Title: Activity 1.7: Accessing your practice course
Course: Stage 1 - Getting Started with EdTech > Section: 4. Practical, Consolidation & Evaluation

Purpose: to experience Moodle as a lecturer (with editing rights) in a  course.

Timing: 40 mins

Tool: Lesson; Moodle editing; Blog

Resources:

- Moodle Basics Lesson; Course homepage (Moodle.org)
- Learn Moodle Basics 3.9 How to lay out a course (video, Moodle.org, 2020)

Task:

- Go to your Moodle Basics Lesson and navigate to Section 3: Course hamopage
- Watch the Learn Moodle Basics video on How to lay out a course (3m55s) and follow the guidance to start setting up your own course. What is where?

Response:

- Make sure that you know where your course is and how to access it (dashboard) and if it is new, rename it appropriately using the course settings as guided by your facilitators.
  - Spend some time after the live session playing with your course settings and seeing the effects of changes you make.
- In your own course, please pay attention to the course structure within Moodle - blocks, setup etc.
  - Enter your topics as previously identified in Activity 1.4: Course Description as section headings in your Vula course.
- Now take a screenshot of your course making sure that the course name and at least 1 topic heading is displayed.
  - Come back into this activity (1.7) and make a new blog entry attaching your screenshot.
  - Comment on at least 1 of your colleagues’ screenshots.
- You will continue to work on your course development in this space going forward.

GUIDANCE
How to use the Moodle Blog | Take and save a screenshot
- You will find this feature in the 'Blog Menu' block on the top left hand side of your screen.
- Simply click on the option to Add an entry about this Assignment.
- You will see a text editor similar to all those within this system: Subject/Title, body etc.

Extract from Using Blogs (Moodle.org, 2019)

1. The Blog is a site-wide activity in Vula (Moodle). However, you have the option to associate your blog entry with your current course and assignment. (This is a way to filter entries about a particular course and an assignment within the course.)
2. In your blog settings there are 2 visibility options:

- Yourself (draft) (no one else will be able to view - don't use for our training purposes)
- Anyone on your site (is likely only to be seen from within this course) - choose this option.
- You can take a screenshot by holding down the <Windows> + <shift> + <S> keys which opens your Snipping app. Drag your cursor (+) to outline the image you want to capture, and then save the image on your computer and upload to your Private area in Stage 1 in Vula.
- When you want to attach the screenshot to your blog, simply navigate to the folder where you have saved the image and attach.