Moodle is an online learning management system and at some point you and your students will have to spend some time in front of a computer. How much time depends on what you use Moodle for. Most Moodle sites are used to mix offline and online learning activities.
If you want to try it out for yourself you can use one of the accounts on the Moodle Demonstration Site. To see a site with example content, visit the School Demonstration site. Where do I get it (from)? You can download Moodle in a variety of packages and install it yourself or have a Moodle Partner do it for you.
Moodle Admin Basics – a free self-paced MOOC, available to take at any time. This course is for anyone new to Moodle site administration. Moodle Teaching Basics – a free self-paced MOOC available to take at any time.
Some webhosts offer Moodle as part of their hosting packages, although these vary in reliability. Other webhosts offer Moodle for free but this usually comes with conditions attached; for instance, your site might have adverts on it.
24 hoursIt can take up to 24 hours after a instructor activates a moodle course site for students have access to that site.
Courses that are available to students are listed in red and courses that are unavailable to students are listed in grey in your course listing. To make a course available, go to Gear Icon (top right of page) → Edit settings. In the top section labeled General, switch Course Visibility to "Show".
Enrolling usersGo to Settings > Course administration > Users > Enrolled users.Click the 'Enrol users' button at the top right or bottom left of the page.Use the 'Assign roles' dropdown if you wish to change the role.Select enrolment options as appropriate.Browse or search for the user.More items...•
Adding a courseClick on the category where you want your course to be. For more information see Course categories.Click the "New course" link.Enter the course settings, and then choose either to "Save and return" to go back to your course, or "Save and display" to go to the next screen.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and, below the last section, look for + Add topics or + Add weeks (at right). Click + Add topics (or weeks). The add topics/weeks pop-up will appear. Enter the number of sections you want to add into your course and click Add topics/weeks to save.
Both enrolment and enrollment are variants of the same word. Enrollment is the standard American spelling in the English language, while enrolment is for British English. Both terms refer to the act of enroling or enrolling or being enrolled.
Enrol and enroll are two variants of the same word. Enrol (with one L) is standard in British English. Enroll (with two L's) is standard in American English. Both words mean the act of signing up for services or the number of people signed up for a given service.
Guest access to the courseLog in with your administrator account or a teacher account.Go to the course you want to allow users to access.From the left panel (Navigation drawer) click Participants.Click the cog icon on the right (above Enrol users) and select Enrolment methods.Click to open the eye of Guest access.
Go to the right URL (address) of the Moodle site, login with your username and password, or enter as a Guest (if allowed). Most Moodle sites will have a link to set up a new account or request forgotten details of your existing one.
Moodle is used in a variety of fields. Users in some subject areas may benefit further from standard or compatible third-party modules and plugins (eg. in maths, Tex notation filter (standard) or DragMath equation editor (third-party plugin)).
Moodle offers a number of ways to share content: making files and folders available to course participants, collecting resources of any kind with a Database, attaching files to Forum posts, importing and linking resources to and from external repositories/portfolios ... and more!
A category is a group of things and has several meanings in Moodle. It can be a grouping of courses by a certain criteria (Such as: Science; Junior School; Staff Area). It can be a group of questions, or a group of entries in a glossary.
Moodle can be and is successfully used from early years of Primary schools ( examples here) through to the Secondary sector ( examples) and universiti es worldwide. Moodle can be adapted to suit learners of all ages in any learning environment, including commercial training.
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.
Certainly. Moodle supports many assistive technologies such as screen-readers, screen-magnifiers, alternative mouse and key use, disabling of AJAX and Javascript, and more.
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The Learn Moodle site offers three free courses to get you started using Moodle.
Add students. The process of adding students to courses is called Enrolment. This is different from adding users to the site, which is known as Authentication. There are various methods of enrolling students into courses, once they have logged in to Moodle.
Students enrol themselves. If Self enrolment is enabled then students can sign up to courses themselves. The teacher can restrict enrolment to those who have been given an Enrolment key and, if needed, a staff member may be given the Keyholder role to manage enrolment keys. Student self-enrols into a course.
Allowing guests into a course. Guests may be allowed to view course contents, but not participate in them, if Guest access is enabled. To find out exactly what guests may and may not do in a course, see the page Guest role .
Install the Self completion block. Be sure and give students some directions that when they click on the link in that block, that will indicate to the Teacher that they think they are done.
This is by design. The course prerequisites feature does NOT prevent students from accessing courses they are actively enrolled in. It merely prevents the course from being marked as "complete" until they have completed the first course.
No. For example, if you set the course completion for All aggregation methods and wanted to reset it to "Any", Moodle will warn you that you are deleting compiled student data. It will delete the student data only for the course completion information. When the scheduled task for handling completions next runs, it will recompile the course completion information. However, if manual completion of an activity is a course completion requirement, students will need to re-tick that they have completed the activity.
The more interactive, the better. If you’re using Moodle for Free, you have a limit of 50 users on the site, but you can upgrade to a larger plan if you need additional users. If you can say yes to all the above points, then go ahead, click the button and submit your course.
So the ‘Share’ link does something more than simply opening it up to learners you’re responsible for. It allows you to advertise a course for anyone to enrol in, or to offer your great, original and completed course for others to download and use in their own Moodle sites.
If you’re going to include a demo link (you don’t have to) make sure the course has guest access so people can actually view it.