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Time Narration
00:01 Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Categories in Moodle
00:06 In this tutorial, we will learn about:

Course category

How to create categories & subcategories

How to perform actions on categories

00:20 To record this tutorial, I will be using:

Ubuntu Linux OS 16.04

Apache, MariaDB and PHP obtained through XAMPP 5.6.30

Moodle 3.3 And Firefox web browser

00:43 You can use any web browser of your choice.
00:47 However, Internet Explorer should be avoided, as it causes some display inconsistencies.
00:55 Learners of this tutorial should have Moodle 3.3 installed on their system.
01:02 If not, please refer to the relevant Moodle tutorials on this website.
01:09 Switch to the browser and open your Moodle homepage. Make sure that the XAMPP service is running.
01:18 Login with your admin username and password details.
01:23 We are now in the admin dashboard.
01:26 On the left side, click on Site Administration.
01:31 Click on the Courses tab and then Manage courses and categories.
01:38 We will be directed to a page with the title Course and category management. Let us understand what a course category is.
01:50 Course categories help to organize Moodle courses for the site users.
01:57 The default category for a new Moodle site is Miscellaneous.
02:03 Any new course will be assigned to this Miscellaneous category, by default.
02:09 However, it will be difficult for teachers and students to find their courses.
02:16 To make it easier to locate courses, they should be assigned in categories.
02:23 Most institutions organize courses by campus or department.
02:30 It is good to have descriptive names for better clarity.
02:35 We will go ahead and organize our courses by departments.

For eg. our Maths category will have all the Math courses.

02:47 Let us switch back to the Moodle site.
02:51 First we will understand the Course and category management page layout.
02:57 On the left, we have the Navigation block. And on the right, we have the Content region.
03:05 The content region is divided into 2 columns:

left column shows the course categories.

right column shows all the courses under the selected category.

03:20 By default, it is showing courses under Miscellaneous category.
03:26 This view can be changed from the menu located at the right.
03:32 Click on the down arrow to see the options.
03:36 Now click on Course categories. This changes the view to show only the course categories.
03:45 Let us click on the arrow again and change the view to see only the courses.

Click on Courses.

03:54 Notice that a new dropdown box has appeared now. This is the category dropdown.
04:02 Here we can select the category for which we want to show the courses.

Currently, it only has the Miscellaneous category.

04:13 Let us change the view back to Course categories and courses.
04:19 Now we will click on Create new category link to add a category.
04:26 Click on the Parent category dropdown box and select Top.Type Mathematics in the Category name.
04:36 Category ID number is an optional field. This is for admin users to identify the course with offline courses.
04:47 If your college uses ID for categories, you can use that category ID here. This field is not visible to other Moodle users.
04:58 For now, I will leave Category ID as blank.
05:03 In the Description textbox, I will type-

All mathematics courses will be listed under this category.”

05:12 Then click on Create category button.
05:17 We are now in the Course categories and courses view.
05:22 Here we can see 2 categories now: Miscellaneous and Mathematics.
05:29 Let us organize these categories further. Let us have separate 1st year Maths courses and 2nd year Maths courses.
05:40 For this, we will create a subcategory called 1st Year Maths inside the Mathematics category.
05:49 Click on Create new category link at the top of the listed categories.
05:56 Creation of the subcategory is same as that of a category.
06:02 Don’t select Top as the parent category.
06:06 Instead, select the category under which this subcategory should belong.
06:12 So here, we will type 1st Year Maths in the category name.
06:18 After that, we’ll type a Description and click on Create category button.
06:26 Notice that the categories on the left are listed in a tree format.
06:32 A category which has subcategories has a toggle icon to expand and collapse it.
06:41 Notice 3 icons on the right of the category.
06:46 Hover over the icons to see what they are.
06:50 The eye is for hiding the category.
06:53 A hidden category will have the eye crossed to indicate the same.
07:00 The arrow is for moving the category up or down.

It also has a settings gear icon, which is a menu; as shown by the down arrow.

07:12 Click on the settings gear icon for Miscellaneous category. It has options such as Edit, Create new subcategory, Delete etc related to the category.
07:28 Click elsewhere on the page to close this menu.
07:32 Let me collapse the navigation menu on the left for better view.
07:39 Next click on the settings gear icon for Mathematics category.
07:45 Notice that there are 4 extra submenus here related to sorting of the subcategories.
07:54 All categories that have subcategories will have these menu items.
08:01 The number to the right of the gear icon indicates the number of courses in that category.
08:09 There are sorting options below the list of categories.
08:14 At the end, is the option to change the parent category of a subcategory.
08:21 To use this option, you have to check the checkbox next to the subcategory you want to move.
08:29 Then select the new parent category and click on Move. We will not use this option right now.
08:38 This brings us to the end of this tutorial.

Let us summarize.

08:44 In this tutorial, we learnt about:

Course category

How to create categories & subcategories.

How to perform actions on categories.

08:57 Here is an assignment for you:

Add a new subcategory 2nd Year Maths under Mathematics.

Delete the category Miscellaneous.

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