Building a New Moodle Course Request a Moodle course. Log in to Moodle. Find your Moodle course under My courses. Configure the Course settings. To work on your course, turn editing on. Edit Section Names. Add Resources to your course. Add Activities to your course. Set up Blocks. Make the course available to students.
Configure the Course settings. When you first open your new course, it will have the default number of Sections down the center of the course page, the default set of blocks, and will use the Collapsible topics format. Your first task is to customize the Course settings to your likes and needs.
According to the logic of Moodle, you can’t create a lesson without creating a course first. To create a new online course, go to Site Administration → Courses → Add a New Course.
Choose SCORM 1.2, the format Moodle recognizes, under LMS Profile. Then click Publish, and the archive with the quiz will appear in the specified folder. We’ve covered two ways to create courses for Moodle: using the built-in editor and the iSpring Suite toolkit.
According to the logic of Moodle, you can't create a lesson without creating a course first. To create a new online course, go to Site Administration → Courses → Add a New Course. Enter full and short course names (“Workplace Safety”) and click Save and Display.
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Select the course on the left in the Navigation. Click the Add an activity or resource link, for the course section, to access the module list. Select the Lesson module and click Add. Next, the Adding a New Lesson page should load.
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Log in to Moodle and go to the category you would like the new course to appear in. In the Course categories section choose the 'Add a new course' button. If you do not see this button this means that you do not have the role as Course Creator.
You can select the start date for a course By default, the course start is the day after you create the course. You can also select the period of time you would like to allow students to enroll in this course. Note that if you set this to 14 days; students will be removed from the course 14 days after they enroll.
There are several ways you as admin can create a course. The two most common are:
Make sure the course you want to upload (known as a "course backup") has the file ending . mbz.
In the top navigation bar of your course, select the Course Management button (gear icon ) to open the Course Management panel. Once open, select Edit course settings. For details, see Important Settings for your Moodle Course. To work on your course, turn editing on.
To add Resources and Activities to your course, add or remove Blocks, or rearrange items on the course page, in the menu bar to the top of your course page, click Turn editing on (green pencil icon ). Editing icons and links will appear. Edit section names.
The Groups feature in Moodle allows an instructor to assign students and instructors to one or more groups for either the entire course or for individual activities. Students can be in multiple groups at once, allowing the instructor to change the groups based on the activity. A few important tips for working with groups:
To rearrange blocks, with editing on, use the Move tool (, top right) to drag a block to a new order in the right column. To remove a block from the course, open its Actions menu (gear icon , top right), and from the drop-down menu, select Delete. For more, see Add & Remove Blocks in Moodle.
Announcements (previously called News forum) Announcements is a special forum that can act as an announcements tool for your Moodle course. It appears by default in the top section of your course and is related to the Latest news block. Only instructors can post to the Announcements and comments are not allowed.