MOODLE:
Four Things to Remember
1. How to Set Course
Availability
2. How To Add
Content
3. Using the News 4. How to Get Help
Forum
1. Course Availability
As an instructor, you have complete control over when your students are able to see your course in Moodle.
By default, courses are not available to students. This means that they cannot see the course link when they
access Moodle. The class links are gray when not available, and red when available.
You must not forget to make your course site available
to students when it is ready.
HOW TO: Go to Edit Settings > Course Availability – and as shown below, choose to make your
course available to students.
Detailed instructions here :
http://www.lbcc.edu/ITDC/moodle/tutorials/availability.cfm
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2. Adding Content
A. Use the Update Icon in the Header Block to add informational content to the top part of your
course site.
It is important for students need to see the name of your course and your contact
information prominently displayed at the top of the page.
HOW TO:
1. Turn editing on (button in upper right).
2. Use the Update Icon (gear) to add content in the Header Block:
Here is a sample of what the text in the header block might look like:
Further instructions here: The Header Block http://www.lbcc.edu/ITDC/moodle/tutorials/header.cfm
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B. Adding Documents to the Header Block:
As shown here, you can add PDF files, Word docs, and
PowerPoint presentations to your site, as well as other types
of files. An icon appears to the left, so students can identify
the type of file.
HOW TO:
1. Turn editing on.
(button in upper
right).
2. Choose “Add an
activity or
resource, as
shown here, at
the bottom of
the Header
Block.
3. Under
“Resources,”
choose “File.”
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Adding Documents, continued
Add the "Name" and "Description," which are required fields. You can choose not to display the Description,
but you can still add information about the file for your own future reference. (Date of creation, version,
attribution, etc.)
Content
Drag and Drop the file, or use "Add" to find it in your Private Files, your hard drive, or your DropBox.
Options
The most important thing here is the "Display" pull-down menu. The choices are:
Automatic, Embed, In frame, New window, Force download, Open and In pop-up.
For some documents, like text files, it is better to leave it Automatic. For PDF files, use Force Download.
Further instructions here: http://www.lbcc.edu/ITDC/moodle/tutorials/files.cfm
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3. The News Forum
The default News Forum is a practical but complicated tool.
It appears in the Header Block at the top of every course, as shown
below.
It is a tool for sending announcements to your students. It is not a
traditional Discussion Forum, since students do not engage with it.
When you send an announcement, it automatically sends an e-mail to
your students, as well as messaging them within Moodle. IT WILL
SEND AN E-MAIL EVEN IF YOUR COURSE IS NOT YET AVAILABLE.
Don’t use the News Forum to post documents to students, unless you also have those documents in the main
page of your course. Add content to your course using the instructions above.
Many instructors do not want to use the News Forum, and therefore prefer to delete it from the Header Block.
Follow the instructions here to do so.
News Forum Tutorial: http://www.lbcc.edu/ITDC/moodle/tutorials/newsforum.cfm
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4. Getting Help
Moodle Tutorial Site: http://www.lbcc.edu/ITDC/moodle/index.cfm
This site has tutorials for most things you will do in Moodle.
Instructional Technology Development Center (ITDC):
http://www.lbcc.edu/itdc
Distance Learning :
http://www.lbcc.edu/dl
Check our websites for more information about the DL program, our current hours, detailed location maps and more
info about the PCC ITDC.
PHONE SUPPORT:
Contact us through the IITS Help Desk.
Call x.4357 from on campus or
(562) 938-4357 or
(562) 938-HELP from off campus
Ask for the ITDC or Distance Learning and you will be transferred.
OR, contact us directly:
DISTANCE LEARNING SPECIALIST
ITDC EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGISTS:
Director, Instructional Technology &
Distance Learning
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Monika Mravec
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mmravec@lbcc.edu
C.C. Sadler
Hussam Kashou
938-4255
938-4626
csadler@lbcc.edu
hkashou@lbcc.edu
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