Moodle-Learning-Management-System/C2/Courses-in-Moodle/English-timed

Time	Narration
00:01	Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Courses in Moodle.
00:06	In this tutorial, we will learn: how to create a course and how to perform actions on courses.
00:16	To record this tutorial, I will be using: Ubuntu Linux OS 16.04,
00:24	Apache, MariaDB and PHP obtained through XAMPP 5.6.30, Moodle 3.3 and Firefox web browser.
00:38	You can use any web browser of your choice.
00:42	However, Internet Explorer should be avoided as it causes some display inconsistencies.
00:50	Learners of this tutorial should know how to create categories in Moodle.
00:56	If not, please refer to the relevant Moodle tutorials on this website.
01:03	Switch to the browser and open your Moodle homepage. Make sure that XAMPP service is running.
01:11	Login with your admin username and password details.
01:16	We are now in the admin dashboard.
01:19	Click on the drawer menu to open the navigation menu on the left.
01:25	On the left side, click on Site Administration.
01:29	Click on the Courses tab and then on Manage courses and categories.
01:36	Note that we have only one category here which is Mathematics.
01:41	And two subcategories: 1st Year Maths and 2nd Year Maths which we created earlier.
01:50	Now, let us create a new course under Mathematics.
01:55	So, click on Create new course.
01:59	And, in the Add a new course screen, click on Expand All at the top right, in order to view all the fields.
02:12	In the Course full name text-box, we will type Calculus.
02:18	In Course short name, we will again type Calculus.
02:24	Course short name will be used in the breadcrumbs and course related emails.
02:31	This can also be different from the course full name.
02:35	Course Category is Mathematics, as we can see.
02:40	Next option is Course visibility. By default, Show is selected.
02:48	The Visible setting determines whether the course will be shown along with other courses or not.
02:56	A hidden course is visible only to those assigned to the course, like- Admin, Course creator, Teacher, Manager.
03:08	We will leave this setting as it is, for now.
03:12	Next comes the Course start date.
03:16	If the course begins on a particular date like semester start date, select that in the start date.
03:25	This means the course will not be visible to the students till the start date.
03:32	Course end date, by default, is enabled and set to the same date that the course is created.
03:42	Let me disable it by clicking on the checkbox. This would mean that the course will never end.
03:51	However, if there is an end date for the course, you can enable the checkbox here. Then select the date as per your requirement.
04:02	Important note: The course will not be visible to the students after the selected end date. I will leave it disabled.
04:13	Course ID number is similar to Category ID number. Course ID number is an optional field.
04:22	This is for admin users to identify the course with offline courses.
04:28	If your college uses IDs for courses, then you can use that course ID here. This field is not visible to other Moodle users.
04:40	This field is optional and is not displayed anywhere on the website. I am going to leave this as blank.
04:49	Next, under Description, we can see 2 fields: Course Summary and Course Summary files.
04:59	Course summary is an optional but important field. That is because the course summary text is also scanned when a user performs a search.
05:13	Listing topic names is a good idea here. Type the following:Topics covered in this Calculus course are: Limits,Graph of a function, Factorial.
05:29	Course summary is also displayed along with the list of courses.
05:35	Course summary files must be uploaded in Course summary files field.
05:42	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.
05:57	Course format refers to the way resources and activities are organized for students.
06:06	There are 4 options in the Format dropdown - Single Activity Format, Social Format, Topics Format and Weekly Format.
06:20	There are courses that run week by week.
06:24	If your course is like that, then select Weekly format.
06:30	Moodle will create a section for each week of the course, with a clear start date and an end date.
06:39	There are courses that run topic wise. If your course is like that, then select Topics format.
06:49	Moodle will create a section for each topic of the course.
06:55	The default for this field is Topics format. We will let it remain as it is.
07:03	The number of sections, by default, is 4.
07:07	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.
07:20	We will discuss the other formats in later tutorials.
07:25	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.
07:36	We are redirected to the Enrolled Users page. We will learn about user enrollment in a later tutorial.
07:46	For now, we have successfully created our first course Calculus under the category Mathematics.
07:56	While we are on this course page, notice that the menu on the left has changed.
08:03	The navigation menu on the left has menus related to the course we created. These include Participants, Grades etc.
08:15	Click on the course name Calculus on the left.
08:20	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.
08:34	Click on the gear icon at the top right of the page.
08:39	Then click on Edit settings. This will open a page similar to the page we were on, when we created this course.
08:51	We can make changes to the previous settings on this page. I will change the Course start date to 15th October 2017.
09:04	Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the Save and display button.
09:11	We will explore the other sub-menus under the gear menu later.
09:17	Let us now change the structure of our course a little bit.
09:22	Click on Site administration. Click on Courses and then Manage courses and categories.
09:31	Click on Mathematics category to see the course we created. Notice 3 icons on the right of the course.
09:42	Hover over the icons to see what they are.
09:46	The gear icon is for editing a course. The delete or trash icon is for deleting a course.
09:55	And, the eye icon is for hiding a course.
10:01	A hidden course will have the eye crossed to indicate the same.
10:07	We can click on the gear icon to the right of the course name, to edit the course settings.
10:14	I want to modify the Course Summary and add Binomials to the existing topics. Rest of the settings can remain the same.
10:25	Scroll down to the bottom of the page and this time click on the Save and return button.
10:34	Here is a small assignment for you: create a new course Linear Algebra under the category Mathematics.
10:44	Hide this course for now.
10:47	Mention the following topics in course summary: Linear equations, Matrices and Vectors. Click on Save and Return button.
11:00	Pause the tutorial and continue when done with the assignment.
11:06	We now have 2 courses under Mathematics: Calculus and Linear Algebra.
11:14	Notice that a new icon has appeared next to the courses now.
11:20	The up and down arrows are to re-arrange the order of the courses.
11:26	We can also change the order using the drag and drop feature. Let us move the Calculus course above the Linear Algebra course.
11:36	Both these courses are for 1st year students. So, let us move them under the 1st Year Maths subcategory.
11:47	Check the checkbox to the left of the 2 courses in order to select them.
11:53	Then in the drop-down Move selected courses to, select Mathematics / 1st year Maths.
12:02	And click on the Move button.
12:04	We get a success message -Successfully moved 2 courses into 1st year Maths.
12:14	Note that the number of courses under Mathematics has become 0 and that under 1st year Maths is 2.
12:24	Click on 1st year Maths sub-category.
12:28	We can see our courses listed under this subcategory.
12:33	This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarize.
12:38	In this tutorial, we learnt: how to create a course, how to perform actions like edit, move, etc. on courses.
12:50	Here is an assignment for you: Add 2 courses to the subcategory 2nd Year Maths under Mathematics, namely-
13:00	Multivariable calculus and Advanced Algebra.
13:06	Refer to the Code files link of this tutorial for details.
13:12	Edit the courses to start on 15th October 2017.
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