For Staff
...wanting to author e-learning materials
- Using the Course Materials Repository
- Using Online Coursework Submission
- Using the Plagiarism Detection Service
- Using Moodle
- Using WebCT
- Using Perception
- Using a Personal Response System
- SENDA
- Supporting Online Learning
- IPR and Copyright Guidance
- E-Learning Network (Mailing List)
- Training
- Learning and Teaching
In this section:
- Introduction
- What does Moodle offer?
- How to access Moodle
- Requesting a course
- A teacher view of Moodle
- Organising your Moodle course
- Adding resources to your Moodle course
- Adding activities to your Moodle course
- Supporting and monitoring students in Moodle
- Resources for learning about Moodle
Moodle
Organising your Moodle course
Before you begin to add resources and activities to a new Moodle course, it is advisable to make some decisions about the structure and the layout of your Moodle course.The guides below are PDF files. You will need the free Adobe Reader to view them.
Setting the course format
Moodle provides you a number of options for the general format of your course. The three main choices are: organising your course chronologically by week (Weekly format), by topics or units (Topics format), or organising around a discussion forum (Social format).Adding a course summary
Moodle has a summary setting allows you to provide a brief summary about your course. The course summary is displayed when a user clicks on the information icon by the side of a course title.- The Course Summary (PDF)
Adding a weekly/topic summary
Courses that are set up as Topic and Weekly formats are organised into sections. Under each of the sections (including the Topic Outline title), there is an Edit icon that can be used to write a summary. This text can be used to introduce students to the course (if under the Weekly/Topic Outline title – the first section on the page) or provide a heading for each of the topic/weekly sections.- Weekly/Topic Summaries (PDF)
Adding, moving, hiding and deleting blocks
Blocks are the separate squares in the left and right columns of a Moodle course. These blocks can be moved, hidden and deleted, and others can be added with the Blocks tool, which becomes visible at the bottom of the right column when editing is turned on.- Blocks (PDF)
Preparing your course for a new academic year
Before the end of an academic year, it is strongly recommended that you spend some time preparing your Moodle course(s) for the new academic year. The guide below runs through the process of saving a back-up of your Moodle course(s) to your local machine, and then how to reset your course(s) so that it will be free of old user data (such as course logs, discussion posts, quiz attempts, groups, etc). Resetting a Moodle course means that you are able to use the course for the new academic year with all your resources and activities intact, but without user data from the previous year.
