Course Management 

Course Setup   Design Tools 

This section will discuss Moodle design tools (editing symbols and the HTML editor), used 

during course creation. A good way to become familiar with these basic features is to add a 

summary description in the Top section of the course home page for your participants (Fig. 16).               

Begin by clicking the  Turn editing on  button. This action will reveal: 

Block side block for adding, removing and moving side blocks (see page 9) 

Add an activity and Add a resource lists (Fig. 14   discussed on page 16) 

Activity/Resource editing symbols  

Top section 

Fig. 14 

Editing Symbols 

Each time you add an instance of an activity or resource to your course, a series of editing 

symbols will appear alongside the link. For example, notice in Fig. 14 these symbols appear 

to the right of the  News forum , added by default when  the  course  shell  was  created.          

The following is an explanation for these editing symbols: 

 Indents activity (left facing arrow appears to un indent) 

     Moves activity up or down in relation to other activities (in topic/weekly areas) 

     Allows you to Edit the activities properties 

     X

  Deletes activity 

     Hides activity from students (or shows the item if it is already hidden) 

     Displays  Group  setting status of activity (Groups discussed in Learner Management) 

Course Home Page Summary Description 

To add comments in the Top section of the course home page that describes your course to 

participants, click the Edit icon link for the Top section area. This action will bring up the  

sections Summary of week/topic property screen (Fig. 15). You can add an image with your 

description, and when complete simply click  Save Changes  to see your summary appear 

on the course home page (Fig. 16). Each topic/week in  your  course  can  have  a              

Summary description. 

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