The focus box offers a way to narrow down the focus of the whole course to a specific week or topic. This is very helpful when the participant/instructor doesn't want to see all of the topics at once.
If the user has a slow internet connection, it also helps to focus the course to a ...
The organization of a course serves as a visual clue about the priorities of the course. Setting up the course, like setting up rooms of a house, requires planning.
Organize your course using activity sequences and course sections.
The People block contains a link to the list of the course participants. Generally speaking, a teacher will see this block in their course.
The participants profiles are available by clicking on their name or picture. The list can be sorted by first name, surname, city, country and las...
The Recent Activity block lists course activity, such as updated resources and activities, forum posts and assignment submissions, since the user last accessed the course.
The activity report filter and generator may be accessed via the Full report of recent activity link.
Participants in a group can be placed in separate groups. This is useful when you teach multiple sections of the same course with different participants.
The design of the course provides participants with a visual clue about the priorities of the course.
Setting up the course, like setting up rooms of a house, requires planning.
Course designers use course formats to organize content into topics or weeks.
Course format is toggled in the settings of the Course Administration panel.
Course format is toggled in the settings of the Course Administration panel.
Course format is toggled in the settings of the Course Administration panel.
The flex page course format allows for the creation of courses with multiple pages and navigational structures.
In the "Manage Activities" tab, you will add activities using the "Add a resource..." and "Add an activity...." drop-down menus. All of the course's activities will appear in this list.
In a later step, you will add the activity to a specific page.
Using the flex page course format, a designer can create a course with multiple pages.
Flex pages can be designed and edited by adding activities and blocks.
Flex page menus can provide Top Tab navigational structures, as well as left and right column navigational menus.
The HTML Editor lets you do complex text and image task. For this example, we will add an image to a post within a forum, however, you may follow the same steps to add an image to any text, as long as the HTML editor appears to offer help.
"Resources" are links to files, URLs, repository items, or constructed web pages. In general, resources don't require direct interaction from the participant. This contrasts with course activities, which require interaction.
A label is a way to add text to the content area of your course. Labels can be used to give a quick instruction or for telling users what to click on next.
Inline course content is created by adding a "label" resource to a topic area.
The Book module makes it easy to create multi-page resources with a book-like format. This module can be used to build complete book-like websites inside of your Moodle course.
The directory resource exposes specified folders within the course file directory to participants.
Note these instructions are for adding Equella items to a course that are already in the repository. See "How do I contribute an item to the Equella repository" for other instructions.
"Activities" are interactive events within the course. A forum activity, for example, requires participants and instructors to engage and communicate in a shared event. Activities contrast with course resources, which are generally static items that do not require interaction.
Standard forum for general use - is an open forum where any one can start a new topic at any time. This is the best general-purpose forum.
A single simple discussion - is just a single topic, all on one page. Useful for short, focussed discussions.
Each person posts one discussion - Each person can post exactly one new discussion topic (everyone can reply to them though). This is useful when you want each student to start a discussion about, say, their reflections on the week's topic, and everyone else responds to these.
The Q & A forum requires students to post their perspectives before viewing other students' postings. After the initial posting, students can view and respond to others' postings. This feature allows equal initial posting opportunity among all students, thus encouraging original and indepe...
A quiz is composed of questions in the question bank. This lesson reveals how to move questions from the bank into the quiz.
The assignment activity module allows teachers to collect work from students, review it and provide feedback including grades.
Students can submit any digital content (files), including, for example, word-processed documents, spreadsheets, images, audio and video clips. Assignments don...
The Glossary activity allows participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary.
Glossary can be used in many ways. The entries can be searched or browsed in different formats. A glossary can be collaborative or entries only made by the teacher. Entries can b...
A choice activity is very simple – the teacher asks a question and specifies a choice of multiple responses. It can be useful as a quick poll to stimulate thinking about a topic; to allow the class to vote on a direction for the course; or to gather research consent.
Choice requires so...
The Feedback module allows you to create and conduct surveys to collect feedback from participants.
Instructors create surveys with the Feedback module.
A notification template is like a form letter that can be used and re-used by teachers when creating notification alerts.
An institution can create a series of templates in order to increase the consistency of communication between instructors and learners.
Create a Central Resource System at the site level.
The activity locking block allows the instructor to "lock" courses from participants until certain conditions (with other activities) have been satisfied.
A HTML block provides a space for text, images, or multimedia in the left or right columns of the course.
The block is flexible and can incorporate a variety of functions and uses in the content area. It has the standard Moodle HTML editor for formatting text, adding images or creating...