In the previous chapter, you saw your way around Moodle, and got a feel of many of its features. In this chapter, we're going to see how to lay the foundations for moving your department's courses into Moodle. In this chapter, you will:
Learn how to map your academic curriculum to a number of Moodle courses
Create a new Moodle course and give it a name and description
Set up an appropriate structure for the course
Assign teaching staff to the course
Set up an enrollment method for your course
By the end of the chapter, your course will be set up, and ready for you to start populating it with content.
Let's start this section with me describing the course that I'm going to be converting to Moodle as we work together through this book. The course is called "Backyard Ballistics" and it's a science course that forms a part of an Applied Physics qualification. The course is all about the art of firing weird objects...