Nirmala Venkat at 06:25, 18 February 2019

2019-02-18T06:25:26Z

Nancyvarkey at 18:22, 29 October 2018

2018-10-29T18:22:50Z

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.176cm;"| '''''Visual Cue'''''
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.176cm;"| '''''Narration'''''

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.176cm;"| '''Show Slide 1:'''

'''Courses in Moodle'''
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.176cm;"| Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on '''Courses in Moodle.'''

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.176cm;"| '''Show Slide 2:'''

Learning Objectives:
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.176cm;"| In this tutorial, we will learn:

* How to create a '''course '''and
* How to perform actions on '''courses.'''

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.176cm;"| '''Show Slide 3:'''

OS, Web Server and Moodle Versions
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.176cm;"| To record this tutorial, I will be using:

* '''Ubuntu Linux OS 16.04'''
* '''Apache, MariaDB '''and''' PHP''' obtained through''' XAMPP 5.6.30'''
* '''Moodle 3.3'''
* And '''Firefox '''web browser

You can use any web browser of your choice.

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

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| '''Show Slide 4:'''

Prerequisites
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| * Learners of this tutorial should know how to create '''categories''' in '''Moodle'''.
* If not, please refer to the relevant''' Moodle''' tutorials on this website.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Switch to the browser.

Enter http://127.0.0.1/moodle/
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Switch to the browser and open your '''Moodle''' homepage.

Make sure that '''XAMPP service''' is running.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Login
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Login with your '''admin username''' and '''password''' details.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"|
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| We are now in the '''admin dashboard'''.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on the drawer menu.

Click on '''Site Administration'''.

Click on '''Courses''' -> '''Manage courses and categories'''
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on the drawer menu to open the navigation menu on the left.

On the left side, click on '''Site Administration'''.

Click on the '''Courses''' tab and then on '''Manage courses and categories'''.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Point to '''Mathematics'''
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Note that we have only one '''category '''here, which is '''Mathematics.'''

|-
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Point to the 2 subcategories.
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| And two '''subcategories: 1st Year Maths '''and '''2nd Year Maths, '''which we created earlier.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"|
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Now, let us create a new '''course''' under '''Mathematics'''.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on '''Create new course'''.
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| So click on '''Create new course'''.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on '''Expand All'''

Course full name -> '''Calculus'''
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| And in the '''Add a new course''' screen, click on '''Expand All '''at the top right, in order to view all the fields.

In the '''Course full name''' textbox, we will type '''Calculus.'''

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Course short name ->''' Calculus'''
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| In '''Course short name''', we will again type '''Calculus'''.

'''Course short name''' will be used in the '''breadcrumbs''' and '''course''' related emails.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"|
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| This can also be different from the '''course full name'''.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Point to course category
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| '''Course Category''' is '''Mathematics,''' as we can see.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Point to Course Visibility

Visible: '''Show'''
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Next option is''' Course visibility. '''By default, '''Show''' is selected'''.'''

The '''Visible''' setting determines whether the '''course''' will be shown along with other '''courses,''' or not.

A hidden '''course''' is visible only to those assigned to the '''course''', like-

* '''Admin'''
* '''Course creator'''
* '''Teacher'''
* '''Manager'''

We will leave this setting as it is, for now.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Point to '''Course Start date'''
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Next comes the '''Course start date'''.

If the '''course''' begins on a particular date like semester start date, select that in the '''start date'''.

This means the '''course''' will not be visible to the students till the '''start date'''.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Point to '''Course end date'''
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| '''Course end date,''' by default, is enabled and set to the same date that the course is created.

Let me disable it by clicking on the checkbox.

This would mean that the '''course''' will never end.

However, if there is an end date for the '''course''', you can enable the checkbox here.

Then select the date as per your requirement.

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

I will leave it disabled.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Point to '''Course ID Number'''.
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| '''Course ID number '''is similar to '''Category ID number'''.

'''Course ID number '''is an optional field.

This is for '''admin users''' to identify the '''course '''with offline '''courses'''.

If your college uses '''IDs''' for '''courses''', then you can use that '''course ID '''here.

This field is not visible to other '''Moodle users'''.

This field is optional and is not displayed anywhere on the website.

I am going to leave this as blank.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Point to '''Course Summary''' and '''Course''' '''Summary files'''.
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Next under '''Description''' we can see 2 fields: '''Course Summary''' and '''Course''' '''Summary files'''.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Point to '''Course Summary'''
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| '''Course summary''' is an optional but important field.

That is because the '''course summary''' text is also scanned when a '''user''' performs a search.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| '''Topics covered in this Calculus course are:'''

* '''Limits'''
* '''Graph of a function'''
* '''Factorial'''

| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Listing topic names is a good idea here.

