/Setting Up the Environment/Creating courses
Title of script: 2.3 Creating Courses
Author: K.Sridhar and B.Abirami
Keywords: courses , course formats
| |
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
The course formats you can choose are:
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.
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.
Social format The social format is based on a single forum for the whole course.
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.
|
|
|
To set the course format:
Click Settings in the Administration block. Select the course format from the drop-down list just below the course summary.
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
To change your course settings:
Click Settings in the Administration block on your course page. 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 “weekly format” in 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.
|
|
|
Select the enrollments options.
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.
|
|
|
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 .
Select the availability options . 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. |
| Switch to slide 9 | The details of other options can be seen in the respective tutorials. Hope this tutorial was useful to know about courses in MOODLE.
|
| Switch to slide 10 | Spoken Tutorials are part of Talk to a Teacher. Supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India. More information:
http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro This tutorial has been created by Mr.Sridhar and Mrs.Abirami from SASTRA university. |
