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Title of script: 2.1 Getting Started - Interface
Author: K.Sridhar, B.Abirami, Rajeev.T and M.prashanth Kumar
Keywords: Front page, site administration, interface
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| Switch to slide no 1 | Welcome to spoken tutorial. In the coming few minutes, we will talk about the MOODLE interface. This tutorial will help you in setting up the front page of moodle by using the site administration module. |
| Open Browser | Go to the MOODLE website installed in the local system, by typing the URL http://localhost/moodle. The tutorial on installation of moodle will be available soon in spoken tutorials. The front page shows the name of the learning management system given by the site administrator.
On the right hand side corner of the screen there is a link available for login page. Click on the link to enter into the login page. |
| Continue in browser | Now login as an administrator, by typing the user name and password of the administrator. |
| Continue in browser | Once you login as an administrator, you can see the site administration module of the MOODLE in the left side of the screen. The site administration module has options like Users, Courses, Grades, Location, Language, Modules, Security, Appearance, Front page, Server, Networking, Reports and Miscellaneous. |
| Continue in browser | Now, Click on the Front Page link available in the site administration module. |
| Continue in browser | It displays the list of sub menus. Click on the ‘Front page settings’ option. It leads to a page titled Front page settings . |
| Continue in browser | Here you can load the relevant details to be displayed on the front page of your MOODLE site. You can also set the items with respect to the courses , news items and list of categories. These items will be displayed on the home page of the website. |
| Continue in browser | The details of maximum category depth, news items to be shown and the number of courses to be displayed per page can also be chosen and set in the same page. |
| Continue in browser | The next option is on the front page roles which displays the roles as administrator, teacher etc.. along with their brief description. Users can be added for a particular role by selecting the appropriate role. |
| Continue in browser | Throughout Moodle, you will see a question mark in a yellow circle as seen beside the front page roles title. This is a link to Moodle’s very extensive help system.When you click the question mark icon, a new window pops up with the help file for the item you are asking about. After you read the help file, you can close the window with the “Close this window” button or look at other help files by clicking on the “Index of all help files” link. You can then select any help file from anywhere in the help system. |
| Continue in browser | Click on the ‘Front page backup’ option. It leads to a page where the choices for setting up the backup options and backup role assignments for different roles can be set. The default values are shown in this page which can be modified to suit the needs. After setting the options, click the continue button at the end of the page to go to the next page. This page displays the backup details. Click on continue again. The next page displays the name of the backup file created. Click continue again to go to the 'front page restore' option of the site administration menu. A table with a list of backup files is displayed. Now the appropriate action can be selected. For example say you want to restore a backup file, click on restore option corresponding to that file and the changes you made after that backup will be undone. |
| Continue in browser | The front page restore page also contains a provision to make a folder, upload a file and to select or to deselect the given list of backup files/folders. We may also delete,move or create the zip archive of selected files/folders.
. It also gives the details about the name of the file, the size, date of modification and the action to be taken. These options are useful for restoring the front page. |
| Continue in browser | The other options available in the front page link are Front page questions and site files. Both the topic will be discussed in detail in the forthcoming tutorials. |
| Continue in browser | In the right hand side corner of the page you will find a "Turn editing on" button. Clicking this button will enable you to edit the blocks on the Front page. Five symbols are displayed in each block these are(in order):
1)Assign roles - Clicking this takes us to a page where we can assign specific roles which can access that particular item. 2)Show or hide item - Clicking this will show or hide the current item. 3)Delete item - Clicking this will delete the item. 4)Move left/right - Clicking this will move the block either left or right according to the arrow. 5)Move up/down - Clicking this will move the item either up or down according to the arrow. Hence,this option gives you complete independence to organize your Front page as per your wish. |
| Continue in browser | You will find that there is an Add Blocks item at the right hand side bottom of the page. Click on the "Add" drop down box to find the various other blocks that you can add to the Front page. Now click the "Turn editing off" button to stop editing the page. |
| Switch to the next slide | The details of other options can be seen in the respective tutorials. Hope this tutorial was useful to know about the MOODLE interface. |
| Switch to the next slide | Spoken Tutorials are part of Talk to a Teacher. Supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India. More information:
http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro The script for this tutorial has been written by Prof.Sridhar, Prof.Abirami, Prashanth and Rajeev from SASTRA university and this is prashanth from SASTRA University signing off. Goodbye |
