How to lay out acourse.
As a teacher you have a lot of control over how your
course appears to your students.
For example if your organisation allows, you
can change the full name of the course
which is enlarged here and the short
name of the course which appears in the
navigation bar. You can also change the
format, how your resources and activities
are displayed.
This course is in numbered topics for
instance which can be renamed as we'll
see later. Many of the changes you can
make can be done by going to the gear
menu top right and by clicking Edit
settings.This takes you to the setup
screen of your course where you can
change, if you need to, its full name and
its short name and again only if
allowed by your organisation,
the category in which it appears . You can
hide it until you're ready and set
course dates.
Although note that the end date will not
prevent students from accessing the
course. You can also add a description of
your course for students who are not yet
enrolled, and if you wish you can upload
a file, for instance an image, or some
information about your course.
If we click Course format, this is where
we can choose how we'd like the
resources to be displayed. Topics gives
us numbered topic sections
and we can choose a number of sections.
Here we can also select to have weekly
format where the sections are named as weeks.
Social format which is basically
one big message board for discussions,
or single activity format which would allow
you to add just one particular item such
as a SCORM package or a quiz.
If we choose topics or weekly format we can
then decide whether we want to show all
the sections on one page, which is what
we will do, which is the norm, but if you
think you're going to have lots of
sections and that would cause some
scrolling then you can choose to Show
only one section per page.
This has an effect on how your students
view your course as we can see here in
this course on a different Moodle site
"Types of sport". The first time you access
it you can see each of the sections and
then greyed out on the right, the
activities which are in these sections.
If you then click the link on the
section for example the second section
Tennis, the students will only see the
activities in that particular section
and they'll navigate to the other
sections by clicking the name in the
section on the right there or on the
left or by going to the jump to menu and
selecting from that.
This is an individual setting and it might be
useful if you think your course will
have a lot of sections.
Appearance will allow you to decide how
many news items you want to show in the
announcements forum. If you set it to 0
you can then delete the announcements
forum if you don't think it will be
useful to you.
Options can be explored by clicking on
them and expanding them, for instance if
we click and expand roll renaming if you
don't want to call your students
students but you want a different name -
"learners" for instance - then you can
change the name here and that will
appear just in your course.
You can also tag your course to help new students
search for it. If we now click to save
then in the next video we will turn on
the editing and look at the changes we
can make to a course such as how to
rename those sections.