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Time Narration
00:01 Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Courses in Moodle.
00:06 In this tutorial, we will learn:

how to create a course and how to perform actions on courses.

00:16 To record this tutorial, I will be using: Ubuntu Linux OS 16.04,
00:24 Apache, MariaDB and PHP obtained through XAMPP 5.6.30,

Moodle 3.3 and Firefox web browser.

00:38 You can use any web browser of your choice.
00:42 However, Internet Explorer should be avoided as it causes some display inconsistencies.
00:50 Learners of this tutorial should know how to create categories in Moodle.
00:56 If not, please refer to the relevant Moodle tutorials on this website.
01:03 Switch to the browser and open your Moodle homepage.

Make sure that XAMPP service is running.

01:11 Login with your admin username and password details.
01:16 We are now in the admin dashboard.
01:19 Click on the drawer menu to open the navigation menu on the left.
01:25 On the left side, click on Site Administration.
01:29 Click on the Courses tab and then on Manage courses and categories.
01:36 Note that we have only one category here which is Mathematics.
01:41 And two subcategories: 1st Year Maths and 2nd Year Maths which we created earlier.
01:50 Now, let us create a new course under Mathematics.
01:55 So, click on Create new course.
01:59 And, in the Add a new course screen, click on Expand All at the top right, in order to view all the fields.
02:12 In the Course full name text-box, we will type Calculus.
02:18 In Course short name, we will again type Calculus.
02:24 Course short name will be used in the breadcrumbs and course related emails.
02:31 This can also be different from the course full name.
02:35 Course Category is Mathematics, as we can see.
02:40 Next option is Course visibility. By default, Show is selected.
02:48 The Visible setting determines whether the course will be shown along with other courses or not.
02:56 A hidden course is visible only to those assigned to the course, like- Admin, Course creator, Teacher, Manager.
03:08 We will leave this setting as it is, for now.
03:12 Next comes the Course start date.
03:16 If the course begins on a particular date like semester start date, select that in the start date.
03:25 This means the course will not be visible to the students till the start date.
03:32 Course end date, by default, is enabled and set to the same date that the course is created.
03:42 Let me disable it by clicking on the checkbox. This would mean that the course will never end.
03:51 However, if there is an end date for the course, you can enable the checkbox here.

Then select the date as per your requirement.

04:02 Important note: The course will not be visible to the students after the selected end date.

I will leave it disabled.

04:13 Course ID number is similar to Category ID number.

Course ID number is an optional field.

04:22 This is for admin users to identify the course with offline courses.
04:28 If your college uses IDs for courses, then you can use that course ID here.

This field is not visible to other Moodle users.

04:40 This field is optional and is not displayed anywhere on the website. I am going to leave this as blank.
04:49 Next, under Description, we can see 2 fields: Course Summary and Course Summary files.
04:59 Course summary is an optional but important field. That is because the course summary text is also scanned when a user performs a search.
05:13 Listing topic names is a good idea here.

Type the following:Topics covered in this Calculus course are: Limits,Graph of a function, Factorial.

05:29 Course summary is also displayed along with the list of courses.
05:35 Course summary files must be uploaded in Course summary files field.
05:42 By default, only jpg, gif and png file types are allowed as course summary files.

I will skip this as I do not wish to upload any file.

05:57 Course format refers to the way resources and activities are organized for students.
06:06 There are 4 options in the Format dropdown -

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

06:20 There are courses that run week by week.
06:24 If your course is like that, then select Weekly format.
06:30 Moodle will create a section for each week of the course, with a clear start date and an end date.
06:39 There are courses that run topic wise. If your course is like that, then select Topics format.
06:49 Moodle will create a section for each topic of the course.
06:55 The default for this field is Topics format. We will let it remain as it is.
07:03 The number of sections, by default, is 4.
07:07 If you have your course divided in more or less than 4 topics, change this field as required.

I will make this number as 5.

07:20 We will discuss the other formats in later tutorials.
07:25 Let’s leave the rest of the options as they are.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the Save and display button.

07:36 We are redirected to the Enrolled Users page. We will learn about user enrollment in a later tutorial.
07:46 For now, we have successfully created our first course Calculus under the category Mathematics.
07:56 While we are on this course page, notice that the menu on the left has changed.
08:03 The navigation menu on the left has menus related to the course we created.

These include Participants, Grades etc.

08:15 Click on the course name Calculus on the left.
08:20 We can see that 5 topics are visible here. They are named Topic 1, Topic 2 and so on.

Recall we had given this number 5 earlier.

08:34 Click on the gear icon at the top right of the page.
08:39 Then click on Edit settings.

This will open a page similar to the page we were on, when we created this course.

08:51 We can make changes to the previous settings on this page.

I will change the Course start date to 15th October 2017.

09:04 Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the Save and display button.
09:11 We will explore the other sub-menus under the gear menu later.
09:17 Let us now change the structure of our course a little bit.
09:22 Click on Site administration.

Click on Courses and then Manage courses and categories.

09:31 Click on Mathematics category to see the course we created. Notice 3 icons on the right of the course.
09:42 Hover over the icons to see what they are.
09:46 The gear icon is for editing a course. The delete or trash icon is for deleting a course.
09:55 And, the eye icon is for hiding a course.
10:01 A hidden course will have the eye crossed to indicate the same.
10:07 We can click on the gear icon to the right of the course name, to edit the course settings.
10:14 I want to modify the Course Summary and add Binomials to the existing topics.

Rest of the settings can remain the same.

10:25 Scroll down to the bottom of the page and this time click on the Save and return button.
10:34 Here is a small assignment for you: create a new course Linear Algebra under the category Mathematics.
10:44 Hide this course for now.
10:47 Mention the following topics in course summary: Linear equations, Matrices and Vectors.

Click on Save and Return button.

11:00 Pause the tutorial and continue when done with the assignment.
11:06 We now have 2 courses under Mathematics: Calculus and Linear Algebra.
11:14 Notice that a new icon has appeared next to the courses now.
11:20 The up and down arrows are to re-arrange the order of the courses.
11:26 We can also change the order using the drag and drop feature.

Let us move the Calculus course above the Linear Algebra course.

11:36

Both these courses are for 1st year students.

So, let us move them under the 1st Year Maths subcategory.

11:47 Check the checkbox to the left of the 2 courses in order to select them.
11:53 Then in the drop-down Move selected courses to, select Mathematics / 1st year Maths.
12:02 And click on the Move button.
12:04 We get a success message -Successfully moved 2 courses into 1st year Maths.
12:14 Note that the number of courses under Mathematics has become 0 and that under 1st year Maths is 2.
12:24 Click on 1st year Maths sub-category.
12:28 We can see our courses listed under this subcategory.
12:33 This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarize.
12:38 In this tutorial, we learnt: how to create a course,

how to perform actions like edit, move, etc. on courses.

12:50 Here is an assignment for you:

Add 2 courses to the subcategory 2nd Year Maths under Mathematics, namely-

13:00 Multivariable calculus and Advanced Algebra.
13:06 Refer to the Code files link of this tutorial for details.
13:12 Edit the courses to start on 15th October 2017.
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