Moodle-Learning-Management-System/C2/Formatting-Course-material-in-Moodle/English-timed
Time | Narration |
00:01 | Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Formatting course material in Moodle. |
00:07 | In this tutorial, we will learn about:
Resources in Moodle Adding additional course material Formatting options in the default text editor |
00:21 | This tutorial is recorded using:
Ubuntu Linux OS 16.04 Apache, MariaDB and PHP obtained through XAMPP 5.6.30 Moodle 3.3 And Firefox web browser You may use any web browser of your choice. |
00:48 | However, Internet Explorer should be avoided, as it causes some display inconsistencies. |
00:56 | This tutorial assumes that
your site administrator has set up a Moodle website and registered you as a teacher. |
01:06 | Learners of this tutorial should have
a teacher login on Moodle at least one course assigned to them by the administrator some course material uploaded for their respective course |
01:21 | If not, please refer to the relevant Moodle tutorials on this website. |
01:27 | Switch to the browser and open your Moodle site. |
01:31 | Login with your teacher username and password details. |
01:36 | We are now in the teacher dashboard. |
01:39 | In the navigation menu on the left, notice Calculus under My Courses. |
01:45 | Click on the Calculus course. |
01:48 | We have already added announcements and some common course details earlier. |
01:54 | We will now add some additional course material. |
01:58 | All course material in Moodle are called Resources.
These are material that a teacher uses to support learning. |
02:09 | Resources could be internal like lecture notes, books or external like Wikipedia links |
02:19 | Let’s begin.
Click on the gear icon at the top right of the page and then on Turn Editing On. |
02:29 | Note you need to turn the editing on to make any changes to the course. |
02:36 | Click on Add an activity or resource link at the bottom right of the Basic Calculus section. |
02:44 | A pop-up opens with a list of resources. |
02:48 | Scroll down and select Page from the list. Read the detailed description about the resource on the right side when you select any resource. |
03:01 | Click on the Add button at the bottom of the pop-up screen. |
03:06 | In the Name field, I will type Lecture 1 Notes. |
03:12 | Then in the Description box, type “Involutes and construction of Involute of circle”. |
03:22 | Check the option Display description on course page. |
03:27 | Scroll down to see the Page Content box. Copy and paste the text from BasicCalculus-Involutes.odt file. |
03:40 | We will be uploading the image at a later stage. This file is available in the Code Files link of this tutorial. |
03:51 | Let us now format this text. Click on the down-arrow at the top left of the editor to expand the menu widgets. |
04:03 | I will make the headings more prominent, as shown. |
04:07 | The options in the text editor are similar to any other standard text editor. Here we can see options like Bold, Italics, Unordered and Ordered lists. |
04:24 | We also see options to hyperlink and unlink a text. |
04:30 | There’s an option to add an image, as well. Let us add an image after the text “Figure 1 shows the involute of a circle”. |
04:41 | Press Enter to make space for the image. Then click on the Image icon. |
04:48 | The Image properties window appears. If you want to insert an external image, you can enter the URL of the image here. |
04:58 | I will click on Browse Repositories button to upload an image. |
05:04 | A pop-up window opens with the title File Picker. |
05:09 | Click on Upload a file. Then click on Choose File or Browse button and select the file from your machine. |
05:19 | This image is also available in the Code Files link. You can download and use it. |
05:26 | Click on Upload this file button. |
05:29 | We will type the description as “This is the involute of a circle”. |
05:36 | Lastly, click on Save image button to insert the image. |
05:42 | The next option is to add media. This could be a URL, video or audio file. Again, this can be an external URL or can be uploaded from our machine. |
05:58 | The next option is Manage Files. Let’s click on it. |
06:04 | Manage Files option is to have a set of files that you want to store and display. This could include assignment submissions, resource files, etc. |
06:17 | They can be used by any other resource in this course. Notice that the image we uploaded just now, is also present here. |
06:27 | There are 3 icons on the left of this pop-up box. |
06:32 | First is the File picker. Let’s click on it. |
06:37 | It has options to see the server files, recent files, etc. Server files are the files which have been used elsewhere in the course and can be reused. |
06:52 | I will close this for now by clicking on the X icon. |
06:57 | Next, we will click on Create Folder icon, which is the second icon. |
07:04 | In the New folder name field, let’s type Assignments. |
07:10 | Then click on the Assignments folder to open it. |
07:15 | Let me drag my file inside the Assignments folder. |
07:20 | Now, click on the file that that was just uploaded. |
07:24 | This pop-up has the option to modify the file name and author. And also to download or delete the file. |
07:34 | I don’t wish to change anything. So I will click on the Cancel button at the bottom of the pop-up. |
07:41 | Now, pause the tutorial and do this small assignment:
Create a folder Reference Material. Ensure that the folder is inside the Files folder and not inside the subfolder Assignments. |
07:57 | Upload the 3 files. You will find them in the Code files link of this tutorial. |
08:05 | Resume this tutorial after you complete this assignment. |
08:10 | Your File manager should now have 2 folders, named Assignments and Reference Material. |
08:18 | And another file named involutes-img1.png |
08:26 | Close the pop-up window by clicking on the X icon at the top right. |
08:33 | The next set of formatting options are
Underline, Strikethrough, Subscript and Superscript. |
08:45 | Align and indent options follow these. These work as in any other text editor. |
08:53 | Let’s learn how to use the next option, that is the equation editor. |
08:59 | I want to add this sentence with an equation in it. So I will click on equation editor icon. Then use the equation editor to type the equation. |
09:14 | Details about how to use LaTeX to type equations, are in Additional Reading Material link. Click on Save equation button when you have finished. |
09:29 | Insert character, insert table and clear formatting options, work as in any other text editor. |
09:40 | The next two options are Undo and Redo. These get enabled, only when there is some unsaved text. |
09:51 | After this, we have 2 options for accessibility. The first icon is called Accessibility checker. The 2nd one is screen reader helper. |
10:05 | Details about accessible websites and these options, are in Additional Reading Material link. |
10:14 | The last option is to toggle from the editor view to HTML code view.This can be used to embed images, videos, PPT, interactive content, etc. |
10:30 | Click on toggle HTML again. This will bring us back to the normal editor view. |
10:39 | I have formatted the text using the bold, italics and list options for this demonstration.Do likewise for your content. |
10:52 | When you finish the formatting, scroll down to the bottom and click on Save and display button. |
11:01 | We can now logout of Moodle. |
11:05 | This is how student Priya Sinha will view this page. |
11:11 | With this, we come to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarize. |
11:19 | In this tutorial, we learnt about:
Resources in Moodle Adding course material Formatting options in the default text editor |
11:34 | Here is another assignment for you.
Add a new folder resource in Basic Calculus Add the reference files from the File Manager Refer to the Assignment link of this tutorial for details. |
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