Moodle-Learning-Management-System/C2/Formatting-Course-material-in-Moodle/English-timed

Time	Narration
00:01	Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Formatting course material in Moodle.
00:07	In this tutorial, we will learn about: Resources in Moodle Adding additional course material Formatting options in the default text editor
00:21	This tutorial is recorded using: Ubuntu Linux OS 16.04 Apache, MariaDB and PHP obtained through XAMPP 5.6.30 Moodle 3.3 And Firefox web browser You may use any web browser of your choice.
00:48	However, Internet Explorer should be avoided, as it causes some display inconsistencies.
00:56	This tutorial assumes that your site administrator has set up a Moodle website and registered you as a teacher.
01:06	Learners of this tutorial should have a teacher login on Moodle at least one course assigned to them by the administrator some course material uploaded for their respective course
01:21	If not, please refer to the relevant Moodle tutorials on this website.
01:27	Switch to the browser and open your Moodle site.
01:31	Login with your teacher username and password details.
01:36	We are now in the teacher dashboard.
01:39	In the navigation menu on the left, notice Calculus under My Courses.
01:45	Click on the Calculus course.
01:48	We have already added announcements and some common course details earlier.
01:54	We will now add some additional course material.
01:58	All course material in Moodle are called Resources. These are material that a teacher uses to support learning.
02:09	Resources could be internal like lecture notes, books or external like Wikipedia links
02:19	Let’s begin. Click on the gear icon at the top right of the page and then on Turn Editing On.
02:29	Note you need to turn the editing on to make any changes to the course.
02:36	Click on Add an activity or resource link at the bottom right of the Basic Calculus section.
02:44	A pop-up opens with a list of resources.
02:48	Scroll down and select Page from the list. Read the detailed description about the resource on the right side when you select any resource.
03:01	Click on the Add button at the bottom of the pop-up screen.
03:06	In the Name field, I will type Lecture 1 Notes.
03:12	Then in the Description box, type “Involutes and construction of Involute of circle”.
03:22	Check the option Display description on course page.
03:27	Scroll down to see the Page Content box. Copy and paste the text from BasicCalculus-Involutes.odt file.
03:40	We will be uploading the image at a later stage. This file is available in the Code Files link of this tutorial.
03:51	Let us now format this text. Click on the down-arrow at the top left of the editor to expand the menu widgets.
04:03	I will make the headings more prominent, as shown.
04:07	The options in the text editor are similar to any other standard text editor. Here we can see options like Bold, Italics, Unordered and Ordered lists.
04:24	We also see options to hyperlink and unlink a text.
04:30	There’s an option to add an image, as well. Let us add an image after the text “Figure 1 shows the involute of a circle”.
04:41	Press Enter to make space for the image. Then click on the Image icon.
04:48	The Image properties window appears. If you want to insert an external image, you can enter the URL of the image here.
04:58	I will click on Browse Repositories button to upload an image.
05:04	A pop-up window opens with the title File Picker.
05:09	Click on Upload a file. Then click on Choose File or Browse button and select the file from your machine.
05:19	This image is also available in the Code Files link. You can download and use it.
05:26	Click on Upload this file button.
05:29	We will type the description as “This is the involute of a circle”.
05:36	Lastly, click on Save image button to insert the image.
05:42	The next option is to add media. This could be a URL, video or audio file. Again, this can be an external URL or can be uploaded from our machine.
05:58	The next option is Manage Files. Let’s click on it.
06:04	Manage Files option is to have a set of files that you want to store and display. This could include assignment submissions, resource files, etc.
06:17	They can be used by any other resource in this course. Notice that the image we uploaded just now, is also present here.
06:27	There are 3 icons on the left of this pop-up box.
06:32	First is the File picker. Let’s click on it.
06:37	It has options to see the server files, recent files, etc. Server files are the files which have been used elsewhere in the course and can be reused.
06:52	I will close this for now by clicking on the X icon.
06:57	Next, we will click on Create Folder icon, which is the second icon.
07:04	In the New folder name field, let’s type Assignments.
07:10	Then click on the Assignments folder to open it.
07:15	Let me drag my file inside the Assignments folder.
07:20	Now, click on the file that that was just uploaded.
07:24	This pop-up has the option to modify the file name and author. And also to download or delete the file.
07:34	I don’t wish to change anything. So I will click on the Cancel button at the bottom of the pop-up.
07:41	Now, pause the tutorial and do this small assignment: Create a folder Reference Material. Ensure that the folder is inside the Files folder and not inside the subfolder Assignments.
07:57	Upload the 3 files. You will find them in the Code files link of this tutorial.
08:05	Resume this tutorial after you complete this assignment.
08:10	Your File manager should now have 2 folders, named Assignments and Reference Material.
08:18	And another file named involutes-img1.png
08:26	Close the pop-up window by clicking on the X icon at the top right.
08:33	The next set of formatting options are Underline, Strikethrough, Subscript and Superscript.
08:45	Align and indent options follow these. These work as in any other text editor.
08:53	Let’s learn how to use the next option, that is the equation editor.
08:59	I want to add this sentence with an equation in it. So I will click on equation editor icon. Then use the equation editor to type the equation.
09:14	Details about how to use LaTeX to type equations, are in Additional Reading Material link. Click on Save equation button when you have finished.
09:29	Insert character, insert table and clear formatting options, work as in any other text editor.
09:40	The next two options are Undo and Redo. These get enabled, only when there is some unsaved text.
09:51	After this, we have 2 options for accessibility. The first icon is called Accessibility checker. The 2nd one is screen reader helper.
10:05	Details about accessible websites and these options, are in Additional Reading Material link.
10:14	The last option is to toggle from the editor view to HTML code view.This can be used to embed images, videos, PPT, interactive content, etc.
10:30	Click on toggle HTML again. This will bring us back to the normal editor view.
10:39	I have formatted the text using the bold, italics and list options for this demonstration.Do likewise for your content.
10:52	When you finish the formatting, scroll down to the bottom and click on Save and display button.
11:01	We can now logout of Moodle.
11:05	This is how student Priya Sinha will view this page.
11:11	With this, we come to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarize.
11:19	In this tutorial, we learnt about: Resources in Moodle Adding course material Formatting options in the default text editor
11:34	Here is another assignment for you. Add a new folder resource in Basic Calculus Add the reference files from the File Manager Refer to the Assignment link of this tutorial for details.
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