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Revision as of 23:48, 29 October 2018

Visual Cue Narration
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Course Administration in Moodle

Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Course Administration in Moodle.
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Learning Objectives:

In this tutorial, we will learn about:
  • Course Administration in Moodle
  • Activities and Resources in a course
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OS, Web Server and Moodle Versions

This tutorial is recorded 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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Assumptions

This tutorial assumes that
  • your site administrator has set up a Moodle website
  • and registered you as a teacher.
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Prerequisites

  • Learners of this tutorial should have
    • a teacher login on Moodle
    • at least one course assigned to them by the administrator
    • some course material uploaded for their respective course
  • 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.
Username: becky0808

Password: Spokentutorial12#

Login with your teacher username and password details.


I am already logged in as teacher Rebecca Raymond.

We are in the teacher’s dashboard.
Point to Calculus In the navigation menu on the left, notice Calculus under My Courses.


Please note.

All the courses for which you are enrolled as a teacher or student will be listed here.

Click on Calculus Click on the Calculus course.
Highlight the course topics and summaries. We updated the course topics and summaries in the preceding tutorials.


If you didn’t do so, please refer to the assignments of the preceding tutorials.

We will now learn about some useful course settings.
Click on the gear icon Click on the gear icon at the top right of the section.
Click on Edit Settings.


Click on Expand All

Click on Edit Settings.


Then click on Expand All at the right, to expand all the sections.

The settings seen here, were defined by the administrator, when this course was created.
Highlight Calculus on top of the page.


In the General section, we have Course full name.


This is the name displayed at the top of the course page.

Highlight Calculus in the navigation menu on the left. Course short name is the name displayed in the course navigation and in course-related emails.
Point to Course category Course category is already set by the admin.
Course start date: 10 Aug 2018

Course end date: 10 Nov 2018

Leave Course ID number

We can change Course start date, Course end date and Course ID number, as per our requirements.
Description: Topics covered in this Calculus course are:
  • Basic Calculus
  • Intermediate Calculus
  • Sequences and series
  • Multivariable Calculus
  • Matrices


Under Description section, see the Course Summary textbox.


I will delete the existing content and type the following.


My students will see this on the front page of my course.

Point to Course summary files. Next comes the field Course summary files.


These are the files that will be displayed to the students, along with the Course summary.


By default, only jpg, gif and png file types are allowed as Course summary files.

Drag a file into the box

Point to the Upload icon

Point to the download arrow

There are 3 ways to upload a file:


  1. Drag and drop the file in the box.
  2. Click on the Upload or Add icon at the top left.
  3. Click on the downward arrow.
Point File picker


Click on Upload a file option

If you click on Upload or Add icon or on the downward arrow, the File picker dialog box opens.


Click on Upload a file option on the left menu.

Click on Browse button >> select a file >>select calculus.jpg Click on the Browse or Choose File button.


Then select the desired file from your machine.

I will select calculus.jpg from my system.

Point to the Save as field You can give it a different name by typing it in the Save as field.
Point to Author and Choose license fields Specify the author and license details in the respective fields.
Point to Upload this file button but don’t click Lastly, click on Upload this file button at the bottom.
So that’s how we can upload Course summary files.


Next comes Course format.

Click on Course format dropdown Course format refers to the way resources and activities are organized for the students.
Point to the 4 options as per narration.


There are 4 options in Format dropdown -
  • Single Activity Format
  • Social Format
  • Topics Format and
  • Weekly Format.
Point to Topics format.


Our admin has selected Topics format.

We will let it remain as it is.

Click on Hidden sections dropdown. Next setting is for Hidden sections.


These are basically topics in a course that can be kept hidden from students.


This can be useful when there is a certain topic, which is not yet completed by the teacher.


This setting determines how to present the Hidden sections to students.

Select Hidden sections are shown in collapsed form. Choosing this option will display the content in collapsed form to the students.
Then select Hidden sections are completely invisible. Choosing this option will hide the content from the students.
Select Hidden sections are shown in collapsed form We will let it remain as default, for now.
Click on Course Layout. The next drop-down is Course Layout. Click on it.
Click on Show all sections in one page. We can choose to show all sections in one page, by selecting this option.
Click on show one section per page. Another option here is Show one section per page.


This will split the course over several pages, depending on the number of sections.

Click on Show all sections in one page. We will let it remain on Show all sections in one page, for now.
Point to Appearance section Next is the Appearance section.
Show gradebook to students -> Yes Notice the Show gradebook to students option.


Many activities in the course allow teachers to assign grades.

This option determines whether a student can see those grades.


This option is set to Yes, by default. We will let it remain as is.

Show activity reports -> Yes We will change Show activity reports as Yes, if not already selected by default.


This ensures that a student can see his/her activity reports from his/her profile page.

Highlight Maximum upload size field We can set the maximum size of the files that can be uploaded for this course.


Files can be uploaded for additional materials, assignments, etc.


