Introduction to Moodle
Hands-on Exercise for teachers
This exercise is provided for teachers to gain a first hand experience in preparing their
Moodle courses.
You need to have the teacher's role in a Moodle course and use this for doing the exercise.
1. Login Moodle
a. ► Login HKU Portal at https://hkuportal.hku.hk -> “My eLearning” -> 2.
Click to access your Moodle courses, if any
b. Students (TA) working as designer:
http://webct2.hku.hk/webct/servlet/MyElearning
c. Locate your course MOODmmdd_nn_2011, e.g. MOOD0901_01_2011
You are a teacher of this course
2. Add a co-teacher
a. Add HKU Portal account ‘angelawy’ as a co-teacher
i. ► Select
from “My eLearning” of HKU Portal
3. Access the training course (get training materials and act as a student)
a. Click Moodle link to enter your course
b. Click Training course for Moodle on the right hand side of the course
home page. You have been added as a student in this Moodle course
c. Take part in the activities in this training course
4. Starting with a new course (act as a teacher)
a. Navigate around the course
b. Try the functions: Course administration -> Edit settings
c. Turn editing on
d. Click the eye button to hide the News forum and then
to show it
5. Course notes
a. Turn editing on
b. Create a topic section named “Lesson 1”
c. Add a resource -> File, Label, Page, URL to your new course
d. Add an activity -> Assignment
6. News forum
a. Rename the “News forum” to “Announcements”
b. Post an announcement in the News forum
7. Forum/Discussion board
a. Add an activity -> Forum
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b. Add a new discussion topic
8. Switch role to student
a. Switch to student role
b. Switch back to normal role
c. Turn editing off
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