Preparing the Moodle course for a module

• Enrolment

  Staff

  School administration teams manage staff enrolments for taught modules. Enrolments added in the Module Management System (MMS) automatically provide access to Moodle and Panopto.

  Students

  Once advised onto a module, students are automatically enrolled on modules in MMS, their associated Moodle courses and module Panopto folders.

• Access

  There are different ways to access the Moodle course for your module:

  • MySaint - Academic Activities tab
  • MMS - Moodle Link
  • Moodle - My Courses

  Watch the video: Navigating to courses.

• Edit

  The first step to editing your course is to enable 'Edit mode' in the top right corner. To add files to the course, simply drag and drop them onto the course page. To add anything else, select ‘+ Add an activity or resource’.

  Watch the video: Editing basics in Moodle. 

• Manage

  There may be some content in your course that you wish to delete or that isn’t accessible. You may also wish to hide all or some of the content in your course, particularly that which is time sensitive or assessment related.

  Watch the video: Managing and hiding content.

• Review

  Once you’ve prepared the course contents, we encourage you to do a quality check by assuming the student role. If you have a lot of hidden content in the course, this is a good way to get a sense of what your course will look like to the students on entry.

  Watch the video: Switching to student view. 

  If you navigate away from a course that is hidden while in student view, you will need to log out of Moodle and back in again to regain access. 

  If you launch the 'Lecture recordings' (Panopto) activity while in student view, your permissions in Panopto will change to view only. To restore full editing rights, return to your normal role in Moodle and then re-launch the 'Lecture recordings' (Panopto) activity.

• Release

  The final step is to release the course. Go to ‘Settings’ in the Administration block (you may need to open the block drawer in the course to see this) to access the course settings page. Change ‘Course visibility’ to ‘Show’, then scroll to the bottom of the page and click ‘Save and display’.

  Watch the video: Changing course visibility.