Moodle-Learning-Management-System/C2/Course-Administration-in-Moodle/English-timed
| Time | Narration |
| 00:01 | Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Course Administration in Moodle. |
| 00:07 | In this tutorial, we will learn about: Course Administration in Moodle
Activities and Resources in a course |
| 00:17 | This tutorial is recorded using: Ubuntu Linux OS 16.04 |
| 00:24 | Apache, MariaDB and PHP obtained through XAMPP 5.6.30 |
| 00:33 | Moodle 3.3 and Firefox web browser |
| 00:40 | You may use any web browser of your choice.
However, Internet Explorer should be avoided, as it causes some display inconsistencies. |
| 00:52 | This tutorial assumes that your site administrator has set up a Moodle website and registered you as a teacher. |
| 01:03 | Learners of this tutorial should have a teacher login on Moodle |
| 01:09 | At least one course assigned to them by the administrator
some course material uploaded for their respective course |
| 01:19 | If not, please refer to the relevant Moodle tutorials on this website. |
| 01:26 | Switch to the browser and open your moodle site. |
| 01:31 | Login with your teacher username and password details.
I am already logged in as teacher Rebecca Raymond. |
| 01:41 | We are in the teacher’s dashboard. |
| 01:44 | In the navigation menu on the left, notice Calculus under My Courses. |
| 01:51 | Please note. All the courses for which you are enrolled as a teacher or student will be listed here. |
| 01:59 | Click on the Calculus course. |
| 02:02 | We updated the course topics and summaries in the preceding tutorials. |
| 02:09 | If you didn’t do so, please refer to the assignments of the preceding tutorials. |
| 02:16 | We will now learn about some useful course settings. |
| 02:21 | Click on the gear icon at the top right of the section. |
| 02:26 | Click on Edit Settings. Then click on Expand All at the right, to expand all the sections. |
| 02:36 | The settings seen here, were defined by the administrator, when this course was created. |
| 02:44 | In the General section, we have Course full name.
This is the name displayed at the top of the course page. |
| 02:54 | Course short name is the name displayed in the course navigation and in course-related emails. |
| 03:03 | Course category is already set by the admin. |
| 03:08 | We can change Course start date, Course end date and Course ID number, as per our requirements. |
| 03:21 | Under Description section, see the Course Summary textbox.
I will delete the existing content and type the following. |
| 03:31 | My students will see this on the front page of my course. |
| 03:37 | Next comes the field Course summary files.
These are the files that will be displayed to the students, along with the Course summary. |
| 03:47 | By default, only jpg, gif and png file types are allowed as Course summary files. |
| 03:56 | There are 3 ways to upload a file: Drag and drop the file in the box. |
| 04:03 | Click on the Upload or Add icon at the top left.
Click on the downward arrow. |
| 04:11 | If you click on Upload or Add icon or on the downward arrow, the File picker dialog box opens. |
| 04:21 | Click on Upload a file option on the left menu. |
| 04:26 | Click on the Browse or Choose File button.
Then select the desired file from your machine. |
| 04:34 | I will select calculus.jpg from my system. |
| 04:40 | You can give it a different name by typing it in the Save as field. |
| 04:46 | Specify the author and license details in the respective fields.
Lastly, click on Upload this file button at the bottom. |
| 04:58 | So that’s how we can upload Course summary files. |
| 05:02 | Next comes Course format. Course format refers to the way resources and activities are organized for the students. |
| 05:12 | There are 4 options in Format dropdown -
Single Activity Format, Social Format , Topics Format and Weekly Format. |
| 05:26 | Our admin has selected Topics format.
We will let it remain as it is. |
| 05:33 | Next setting is for Hidden sections.
These are basically topics in a course that can be kept hidden from students. |
| 05:44 | 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. |
| 05:57 | Choosing this option will display the content in collapsed form to the students. |
| 06:04 | Choosing this option will hide the content from the students. |
| 06:09 | We will let it remain as default, for now. |
| 06:13 | The next drop-down is Course Layout. Click on it. |
| 06:19 | We can choose to show all sections in one page, by selecting this option. |
| 06:25 | Another option here is Show one section per page.
