There are a number of built-in formats in Moodle which help you lay out your course. The most commonly used include:
Weekly format: This course is organized week-by-week starting with the date that you enter in the course settings.
Topics format: This course is broken up into topic sections where you put a set of resources and activities.
Social format: This course type is designed around the use of one main forum and arguably isn't even a course, just a social discussion area.
Scorm format: This is a pre-packaged course format usually used when you have a large bundled course bought off the shelf from a supplier like Skillsoft (for example).
From my experience, the most used course format is the Topic format and that is what we are going to use for this example. Now we will go through the basic settings that you would want to use in creating the course itself.
In Chapter 1, Getting Started with Moodle, we went through the process of creating a course...