quizzes run in Blended with Moodle. You still have two routes to a supervised exam. For an in-person exam, use Blended Teaching's paper exams (Option 1 below). For an online proctored exam, export the questions and build the quiz in Moodle's own quiz tool (Option 3 below), where you can apply Moodle's proctoring.
2. Choosing How to Run Your Quizzes and Exams
You have three ways to run your quizzes and exams alongside Moodle. Most instructors use the first, everyday quizzes in Blended Teaching with exams supervised, but all three work, and you can mix and match per assessment.
Option 1: Quizzes in Blended Teaching, Exams Supervised (recommended for most)
Your everyday quizzes run in Blended Teaching, launched from the links in your Moodle course. Your exams are supervised, either on paper, printed from Blended Teaching and sat in class, or in Moodle's quiz tool with Moodle's proctoring applied (set up as in Option 3).
Paper exams are the highest-integrity option: sat in your room, with no screen to work from and no AI to ask. Every paper carries its own numbers, questions, and question order, so answers can't be shared.
Paper exams are built from multiple-choice questions, so automatic grading and full quiz analytics carry over. The only extra step is scanning the answer sheets back in.
No integration and no proctoring service needed. You print the papers from Blended Teaching and hand them out in class.
Best if your class meets in person, or you'd like your exams supervised.
New to paper exams? See A Guide to Creating Paper Exams.
Option 2: Keep Your Quizzes in Blended Teaching
Students take their quizzes and exams in Blended Teaching, launched from the links in your Moodle course.
Full Blended Teaching quizzing: dynamic questions, automatic grading, analytics, and remediation.
Grades are recorded in your Blended Teaching gradebook. When you're ready, export them and bring them into your Moodle gradebook.
Best if you'd like your students to have Blended Teaching's full quizzing experience and don't need proctoring.
Option 3: Host Your Quizzes in Moodle's Quiz Tool
You export your questions from Blended Teaching and build the quizzes inside Moodle's own quiz activity, so Moodle grades them directly.
Moodle grades the quizzes natively, so scores land straight in the Moodle gradebook with no separate transfer step.
You can apply your university's own proctoring within Moodle, such as Honorlock or Respondus, since the quizzes run natively there.
Best if you need proctored assessments, or you want everything in a single Moodle gradebook. To get started, see Exporting Quiz Questions to Your LMS.
3. Setting Your Points and Dates
Your points and dates are set in Blended Teaching, and the export takes them as a snapshot, so this is the part to do before you install. How much of it applies to a given assessment depends on where that assessment will run.
3.1. Assessments running in Blended Teaching (Options 1 and 2)
This is most of your course, and there are three things to set.
Set the points each graded quiz, exam, assignment, and Goal is worth. Every graded item needs a point value before your course will export. Those points become each Moodle column's Max grade, and they add up to your Moodle course total, so set each one to what you actually want it worth rather than a placeholder. The export checks this for you, and if any items still need points it lists all of them at once so you can fix them in one pass.
Set each assessment's start, due, and end dates, in your Control Center, on each quiz's Details page in the Assessments tab. Blended Teaching is what actually opens the quiz, applies any late penalty, and closes it at the end date. Your start and due dates come across to the Moodle assignment as its open and due dates, and dated assessments appear in your students' Moodle calendar and Timeline. Dates carry into Moodle only if they're set before you export.
Publish everything you want included. Only published content is exported.
See How to set Dates & Points for Assessments. If you're running a paper exam, the date that matters is your in-class exam date, and A Guide to Creating Paper Exams covers how to set one up.
3.2. Assessments running in Moodle's quiz tool (Option 3)
There's less to do for these, because Moodle takes the assessment over completely. You don't need to set points or dates in Blended Teaching at all. You'll set both on the Moodle quiz, where Moodle handles the schedule, reminders, and cutoff natively.
Two things to do here instead:
Export the quiz's questions. See Exporting Quiz Questions to Your LMS.
Leave that quiz unpublished in Blended Teaching. Only published content is exported, so an unpublished quiz stays out of your course export and doesn't arrive in your Moodle gradebook as a second column beside the one Moodle's own quiz creates. Exporting its questions works whether it's published or not, so you can do these two in either order.
📝 Building a quiz you plan to run in Moodle? Attach its questions to the quiz individually rather than drawing them from a pool. The export carries the questions that are on the quiz itself, so a quiz built from a pool exports without them. If a quiz you've already built draws from a pool, make a copy, attach the questions to the copy individually, and export that one.
