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Template:TOCright Assuming you have access to a Moodle installation as a teacher, with access to at least a sandpit/demo "course" in which you have a teacher role, then here's the stuff to work through.

This is an evolving "teacher-level" resource, initially for myself, as I work with learning about the enablements and disablements of Moodle as a teaching and learning tool.

I have several questions below... feel free to provide responses on this page or the accompanying talk page.

Beginning Moodle

  1. Beginning Moodle (4 min video)
  2. Course settings - adjust these to suit your needs
    1. Currently, I am unable to access "settings" in my UC Moodle Sandpit admin block in order to change the format of the site (from weekly to topic).
  3. Assign roles
    1. Currently, I am unable to assign colleagues to lecturer-level roles on UC's installation of Moodle.
  4. How can I add a text block be added at the top of my site, in the centre, in order to create a welcome/introduction to the site?
    1. Ah, I seem to recall that maybe the only way to do this is to use Week 1 or Topic 1?? Seems like maybe this is a Moodle quirk?

Email

There are several important issues about email to be considered, and several points at which the receiving of emails can be triggered, and configured.

From a user point of view, his/her global email settings can be set via Edit profile. The (default) settings, appear as:

User profile email settings. There is some poor usability evident here e.g., options for "no digest" but no option called "digest"! What if I one wanted "one email per post"? Which option should I choose. It could be worth a look at the more user-friendly options provided for this at Google Groups.

Design tips

  1. Switch everything off when designing a site, then start from scratch.

Videos

See also