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Admin’s dashboard in Moodle

Learning Objectives:

• Various blocks on the Admin’s dashboard
• Admin’s profile page and
• How to edit preferences

OS, Web Server and Moodle Versions

• Ubuntu Linux OS 16.04
• Apache, MariaDB and PHP obtained through XAMPP 5.6.30
• Moodle 3.3

and

• And Firefox web browser

You may use any web browser of your choice.

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

Prerequisites

• Learners of this tutorial should have Moodle 3.3 installed on their system.
• If not, please refer to the relevant Moodle tutorials on this website.

Enter http://127.0.0.1/moodle/

Make sure that the XAMPP service is running.

This is because we have not set any front page for our installation.

Type Spokentutorial1@ in the password field.

Click on Log in.

I will enter admin as the username and Spokentutorial1@ as the password.

Then click on Log in button.

The wider one on the left, is the main Content column.

The one on the right is the Blocks column.

Blocks in Moodle

• Blocks are items in these columns, that serve a specific purpose or information.
• Blocks are found on all pages of Moodle.
• You can think of them as shortcuts to critical parts of your course.

Highlight Online Users block

This is because we have not created any course yet.

A list of all courses will be seen-

• if a user (i.e a teacher or student or admin)
• is enrolled or assigned a role in courses.

Also notice that the Online Users block shows Admin User, which is our current login.

This block shows all the logged in users at any given point of time.

We can add blocks to any column of any page in Moodle.

Toggle it to close it.

On the top left corner, we can see a Navigation Drawer or Navigation menu.

This helps us to access Calendar and other Administration links.

This is a toggle menu.

Which means it changes its status from open to close and vice-versa, when clicked.

By default, this is the short site name.

Clicking on this, will get us to the dashboard from any page.

Highlight Profile and Preferences menu

It is also called the quick access user menu.

We will discuss the Profile and Preferences page in brief in this tutorial.

All these menu items are also toggle menus, similar to the one on the left.

• allow users to edit their profile information
• view their forum or blog posts
• check any reports they have access to and
• view their access logs and the IP address that was used to login the last time.

Click on the Expand all and Collapse all links

This page is divided into 5 sections:

• General
• User Picture
• Additional Names
• Interests
• Optional

The General section is expanded, by default.

Clicking on any section name expands or collapses it.

The ‘Expand all’ link on the right, expands all the sections.

Select India in the Select a Country dropdown.

Timezone: Asia/ Kolkata

Let’s add City / Town. I will type Mumbai.

Ensure that India is selected in the Select a country dropdown.

And, timezone is set to Asia/Kolkata

Only Admins can change password from this profile page.

Institution: IIT Bombay

Department: Mathematics

I will enter IIT Bombay in the Institution field.

Also, Mathematics in Department and a valid phone number in the Phone number field.

Click on Preferences.

Click on the Preferences link.

• User account
• Roles
• Blogs and
• Badges

It also sets preferences for Language, Forum, Calendar, Message, Notification, etc.

This means we’ll see notifications for all events happening in the next 2 weeks on the calendar.

Clicking on this, will open a help box with a short description of what the field stands for.

When in doubt about any field, always click on the help icon to understand its significance.

Click on Save Changes button.

This is the breadcrumb navigation.

It’s a visual aid that indicates which page we are on, within the Moodle site’s hierarchy.

With this, we come to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarize.

Summary

• Various blocks on the admin’s dashboard
• Admin’s profile page and
• How to edit preferences

Assignment 1

• Click on the Message Preferences. Users in Moodle can send private messages to each other.
• I do not want my messages to be delivered as email, even when I am offline.
• Look at the online and offline help box and ensure that the settings are correct.

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