Type the following:

'''Topics covered in this Calculus course are:'''

* '''Limits'''
* '''Graph of a function'''
* '''Factorial'''

'''Course summary '''is also displayed along with the list of '''courses'''.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Point to Course summary files.
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Course summary files must be uploaded in '''Course summary files''' field.

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.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on '''Course format '''dropdown
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| '''Course format''' refers to the way resources and activities are organized for students.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Point to the 4 options as per narration.

| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| There are 4 options in the '''Format''' dropdown -

* '''Single Activity Format'''
* '''Social Format'''
* '''Topics Format '''And
* '''Weekly Format'''.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Point to '''Weekly''' '''format'''.

| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| There are '''courses''' that run week by week.

If your '''course''' is like that, then select '''Weekly''' '''format'''.

'''Moodle''' will create a section for each week of the '''course, '''with a clear start date and an end date.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Point to '''Topics''' '''format'''.
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| There are '''courses''' that run topic wise.

If your '''course''' is like that, then select '''Topics''' '''format'''.

'''Moodle''' will create a section for each '''topic''' of the '''course'''.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Point to '''Topics''' '''format'''.

Select '''5''' in '''Number of sections'''
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| The default for this field is '''Topics format'''.

We will let it remain as it is.

The number of sections, by default, is 4.

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.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"|
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| We will discuss the other '''formats''' in later tutorials.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on '''Save and display'''.
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| 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.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"|
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| We are redirected to the '''Enrolled Users''' page.

We will learn about '''user enrollment '''in a later tutorial.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Point to '''Calculus '''under '''Mathematics'''.
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| For now, we have successfully created our first '''course Calculus '''under the '''category Mathematics'''.

|-
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Point to the navigation menu
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| While we are on this '''course page''', notice that the menu on the left has changed.

|-
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Point to '''Participants''', '''Grades'''
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| The navigation menu on the left has menus related to the '''course''' we created.

These include '''Participants''', '''Grades''' etc.

|-
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on '''Calculus''' on the left.
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on the course name '''Calculus''' on the left.

|-
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Point to '''Topic 1, Topic 2''' etc
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| 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.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on gear icon at the top right
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on the gear icon at the top right of the page.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on '''Edit settings'''.

| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Then click on '''Edit settings'''.

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

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Change '''Course start date''' to 15th October 2017.
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| We can make changes to the previous settings on this page.

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

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on '''Save and display''' button.
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the '''Save and display''' button.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"|
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| We will explore the other '''submenus''' under the gear menu later.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"|
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Let us now change the structure of our '''course''' a little bit.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on '''Site Administration -> Courses -> Manage courses and categories'''.
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on '''Site administration'''.

Click on '''Courses''' and then '''Manage courses and categories'''.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on '''Mathematics'''.
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on '''Mathematics category''' to see the '''course''' we created.

Notice 3 icons on the right of the '''course'''.

|-
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Hover over the icons
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Hover over the icons to see what they are.

|-
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Hover over the gear icon.

Hover over the trash icon.

Hover over the eye icon.
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| The gear icon is for editing a '''course.'''

The delete or '''trash''' icon is for deleting a '''course'''.

And the eye icon is for hiding a '''course'''.

|-
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on the eye icon - once to close and once to open
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| A hidden '''course''' will have the eye crossed to indicate the same.

|-
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on the gear icon.
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| We can click on the gear icon to the right of the course name, to edit the '''course settings'''.

|-
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Add '''Binomials '''at the end of the '''Course Summary'''

| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| I want to modify the '''Course Summary''' and add '''Binomials''' to the existing topics.

Rest of the settings can remain the same.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on '''Save and return'''

| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Scroll down to the bottom of the page and this time click on the '''Save and return''' button.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| '''Show Slide 5:'''

Assignment
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Here is a small assignment for you:

* Create a new course '''Linear Algebra '''under the '''category Mathematics'''.
* Hide this '''course''' for now.
* Mention the following topics in '''course summary: Linear equations, Matrices '''and''' Vectors'''.
* Click on '''Save and Return '''button.

Pause the tutorial and continue when done with the assignment.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Highlight the down and up arrow icons.
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| We now have 2 '''courses''' under '''Mathematics''': '''Calculus''' and '''Linear Algebra'''.

Notice that a new icon has appeared next to the '''courses''' now.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Point to the up and down arrows
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| The up and down arrows are to re-arrange the order of the '''courses'''.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Drag and drop as per narration
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| We can also change the order using the drag and drop feature.

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

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"|
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Both these '''courses''' are for 1st year students.

