Course homepage: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 13:07, 14 July 2008

A new course entered for the first time will be mostly blank. Course templates have block areas on the left and right sides, with course Activity modules and Resources grouped by sections to fit your needs.

Generally speaking, the first or top section is not numbered and was designed for general information and to contain activities and resources useful during the course. Most courses will have at least one additional section.

The view of your course homepage depends on which block areas you choose to appear using the Blocks field. All of the blocks can be shifted around according to one's liking, due to which the view of the course homepage may differ.

Standard view of a blank course

Example of Weekly format, teacher view, edit off

Here are basic elements of a course page and links to Moodle documentation.

Parts of a course homepage

*1 Course long name	*7 Course header & News topic	*10 Login information
*2 Navigation bar	*8 Current week	*11 Edit on button
*3 Course description	*9 Future week	*12 Latest news
*4 Participant list		*13 Upcoming events
*5 Forum list		*14 Recent activity
*6 Course administration block

Topic format example

Example of Topic format. Click on image to enlarge

This is a downloaded version of demo.moodle.org, using the Topic course format.

Weekly format example

Example of Weekly format, teacher viewing as student

This is a downloaded version of demo.moodle.org, using the weekly course format.

Social format example

Example of Social format. Click on image to enlarge

This is a downloaded version of demo.moodle.org, using the Social course format. The existing activities seemed to disappear. The teacher added two forums and a student added a third popular topic.

Course themes

Some sites may allow teachers to select color themes for their courses that are different from the Moodle site homepage. Teachers will see a "Force theme" drop down menu in the general section that contains a list of available themes. Non-editing teacher can not alter this setting. The default course theme is the site theme or the category theme.

The site administrator or course manager should look at Theme_settings or Administration>Configuration>Variables (older versions of Moodle) and change the allowcoursethemes to yes.

Drag and drop

Be aware that drag and drop for course sections currently (25th Feb 2008) has an issue and only support dragging a course section onto an adjacent section. Fix on the way: MDL-11539

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 *Here are basic elements of a course page and links to Moodle documentation.
+===Parts of a course homepage===
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-===Topic format===
+===Topic format example===
 [[Image:Course top topic mu1.jpg|thumb|300px|none|Example of Topic format.  Click on image to enlarge]]
 This is a downloaded version of demo.moodle.org, using the Topic course format.
-===Weekly format===
+===Weekly format example===
 [[Image:Course top weekly mu1.jpg|thumb|300px|none|Example of Weekly format, teacher viewing as student]]
 This is a downloaded version of demo.moodle.org, using the weekly course format.
-===Social format===
+===Social format example===
 [[Image:Course top social mu1.jpg|thumb|300px|none|Example of Social format.  Click on image to enlarge]]
 This is a downloaded version of demo.moodle.org, using the Social course format.  The existing activities  seemed to disappear.  The teacher added two forums and a student added a third popular topic.
+==See also ==
 ==Course themes==

Documentation