Title: Moodle HELP
Course: Stage 0 - Orientation > Section: Essential Course and Support Information

Active throughout the Course Stages 0-4

(Accessible throughout the EdTech course by linking through from each Stage)

Whether you are new or experienced in using Moodle or any other system, as course designers and/or developers we need to know that we can get support where and when we need it.

Moodle Contextual built-in Support:

- Tool tips: available when you hover your mouse pointer over any icon.
- Moodle Docs for this page: You will see this icon or hyperlink (maybe in a different color) and text at the bottom of EVERY screen when you are a developer / editor. When you click on the link, it will take you to the relevant contextual information in the Moodle.org site, and directly into the space where the information is for your local version of Moodle.
- Pop up Help in context: This will provide information about a specific detail when you are setting up an activity or resource.

 The example below is from the setup page for a new forum. For each setting, clicking on the question mark icon activates further pop up information about the effects of choosing that setting - be it a checkbox, drop down list or simply text that should be entered.

Local support:

- Send an email to the helpdesk <email address> stating your problem clearly
- You can also contact the Helpdesk on cell:  <#> (voice/SMS/WhatsApp);
- See any Moodle demo course on your institutional server

Moodle Charts:

- Denmeade, N. (2013). Moodle for Motivating Learners .
- Henrick, G. (2012). Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers.

Some digital  books that are freely available to download:

- Repp, M. (2013) Moodle 2.5 (pdf 68 pages 4.4 Mb)

Some rich media 'how to' Moodle resource sites:

- Learn Moodle Basics 3.9 Playlist - a set of 33 Moodle 3.9 videos on YouTube. (Moodle.org, 2019) Learn Moodle Basics 3.9 Playlist
- Moodle 2 Interactive Tool Guide - Resources (Ammar Merhbi, 2015)
- Moodle 2 Interactive Tool Guide - Activities (Ammar Merhbi, 2015)
- Thousands of Moodle slideshows and videos on SlideShare and Vimeo respectively - narrow your search by using keywords that describe your target.