Topic: Course Management

Moodle provides a variety of built-in reports that can tell you what participants have been doing in the course and when. How to Access Course Reports If you’re using Moodle 3.x, you can find the Reports link by clicking on the gear icon in the top right of the screen then selecting More… Activity report The activity report shows aggregate … Read more

It can often be useful for instructors and course designers to impersonate a student role so they can see the course as students will see it and verify content is available or hidden as intended. Note: Student view is not a perfect replication of what a student sees, but it is fairly close. Steps

With a bit of planning ahead, instructors can set their course content to automatically become visible/available at specified dates throughout the term by adding a date access restriction. Steps

Instructors may choose to hide individual Moodle activities and resources so that they are not visible to students. This may be done for any number of reasons, for example, to allow materials to be tweaked before they are made available, to prevent students from working ahead, or to create a private resource area for co-instructors. … Read more

The “Announcements” forum (formerly known as the “News” forum) is a special forum for general course announcements. A course may only have one announcements forum. Only teachers in the course may post to the forum. How students are notified about your announcement may vary depending on your Moodle set-up. Students might be alerted by your … Read more