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Time Narration
00:01 Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Course Administration in Moodle.
00:07 In this tutorial, we will learn about: Course Administration in Moodle

Activities and Resources in a course

00:17 This tutorial is recorded using: Ubuntu Linux OS 16.04
00:24 Apache, MariaDB and PHP obtained through XAMPP 5.6.30
00:33 Moodle 3.3 and Firefox web browser
00:40 You may use any web browser of your choice.

However, Internet Explorer should be avoided, as it causes some display inconsistencies.

00:52 This tutorial assumes that your site administrator has set up a Moodle website and registered you as a teacher.
01:03 Learners of this tutorial should have a teacher login on Moodle
01:09 At least one course assigned to them by the administrator

some course material uploaded for their respective course

01:19 If not, please refer to the relevant Moodle tutorials on this website.
01:26 Switch to the browser and open your moodle site.
01:31 Login with your teacher username and password details.

I am already logged in as teacher Rebecca Raymond.

01:41 We are in the teacher’s dashboard.
01:44 In the navigation menu on the left, notice Calculus under My Courses.
01:51 Please note. All the courses for which you are enrolled as a teacher or student will be listed here.
01:59 Click on the Calculus course.
02:02 We updated the course topics and summaries in the preceding tutorials.
02:09 If you didn’t do so, please refer to the assignments of the preceding tutorials.
02:16 We will now learn about some useful course settings.
02:21 Click on the gear icon at the top right of the section.
02:26 Click on Edit Settings. Then click on Expand All at the right, to expand all the sections.
02:36 The settings seen here, were defined by the administrator, when this course was created.
02:44 In the General section, we have Course full name.

This is the name displayed at the top of the course page.

02:54 Course short name is the name displayed in the course navigation and in course-related emails.
03:03 Course category is already set by the admin.
03:08 We can change Course start date, Course end date and Course ID number, as per our requirements.
03:21 Under Description section, see the Course Summary textbox.

I will delete the existing content and type the following.

03:31 My students will see this on the front page of my course.
03:37 Next comes the field Course summary files.

These are the files that will be displayed to the students, along with the Course summary.

03:47 By default, only jpg, gif and png file types are allowed as Course summary files.
03:56 There are 3 ways to upload a file: Drag and drop the file in the box.
04:03 Click on the Upload or Add icon at the top left.

Click on the downward arrow.

04:11 If you click on Upload or Add icon or on the downward arrow, the File picker dialog box opens.
04:21 Click on Upload a file option on the left menu.
04:26 Click on the Browse or Choose File button.

Then select the desired file from your machine.

04:34 I will select calculus.jpg from my system.
04:40 You can give it a different name by typing it in the Save as field.
04:46 Specify the author and license details in the respective fields.
Lastly, click on Upload this file button at the bottom. 
04:58 So that’s how we can upload Course summary files.
05:02 Next comes Course format. Course format refers to the way resources and activities are organized for the students.
05:12 There are 4 options in Format dropdown -

Single Activity Format, Social Format , Topics Format and Weekly Format.

05:26 Our admin has selected Topics format.

We will let it remain as it is.

05:33 Next setting is for Hidden sections.

These are basically topics in a course that can be kept hidden from students.

05:44 This can be useful when there is a certain topic, which is not yet completed by the teacher.

This setting determines how to present the Hidden sections to students.

05:57 Choosing this option will display the content in collapsed form to the students.
06:04 Choosing this option will hide the content from the students.
06:09 We will let it remain as default, for now.
06:13 The next drop-down is Course Layout. Click on it.
06:19 We can choose to show all sections in one page, by selecting this option.
06:25 Another option here is Show one section per page.

This will split the course over several pages, depending on the number of sections.

06:37 We will let it remain on Show all sections in one page, for now.
06:43 Next is the Appearance section.
06:46 Notice the Show gradebook to students option.

Many activities in the course allow teachers to assign grades.

06:57 This option determines whether a student can see those grades.

This option is set to Yes, by default. We will let it remain as is.

07:10 We will change Show activity reports as Yes, if not already selected by default.
07:18 This ensures that a student can see his/her activity reports from his/her profile page.
07:27 We can set the maximum size of the files that can be uploaded for this course.
07:34 Files can be uploaded for additional materials, assignments, etc.
07:41 Our admin has set this to 128MB, which is the maximum file size.

Let us keep the size as it is.

07:52 We will let all the other settings remain at their default values.
07:58 Scroll down and click on the Save and display button.

We are brought to the Course page.

08:06 Notice the Announcements link above the topic names.
08:11 This will let the students know about mandatory information, latest news, announcements, etc.
08:20 Click on the gear icon at the top right of the page and then on Turn Editing On.
08:28 NOTE: You need to turn the editing on, to make any changes to the course.
08:35 Now, to the right of Announcements, click on Edit and then Edit Settings.
08:44 And in Description I will type the following text.

“Please check the announcements regularly”.

08:52 Check Display description on course page. This will display the description just below the link.
09:01 Leave all other settings as they are.
09:05 Scroll down and click on the button Save and return to course.

We come back to the Course page.

09:15 To add more announcements, click on the Announcements title.
09:21 Now click on Add a new topic button. Type the Subject as Minimum requirements.
09:31 Type the message as “This course requires you to submit a minimum of 3 assignments and attempt 5 quizzes to pass”.
09:43 Notice that the checkbox Discussion subscription is checked and is non-editable.

This is because everyone enrolled in the course is compulsorily subscribed to it.

09:59 Next is Attachments. You can either drag and drop or upload related files here.
10:08 If you want the announcements to show up at the top of the forum, click on Pinned checkbox.

I will tick it.

10:18 Tick the next checkbox, as well.

This will send a notification to everyone subscribed to this forum immediately.

10:29 Expand the next section Display period.

The settings here determine if this forum post should be visible for a date range.

10:41 By default, these are disabled. It means the posts will always be visible.

We will let the default settings remain.

10:52 Scroll down and click Post to forum button.
10:57 A success message is displayed. Post authors have 30 min to make any changes to the posts.
11:08 Let me click on Calculus link in the breadcrumb.
11:13 Let me now add a page with detailed syllabus to this section.
11:19 Click on Add an activity or resource link at the bottom right of the General section.

From the list of Resources, choose Page.

11:32 Read the description of this activity that will appear when you make the choice.
11:39 Then click on the Add button at the bottom.

We are brought to a new page.

11:47 In the Name field, type Detailed syllabus.
11:52 I will leave the Description textbox blank because the title is self-explanatory.
11:59 I will enter the detailed syllabus of this Calculus course in the Page Content textbox.
12:07 This content is available in the Code Files link of this tutorial.

You can download and make use of it while practising.

12:18 Scroll down and click on Save and return to course button.

We come back to the course page again.

12:27 We will now logout of our account. To do so, click on the user icon at the top right.

Now choose Log out option.

12:39 Let me show you how this page will look like to a student.
12:45 I have a student ID Priya Sinha with me.

This student has also been enrolled in the Calculus course by the admin.

12:55 I have logged in as student Priya Sinha. Now I will click on Calculus on the left.
13:04 This is how a student will view this page.

Notice that there is no gear icon at the top right of this page.

13:14 This is because students cannot edit any part of the course.
13:20 We will now log out of the student id.
13:24 With this, we come to the end of this tutorial.

Let us summarize.

13:30 In this tutorial, we learnt about: Course Administration in Moodle

Activities and Resources in a course

13:40 Here is a small assignment for you.

Add a new Page resource detailing the course outcome. Refer to the Assignment link of this tutorial for details.

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