Moodle Instructions

A Moodle course shell is generally made up of several blocks. The center block of the course is for the faculty member to post various resources to the Moodle site (i.e., materials that a faculty member shares with students) or activities (i.e.,tasks that students must complete).
The blocks on the left and right hand sides provide quick links to course resources and news information about course events.
Every course has a News Forum where announcements can be posted, These items will be emailed to students and it will also appear in the latest news box in the right hand column of your website.
There is also an Email block at the top of the right hand column on the screen for faculty who prefer to send email to students. Click compose to send a message. There is also a copy of every email sent listed under History.
To add materials, click the Turn on editing button located in the top right-hand corner of the screen.
Once editing is on, you will see the following icons:

	The help icon will open a pop-up window with information about an item.
	The left arrow icon is used to indent course elements or move blocks from one side of the screen to another. There is also a right arrow icon.
	The move icon allows course materials to be solved vertically on the screen.
	The move here icon appears when moving course materials.
	The edit icon lets you update individual resources, activities, or section headings.
	The delete icon will permanently remove an item link from the course.
	The open-eye icon means an item or section is visible to students. It will become invisible when you click on it.
	The closed-eye icon means an item or section is hidden from students. It will become visible when you click on it.
	The individual icon indicates that an activity is meant to be completed by each students.
	The group icon indicates that an activity is meant to be completed in small groups.
	The one icon hides all other sections of a course.
	The all icon redisplays all sections of a course.
	The marker icon highlights a section of a course.
	The up arrow icon allows sections or blocks to be moved vertically on the screen. There is also a down arrow icon.

Administration Block:

• Settings – Allows the instructor to change the layout of the course.
• Assign Roles – Allows the instructor to add (or delete) students to the course.
• Grades – Links directly to the course grade book tool
• Groups – Allows the instructor to divide the class into smaller units for projects, etc.
• Backup – Creates a zip file containing resources and activities posted to the courtse site as well as student data.
• Restore – Takes materials from a zip archive and adds them to the course site.
• Import – Copies materials to the course site from another course currently available in the system.
• Reset – Delete all student data.
• Reports – Provides access to logs that describe how students are using the course site.
• Questions – Links directly to a database of test questions that have been created for the course.
• Files – Links directly to a list of files that have been uploaded to the course site.

Adding Resources (Course Materials)
Posting a document/link to a website

• Using the Add a resource drop-down menu, select Link to a file or website.
• Give the item a name.
• Write a description of the item (optional)
• When linking to a file, click on Choose or upload a file

-Click upload a file if the file isn’t already on the list and Browse your computer to
add the file.
- Click Choose next to the file that you want to add.

• When linking to a website, type the URL in the box or search for a web page.
• Change window to new window.
• Click Save adn return to course.

Updating course documents

• Click on Files in the Administration Block
• Click upload a file and Browse your computer to add the file. (Make sure that it has the same name as the original version.) Then click upload this file.
• It is not necessary to re-attach the new version to the resource on the course front page. The new version will automatically be displayed IF it has the same name as the original.

Creating/Displaying a file directory

• Click on Files in the Administration Bloc.
• Click on Make a Folder
• Give the folder a name and click Create,
• Click on the folder’s name in the file list to open.
• Click upload a file and Browse your computer to add a file to the folder. then click upload this file. (repeat this process for every file you want to have appear in that folder.)
• To display the entire folder, return to course front page by clicking on the course name in the breadcrumb trial at the top of the page.
• Using the Add a resource drop-down menu, select Display a directory.
• Give the item a name.
• Select the name of the folder that you want to display from the Display a directory drop-down menu.
• Click Save and return to course.

Other types of resources

• Insert a label – Allows the instructor to add text that will display on the main course page.
• Compose a text page – Allows the instructor to create a text page.
• Compose a web page – Allows the instructor to create a web page using a very basic WYSIWYG editor.

Adding Activities
Adding an Assignment (Digital Drop Box)

• Using the Add an activity drop-down menu, select Upload a single file or Advanced uploading of files. Advanced uploading of files will allow students to upload tp to 20 files at one time.
• Give the assignment a name.
• Write a description of the assignment. You may also link to a document in the Files area using the “hyperlink” icon.
• Change Grade to No grade if not using the Moodle Gradebook or select number of points that the assignment will be worth. If using the Moodle Gradebook you can also choose a grade category for the assignment at the bottom of the screen.
• Select dates when students will be permitted to upload the assignment or disable them entirely.
• Click Save and return to course.

Creating a Forum (Discussion Board)

• Using the Add an activity drop-down menu, select Forum.
• Give the forum a name. Select a forum type. Click on the “question mark” icon to learn about the 4 different types of forums.
• Write an introduction to the forum.
• Choose a subscription preference.
• Click Save and return to course.

Other Types of activities

• Assignments – Allows student submission of files. (Digital Drop Box)
• Chat – A real -time synchronous discussion.
• Choice – a quick poll, a question and specifies a choice from multiple possible responses.
• Database – Allows faculty and students to build, display, and search a collection of entries that might include text, numbers, images, or URLs.
• Glossary – Allows faculty and students to create and maintain a list of terminology used in the course.
• Hot Potatoes – An independent software application that faculty can use to create interactive, multiple choice, short answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises which can then be uploaded to Moodle.
• Journal – Allows students to record reflections about the course which are only shared with the instructor.
• Lesson – A series of activities that follow different paths based on student responses to questions.
• Questionnaire – Creates a multi-question survey that students can respond to.
• Quiz – Creates test that may include objective and subjective questions.
• Wiki – A writing tool that allows faculty and students to write collaboratively.

This manual was originally issued by the College of the Holy Cross. All credit goes to its original authors.
General URL: https://learning.holycross.edu/hcmoodle19/login/index.php
CHC Website: http://www.holycross.edu