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Welcome to the tutorial on the Moodle Course Homepage.
In this tutorial, we will discuss how to access your course,
an overview for the layout for a course,
how to turn editing on and off,
and how to view your course as your students will see it.
To access your course, first direct your browser to moodle.uncc.edu
Here you will enter your 49er ID and password and press Login.
This is the UNCC Moodle site where you can access all your Moodle courses
and get Moodle resources and updates as well.
In the top right corner of the screen,
you will see confirmation that you are logged in correctly as well as the link to logout.
To access one of your courses, click on the name of the course listed under My Courses on the left side of the screen.
This will bring you to the homepage of the course.
In the upper-left corner of the homepage,
you will see breadcrumb navigation links which will tell you where in the course you’re located
and allow you to move around the hierarchical structure of your course.
Below the navigation links, you will see a list of courses you are either teaching or enrolled within as a student.
Further down, you will see groups of areas called Blocks which contain information or tools related to the course.
The Administration Block that has a variety of optional settings for instructors.
These blocks and their functionality are discussed in the video tutorials section of the CTL website.
The center section of the Course Homepage will be the primary location
for the presentation of course content to students enrolled in your course.
It begins with a Header where you can type in the course title and overview,
and add general course materials and activities such as a syllabus and News Forum for class announcements.
The rest of the center section can be set up in a weekly or topics based outline.
These weeks or topics are the location for your students to access the course resources
and activities you have added for the week or topic, such as reading materials, assignments, or quizzes.
In order to add your course content to this center section of the Course Homepage,
you will need to press the Turn editing on button.
Once this button is pressed and editing turned on,
the screen will change to reveal a number of editing tools
such as the Add a resource and the Add an activity pull-down menus,
that will allow you to add items in the course and various icons for other types of editing
such as deleting and re-ordering the items.
These editing tools are discussed in the in the video tutorials section of the CTL website.
Above the right side of the header, you will see the option to Switch Role to UNCC Student.
By switching roles, you will be able to view the content in the same manner as your students
and confirm that they see and access the content as you intended.
To return to your normal role, click on the return to my normal role button in the top right corner.
That’s a general overview of the Moodle Course Homepage.
We hope that you’ve found this tutorial helpful and that you’ll use the additional video tutorials
to access more information on Moodle and its instructional capabilities.