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
Installing Your Textbook into Moodle
Adding or Updating Individual Content Later
Setting Your Assessment Dates
Getting Grades into Your Moodle Gradebook
Other Setup Steps
Troubleshooting: If a Link Opens Embedded
1. How Moodle Works with Blended Teaching
In Moodle, your Blended Teaching textbook installs as a set of pages — one for each chapter, quiz, and assignment. Each page has an Open in Blended Teaching button that launches the full experience in a new tab: the same videos, notes, and quizzes your students see anywhere else. This happens automatically when you restore the export, with no per-link setup.
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 page 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 into Moodle whenever you'd like.
📝 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, 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 — and 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 Moodle's own proctoring (such as Honorlock or Respondus set up in Moodle), since the quizzes run natively in Moodle.
Blended Teaching's dynamic questions, automatic grading, and analytics don't carry over.
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. 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.
3.1. Export Your Course from Blended Teaching
To export your course:
In Blended Teaching, open your Control Center and navigate to the Course Structure page.
Select Export to Moodle (If you don't see this option, contact support to enable it).
3.2. Start the Restore in Moodle
Now hop over to Moodle:
Open your course in Moodle.
From the menu, select More, then Course Reuse.
From the Course Reuse options, select Restore.
Drop the file you downloaded from Blended Teaching into the upload box, then click Restore.
Click Continue.
3.3. 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. This keeps everything you already have and adds the Blended Teaching content alongside it.
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. If there's existing content you want to keep, choose Merge.
Once you've decided, select Continue.
3.4. Work Through the Course Reuse Steps
Moodle walks you through a few numbered steps to finish the restore:
Step 3 (Settings): review the settings, scroll down, and select Next (we recommend leaving these settings as-is).
Step 4 (Schema): you'll see the layout of the course — every section and the content within it. To leave anything out, untick it using the checkbox on the left. Scroll to the bottom and select Next.
Step 5 (Review): review your settings and the content that will be imported. Scroll to the bottom and select Perform Restore.
Once the restore finishes, return to the course home page. 🙌
Your textbook is now installed, and your students can start using it right away. 🙌 Every chapter, quiz, and assignment opens straight into Blended Teaching.
ℹ️ Good to know: Moodle labels each restored section as "New section," with your real module title shown just beneath it. That's simply how Moodle's importer handles section names -> all of your content is there and in the right order. You can rename the sections if you'd like, but you don't have to.
4. Adding or Updating Individual Content Later
You don't need to re-run the whole restore just to add one new item. Because every item in your Moodle course is a link to Blended Teaching, you can add a single chapter, quiz, or assignment by copying its link and dropping it into your course.
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 — your students already see the update.
First, copy the link from Blended Teaching:
In your Control Center, go to the Course Structure page.
Find the chapter, quiz, or assignment you want to add, and click 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, so it behaves like the rest of your Blended Teaching content.
Click Save and return to course.
The new item now opens straight into Blended Teaching, exactly like the ones from your original install. 🙌
5. Setting Your Assessment Dates
Where you set your dates depends on where your quizzes run (the three options above).
If your quizzes run in Blended Teaching (Options 1 and 2), set each assessment's start, due, and end dates in Blended Teaching -> 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. See How to set Dates & Points for Assessments.
Because Moodle isn't integrated, those dates won't appear in Moodle on their own -> the installed items are pages, so they don't show in the Moodle calendar or send reminders. So that your students still see their schedule, add the key dates where they'll notice them — for example a Moodle calendar entry, or the due date in the item or section title. Treat anything you add in Moodle as a reminder only: the dates in Blended Teaching are the official ones, and if the two ever disagree, Blended Teaching wins.
⚠️ Two things to expect when quizzes run in Blended Teaching: students won't get automatic Moodle reminders for Blended Teaching deadlines, and a Blended Teaching link still looks available in Moodle even after its end date has passed (opening it simply shows that the assessment is closed). Mirroring your due dates in Moodle, as above, keeps everyone oriented.
If you run a paper exam (Option 1), the date that matters is your in-class exam date. See A Guide to Creating Paper Exams for how to set one up.
If you host quizzes in Moodle's quiz tool (Option 3, or a Moodle-proctored exam in Option 1), set those dates in the Moodle quiz settings instead. There, Moodle handles the schedule, reminders, and cutoff natively.
6. Getting Grades into Your Moodle Gradebook
Blended Teaching records every graded quiz and exam in its own gradebook, in your Control Center. Because Moodle isn't integrated, those scores don't flow into Moodle automatically -> you bring them across whenever you're ready. Many instructors do this after each major assessment, or all at once at the end of the term.
Here's the process:
Export your grades from Blended Teaching. In your Control Center, open the Gradebook, then choose Export → Download CSV (or Download Excel). You'll get a spreadsheet with a row for each student and a column for each quiz and assignment.
Create a matching column in Moodle. In your Moodle gradebook, add a grade item for each Blended Teaching assessment you want to record (if you don't already have one).
Add the scores. Copy each student's score from the exported spreadsheet into the matching Moodle grade item. If you'd rather not enter them by hand, you can reshape the spreadsheet to Moodle's import layout and use Moodle's Grades → Import → CSV file.
ℹ️ 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. Each score is a percentage, so set your Moodle grade items out of 100 (or convert as needed).
7. Other Setup Steps
A few more things you may want to do:
Finish building your quizzes and exams -> 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.
See the full setup flow -> New Class Launch Guide for Instructors.
8. Troubleshooting: If a Link Opens Embedded
On current versions of Moodle, your Blended Teaching pages open in a new tab automatically, so there's nothing extra to set up. On some older Moodle setups, a Blended Teaching link can instead appear embedded inside the Moodle page. If that happens, switch its display to Open using the steps below. If your links already open correctly, you can skip this section.
8.1. Turn On Edit Mode
Open your Moodle course.
Turn Edit mode on so you can change link settings.
8.2. Open the Link's Settings
Find a link in your course that points to Blended Teaching.
On the right-hand side of the link, click the three dots menu.
Select Edit settings.
8.3. Set the Display to Open
On the link's settings page, scroll down to the Appearance section.
Open the Display drop-down.
Select Open.
8.4. Save and Repeat for Every Link
Click Save and return to course.
Repeat the same process for every Blended Teaching link that opens embedded.
8.5. Check That the Links Open Correctly
Click one of the updated links to test it.
The page opens in Blended Teaching. 🙌