Moodle/C2/Accessing-material-and-participating-in-forums/English

Title of the script: Moodle 4.5 – Accessing Materials and Participating in Forums

Author: Nancy Varkey

Keywords: moodle, moodle lms, lms, learning management system, educational lms, open-source lms, Moodle course navigation, conditional access, completion tracking, accessing learning materials, forum participation

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Slide: Title	Welcome to this spoken tutorial on Moodle 4.5 – Accessing Materials and Participating in Forums.
Slide: Learning Objectives	In this tutorial, we will learn: How students can access enrolled courses & navigate within How students can find & download attachments or course materials What a forum is in Moodle How students can access forum discussions
Slide: Target Audience	This tutorial is for students enrolled in Moodle courses.
Slide: System Requirements This tutorial is recorded using: Ubuntu Linux OS version 22.04 Moodle version 4.5 Firefox browser You can use any OS or web browser of your choice.	Recorded with Ubuntu, Moodle 4.5, and Firefox. Use any OS or web browser of your choice.
Slide: Prerequisites To follow this tutorial, you should: Have a student login Be enrolled in a course with course material and an active forum discussion For the prerequisite Moodle tutorials, please visit https://EduPyramids.org	Here are the prerequisites for this tutorial.
Login as Mahima Singh with username mahima.singh and password Mahima@123	Login to Moodle with your student Mahima’s account.
Screen: Dashboard → My Courses → list of courses	In the top menu, click on My Courses. We can see that Mahima is enrolled into 3 different courses.
Screen: Click on Advanced Algebra course	Click on the course named Advanced Algebra to open its page.
Screen: Course Page → Course Index (Left) Refer to screenshot 1 at the end of the script	Observe the Course Index on the left side. This index helps in navigating through the various course sections.
Hover your mouse over the accessible hyperlinked resources	Notice that some resources in the centre of the page are hyperlinked. This means you can click and access them.
Continue the same screenshot Point to the lock icons in the index and the centre of the page	Notice lock icons on certain resources in the index and the centre of the page. These resources display a condition to be fulfilled to open the access.
Highlight Assignment 2 and its condition	For example - In order to access Assignment 2, we need to complete Assignment 1.
Highlight Assignment 1 and its condition	And in order to access Assignment 1, we need to complete “Polynomials, Rational Expressions, and Their Applications”.
Click on “Polynomials, Rational Expressions, and Their Applications” → click on “Mark as done” → point to “Done”	Scroll up and click on “Polynomials, Rational Expressions, and Their Applications”. Once you have read it, click on “Mark as done”. The status now changes to “Done”.
Click on “Yet Another Calculus Text”	Next, click on the book chapter “Yet Another Calculus Text” in the index and read it.
Click Math-202 in the breadcrumbs	Click Math-202 in the breadcrumbs to go back to the course page.
Point to Assignment 1	Notice that the lock icon disappeared for Assignment 1.
Click on “Exponential and Logarithmic Functions” → click on “Mark as done”	You can also move to any section by clicking directly on it in the index. Read and click on “Mark as done”.
Click on “Group Theory and Basic Algebraic Structures” → click on “Mark as done”	Click on “Group Theory and Basic Algebraic Structures”. Read and click on “Mark as done”.
Click Math-202 in the breadcrumbs	Click Math-202 in the breadcrumbs to go back to the course page.
Point to “Single Variable Calculus” and then click	Notice that the lock icon for Single Variable Calculus disappears. Let’s click it.
Click on the link → YouTube video	Now click on the link provided therein which leads to a YouTube video.
Click the back arrow of the browser → click “Mark as done”	After watching it, click the back arrow of the browser and click “Mark as done”.
Click Math-202 in the breadcrumbs Scroll and look at all the resources & statuses	Click Math-202 in the breadcrumbs. Scroll and look at all the resources and their statuses.
Point to the green marker in the index for the completed resources	Resources that have a green marker in the index indicate they have been completed.
Click on My courses → Calculus	Now, let’s look at another course - Calculus.
Below General, click on Announcements → Click on All students	Here, below General, click on Announcements. Click on All students to read the announcement from teacher Nitya.
Click Math-101 in the breadcrumbs Scroll to the forum discussion	Click Math-101 in the breadcrumbs. Scroll to find the forum activity on this page.
Click on Introduce ourselves → Click on Reply link of the teacher’s post → type “Hello mam, happy to be in your class”.	Click on the discussion topic to open the forum discussion page. Here, click on the Reply link below teacher Nitya’s post and type a reply.
Click Math-101 in the breadcrumbs	Click Math-101 in the breadcrumbs to return to the Calculus course page..
Click the callout icon at the top right → click teacher Nitya’s message about a guest lecturer → close drawer by clicking the left arrow above	Click the callout icon at the top right to open the messaging drawer. Read teacher Nitya’s message about a guest lecturer. Close the message drawer.
	So this is how a student can access course materials and participate in forums!
Slide: Summary To summarize, we learnt how students can: Access enrolled courses & navigate within Find & download attachments or course materials What a Moodle forum is How students can access forum discussions	Here is the summary of this tutorial.
Slide: Assignment Login as the other student Amina Reply to the “Let’s introduce ourselves” discussion started by teacher Nitya	We encourage you to try out this assignment.
Slide: Acknowledgement Domain Expert: Nancy Varkey	This tutorial is brought to you by EduPyramids Educational Services, SINE, IIT Bombay. Thank you for watching!

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