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| {{About Moodle}}
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| ==How does Moodle work?==
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| ===The Front page===
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| *The [[Front page]] of a Moodle site - the page you reach from your browser - usually includes information about the establishment itself and can be highly customised. (Note that it is also possible to lock the front page down so that all a user sees when they click on the Moodle URL is a log in screen.)
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| *How users [[Authentication|join a Moodle site]] depends on the establishment: they might be given logins; they might be allowed to make accounts themselves, or they might be signed in automatically from another system.
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| ===Inside Moodle===
| | Team One's Front Page |
| *Moodle's basic structure is organised around [[Course|courses]]. These are basically pages or areas within Moodle where teachers can present their learning [[Resources|resources]] and [[Activities|activities]] to students. They can have different layouts but they usually includr a number of central sections where materials are displayed and side [[Blocks|blocks]] offering extra features or information.
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| *Courses can contain content for a year's studies, a single session or any other variants depending on the teacher or establishment. They can be used by one teacher or shared by a group of teachers.
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| *How students [[Enrolment|enrol]] on courses depends on the establishment; for example they can self -enrol, be enrolled manually by their teacher or automatically by the admin.
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| *Courses are organised into categories. Physics, Chemistry and Biology courses might come under the Science category for instance.
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| ===Teachers, students and other Moodle users===
| | Our team is Patricia, Barbara, Gretchen and Karen. |
| *You don't enter Moodle with the "teacher" or "student" role.
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| *Everyone who logs into Moodle has no special privileges until they are allocated [[Roles_and_capabilities|roles]] by the administrator according to their needs in individual courses or contexts.
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| ===Finding your way around===
| | Our Mock course will be a hybrid 101 composition. |
| *A logged in user can access areas of Moodle such as their courses or profile from the [[Navigation block]] and [[Settings block]]. What a user sees in these blocks depends on their role and any privileges granted them by the administrator.
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| *Each user has their own customisable page, accessed from the [[My Moodle|Myhome]] link.
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| ==See also==
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| * [http://www.slideshare.net/mark.drechsler/moodle-structural-overview Structural overview] slide show by Mark Drechsler
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| * [http://www.slideshare.net/moodlefan/what-is-moodle-explained-with-lego-presentation What is Moodle explained with Lego] presentation by Tomaz Lasic
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Team One's Front Page
Our team is Patricia, Barbara, Gretchen and Karen.
Our Mock course will be a hybrid 101 composition.