3.3. Two last things before you export
Have your textbook's start date to hand. As Moodle installs your assessments it lines their dates up with the Moodle course's own start date, shifting them all by the gap between the two. Matching the two start dates is what makes your dates land exactly as you set them, and Moodle applies that shift once, as it installs, so this is far easier to get right now than to correct afterward. You'll find your start date in Settings → Course Details, and you'll enter it at the Schema step of the restore (section 4.4).
Check that the export button names Moodle. It's named for the LMS your course is set up for, so on a Moodle course it reads Export to Moodle. If it names a different one, message our team and we'll switch your course over.
On the Moodle side you'll need a course to restore into, running Moodle 4.1 or newer, with Course reuse available in its More menu. Institutions set restore permissions themselves, so if Course reuse isn't there, your Moodle administrator can run the restore for you.
4. Installing Your Textbook into Moodle
Installing your textbook is a case of exporting it from Blended Teaching and restoring it into Moodle using Course reuse. Follow the step-by-step guide below.
ℹ️ Could you just post a link to your textbook instead? You could, and it's enough if all your students need is a way in. Installing the export gives you three things one link doesn't: a Moodle gradebook column for every assessment, your dates in students' Moodle calendar and Timeline, and a direct link to each chapter and quiz sitting where it belongs in your course.
4.1. Export Your Course from Blended Teaching
To export your course:
In Blended Teaching, open your Control Center and go to the Course Structure page.
Select Export to Moodle. It's a single click, with no format to choose.
Your browser downloads a .mbz file. Keep it handy; you'll drop it into Moodle in a moment.
You can also export from Settings → Course Details → Export Course.
4.2. Start the Restore in Moodle
Now hop over to Moodle:
Open your course in Moodle.
From the course menu, select More, then Course reuse.
From the Course reuse options, select Restore.
Drop the .mbz file you downloaded into the upload box, then select Restore.
Moodle shows you what's in the backup. Scroll to the bottom and select Continue.
4.3. Choose How to Add the Content
If your course is empty, you can carry straight on. If you already have your own content in the course, you'll need to choose how to combine it. Under Restore into this course:
To keep your existing content: select Merge the backup course into this course. Your existing content stays exactly as it is, and the Blended Teaching modules are added into your course's sections. If you already have your own weeks or units set up, expect to move a few things into the order you want afterward.
To start fresh: select Delete the contents of this course and then restore. This clears out your Moodle course first, then adds the Blended Teaching content.
⚠️ Heads up: "Delete the contents of this course" permanently removes anything already in your Moodle course, including any grades you've already transferred across. If there's existing content you want to keep, choose Merge.
Once you've decided, select Continue.
4.4. Work Through the Restore Steps
Moodle numbers the steps of a restore across the top of the page, and you're at step 3 of 7. The three that need anything from you are Settings, Schema, and Review. Here's what each one is asking, so you can move through them confidently.
Settings. A list of "Include…" options, most of them marked with a red ✗. That's Moodle reporting what the backup contains, not an error: your export carries course content only, with no students, no enrollments, and no grades, so those options have nothing to act on. Leave the settings as they are and select Next.
Schema. Every section and item that will be installed, all ticked, with your real module names as the section names. Two things to do here:
Set Course start date to your textbook's start date, the one you noted in section 3.3. Moodle lines your assessment dates up with this field as it installs them, shifting them all by the gap between the two courses' start dates. Matching them is what makes your assessments land in Moodle exactly as you set them in Blended Teaching, which are the dates your students are actually held to.
To leave an item out, untick it.
Then scroll to the bottom and select Next.
Review. A last look at everything above. Scroll to the bottom and select Perform restore.
Moodle installs the course, which takes a moment on a full textbook, then select Continue to land on your finished course. 🙌
ℹ️ Running Moodle 4.1 to 4.4? You'll see a note about versions after you select Perform restore. It appears in red and says the backup was created with a newer version of Moodle than the one you're running. Moodle shows this whenever the two differ. Select Continue, and your course installs normally.
📅 Already restored with a different start date? Moodle applies the shift once, as it installs, so changing the course start date afterward won't move the dates back. Adjust the dates on the assignments you need, or set the start date and restore again with Delete the contents of this course (section 4.3).
4.5. What Your Course Looks Like Now
Your textbook is installed, and your students can start using it right away. Each section carries its module name, and every item opens straight into Blended Teaching. Your chapters and practice quizzes are Pages; your graded quizzes, exams, assignments, and Goals are Assignments.
The first time a student opens any of it, Blended Teaching asks them to sign in, and they'll need the access code that came with their textbook. Sharing the student guide in section 7 ahead of time saves most of the questions.
Open Grades and you'll find the gradebook already built:
One column per graded assessment, named exactly as it is in Blended Teaching, emoji and all, which makes your Blended Teaching items easy to pick out among any Moodle ones.
