Moodle Training Sessions

Introduction to Moodle
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Login to Moodle How to Access a Course Overview Change User Password Edit your E-mail address Disable E-mailing Forwarding to Personal E-mail Add a Personal Photo Course Settings Change Course Name Change your Course Display to Weekly or Topic Format Adding/Editing a Calendar Event

1. Login to Moodle
1. Go to : http://moodle.aucegypt.edu/ 2. Type your Username and password in their places (For your first access, your Username is the same as the password and it is your FASS ID 9 digits) 3. Click on the login button

2. How to Access a Course

1. After your login, youll be redirected to the Overview of my Courses page 2. You will find all your courses 3. Click on the title of the course to enter it.

3. Overview 4. Change User Password

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Enter a course Go to the Administration block Click on Profile (You will be redirected to: Participants > your name page) Go to the Profile tab Click on Change password button (You will be redirected to Change password page ) Enter your Current Password, New Password and New Password(again) in the empty place 7. Click on Save changes button

5. Edit your E-mail address

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Enter a course Go to the Administration block Click on Profile (You will be redirected to: Participants > your name page) Go to the Edit profile tab Go to the Email address field, and change your e-mail Click on Update profile button

6. Disable E-mailing Forwarding to Personal E-mail

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Enter a course Go to the Administration block Click on Profile (You will be redirected to: Participants > your name page) Go to the Profile tab Click on the mail icon next to your e-mail address It will turn into

7. Add a Personal Photo

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Enter a course Go to the Administration block Click on Profile (You will be redirected to: Participants > your name page) Go to the Edit profile tab Go to the Picture of block Go to the New picture field and click on the Browse button Browse your machine for your photo and click Open Click on Update profile button

8. Course Settings
1. Enter a course 2. Go to the Administration block 3. Click on Settings(You will be redirected to Edit course settings page)

Category: The site administrator may have created course categories.

Short: Many institutions write a name referring to their course. ID number: This is for the Administration. Summary: The summary appears on the course listings page. Format

Weekly format: The course is organized week by week, with a clear start date and a finish date. Moodle will create a section for each week of your course. You can add content, forums, quizzes, and so on in the section for each week.
TIP: If you want all your students to work on the same materials at the same time, this would be a good format to choose. Topics format: The course is organized into topic sections. Each topic section consists of activities.

Social format: This format is oriented around one main forum, the social forum, which appears listed on the main page. It is useful for situations that are more free form. LAMS course format: The Learning Activity Management System is an open source LMS which allows teachers to use a flash based authoring environment for developing learning sequences. LAMS has been integrated with Moodle to allow teachers to develop LAMS activities within a Moodle course. This course format makes LAMS central to the course, only displaying the LAMS interface.
Number of weeks/topics: This setting is only used by the 'weekly' and 'topics' course formats. In the 'weekly' format, it specifies the number of weeks that the course will run for, starting from the course starting date. In the 'topics' format, it specifies the number of topics in the course. Both of these translate to the number of "boxes" down the middle of the course page.

Course start date: This is where you specify the starting time of the course (in your own time zone). The first week will start on the date you set here when you use the "Weekly" course format. This setting will not affect courses using the 'social' or 'topics' formats. Hidden sections: This option allows you to decide how the hidden sections in your course are displayed to students. S how grades: Many of the activities allow grades to be set. By default, the results of all grades within the course can be seen in the Grades page, available from the main course page for students and teachers.
TIP: If a teacher is not interested in using grades in a course, or just wants to hide grades from students, then they can disable the display of grades with this option. This does not prevent the teacher using or setting grades for an individual activities, it just disables the results from being displayed to students. Show activity reports: Activity reports are available to each student. These reports or logs show their activity and contributions in the current course. These reports include their detailed access log.

Maximum upload size: This setting defines the largest size of file that can be uploaded by students in this course. The site administrator can determine sizes available for the teacher to select. Instructors should be aware of a course's file structure.

Note: Files of huge sizes (50MB and above) should put it on their data center account and link to it through Moodle To request a data center account, please contact Mr. Mohammed Kamal <m_kamala@aucegypt.edu > It is possible to further restrict this size through settings within each activity module.

9. Change Course Name

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Enter the course you want to change its name Go to the Administration block Click on Settings (You will be redirected to Edit course settings page) Go to the Full name field Change your course name Click on Save changes button

10. Change your Course Display to Weekly or Topic Format

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Enter the course you want to change its format Go to the Administration block Click on Settings (You will be redirected to Edit course settings page) Go to the Format field Select Topics format (you can edit each topics title)or Weekly format (topics will be divided per week, starting from the date in the Course start date field)

11. Adding/Editing a Calendar Event

Click month on Calendar to get an expanded month view In Calendar view click the New Event button On a New Event page select the type of event A User Event will only be visible by the user currently logged in (i.e. the one creating the event); A Group Event will be visible to a particular Group on the course (chosen from a drop-down list); A Course Event will be visible to participants on the course in question. Only users with editing rights on a course can add course events; A Site Event is a "global" event - visible in every course and on the calendar on the home page. Only Administrators can add site events. 4. Set the event properties 5. Click Save changes
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