CID Workshop: “How to manage my Moodle course”

Presented by: Robin Popow

Topics covered in this workshop include:

1. Controlling access to your course

2. Common issues instructors have during their courses

3. How to end your course

Working Group Assignment

1. Give access to your Moodle sandbox to each member of your group using an appropriate “Online Course Access” form. Your sandbox must contain a Discussion Forum separating each of the two students you have given access to. Create an introductory discussion for your students to reply to. Both students must be able to track unread discussion posts.

2. Use the “Online Course Access” forms to access the sandboxes of each member of your workshop group and create a reply to the Discussion Forum in each course.

3. End, backup, and reset your course in preparation for the next offering.

Make your course available/not available to students

1. Controlling access to your course

Set an Enrollment key

1. Controlling access to your course

Manage Groups and Groupings

1. Controlling access to your course

Give students access instructions

1. Controlling access to your course

2. Common issues during courses

1. Student access to courses

2. How to track unread forum posts

3. How to delete a student’s quiz attempt

4. How to track student activity

1. Removing student access to your course

2. How to backup your course1. Moodle backup function2. Manage backups

3. How to reset your course for the next offering

1. Restore as Archive2. Reset

3. Ending your course