NMT Moodle 1.9 Instructor's Guide |  |
NMT Moodle 1.9 Instructor's Guide | |
Assuming that your course is in the system and you are logged in and connected to the course (see Section 3, “Connecting to the Moodle site”), you should see a page something like this.
There are four main areas on this page:
Across the top of the page is the Moodle logo, with your button in the top right corner.
Just below the logo is the bread-crumb trail, a sequence of links that shows where you are in your structure, and allows you to jump up one or more levels by clicking on any of the links. In the example page shown, the bread-crumb trail has two pieces: the word takes you back to your main page (outside the current course), and the text “example” is the name of the example course.
The narrow column on the left contains various functional links such as People, Activities, and Administration.
The wide center column is where most significant content will be presented.
Another narrow column on the right displays various communications tools.
To start setting up your course, in the left-hand column under Administration, click the link.
Moodle gives you lots of options for structuring your course. We'll discuss only some of the more common settings.
Please do not edit these fields; their contents follow a standardized format that helps students find your course where multiple courses are listed.
The summary block is a small built-in editor you can use to write a brief description of the course.
If you want to organize your course content by calendar week, select . If instead you wish to present the content as a sequence of topics, select . Then select the number of weeks or the number of topics.
If you want to use Moodle's grade book to display grades to your students, select .
Normally this choice shows This course is available to students. If your content is not ready for the students, select .
Click the button at the bottom of the page when you are done.