Organizing courses into categories
The role of the Moodle administrator is to manage categories and courses. This section provides an overview of course categories and introduces a running example before introducing all aspects of category management: creation, arrangement, and removal.
Providing an overview of course categories
In the previous chapter, we briefly introduced the concept of categories, which act as containers for courses. They can have subcategories, which can further have sub-subcategories, and so on.
There are different ways of organizing course and category hierarchies – for instance, by department, subject area, or semester. The following figure shows two different category hierarchies representing the same organization:
Figure 4.2 – Example category hierarchies
As you can see, each hierarchy represents the same information but in different forms. There is no right or wrong way to organize your categories and courses...