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'''Title of script: 2.3 Creating Courses''' 

'''Author: K.Sridhar and B.Abirami'''

'''Keywords: courses , course formats'''



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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.0139in solid #000000;border-left:0.0139in solid #000000;border-right:0.0139in solid #000000;padding:0.0382in;"| Welcome to Spoken-tutorial . In the coming few minutes we will talk on the different course formats and course settings . We will consider an example of creating a Microprocessor and Microcontroller course.




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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.0139in solid #000000;border-left:0.0139in solid #000000;border-right:0.0139in solid #000000;padding:0.0382in;"| On the left side of the front page, you’ll see the My Courses block, which includes a list of all the courses you are teaching or taking as a student, you can access the courses by clicking on the course name in the block.




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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.0139in solid #000000;border-left:0.0139in solid #000000;border-right:0.0139in solid #000000;padding:0.0382in;"| The course formats you can choose are:

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''LAMS format''

The Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) is an open source Learning

Management System (LMS) that allows teachers to use a Flash-based authoring

environment for developing learning sequences.

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''SCORM format''

The Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is a content packaging

standard. SCORM packages are self-contained bundles of content and JavaScript

activities that can send data to Moodle about the students’ scores and current

locations.

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''Social format''

The social format is based on a single forum for the whole course.

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''Topics format''

When you create a course using the topics format, you start by choosing the number of topics you will cover. Moodle creates a section for each topic.

You can add content, forums, quizzes, and other activities

to each topic section.




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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.0139in solid #000000;border-left:0.0139in solid #000000;border-right:0.0139in solid #000000;padding:0.0382in;"| To set the course format:

Click Settings in the Administration block.

&nbsp;Select the course format from the drop-down list just below the course&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; summary.




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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.0139in solid #000000;border-left:0.0139in solid #000000;border-right:0.0139in solid #000000;padding:0.0382in;"| &nbsp;Enter the parameters for your course:

• For the weekly format, set the start date and the number of weeks.

• For the topic format, set the number of topics.

• For the social format, set the course start date. You don’t need to worry about

the number of weeks or topics.




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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.0139in solid #000000;border-left:0.0139in solid #000000;border-right:0.0139in solid #000000;padding:0.0382in;"| To change your course settings:

&nbsp;Click Settings in the Administration block on your course page.

&nbsp;Review each of the general options to ensure they are correct for your course:

Course categories like “Computer Science and Engineering” which is created by the administrator” , full name “Microprocessors and Microcontrollers” , short name “µ p”, id number “101” , summary “This course covers an important part of Computer science by a thorough study of Microprocessors 8086,8087,80186,80286,80386 and Microcontroller 8051” , formats&nbsp; “weekly format” in&nbsp; weekly format we would have to mention the number of weeks and the start date of the course .The course format is of your choice.




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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.0139in solid #000000;border-left:0.0139in solid #000000;border-right:0.0139in solid #000000;padding:0.0382in;"| &nbsp;Select the enrollments options.

&nbsp;Select the enrollment expiry notification options to determine whether users are notified that their enrollment is about to expire and how much notice they should be given.




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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.0139in solid #000000;border-left:0.0139in solid #000000;border-right:0.0139in solid #000000;padding:0.0382in;"| &nbsp;Select the groups options based on whether your students will be divided into groups or if you take a whole class as a group mention it . 

&nbsp;Select the availability options .

&nbsp;Choose whether to force the language. If you do so, your students cannot change languages within the course.

Once you’ve made all your selections, click the “Save changes” button.

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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.0139in solid #000000;border-left:0.0139in solid #000000;border-right:0.0139in solid #000000;padding:0.0382in;"| The details of other options can be seen in the respective tutorials. Hope this tutorial was useful to know about courses in MOODLE.



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This tutorial has been created by Mr.Sridhar and Mrs.Abirami from SASTRA university.
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