Moodle Help & Support (Student)

This is one of many help and support pages that are available about the University of Nottingham's Moodle online learning environment. If you have any questions or queries concerning Moodle then contact information is at the bottom of this page. As a first step to finding the information you are looking for why not check out our FAQ - Your questions answered or try the SEARCH box below.

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Why isn't my document opening up in a window?

In order to use many of the features in Moodle, particularly Turnitin, you will need to allow pop-ups for nottingham.ac.uk, and turnitinuk.com, which mainly affects documents downloading or web pages opening.

Many browsers have popups disabled by default so if you find that a document isn't downloading or a window isn't opening as expected you may need to enable pop-ups. Usually a little notification appears at the top of your browser window when your action has been disallowed. When you see this notification click on it to allow the action.  

If you miss the notification, you'll need to do the following: