How to Moodle

Everyone in Moodle has their own personal page called their dashboard. On many Moodle sites you'll be taken to the dashboard once you're logged in. If not you can get to it by clicking the link in the user menu or in the nav drawer.

A course in Moodle is basically a space on the Moodle site where one or more teachers can add learning resources and activities for their students.

As a teacher you have a lot of control over how your course appears to your students.

If we turn the editing on in our course by clicking the gear menu or the Turn editing on button then we can quickly edit our sections.

In many places in Moodle where you can type in text you will see Moodle's purpose-built editor known as Atto.

In order to add learning activities and resources to your course, or even to change the wording and description in your course sections, you need to have the editing turned on.  So let's take a look at that  now and see what the edit icons mean and do.

There are two ways to add documents such as presentations or word processed files to your Moodle course

You can add blocks to the side of your main learning area.

An HTML block is a customisable block allowing you to add images, text, links or even embedded code or widgets to blocks at the side of your course. You don't need to understand HTML code to use it.