Each column's Max grade is that assessment's Blended Teaching points, and the course total is the sum of them.
Assessments with dates show them on the assignment, and appear in your students' Moodle calendar and Timeline shortly after the restore finishes.
4.6. Keeping Your Dates in Step
Your dates are installed now, so two things are worth knowing about how the two systems stay in step from here:
The end date stays in Blended Teaching. It's what closes the assessment, and it isn't part of the Moodle assignment, so an assessment can still be listed in Moodle after it has closed. Opening it simply shows that it's closed.
Moodle keeps the dates it was given. Change a date in Blended Teaching later and your students are held to the new one immediately, but the Moodle assignment keeps showing the old one until you change it there too. If your schedule moves often, it's cleaner to leave the Moodle dates off and point students to Blended Teaching for deadlines.
5. Getting Grades into Your Moodle Gradebook
You may not need this. Your students' scores live in the Blended Teaching gradebook and students can always see their own, so bringing them into Moodle is for when the Moodle gradebook is your course's record, whether that's for a final grade, a department requirement, or students who check Moodle for everything. Many instructors do it after each major assessment; others once at the end of term.
The columns are already there, built by the install, so you're filling them in rather than creating them. Quizzes you're running in Moodle's own quiz tool don't need any of this, because Moodle grades those itself.
There are two ways to do it. Entering the grades in Moodle matches students by the name in front of you, so there's nothing to prepare. It's the better option for a class of thirty, and for a one-off assessment at any size. Importing a spreadsheet takes one file for the whole gradebook, which is worth it for a large class, and it asks a little preparation: Moodle matches students on an exact email address, and you'll convert the percentages to points first.
5.1. Enter the grades in Moodle
Moodle's Single view puts one assessment and every student on a single page, which keeps this to one screen per assessment.
In Blended Teaching, open your Control Center and go to the Gradebook. Each score is shown as a percentage.
In Moodle, open Grades, switch the gradebook view to Single view, and set VIEW BY to Grade items.
Choose the assessment. You'll see every student, with that assessment's Range beside each grade, for example 0.00–30.00.
Turn Edit mode on, then select Override all. The grade boxes are now ready to type into.
Enter each grade as points: multiply the Blended Teaching percentage by the assessment's points and divide by 100. A 92% on a 30-point quiz is 27.6, and the Range next to each box tells you what you're working to.
Select Save. The arrows at the bottom of the page take you to the next assessment. 🙌
ℹ️ Moodle asks you to tick Override because it's expecting grades to come from something a student submitted in Moodle. Here the work happens in Blended Teaching, so the grade coming from you is exactly right.
5.2. Or import a spreadsheet
For a large class, Moodle can take the whole gradebook in one file. Before you start, there's one thing worth checking, because it's the difference between this taking two minutes and taking an afternoon.
⚠️ Moodle matches students on one exact email address. Students often sign up to Blended Teaching with a personal address, while Moodle has their school one, and if a single row doesn't match, Moodle stops and imports nothing. Before you import, compare the Email column in your export against your Moodle participants list, and correct or remove any that differ. If more than a handful don't line up, entering the grades directly (5.1 above) will be faster.
Export your grades from Blended Teaching. In your Control Center, open the Gradebook, then choose Export → Download CSV. You'll get a spreadsheet with Student and Email columns, then one per published assessment, headed with its title and type, for example Quiz: Financial Statements (Quiz). The scores are whole-number percentages.
Check the email addresses against your Moodle participants, as above.
Convert the percentages to points. In the spreadsheet, multiply each assessment column by that assessment's points and divide by 100. A 92% on a 30-point quiz becomes 27.6. Each assessment's points are the Max grade on its Moodle column.
Start the import in Moodle. Go to Grades → Import → CSV file, drop your spreadsheet in, and select Upload grades.
Tell Moodle how to identify your students. Under Identify user by, set Map from = Email, and Map to = Email address. Both start on something else, and Moodle doesn't remember them between imports, so set them each time. The export identifies students by email address, so Email is the field to map. Moodle's other options don't have a matching column in the file.
Send each column to its gradebook column. Under Grade item mappings, pick the matching assignment for each assessment. They're listed as Assignment: 🧠 Quiz: …, so the emoji makes them easy to spot. Leave Student and Email on Ignore.
Select Upload grades. Moodle confirms with "Grade import success." 🙌
⚠️ Under Grade item mappings, don't choose New grade item for an assessment that already has a column. That option adds a second column, graded out of 100, alongside the real one, and adds 100 points to your course total.
If the import reports an error
Moodle checks the whole file before recording anything, so an error means no grades changed. Fix the file and upload it again.
