Moodle offers a centralized online place where you can upload course materials, create assignments, and manage grades efficiently. By mastering Moodle, you can design interactive and organized courses that cater to diverse learners.

Become familiar with the different parts of a Moodle course, and turn on editing for a course (Moodle Academy video: 2:07 minutes)

Organizing your course in Moodle is crucial for creating a smooth and engaging learning experience for your students. When your course is well-structured, it becomes easier for students to navigate and find the resources they need, which can significantly enhance their learning efficiency and satisfaction.

Here's a 2-minute primer from our Online Developers:

Options for the way a course appears to your students (Moodle Academy video: 3:08 minutes)

Add Blocks (Moodle Academy video: 1:26 minutes)

Course Editing (Moodle Academy video: 1:44 minutes)

You can also read More about editing in the Introduction to Moodle course (requires a VCC login).

Adding text and images, as well as uploading files in Moodle is a simple process. Follow the links below for more information.

Add and Edit Text in Moodle (Moodle Academy video: 2:39 minutes)

Add images (Moodle Academy video 1:46 minutes)

Drag/Upload files (Moodle Academy video: 1:39 minutes)

Using the Moodle File Picker (Moodle Academy video: 3:06 minutes)

How can I add course content on my Moodle site? (Moodle Academy video: 2:21 minutes)

Add links to external content using Moodle URL (Moodle Academy video: 2:04 minutes) - note that you can also add inks using the text editor tool (see link above)

You can read more about Moodle Resources and Activities in the Introduction to Moodle course.

In Moodle you can decide when/whether your students can see an entire course, or parts of a course.

Show/Hide an entire course

1. Select Settings from the top of the course page:
2. Under General, set the course visibility to Hide or Show.
   

Show/Hide a section of a course

With editing for the course turned on, click the Edit button beside a section name and choose Show section or Hide section:

Show/Hide individual resources and activities

With editing for the course turned on, click the Edit button beside a resource or activity and choose Show or Hide:

The Moodle Gradebook is a powerful and useful tool to help you manage and share grades with your students. Watch these videos from our Online Developers for more information.

Maintaining engagement in an online course can be a challenge, but Moodle offers some tools to help you.

Using H5P

Using Moodle Discussion Forum (Moodle Academy video: 4:20 minutes)

Using Moodle Wiki (Moodle Academy video: 3:28 minutes)

Moodle's Assignment activity enables students to enter or upload a response directly into the Moodle course, and allows instructors to grade and provide feedback.

Here is a how-to video from our Online Developers to get you started:

Create an assignment (Moodle Academy video: 4:53 minutes)

Grade assignment submissions

Online tests can be created and auto-graded in Moodle, either using the in-built Quiz activity or using an H5P activity.

Moodle Quiz:

Using Moodle Quiz (Moodle Academy video: 6:26 minutes)

Read more about the Moodle Question Bank.

Graded H5P Activities

Most H5P activity types allow for grading, but we recommend that you don't use H5P for summative assessment.

Find out more about the different Moodle enrollment options in the Introduction to Moodle course.

Find out how to backup, copy, or reuse a course in our Knowledge Base.