Organise your courses

How to organise your courses

• A course in Moodle is an area on the site where teachers can add learning materials for students.
• A category is a list of related courses. For example in the Science category you can have courses on Physics, Chemistry and Biology.

Miscellaneous

• Miscellaneous is a category which is present in a new Moodle site. You can keep it or you can change its name like this:

1. Log in with your administrator account
2. From the left panel (the Navigation drawer) click Site administration
3. Click the Courses tab
4. Click Manage courses and categories
5. Click the Edit icon next to Miscellaneous and change its name.

Create a category

1. Log in with your administrator account
2. From the left panel (the Navigation drawer) click Site administration
3. Click the Courses tab
4. Click Manage courses and categories
5. Click Create new category
6. From Parent category, choose Top if you want a main category, not a sub-category of another category.
7. Add a name and, if you wish, a description, and click Create category