Our admin has set this to 128MB, which is the maximum file size.

Let us keep the size as it is.

We will let all the other settings remain at their default values.
Click on Save and display Scroll down and click on the Save and display button.


We are brought to the Course page.

Highlight Announcements Notice the Announcements link above the topic names.
This will let the students know about mandatory information, latest news, announcements, etc.
Click on the gear icon.

Click on Turn Editing On.

Click on the gear icon at the top right of the page and then on Turn Editing On.


NOTE: You need to turn the editing on, to make any changes to the course.

Click on Edit -> Edit settings Now, to the right of Announcements,

click on Edit and then Edit Settings.

Description: Please check the announcements regularly. And in Description I will type the following text.

“Please check the announcements regularly”.


Check Display description on course page. This will display the description just below the link.

Leave all other settings as they are.
Click on Save and return Scroll down and click on the button Save and return to course.


We come back to the Course page.

Click on Announcements To add more announcements, click on the Announcements title.
Click Add a new topic


Subject: Minimum Requirements


Message: This course requires you to submit a minimum of 3 assignments and attempt 5 quizzes to pass.

Now click on Add a new topic button.


Type the Subject as Minimum requirements.

Type the message as

“This course requires you to submit a minimum of 3 assignments and attempt 5 quizzes to pass”.

Highlight Discussion subscription


Notice that the checkbox Discussion subscription is checked and is non-editable.


This is because everyone enrolled in the course is compulsorily subscribed to it.

Highlight Attachments


Check Pinned checkbox

Next is Attachments. You can either drag and drop or upload related files here.


If you want the announcements to show up at the top of the forum, click on Pinned checkbox.


I will tick it.

Highlight Send forum post notifications with no editing-time delay Tick the next checkbox, as well.


This will send a notification to everyone subscribed to this forum immediately.

Expand Display period


Click on Post to forum

Expand the next section Display period.


The settings here determine if this forum post should be visible for a date range.


By default, these are disabled. It means the posts will always be visible.


We will let the default settings remain.


Scroll down and click Post to forum button.

Highlight the message A success message is displayed.


Post authors have 30 min to make any changes to the posts.

Click on Calculus Let me click on Calculus link in the breadcrumb.
Let me now add a page with detailed syllabus to this section.
Click on Add an activity or resource


Select Page.

Click on Add an activity or resource link at the bottom right of the General section.


From the list of Resources, choose Page.

Read the description of this activity that will appear when you make the choice.
Click on Add Then click on the Add button at the bottom.
We are brought to a new page.
Name: Detailed syllabus In the Name field, type Detailed syllabus.
Point to Description textbox I will leave the Description textbox blank because the title is self-explanatory.
Page Content:


Detailed contents:

Topic 1: Basic Calculus: (6 lectures)

Evolutes and involutes; Evaluation of definite and improper integrals; Beta and Gamma functions and their properties; Applications of definite integrals to evaluate surface areas and volumes of revolutions.

Topic 2: Intermediate Calculus: (6 lectures)

Rolle’s Theorem, Mean value theorems, Taylor’s and Maclaurin theorems with remainders; indeterminate forms and L'Hospital's rule; Maxima and minima.

Topic 3: Sequences and series: (10 lectures)

Convergence of sequence and series, tests for convergence; Power series, Taylor's series, series for exponential, trigonometric and logarithm functions; Fourier series: Half range sine and cosine series, Parseval’s theorem.

Topic 4: Multivariable Calculus (Differentiation): (8 lectures)

Limit, continuity and partial derivatives, directional derivatives, total derivative; Tangent plane and normal line; Maxima, minima and saddle points; Method of Lagrange multipliers; Gradient, curl and divergence.

Topic 5: Matrices (10 lectures)

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.

I will enter the detailed syllabus of this Calculus course in the Page Content textbox.


This content is available in the Code Files link of this tutorial.


You can download and make use of it while practising.

Click on Save and return to course Scroll down and click on Save and return to course button.


We come back to the course page again.

Click on user icon >> choose Log out We will now logout of our account.


To do so, click on the user icon at the top right.


Now choose Log out option.

Only narration Let me show you how this page will look like to a student.
Text on screen

Student: Priya Sinha

I have a student ID Priya Sinha with me.


This student has also been enrolled in the Calculus course by the admin.

Point to user icon I’ve logged in as student Priya Sinha.
Click on Calculus Now I will click on Calculus on the left.
Point to the top right This is how a student will view this page.


Notice that there is no gear icon at the top right of this page.


This is because students cannot edit any part of the course.

Click on the user icon at the top right and then on Log out option. We will now log out of the student id.
<PAUSE>

With this, we come to the end of this tutorial.


Let us summarize.

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Summary

In this tutorial, we learnt about:
  • Course Administration in Moodle
  • Activities and Resources in a course
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Assignment

Here is a small assignment for you.
  • Add a new Page resource detailing the course outcome.
  • Refer to the assignment code file of this tutorial for details.
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