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

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Check the checkboxes next to '''Calculus '''and''' Linear Algebra'''
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Check the checkbox to the left of the 2 '''courses''' in order to select them.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Select '''Mathematics / 1st year Maths '''in the drop down '''Move selected courses to…'''
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Then in the dropdown '''Move selected courses to…''', select '''Mathematics / 1st year Maths'''.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on '''Move '''button.
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| And click on the '''Move''' button.

|-
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Highlight the success message.
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| We get a success message''' -'''

'''Successfully moved 2 courses into 1st year Maths'''.

|-
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Highlight the number of courses.
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Note that the number of '''courses''' under '''Mathematics''' has become 0 and that under '''1st year Maths '''is 2.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on '''1st year Maths '''
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Click on '''1st year Maths sub-category.'''

|-
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Highlight the sort options.
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| We can see our '''courses''' listed under this '''subcategory'''.

This brings us to the end of this tutorial.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"|
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| <PAUSE>

Let us summarize.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| '''Show Slide 6:'''

Summary
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| In this tutorial, we learnt:

* How to create '''a course'''
* How to perform actions like edit, move, etc. on '''courses'''.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| '''Show Slide 7:'''

Assignment
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Here is an assignment for you:

* Add 2 '''courses '''to the '''subcategory 2nd Year Maths '''under''' Mathematics, '''namely''' '''
** '''Multivariable calculus''' and
** '''Advanced Algebra.'''

* Refer to assignment-code file of this tutorial for details.
* Edit the '''courses''' to start on 15th October 2017.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.176cm;"| '''Show Slide''' '''8:'''

(About Spoken Tutorial Project)
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.176cm;"| The video at the following link, summarizes the '''Spoken Tutorial '''project.

Please download and watch it.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.176cm;"| '''Show Slide 9:'''

(About Spoken Tutorial Project)
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.176cm;"| The '''Spoken Tutorial''' Project Team conducts workshops and gives certificates.

For more details, please write to us.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.176cm;"| '''Show Slide 10:'''

(About Spoken Tutorial Forum)

* Do you have questions in THIS '''Spoken Tutorial'''?
* Please visit '''http://forums.spoken-tutorial.org'''
* Choose the minute and second where you have the question
* Explain your question briefly
* Someone from our team will answer them

| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.176cm;"| Please post your timed queries in this forum.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.176cm;"| Show Slide 11:

(Acknowledgement)
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.176cm;"| Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India. More information on this mission is available at the link shown.

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| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.176cm;"|
| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.176cm;"| This script has been contributed by Priyanka.

And this is Nancy Varkey along with the spoken tutorial team signing off. Thanks for joining.

|}

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 ** '''Multivariable calculus''' and
 ** '''Advanced Algebra.'''
-* Refer to assignment-code file of this tutorial for details.
+* Refer to the '''Code files''' link of this tutorial for details.
 * Edit the '''courses''' to start on 15th October 2017.

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 * How to create a '''course '''and
 * How to perform actions on '''courses.'''
 |-
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 OS, Web Server and Moodle Versions
 | style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.176cm;"| To record this tutorial, I will be using:
 * '''Ubuntu Linux OS 16.04'''
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 Prerequisites
-| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| * Learners of this tutorial should know how to create '''categories''' in '''Moodle'''.
+| style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"|
 * If not, please refer to the relevant''' Moodle''' tutorials on this website.
 |-
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 |-
 | style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| '''Topics covered in this Calculus course are:'''
 * '''Limits'''
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 '''Topics covered in this Calculus course are:'''
 * '''Limits'''
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 * '''Topics Format '''And
 * '''Weekly Format'''.
 |-
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 Summary
 | style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| In this tutorial, we learnt:
 * How to create '''a course'''
 * How to perform actions like edit, move, etc. on '''courses'''.
 |-
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 Assignment
 | style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.106cm;"| Here is an assignment for you:
 * Add 2 '''courses '''to the '''subcategory 2nd Year Maths '''under''' Mathematics, '''namely''' '''
 ** '''Multivariable calculus''' and
 ** '''Advanced Algebra.'''
 * Refer to assignment-code file of this tutorial for details.
 * Edit the '''courses''' to start on 15th October 2017.
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Moodle-Learning-Management-System/C2/Courses-in-Moodle/English - Revision history

Nirmala Venkat at 06:25, 18 February 2019

Nancyvarkey at 18:22, 29 October 2018

Itspriyanka: Created page with " {| style="border-spacing:0;" | style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.176cm;"| '''''Visual Cue''''' | style="border:1pt solid #000001;padding:0.176cm;"| '''''Nar..."