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Latest revision as of 08:18, 3 August 2017

Visual Cue Narration
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Admin’s dashboard in Moodle

Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Admin’s dashboard in Moodle.
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Learning Objectives:

In this tutorial, we will learn about:
  • Various blocks on the Admin’s dashboard
  • Admin’s profile page and
  • How to edit preferences
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OS, Web Server and Moodle Versions

To record this tutorial I am using:
  • 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.

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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.
Switch to the browser.

Enter http://127.0.0.1/moodle/

Switch to the browser and open your moodle site.

Make sure that the XAMPP service is running.

You can see a blank page with only the headers.

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

Click on Log in Click on Log in link at the top right corner of the window.
Type admin in the username field.

Type Spokentutorial1@ in the password field.

Click on Log in.

Log in using your admin username and password that you had given when you installed Moodle.

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

Then click on Log in button.

The page that we see now is called the dashboard.
Point to the 2 columns We can see that our dashboard is divided into 2 columns.

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

The one on the right is the Blocks column.

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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 Private files, Online Users, Course Overview blocks. For eg. Private Files, Online Users, Course Overview etc. are the blocks on my dashboard.
Hightlight Course Overview block.

Highlight Online Users block

Notice that there are no activities or courses here.

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.

Point to block Every block in Moodle has a specific purpose.

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

Click on the menu bar to expand it.

Toggle it to close it.

Let us now look at the header of the page.

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.

Point to the logo Digital India LMS We then have the placeholder for the logo.

By default, this is the short site name.

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

Highlight the notification and messages icon. At the top right, there are quick access icons for notifications and messages.
Click on the Admin User menu.

Highlight Profile and Preferences menu

Next to that is the drop-down user 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.

Click on the Profile link. Next, click on the Profile link.
Highlight various sections of the Profile page. Every user in Moodle has a profile page. It has links to
  • 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.
Scroll down to show the various sections.

Click on the Expand all and Collapse all links

Now let’s click on the Edit Profile link. The Edit Profile page opens up.

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.

City/Town: Mumbai

Select India in the Select a Country dropdown.

Timezone: Asia/ Kolkata


All fields here are editable.

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.

Scroll down to the Optional Section that has instant messaging details.

Institution: IIT Bombay

Department: Mathematics

Let me add a few fields in the Optional section.

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 Update Profile Then click on Update Profile button to save the page.
Click on quick access menu.


Click on Preferences.

Now click on the quick access user menu at the top right, again.


Click on the Preferences link.

The Preferences page gives users quick access to various settings they may wish to edit.
Highlight the 4 sections. Preferences page for an admin account is divided into 4 sections:
  • User account
  • Roles
  • Blogs and
  • Badges
Scroll down to show the User account section. The User Account section allows the user to Edit Profile and Change Password.

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

Click on Calendar Preferences. Let’s click on the Calendar preferences.
Select 24-hour from the Time display format dropdown. We will set the calendar to display time in 24 hour format.
Select 2 weeks from the Upcoming events look-ahead dropdown. Also, we will set the Upcoming events look-ahead to 2 weeks.

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

Click on the help icon for Upcoming events look-ahead.


I want to highlight the help icon next to all the fields.

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. Let all the other options remain as they are.

Click on Save Changes button.

We will go through the rest of the preferences when we discuss those features later in this series.
Point to the breadcrumbs Notice the information here.

This is the breadcrumb navigation.

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

Point first to Dashboard It helps us to go back to a higher-level page with a single click.
Click on Dashboard Click on the Dashboard link in the breadcrumbs to go to the dashboard.
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With this, we come to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarize.

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Summary

In this tutorial, we learnt about:
  • Various blocks on the admin’s dashboard
  • Admin’s profile page and
  • How to edit preferences


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Assignment 1

Here is a small assignment for you.


  • 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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(About Spoken Tutorial Project)

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Please download and watch it.

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(About Spoken Tutorial Project)

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For more details, please write to us.

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(About Spoken Tutorial Forum)

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(Acknowledgement)

Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India.. More information on this mission is available at the link shown.
This script has been contributed by Priyanka.

And this is Nancy Varkey along with the Spoken Tutorial team signing off.

Thanks for joining.

Contributors and Content Editors

Itspriyanka, Nancyvarkey, Nirmala Venkat

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