Create a new empty course
To do so, follow these steps:
Manual Installation
Highlights
Create a new empty courseLog in with your administrator account.From the left panel (the Navigation drawer) click Site administration.Click the Courses tab.Click Add a new course.Add your course details, using the icon for extra help.Click Save and display.Click Proceed to course content to add your teaching materials.
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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On the Course Home page, locate the Actions gear (in the right hand corner of the course home page) and click Edit settings. 2. Under the General options, locate the Course visibility setting. Click on the dropdown menu, and select Show.
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Modular Course DesignIdentify key topic areas. Each module should point to important categories of content or conceptual pieces in your course that help guide students to recognize the big ideas. ... Label your modules clearly and consistently. ... Create modules of consistent structure.
It can cost anywhere from $200 to $10,000 to create an online course. The main source of expenses is the labor involved, followed by the equipment and software. If you are creating the online course yourself and not paying someone else to do it, this means that other than your time there are very few expenses involved.
It can take anywhere between 3 days to 2 months to create an online course, assuming that you are working on it full time. A mini-course covering a very narrow topic can be produced in only 3 days or less, while a complete in-depth 20h masterclass covering all levels can take several months to produce.
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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...•
Procedure to follow To enable potential users to register themselves and create accounts. Then set [Admin>Manage authentication>Common settings>Self registration] to 'Email-based self-registration' and Save Changes. The fields can simply be enabled to automaticaly appear in the registration form.
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.
To add a new course to Moodle, you need to have either Administrator, Course Creator or Manager rights.To add a course: From the Site administration link, click Courses>Manage courses and categories. Click on the category where you want your course to be. For more information see Course categories.
users with a role for which the capability moodle/course:delete is allowed) can delete courses and course creators can delete courses they have created themselves, but only within 24 hours of creating the course.
An admin can set the default category for course requests, whether users can select a category when requesting a course, and who can receive notification of course requests (from a list of users with the capability moodle/site:approvecourse ). A 'Request a new course' button will then appear on the 'All courses' page.
By default a regular teacher can't add a new course. To add a new course to Moodle, you need to have either Administrator, Course Creator or Manager rights.To add a course:
Managing a Moodle course 1 Courses - how to set up your courses. 2 Editing text - how to use the text editor and what the icons mean. 3 Activities - how to involve students actively in their learning. 4 Resources - how to add static materials to your course. 5 Blocks - how to add extra items and information to the sides of your course page. 6 Questions - how to create questions for use in quizzes and Moodle's lesson module 7 Course enrolment - how to give students access to your course. 8 Grouping users - how to put students into groups and why this is useful. 9 Grades - how to use the gradebook, scales and advanced grading methods. 10 Tracking progress - how to control and display progress through a course. 11 Reusing activities - how to copy or recycle elements of your course.
Progress can be tracked in a number of ways. Students can be enrolled manually by the teacher, automatically by the administrator, or they can be allowed to enrol themselves. Students can also be added to groups if they need to be separated from classes sharing the same course or if tasks need to be differentiated.
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.
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.
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.