This will split the course over several pages, depending on the number of sections. |
| 06:37 | We will let it remain on Show all sections in one page, for now. |
| 06:43 | Next is the Appearance section. |
| 06:46 | Notice the Show gradebook to students option.
Many activities in the course allow teachers to assign grades. |
| 06:57 | 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. |
| 07:10 | We will change Show activity reports as Yes, if not already selected by default. |
| 07:18 | This ensures that a student can see his/her activity reports from his/her profile page. |
| 07:27 | We can set the maximum size of the files that can be uploaded for this course. |
| 07:34 | Files can be uploaded for additional materials, assignments, etc. |
| 07:41 | Our admin has set this to 128MB, which is the maximum file size.
Let us keep the size as it is. |
| 07:52 | We will let all the other settings remain at their default values. |
| 07:58 | Scroll down and click on the Save and display button.
We are brought to the Course page. |
| 08:06 | Notice the Announcements link above the topic names. |
| 08:11 | This will let the students know about mandatory information, latest news, announcements, etc. |
| 08:20 | Click on the gear icon at the top right of the page and then on Turn Editing On. |
| 08:28 | NOTE: You need to turn the editing on, to make any changes to the course. |
| 08:35 | Now, to the right of Announcements, click on Edit and then Edit Settings. |
| 08:44 | And in Description I will type the following text.
“Please check the announcements regularly”. |
| 08:52 | Check Display description on course page. This will display the description just below the link. |
| 09:01 | Leave all other settings as they are. |
| 09:05 | Scroll down and click on the button Save and return to course.
We come back to the Course page. |
| 09:15 | To add more announcements, click on the Announcements title. |
| 09:21 | Now click on Add a new topic button. Type the Subject as Minimum requirements. |
| 09:31 | Type the message as “This course requires you to submit a minimum of 3 assignments and attempt 5 quizzes to pass”. |
| 09:43 | 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. |
| 09:59 | Next is Attachments. You can either drag and drop or upload related files here. |
| 10:08 | If you want the announcements to show up at the top of the forum, click on Pinned checkbox.
I will tick it. |
| 10:18 | Tick the next checkbox, as well.
This will send a notification to everyone subscribed to this forum immediately. |
| 10:29 | Expand the next section Display period.
The settings here determine if this forum post should be visible for a date range. |
| 10:41 | By default, these are disabled. It means the posts will always be visible.
We will let the default settings remain. |
| 10:52 | Scroll down and click Post to forum button. |
| 10:57 | A success message is displayed. Post authors have 30 min to make any changes to the posts. |
| 11:08 | Let me click on Calculus link in the breadcrumb. |
| 11:13 | Let me now add a page with detailed syllabus to this section. |
| 11:19 | Click on Add an activity or resource link at the bottom right of the General section.
From the list of Resources, choose Page. |
| 11:32 | Read the description of this activity that will appear when you make the choice. |
| 11:39 | Then click on the Add button at the bottom.
We are brought to a new page. |
| 11:47 | In the Name field, type Detailed syllabus. |
| 11:52 | I will leave the Description textbox blank because the title is self-explanatory. |
| 11:59 | I will enter the detailed syllabus of this Calculus course in the Page Content textbox. |
| 12:07 | This content is available in the Code Files link of this tutorial.
You can download and make use of it while practising. |
| 12:18 | Scroll down and click on Save and return to course button.
We come back to the course page again. |
| 12:27 | We will now logout of our account. To do so, click on the user icon at the top right.
Now choose Log out option. |
| 12:39 | Let me show you how this page will look like to a student. |
| 12:45 | I have a student ID Priya Sinha with me.
This student has also been enrolled in the Calculus course by the admin. |
| 12:55 | I have logged in as student Priya Sinha. Now I will click on Calculus on the left. |
| 13:04 | This is how a student will view this page.
Notice that there is no gear icon at the top right of this page. |
| 13:14 | This is because students cannot edit any part of the course. |
| 13:20 | We will now log out of the student id. |
| 13:24 | With this, we come to the end of this tutorial.
Let us summarize. |
| 13:30 | In this tutorial, we learnt about: Course Administration in Moodle
Activities and Resources in a course |
| 13:40 | Here is a small assignment for you.
Add a new Page resource detailing the course outcome. Refer to the Assignment link of this tutorial for details. |
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