07. What are the edit icons in Moodle 3.3 Video Lecture | Moodle: Create Personalized Online Class - Professional Skills

what are the Edit icons? In order to add
learning activities and resources to
your course or even to change the
wording and description in your course
sections you need to have the editing
turned on
so let's take a look at that now and see
what the Edit icons mean and do.
We turn the editing on by clicking the
gear top right and clicking Turn editing
on. Menus appear against each section and
activity or resource so let's zoom in
and take a look at them. Other themes may
have different editing icons from these
but they'll be in the same order.
The icon to the left of an item allows
you to move it up or down by dragging
and dropping. If you can't move items by
dragging and dropping
then ask your site administrator to
check your settings or the site settings.
It's the same crosshairs icon to move a
section so here I am clicking to move
Speaking up above Listening.
The icon to the right looks like a
pencil and if you click it it allows you
to immediately change the title of that
particular topic section resource or
activity then press ENTER and you've
changed it. Further along clicking Edit
reveals other options. Edit settings will
take you to the main editing screen of
this resource or activity to update it
in more detail; the move arrow allows you
to indent an activity or resource to the
right and then back again to the left
and the eye icon lets us hide items from
students and we'll try that in a moment.
With Duplicate you can make a quick copy
of a resource or activity modifying it
slightly for instance for a different
class or group. Assign roles relates to
roles something we won't go into much
detail in this teaching with Moodle MOOC
but which you can learn about in the
documentation. The bin is for deleting an
item. If we delete something by mistake
we can find it again from the Recycle
bin in the gear menu top right. Here are
any recently deleted activities and
resources and we click Restore to put it
back into the course.
We can add blocks to our course by going
to the add block link in the nav drawer and
choosing the block we want.
We can then hide or delete the block by
clicking the gear to its side and we'll
explore blocks in a later video.
Let's now try hiding the announcements
from students by clicking the eye. The
person icon here relates to groups again
something we don't focus on in this MOOC
but which you can read about in the
documentation.
When we click to hide it we can see now
that the eye icon has a line through it
and the announcements are greyed out. if
we go to our user menu we see Switch
role - and as a teacher we can switch
our role amongst others to a student or
as we've renamed it in our course
Learne.r. This then displays the course
page as students or learners would see
it and the announcements are invisible
because we've hidden them, so if we go
back to the user menu and to return to
my normal role, remembering to turn the
editing back on again, we can see that
the announcements haven't vanished. It's
just that we hid them with the icon.
We will now unhide them so our learners
can read the announcements and get
started on the course and note that if
you need to edit an existing activity or
resource, simply click on it and you
will see again the gear menu giving you
options for editing.
fFnally in each section there's also a
menu with an eye icon to hide that
section manually
and a highlight icon. If you click this
icon then it will highlight that
particular section for your students to
focus on. If you use weekly course format
the current week is automatically
highlighted.
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