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Moodle User Guide (Teacher's Role)
Getting started (Demo)
After your site administrator has set up Moodle and assign you to a new, blank course with teacher privileges, you can start constructing your course.
You will need to be logged into the course as a user who has been assigned a role as a teacher (with editing rights) on that course to use most of the features
You will find the course homepage is broken down into course sections. A course is created by , including using HTML in Moodle. There are different ways to enroll Students and assign them to one or more Groups in a course.
The example below shows a new course set up with topic sections, edit is on. There are a few of Moodle's many blocks on the right and left sides of the topics, such as "Latest News" or "Administration". The teacher is already to add resources and activities or a few new blocks to their brand new course.
on the top right corner of the page allows the teacher to switch to different roles to get a general idea of people with different role will see, for example, what the students will see.| Icon | Effect | Icon | Effect | Icon | Effect | Icon | Effect |
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Edit item |  * |
Close/Hide item |  * |
Delete/Remove |  |
Move (up/down) |
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See all weeks/topics |  * |
Open/Show Item |  |
Indent/shift right |  |
Move here |
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See one week/topic |  |
Help |  |
Make Current (highlight) week/topic |
- Chats: communication and collaboration. (Tutorial)
- Forums: communication, collaboration, and post rating. (Tutorial)
- Choices: group feedback, poll, and vote. (Tutorial)
- Wikis: allow students to work collaboratively on authoring web documents. (Tutorial)
- Assignments: allow students to submit any digital content for grading and allow teachers to record grades for both online and offline activities. (Tutorial)
- Quizzes: allow teachers to design quizzes with multiple questions types, re-used options, and feedback. (Tutorial)
Moodle supports a range of different resource types that allow you to include almost any kind of digital content into your courses. These can be added by using the add a resource dropdown box when editing is tured on.
- Text pages: plain text pages to put up information or instructions. (Tutorial)
- Web pages: web pages that can include formatted text, tables, pictures, links, etc. (Tutorial)
- link to an uploaded file or external website: link to resource that may already exist in electronic form. (Tutorial)
Each course homepage generally contains blocks on the left and right with the centre column containing the course content. Blocks may be added, hidden, deleted, and moved up, down and left/right when editing is turned on.
Teachers can see and update student activities grades by using the grade feature in their administration block.
Fall 2008 Courses