01. Finding way around Moodle 3.3 Video Lecture | Moodle: Create Personalized Online Class - Professional Skills

Finding your way around
How you navigate around a Moodle site will depend on
the administrator's settings, your theme and
how up-to-date your version of Moodle is.
Our learn Moodle site uses the latest
version of Moodle and a theme called Boost.
If your organisation's Moodle site
looks different
ask your administrator to help you find
a set of tutorials from our Moodle HQ
YouTube channel that will fit your
version of Moodle.
Let's log in.
Often when you login you're directed to a
personalised customisable page called
your dashboard; here you'll see an
overview of the courses that you're
enrolled in. Over on the left you'll see a
navigation or nav drawer with useful
links for example to your site's front
page or Site home. Perhaps your
administrator directs you to the Site
home when you log in, in which case you
can access the dashboard by clicking the
link in the nav drawer.
This nav drawer also allows you to see the
courses you're enrolled in so you can
access them either by clicking the link
in the nav drawer or the link in the course
overview.
The nav drawer can be collapsed or closed
by clicking the hamburger icon top left to free up more space.
You can open it again
by clicking it again. Over on the
right is a user menu also with useful
links, for example in your Preferences
page you can edit your profile, change
your password, select the language you
want Moodle to display in and decide the
text editor you want when typing in text.
As with many modern websites, you have
icons for messages and notifications.
Clicking the messages menu you can
read new messages,
add new messages, mark all as read and
from the gear menu select how you want
to be notified of new messages, email or
via your mobile.
Notifications works in a similar way. You
can be notified of forum posts,
assignments that need to be graded, mark
them read and access your preferences.
Let's go back to the dashboard
and now let's go into our user Sam's
practice course where she's learning how
to teach with Moodle. We can either click
the link in the nav drawer or the link in
the course overview.
Once inside the course, notice that the
nav drawer links have changed to reflect
what's happening in the course. There's a
Participants link, a badges link to see
which badges are available, Grades, and
the topic numbers here are for sections
within the course. We will look at how to
edit and explore these in a later video.
Further down again she can access her
dashboard, Site home and other courses
she's enrolled in.