Moodle/C2/Format-course-material/English
Title of the script: Moodle 4.5 – Format Course Material in Moodle
Author: Nancy Varkey
Keywords: moodle, moodle lms, lms, learning management system, educational lms, open-source lms, manage Moodle course sections, content formatting, multimedia integration, activity completion settings, organize course materials, Moodle HTML editor
| Visual Cues | Narration |
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| Slide: Title | Welcome to this spoken tutorial on Moodle 4.5 - Format Course Material in Moodle. |
| Slide: Learning Objectives | In this tutorial, we will learn how to:
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| Slide: Target Audience | This tutorial is intended for teachers who want to format their course materials in Moodle. |
| Slide: System Requirements
This tutorial is recorded using:
You can use any OS or web browser of your choice. |
Recorded with Ubuntu, Moodle 4.5, and Firefox.
Use any OS or web browser of your choice. |
| Slide: Prerequisites
To follow this tutorial, you should have:
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Here are the prerequisites to learn this tutorial. |
| Point to the user icon | We are logged in as teacher Nitya Jeevan. |
| Click Home → scroll and click on Calculus → point to Elementary Calculus | Let us now begin editing the course Elementary Calculus. |
| Click “Turn editing on” | First, turn editing on at the top right of the course page. |
| Click on pencil icon next to "Elementary Calculus" to edit section name | Click the pencil icon next to the topic name Elementary Calculus.
Type the new name Basic Calculus and press Enter. |
| Use move icon to drag topic "Matrices above Sequences and Series" | Use the handle icon to rearrange the sequential order. |
| For Matrices → Click Action menu → Duplicate → point to Matrices (copy) | To duplicate a topic, click Actions menu, and Duplicate. |
| For Matrices (copy) → Click Action menu → Delete | To delete a topic, click Actions menu, and Delete.
Confirm when prompted. |
| For Matrices → Click Action menu → Hide For Matrices → Click Action menu → Show | To hide a topic from students, click Actions menu, and Hide.
We see a new status "Hidden from students". Revert this to Show. |
| Let’s now explore the default HTML editor used in Moodle. | |
| For Matrices → Click Action menu → Edit Settings → Expand all | For Matrices, click Actions menu and Edit Settings.
Then click Expand all. |
| Come to Description box | Scroll to the Description box. |
| Use bold, italics, underline on the first line: 'Following sub-topics will be covered in this topic:' | On the text, you can apply formatting like Bold, Italics, and Underline. |
| Demonstrate bullets and numbering as shown below:
Following sub-topics will be covered in this topic:
Inverse and rank of a matrix, rank-nullity theorem; System of linear equations; Symmetric, skew-symmetric and orthogonal matrices; Determinants; Eigenvalues and eigenvectors; Diagonalization of matrices; Cayley-Hamilton Theorem, and Orthogonal transformation. |
Use Bullet or Numbered lists to organize the points for better readability. |
| Just point to Link icon | Use the Link icon, to add hyperlinks. |
| Just point to Image and Multimedia | Use the Image or Multimedia icons to upload visuals or videos. |
| Just point to Equation Editor | Use the Equation Editor icon to insert mathematical equations. |
| Just point to Table | Use the Table menu to add and configure structured content. |
| Click Save Changes | After making all the changes, click Save Changes. |
| View the changes in the text. | |
| Click Home → scroll down to My Courses → click on Advanced Algebra | Click Home, scroll down to My Courses and click on Advanced Algebra course. |
| Point to Polynomial and Rational Functions → 3 pages | In an earlier assignment, 3 pages were added below Polynomial and Rational Functions. |
| For Exponential and Logarithmic Functions→ click on Actions menu →Edit settings. | For Exponential and Logarithmic Functions, click on Actions menu and Edit settings. |
| Click Expand all. Scroll down to Completion conditions→ point to None →Select Students must manually mark the activity as done | Click Expand all.
Scroll down to Completion conditions. It shows None by default. Select Students must manually mark the activity as done. |
| For Set reminder in Timeline → check Enable.
Set the date as 15 July and time as 10am → click Save and return to course |
For Set reminder in Timeline, check Enable.
Set the date and time, and click on Save and return to course. |
| Point to the status | For Exponential and Logarithmic Functions, we can see a status button now. |
| Switch role to → Student | Now let’s view the course as a student.
Click Switch role to… and Student. |
| Student view | This is how the course appears to a student. |
| Revert back | Switch back to the teacher role. |
| Slide: Summary
To summarise, we have learnt:
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Here is the summary of this tutorial. |
| Slide: Assignment
As an assignment, add completion conditions to the 2 other resource pages of Polynomial and Rational Functions. (These 2 pages should already have been added by teacher Nitya in a previous assignment.) |
We encourage you to try out this assignment. |
| Slide: Acknowledgement
Domain Expert: Nancy Varkey |
This tutorial is brought to you by EduPyramids Educational Services, SINE, IIT Bombay.
Thank you for watching! |