Finding your way around
How you find your way around a Moodle site depends on the administrator settings, the
theme or background used and how up to date your version of Moodle is.
This video shows Moodle version 4..
Some Moodle sites have attractive front pages; MoodleCloud sites simply have the login box.
Let's log in.
Once logged in, you can edit your profile by clicking top right - for example to add
a profile image.
You can also access any messages, and set your own message preferences, and notifications
and set your notification preferences from the icons.
Often when you log in, you're directed to a personal page called your dashboard.Your
admin might have set a different first page or they might let you specify your own choice
of page from your preferences.
From the dashboard you l see a timeline of any deadlines due from courses that you're
enrolled in, along with a calendar and from the expandable block drawer on the right,
a block showing you course items you last accessed.
Our Moodle user Sam doesn’t yet have any activities in her timeline so let’s go to
another site and look at student Paula.
In her timeline she can view activities by due date or by date or activity type or name;
she can quickly see what is overdue and what she needs to do to complete activities and
from the expandable block drawer the items she’s recently viewed.
By enabling Edit mode top right our student - and any Moodle user - can add extra blocks
if desired.
And blocks may be moved from the side into the central area and up and down there.
Also at the top of the screen is a link Home.
back to the site front page and My Courses.
Clicking here takes you to the courses you are enrolled in, either as a student, as here
or as a teacher.
You can see all courses, those in progress, future or past and starred courses are ones
bookmarked or favourited.
You can sort by course name or last accessed and courses can display in list view, summary
view or, as here card view.
If we click into a course as student Paula, we can access useful links from the
question mark icon bottom right, which also shows a link to site support.
The course index on the left can be collapsed to free up more space.
It scrolls independently of the central area and activity completion indicators display
at a glance what our student has completed and has still to do.
If she clicks on an item in the course index, the activity opens up in the central area.
If blocks have been added to the course, the block drawer can be expanded to access them.
From the central area.
Student Paula can access Participants, Grades and Competencies.
Her teacher can also access extra course settings, Reports and from More, some other useful features
we explore in other videos.
As you move down the central area, the course index follows the path and highlights the
location..Activities and resources are neatly defined within ‘cards’ and the activity
completion conditions are now positioned to the right of the item.
Sections may be collapsed and expanded, in the central area and /or from the course index.