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Choosing your course layout

Choosing your course layout - Moodle Tutorial

From the course: Moodle 2.4 Essential Training

Choosing your course layout

In this video, I'm going to help you decide which is the best layout for your learners by looking at the different so called course formats. We're in a completely new and empty course here. And the first thing to notice is that it's in three parts. There are blocks to the right and to the left. And there's a central section which is divided into sections. In this particular case, it's weeks. Depending on how your Moodle site is set up, what theme or scheme your administrator has given, you might only have blocks on one side or it might well be a different color. We're using a very basic theme here for clarity. Blocks, we will look at in a different video. They add extra learning elements either side of your main course area. In the central area, is where you add the learning resources and activities. And if we want to change this, then we go into the settings block, course administration, edit settings. This is where we can go to change the number of sections and what type of sections…

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