How To Set Up Moodle Course

How to Create a New Course in Moodle in iii Simple Steps

Moodle can be complicated for first-time users.

Once you've set your Moodle website and installed a theme for Moodle, the adjacent footstep is adding course content.

Well, setting up a class in Moodle is quite simple, admitting a bit irksome. No reason to worry hither, we got you lot covered.

Let's get through it step by step!

Step #i Head Over to 'Site Assistants'

Once you log in as the administrator/manager (or course creator), the options to modify content, reporting, notification settings on your eLearning site, lies under the 'Site assistants' pick, and so that's where you lot need to head.

Step #2 Locate the 'Courses' Option

Click on the "Courses" tab

Out hither you encounter, "Manage courses & categories" settings nether the 'Courses' option.

Step #2.1 Click on 'Manage Courses & Categories'

Under 'Manage Courses & Categories' page, you should discover an option to create course categories or courses.

Since yous're creating your very first course, the default category present in Moodle is 'Miscellaneous'.

You could create a course under the 'Miscellaneous' category, but I'd suggest creating a new category first. Categories help you organize class content.

Stride #2.two Create a Course Category (Optional)

If you're on the 'Manage Courses & Categories' page, merely click on 'Create new category' under 'Course Categories'.

If not, there head to 'Site assistants → Courses → 'Add together a category'.

Make sure the parent category is set to 'Top' if this is non a sub-category,
Enter the 'Category proper noun' and click 'Create category'

Step #3 Create a Course

Finally! 😀

And so to create a course, click on 'Create a Class'.

The minimum settings you need are 'Grade total name' and 'Course brusque proper noun'; but let'south walk through settings which y'all would need to worry well-nigh:

Course Category: Set the 'Course category' as appropriate. If you've created a new category, make sure you prepare it here.
Visible: If you lot're course content is not completely set up, or you're creating the course on behalf of a teacher, set this field to 'Hide'.
Course summary: With this field, you lot can set a short description for your course, which will be available on the course archive page.
Course summary files: These are supporting media files for the grade. Y'all can upload an image here to be displayed forth with the grade summary.
Format (Class format): The format decides how grade content is laid out.
- With a Weekly format, courses content and activities are organized on a calendar week past calendar week ground from the start date till the terminate appointment. So, this is a time-sensitive course format. You tin select this format if you lot desire all students to be on par with each other when progressing with class content.
- If y'all want to separate course content into sections, but allow students to complete the content at their own footstep, you can option the Topic format.
- The Social format can exist used to prepare up a discussion forum for informal learning. There needn't be grade content per se, only discussions.
- With a Single Activity format y'all can set up an activity that students need to complete. This could be an consignment, quiz, lesson and then on.
Groups: If you do non want groups on your Moodle LMS, you can simply set this choice to 'No groups'. If not, you can utilize the 'Separate groups' (where members are unaware of other groups) or 'Visible groups' (where members can run across other groups) option to create a group for your form.
Tags: Quite often ignored, tags are important when creating a course. They assist students search for or navigate to a course of their involvement and can increase sign-ups.

Once you're washed setting up the class options, all y'all need to do is, HIT SAVE!

And y'all'll have created your very first Moodle course!

Edwiser RemUI PRO Tip

Course cosmos is simplified for Edwiser RemUI users.

With the quick link option present right under the "Admin Helper Sidebar" (right sidebar), you have a one-click option to create a new course, and set up the course category on the fly!

Next Blog: How to Add Course Content

Although the course clarification is added in course settings, course content in Moodle is added through activities. There are diverse types of activities that y'all can add such equally topics, assignments, quizzes and so on. Nosotros'll encompass them in detail in the next mail.

Until and so, use the annotate section to let me know if you have any questions on what we've discussed so far!

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