Moodle/C2/Students-dashboard-in-Moodle/English
Title of the script: Moodle 4.5 – Student’s Dashboard in Moodle
Author: Nancy Varkey
Keywords: moodle, moodle lms, lms, learning management system, educational lms, open-source lms, student dashboard navigation, enrolled courses, messaging in Moodle, profile editing, student dashboard
| Visual Cues | Narration |
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| Slide: Title | Welcome to this Spoken Tutorial on Moodle 4.5 - Student’s Dashboard in Moodle. |
| Slide: Learning Objectives | In this tutorial, we will learn:
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| Slide: Target Audience | This tutorial is for students who are accessing their Student Dashboard in Moodle. |
| Slide: System Requirements
This tutorial is recorded using:
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:
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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 | After login, you will land on the Dashboard.
This is the personalized homepage for each student. |
| Click Edit mode | Turn on the Edit mode at the top right. |
| Screen: Block Drawer – Calendar, Online Users | Click on the block drawer arrow at the top right side.
You will see blocks like Online users and Calendar. |
| Screen: Add a Block below Dashboard→ Latest Announcements | To add more blocks, click Add a block below Dashboard.
Let’s select the Latest Announcements block. This is a useful block for students that shows course-wise announcements. |
| Click on "My courses" in the top menu | Now, let’s look at Mahima’s enrolled courses. Click on My courses in the top menu. |
| Point to the 3 courses one by one | This is the list of all courses the student is enrolled in.
Please note: Only published courses are visible to students. |
| Recall Mahima was enrolled earlier to these courses by the teacher and the Site admin. | |
| Screen: Profile Dropdown → Profile | Now let’s look at the personal details settings.
To edit your profile, click on your username at the top right. Then click Profile. |
| Screen: Edit Profile Page
Add any city (Pune and country (India) → click on Update Profile |
Click on Edit profile and Expand all.
You can update name, city, description, or upload or update your profile photo. Once done, save the changes by clicking on the Update Profile button. |
| Now, let’s learn to send some messages. | |
| Click on Dashboard → look at Online Users block
Point to Mahima (you will see her online if you followed my instructions at the beginning of the script) |
Click on Dashboard and look at the Online Users block.
You can see other students here when they are logged in. |
| Click on the callout icon | Click on the callout icon next to Amina Hasan. |
| Type "Hello Amina" → Enter | Type “Hello Amina” and press Enter. |
| Type “Can I meet you at 4pm today in the library?” → Enter | Then type “Can I meet you at 4pm today in the library?” and press Enter. |
| Just perform the below steps
Switch to the private browser window where Amina is logged in. Click on Dashboard and look at the Online Users block. Click on the callout icon next to Mahima. |
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| Point to Amina's messages | Let’s look at student Amina’s dashboard now.
Here are Mahima’s messages. |
| So that’s a quick overview of the Student’s dashboard! | |
| Slide: Summary
In this tutorial, we learnt:
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Here is the summary of this tutorial. |
| Slide: Assignment
As an assignment:
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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! |
