03 What is a course in Moodle 3.3 Video Lecture | Moodle: Create Personalized Online Class - Professional Skills

What is a course? A course in Moodle is
basically a space on the Moodle site
where one or more teachers can add
learning resources and activities for
their students.
What your course might look like as a
teacher will depend partly on the chosen
theme and settings of your administrator.
In the latest version of Moodle with the
latest Boost theme you can expect to see
a collapsible navigation drawer on the
left and a gear menu on the right.
The main content area here is where the
actual teaching and learning resources
will be added. The course Sam requested
has no sections yet where she can add
content so she first needs to click the
gear menu and click turn editing on and
then click Add topics.
Let's choose four topics.
In Sam's practice course they are
numbered topics which can be renamed but
if we look at a different course on a
different Moodle site you can see that
these are divided into weekly sections
and there are some blocks on the right.
In another video we will look at the use
of these blocks. In order to add learning
resources you need to have the editing
turned on and with the Boost theme you
do this by clicking the gear top right
and then clicking the link Turn editing
on. This then displays an edit menu next
to each activity and resource for
editing the settings, hiding, duplicating
deleting, etc. There is an announcement
forum here and if I wish to move it into
a different section I click the
crosshairs icon and I can move it by
dragging and dropping. If you aren't able
to move by dragging and dropping then
ask your administrator to check your
browser settings and the Moodle site
settings. In order to add files documents
or activities for your students you need
to click the link Add an activity or
resource in the section where you'd like
them to appear. It doesn't matter if you
choose the wrong section by mistake
because it's always possible to move
them afterwards. When you click add an
activity or resource
this displays moodle's activity chooser
which then allows you to choose what you
would like to add, and we'll look at this
in a separate video.
If you don't see the link Add an
activity or resource ask your Moodle
admin again to check your settings. In
the next video we look at how you can
change the name and layout of your
Moodle course.