Moodle: Getting Started

Beginners

Bookings for this course are placed on hold in response to the rapidly changing events due to COVID-19. The status of these courses will be reviewed towards the end of May 2020. See the University's COVID-19 page for up to date information.

Moodle as the Virtual Learning Environment will be supporting teaching and learning at the University.

This training session will introduce participants to Moodle and cover the system basics such as the course structure, enrolment to a course, and roles for course members.

• University staff
• College staff
• Researchers
• Further details regarding Student Systems' eligibility criteria are available

Number of sessions: 1

• Editing the course settings
• Managing sections and subsections for course content
• Uploading and sharing resources – files, images, videos
• Creating file/folder structures
• Creating resources in Moodle – labels, pages and books
• Making announcements
• Creating polls and feedback questionnaires
• Enrolling course members
• Limiting access to a resource by grouping

To be able to:

• Understand the Moodle environment
• Manage participants
• Add and edit the appropriate activities and resources

To gain hands on experience of using Moodle

• Demonstrations and practical exercises

One half day session

Weekly

• Committees and Groups
• Introduction
• Moodle
• Research
• Teaching and Learning