COURSE LAYOUT

Moodle offers you a great deal of flexibility in changing the appearance of your course if you are not happy with the default weeks or topics layouts.

The menus on the sides of your course are known as Blocks, for instance in this course we can see the People Block (1) and the Administration Block (2) .

With editing on, you can see the block editing icons next to the block's title. Using these, you can hide the entire block with the eye tool, move the block up or down with the up/down arrows , move the block from one side of the course to another using the sideways arrow, or delete the block altogether using the delete tool .

Note: you can retrieve any deleted block to your course from the Blocks block and selecting the corresponding block from the Add… drop down menu.

Moving things around on your course homepage

With editing turned on, you will see the move arrows mentioned above next to each of your activities.

The sideways arrow next to a resource ( ) will indent it to the right in the block. This can be used to set resources off from each other. The resource movement arrows ( ) can move a resource from one block to another. If you click on the move arrows ( ), a message will be printed on your course page telling you what item you are moving (1) . Boxes will appear on your course's screen with all the possible places you can move that resource to (2) .

Each of the boxes with the arrow next to it represents a place to move a resource to. Simply click the box where you would like the item to be placed.

Adding more topics/weeks, changing the start date, groups, etc.

Unless you requested otherwise, your course was set up in the Topics format. In this format, there are just a few key blocks, guest access is off, the course is available to students, and groups are not enabled. This section of the manual will explain how to customize these settings in your course.

If you click on Settings in the Administration block, the first several items (Full name, Short name, ID number) are all already set for you. Please let us know if these settings are wrong so we can change them for you. The Summary item will show up to students in their My courses page, so it is good to type a brief course summary here.