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Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development

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Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 1.9
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
10
Extending and Administering Moodle
Index

Creating Courses


Don't worry if you mistakenly put a course into the wrong category. In the next section, the Course Settings Page, the site administrator can change the category.

  1. Select Site Administration | Courses | Add/Edit courses.

  2. Select the category that currently holds the course.

  3. Scroll to the bottom of the page, where the courses are listed.

  4. Click the checkbox next to the course whose category you want to change.

  5. From the drop-down list, select the new category for the course:

  6. After you select the (sub) category from the drop-down list, the course is immediately moved.

The Course Settings Page

When you create a course, you must fill out fields on the Course Settings page. Many of these fields are self-explanatory. Some of them, especially Format and Group mode, have a profound effect on the user experience. You can always return to this page and change the course settings. The course, and its structure, will be updated with the new settings as soon as you save them.

The page itself does...