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Teacher quick guide

start guide introduces Moodle's features to those with the Teacher role.
Teacher quick guide
CONTENTS
Courses

1 Course set up Editing text

2 Course enrolment Activities

3 Grading Resources

4 Tracking progress Blocks

5 Restricting access Questions

6 See also Course enrolment

Grouping users

Grades
Course set up Tracking progress
A course is a space on a Moodle site where teachers can add learning materials for their Reusing activities
students. A teacher may have more than one course and a course may include more than
one teacher and more than one group of learners. See the screencast What is a
course? or if your course looks different, watch this alternative screencast .

By default a regular teacher can't add a new course. See Adding a new course for
information on how courses may be created.

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Example of a Moodle course using the Boost theme

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Example of a Moodle course with a Navigation block and Administration block

A course can display its materials in a number of ways or 'formats', for example in weekly
sections or named topic sections. You can show all the sections at once or just reveal one
at a time. See Course settings for more information, or watch the screencast How to lay
out a course . If your course looks different, watch this alternative screencast .

Course sections may be renamed by turning on the editing and clicking the configuration
icon underneath the section name. Sections may also be moved by drag and drop and
sections added or removed by clicking the + or - underneath the bottom section. See
Course homepage for more information.

You can also add elements, known as 'blocks', to the right, left or both sides of your
central learning area, depending on your theme. For more information see Blocks.
Remember that blocks will not display in the Moodle Mobile app so, think carefully about
which blocks you really need.

Course enrolment
Before a learner can access your course, they must first be authenticated on the site and
that is the responsibility of the site administrator.

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Enrolment methods

There are several enrolment methods available to a teacher, what is available, again,
depends on the site administrator. The admin might enrol students into course
automatically, or the teacher might be able to let students enrol themselves. Depending
on the theme used, this can be done either by clicking the gear menu in the nav drawer
link Participants or by clicking Enrolled users from the Users link in the Course
administration block. This is the Manual enrolment method. Other options can be seen in
the Enrolment methods link and include Self enrolment and Guest access.

Note: Guests can only view the course and its resources; they cannot participate in any
activities.

An enrolment key may be set if Self enrolment is enabled so that only students with the
key can enter. The screencast Enrolling learners gives more information on course
enrolment. If your course looks different, watch this earlier screencast on Enrolling
learners .

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Grading
Every course has its own Gradebook which can record scores from assignments , quizzes
, peer assessment workshops, 'branching' lessons, SCORM activities and LTI learning
resources.

The grader report

Other activities such as forums, databases and glossaries can have ratings enabled which
will also then be reflected in the gradebook.

Grade items can be manually created from Course administration > Grades > Set up >
Categories and items and it is also possible to import and export grades.

Tracking progress
If completion tracking has been enabled for the site and in Course administration > Edit
settings, you can then set completion conditions in activity settings. A checkbox will

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appear next to the activity and a student may either be allowed to tick it manually, or a tick
will display once criteria for that particular activity have been met. This feature can be
combined with Course completion so that when certain activities have been completed
and/or grades obtained, the course itself is marked complete.

Completion boxes

Badges can also be issued, manually or based on completion criteria to act as a motivator
and record of course progress.

Restricting access
A course can be set to display everything to everyone all the time, or it can be very
restrictive, displaying certain items at certain times, to certain groups or based on
performance in previous tasks.

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Options for restricting access

Course items and sections may be manually hidden using the 'hide' icon when the editing
is turned on. If Restrict access has been enabled by the administrator then a Restrict
access section will display in each course activity and resource, allowing you to choose
how and when this item will be revealed, and whether to hide it completely or show it
greyed out with the conditions for access.

See also
Moodle - Tool Guide for Teachers by Joyce Seitzinger and adapted by Gavin
Henrick

Categories: Course Quick guide

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