STARFLEET Academy- Moodle

How to take a course

2. Click on Moodle Courses

3. Enter your username and password

NOTE: If you don’t have a username and password, refer to the Appendix A of this document for steps to create a
new student account.

NOTE: If you have forgotten your username or password, click on the ‘Forgotten your username or password?’
link beside the username and password fields and refer to the Appendix B of this document for steps to
recover/reset this information.

4. Click Log in

5. From the Dashboard, click on the All Courses icon

NOTE: If you want to see what colleges are in each Institute, click the arrow beside the Institute name in the
middle of the screen.

Click the arrow beside the Institute name again and it will hide the college listing

7. Click on the College name to open it

8. The College page opens

9. Read the college description for any important notes

10. Scroll down the list and click on the exam you wish to take

NOTE: Any exam specific details or pre-requisites should be listed in the exam description from the college page

11. An Enrolment options screen will now appear for the exam you clicked on

12. Click Enrol me

13. For taking the non QAM (online) version of the exams:
a. Download the PDF exam provided
b. Complete your exam on either the provided answer sheet or in a new document
c. Make sure to PDF any non PDF worksheets
d. Go back to the course and find the link to submit your exam. It should say ‘Alternative Exam
Submission’
e. Once you have click on the link in Step 13d, you will be at the submission screen
f. Click on ‘Add submission’
g. Click and drag or upload your PDF assignment answer sheet
h. Click Save changes
i. You will return to the same screen as in Step 13e
j. You will have up until the Director marks your submitted exam to upload any corrected versions
k. Once the Director marks the exam (manually), they will add any notes as applicable, enter in your
grade into Moodle and Save their grading
l. You will then be notified that your exam was graded
m. Return to the course to view the grade and the marked exam (with comments)
n. If you passed the exam, the certificate on the course page will be available to you to download
 14. For Online exams (which is the preferred method (unless it is not available for a specific exam)
a. Click on the Course Code beside an icon with a ‘clipboard’ on it on the main page

15. Click Attempt quiz now

16. Attempt the online exam by reading the questions and making the appropriate answer responses for each
question

17. Click Next page to progress through each exam question in turn

NOTE: You can also jump back and forwards between exam questions by clicking the exam number in the top
left-hand corner of the Quiz screen

18. A completed question will show with a half filled square

19. Once you have completed the exam, click Finish attempt…

20. If you wish to go back and change your answers, click Return to attempt

21. To submit your exam answers for completion, click Submit all and finish
22. Click Submit all and finish at the ‘Confirmation screen’

23. A summary page of your results will appear with your grade and a list of the questions and answers

24. Scroll to the bottom

25. Click Finish review

26. You should be returned back to the main exam page, if not click on the first course code from
the breadcrumbs

27. You should now see and be able to click on the course certificate link

28. Click the course certificate to open it

29. Click View certificate

30. At the pop up window choose where you would like to save the certificate on your computer (if you
browser/PDF program settings is set to open PDF’s inside a browser, you will need to save it from there
instead)
Appendix A – Creating a Student Account
1. Go to http://academy.sfi.org

2. Click on Moodle Courses

3. From the Log in screen, click Create new account

4. Enter in the requested information

NOTE: Only items marked with a ! are mandatory, the others are optional

5. Click Create my new account

NOTE: Your application will be reviewed within 24 to 48 hours to verify the information provided with the
member records located in the STARFLEET Database. Once this has been completed, a SFA Moodle Admin will
grant you access.
Appendix B – Recovering/Resetting your Password
1. Go to http://academy.sfi.org

2. Click on Moodle Courses

3. From the Log in screen, click Forgotten your username or password?

4. Enter in your email address (that you used at sign-up) in the Search by email address section
OR
Enter your username (that you use to log in for SFA Moodle) in the Search by username field

5. Click Search (beside the option you are using)

6. You will be taken to the next screen advising “If you supplied a correct username or email address then an
email should have been sent to you”

7. You will receive an email from SFA Electronic Services Team (noreply(at)acad.sfi.org). This email
confirms your username and a URL link that you will need to click on to reset your password

8. At the Moodle reset password screen, enter in your new password (and the confirmation password) and
save the change

9. Your new password will now be in effect. Refer back to the steps at the very start of this document –
‘How to take a course’ to continue with login

NOTE: Do not reply to or email noreply(at)acad.sfi.org as the email account is not managed and any email
going to it is automatically deleted. Login issues should be directed to either
sfiacademy.webmaster(at)gmail.com