Editing+a+Class

=Editing a Class = = = = Turning on the Editor = When you log into your class moodle, you see the following button in the upper right hand corner of your pages. Click it to turn the editing features on. Click it again to turn the editing features off.

Editing Icons: and What They Mean

 * **Icon** || **Effect** || **Icon** || **Effect** || **Icon** || **Effect** || **Icon** || **Effect** ||
 * [[image:edit_item.gif width="21" height="10"]] || ** Edit item ** || [[image:close_hide.gif]] || ** Close/Hide item ** || [[image:delete.gif]] || ** Delete/Remove ** || [[image:move_up_and_down.gif]] || ** Move (up/down )** ||
 * [[image:see_all_topics.gif]] || ** See all weeks/topics ** || [[image:open.gif]] || ** Open/Show Item ** || [[image:indent.gif]] || ** Indent/shift right ** || [[image:move_here.gif]] || ** Move here ** ||
 * [[image:see_one_week.gif]] || **See one week/topic** || [[image:help.gif]] || ** Help ** ||||  || [[image:highlight.gif]] || ** Make Current (highlight) week/topic ** ||

A dding Hyperlinks - 3 Ways
I. Add a Link in Your Text Editor, HTML Block ,or as a Resource all works the same.

II. To add the HTML Block- While in Edit Mode choose the HTML block from the list Choose the edit item icon. Name the block what you want to call it and then: To make a new link ,  III. Add it as a resource - While in Edit Mode choose link to a file or URL and follow the same procedure above.
 * type the text that you want to be a link
 * select the text
 * click the link button in the toolbar
 * Type (or paste, or browse to) the URL you want to link to
 * Click OK

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Hiding the Administrator Block From All Viewers
There are two ways to do this:
 * 1) Delete it when you are done editing your pages. Add the block back when you want to edit settings again.
 * 2) Click on the Eyeball icon and make sure your settings hide items from view when hidden. If you set this control to “Hidden sections are completely invisible,” then nothing shows up in the class for the students to see.

Hiding Any of Your Blocks From Students
 Click on the Eyeball icon and make sure your settings hide items from view when hidden. If you set this control to “Hidden sections are completely invisible,” then nothing shows up in the class for the students to see. [1]

= Edit course settings = Weekly format: Displays the course in weekly chunks and is probably the most common. Topics format: Useful for grouping by topic rather than time Social format: Structured like a big forum || This is so that the week chunks start on Mondays rather than mid-week. ||
 * Category || This will normally be the teacher hosting the course ||
 * Full name || Enter the course name ||
 * Short name || Here you want to enter a class nickname ||
 * Summary || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A brief description of the course is useful here. This is displayed at the top of the student's course page. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Format || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Options : Weekly, Social, Topics
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Course start date || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hint: Start on the first Monday of the course, not the day when classes start up.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Number of weeks / topics || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Determine the duration of the course. If you are using Topics format you can enter the number of topics. You can always add or subtract from these later ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Group mode

Force: || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Options : No groups, Separate, Visible Students in separate groups see only their own group, but in visible groups they see all group interactions. You can either assign the same groups throughout the class or assign them per activity.

Force Group mode would be used to divide the course into sections. || You might want to make the course unavailable to students during set up or after the class is over. || Allow with key: If you want to allow alumni or other users outside the class to interact, you can email them the enrollment key and they can login as a guest. Allowing access without a key opens the course up to anyone (including Google!) || This affects how the class is displayed to the students. When you choose to hide a section of the course it can either be totally invisible (the invisible option) or it can be shown collapsed to indicate the missing section. || You may want to set this to Yes if you want students to view the time spent in the course. Student activity reports are always visible to the instructor. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Click Save changes when you are satisfied.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Availability || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Options : Available or Not Available
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Enrollment key || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This is the password that you email to your class ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Guest access || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Options : No Guest Access, Allow Without Key, Allow With Key
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hidden sections || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Options : Show Collapsed, Invisible
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">News items to show || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This is the forum that displays your announcements. If set to zero, the news box disappears. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Show grades || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Leave this default set on Yes ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Show activity reports || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Options : Yes or No
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Maximum upload size || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">There is a system wide setting. If the maximum of 5Mb is not sufficient the System manager can increase it, however. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Your word for ... || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">If you are teaching a foreign language then it is suggested that you enter the general terminology used for these. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Force language || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Set this option if you are teaching a foreign language course and you want students to read the menus and respond in that language. ||

Adapted from [|Moodle™ How-To] [2]


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">References **

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">[1] Union County Public Schools. (n.d.). //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Moodle cheat sheet - 1 //. Retrieved November 23, 2009, from [] [2] Earlham College. (n.d.). //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Moodle how to //. Retrieved November 23, 2009, from [|http://www.earlham.edu/~markp/cms/user_guides/moodle/how_to.htm]