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Chicago Manual of Style

Moodle Content

If you want to cite an article, book chapter, website, or video that your professor provides links to in your Moodle course, just use the usual format on how to cite that type of resource using the source’s original publication information. However, if you want to cite your professor's PowerPoint or video lecture that they uploaded, or something that someone from your study group posted, you'll need to cite these items a little bit differently.

The Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition) does not provide explicit instructions on how to cite resources on a course site such as Moodle. If you are citing your professor's uploaded video lecture or lecture slides/notes, use this format as a guide.

General Format 
 
Full Note: 
 
1. First name Last name, “Title of Lecture/Slides/Subject Line
of Post” (Type of resource for Course Number Course Name, Institution, 
City, Province). Date posted/revised/accessed, URL.
 
Example:
 
1. Jenna Woodrow, “Objections to Utilitarianism: Caves, Trolleys, and Those  
Who Walk Away from Omelas” (Course lecture for PHIL 2010 Introduction to Ethics,
Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC), Accessed January 20, 2021,
https://moodle.tru.ca/mod/kalvidres/view.php?id=1291268.
 
Subsequent Note: 
 
2. Author Surname, "Short Title of Lecture/Slides/Subject Line of Post.”
 
Example:
 
2. Woodrow, "Objections to Utilitarianism."
 
Bibliography:

Last name, First name. “Title of Lecture/Slides/Subject Line of Post.” Type of 
resource for Course Number Course Name, Institution, City, Province. 
Date posted/revised/accessed.  URL.
  
Example:
 
Woodrow, Jenna. “Objections to Utilitarianism: Caves, Trolleys, and Those Who Walk
             Away from Omelas.” Course lecture for PHIL 2010 Introduction to Ethics, 
Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC. Accessed January 22, 2021.
https://moodle.tru.ca/mod/kalvidres/view.php?id=1291268