"Could not find user with email address of …" That email isn't on your Moodle site, which is the personal-versus-school-address mismatch above. Change it in the spreadsheet to the address they use in Moodle, or remove that row and enter their grade directly. A student who's on the site but no longer enrolled in the course imports fine, with a notice.
"One of the grade values is larger than the allowed grade maximum of N" Either a percentage went in without being converted, or the points no longer match between the two systems. The message names only the number, so look for the column whose maximum is N.
Keeping points matched
A Moodle column's Max grade and the assessment's points in Blended Teaching are the same number, because the export set them that way. If you change an assessment's points in Blended Teaching, make the same change on the Moodle column, so the two keep agreeing.
It's worth knowing what each direction does:
If a value comes in above the column's maximum, Moodle checks the whole file and holds the import until it's fixed, so nothing is half-recorded. Values at or below the maximum are accepted as they are, which is why the conversion step matters. An unconverted 40% on a 50-point quiz imports quietly as 40 out of 50.
If the Moodle maximum is higher than the assessment's points, the import completes, but each score then counts as a smaller share of the column than the student earned. Matching maximums are what keep a 92% in Blended Teaching a 92% in Moodle.
A few other things worth knowing:
Grades you leave blank stay ungraded rather than becoming zeros, so a mid-term average isn't dragged down by assessments students haven't taken yet.
Importing part of the gradebook is fine. Set the columns you're not ready to transfer to Ignore. An empty or ignored column leaves whatever is already in Moodle untouched.
The exported scores are final. They already reflect the attempt you chose to keep (highest, latest, or average), any late penalties, and any manual score adjustments.
Your students can always see their scores in Blended Teaching. The Moodle grade appears once you've transferred it.
6. Adding or Updating Individual Content Later
You don't need to re-run the whole restore just to add one new item. You can add a single chapter, quiz, or assignment by hand, and the steps depend on which kind it is.
ℹ️ You only need this for brand-new items. Your installed links always point to the latest version of your textbook, so if you only edited content inside an existing chapter, there's nothing to do here, because your students already see the update.
⚠️ Restoring the export a second time into the same course adds a second copy of everything, every item and every gradebook column, which doubles your course total. Add individual items using the steps below instead. To reinstall from scratch, restore with Delete the contents of this course (section 4.3).
A chapter or practice quiz
First, copy the link from Blended Teaching:
In your Control Center, go to the Course Structure page.
Find the chapter or practice quiz you want to add, and select the eye icon to the right to open it in the Blended Teaching player.
Copy the URL from the player.
Then add it to Moodle:
Open your Moodle course and turn Edit mode on.
In the section where you'd like the item to appear, select Add an activity or resource, then choose URL.
Give it the chapter's Name, and paste the copied link into the External URL field.
Under Appearance, open the Display drop-down and select Open. That's what makes it open in a new tab like the rest of your Blended Teaching content. If a link you've added ever opens embedded inside the Moodle page, this is the setting to change.
Select Save and return to course.
A hand-added chapter appears as a Moodle URL rather than a Page. It behaves the same for your students, and the icon beside it is the only difference.
A graded quiz, exam, assignment, or Goal
Add a graded assessment as an Assignment rather than a URL. That gives it the same gradebook column and date visibility as the assessments your install created. You're doing by hand what the export does automatically.
In your Control Center, go to Course Structure, find the assessment, and select the eye icon to open it in the player. Copy the URL.
In Moodle, turn Edit mode on, and in the section you want it in choose Add an activity or resource → Assignment.
Assignment name. Match the title in Blended Teaching exactly. This is what makes it findable when you transfer grades.
Description. Paste the Blended Teaching link so your students can launch it.
Grade → Maximum grade. Change it from Moodle's default of 100 to the assessment's Blended Teaching points. This is the step to double-check: a maximum that doesn't match the points in Blended Teaching is what makes a grade transfer go wrong (section 5).
Submission types. Untick File submissions and Online text. Moodle turns file submissions on for new assignments; switching them off matches the assessments your install created, so students launch the assessment instead of submitting inside Moodle.
Availability. Set the open and due dates to match Blended Teaching.
Select Save and return to course.
7. Other Setup Steps
A few more things you may want to do:
Finish building your quizzes and exams. See A Guide to Creating Quizzes.
Help your students get access. Students enroll with an access code from the bookstore. Share Getting Started with Your Blended Teaching Textbook so they know what to do.
Blended Teaching's built-in proctoring connects through an integrated LMS, so for a supervised exam in a Moodle course see A Guide to Proctoring Blended Teaching Quizzes.
See the full setup flow in the New Class Launch Guide for Instructors.