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Navigation and settings

How do I login to Moodle?

How do I get around Moodle?

Use the Navigation block on the side of your page. From there you can go directly to any part of Moodle you have access to. Once you have enrolled on a course it will be listed under My courses.

How do I edit things?

You can only edit things you have permission to edit. A regular user such as a student can only edit their My home page and their profile page. A user with editing rights such as a teacher can use the ‘Turn editing on’ button or the link in the Settings block to edit items. A guest can’t edit anything or participate in activities.

Who can create and edit activities and other things in courses?

Only the teacher can edit or add activities.

Learning with Moodle

What is the best way to use Moodle?

There is no one best way to use Moodle. Use of Moodle depends a lot on one’s own educational philosophy, the context where Moodle is used and willingness to experiment and create a little (or a lot!). Moodle can be used by a strict controller using trusted material of 30 years or a free-loving e-hippie exploring new ways of teaching and learning alike.

How can I use Moodle to stimulate students think harder and ask good questions?

By asking and encouraging good questions students can wrestle with and explore through and with the help of activities, resources in a course. For example, open a forum discussion with a provocative question, start a wiki where groups collaboratively build a solution.

Basic Moodle jargon

What is a Course?

A course is the basic learning area on Moodle where a teacher displays materials for their students.
Tutors will assigned to their course but learners will need to serach for the course and click enrol me.

What is a Category?

A category is a group of things and has several meanings in Moodle. It can be a grouping of courses by a learning area (Photography, Child Care) It can be a group of questions, or a group of entries in a glossary.

What is an Activity?

Usually an activity is something that a student will do that interacts with other students and or the teacher. The activities that we recommend for use are: Assignments, Chat, Database, Feedback, Forum, Glossary, Questionnaire, Quiz, Wiki and Workshop.

What is a Resource?

Resources are items that a teacher can use to support learning, such as a file or a link.

What is a Block?

Typically, blocks are items which may be added to the left or right in a course’s home page. There are dozens of different blocks that can be added to a course, or pages within a course.

What is a Section?

A section is an area within a course’s homepage that hold activities and resources. Standard course section formats are topics, weeks, social and SCORM.

What is a Role?

A role in Moodle refers to what a user is allowed (or not) to do on a Moodle site. Typical roles might include those of a student and teacher. A role is a collection of permissions that can be assigned to specific users in specific contexts. For example, when a user is enrolled in a course as a student.

Frequently Asked Questions

Moodle

Q: I cant find my course?
A: All courses are created by the course administrator, you need to make a request to them.

Q: Turn editing on button is missing, how can I update my course?
A: You need to be assigned as a tutor to a course. Please contact your respective course administrators or the systems administrator via [email protected] to make you a tutor

Q: I accidentally clicked on Unenroll me from this course. Can I click on “Enrol me on this course” to enrol myself?
A: No, enrolling yourself on a course will make you a learner. Please contact your respective course administrators or the systems administrator via [email protected] to make you a tutor

Q: When I drag and drop files into my course, they duplicate. What’s going on here?
A: there are 2 instances of the Drag and Drop block. Turn editing on and delete one of them.

Q: Why when I drag and drop files into my course, they opened up instead of being added to the course?
A: The drag and Drop block is not enabled. Turn editing on and select Drag and Drop from the Add block drop-down menu.

Q: My student can’t reply to forum posts or do the activities?
A: The student is using a guest access. To participate in activities the students need to enrol on the course.

Q: Why some of my weeks are titled Orphaned activities and I can’t create activities there?
A: You need to extended the number of weeks/ topics in Settings to match the number of weeks in the course. For example: If the number of weeks/topics in Settings 10 and the actual weeks in the course is 12, then 2 weeks will be considered orphaned weeks.

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