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Choosing your course layout

Choosing your course layout - Moodle Tutorial

From the course: Moodle 2.5 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 note is, it's in three parts. There are blocks to the right and to the left of a central course area, which is divided into weekly sections. Depending on how your Moodle site is set up, what theme or skin you have. You might only have blocks on one side, and it might well be a different color. We are using the Moodle 2.5 clean theme here, for clarity. Blocks add extra learning elements either side of your main course area, and we'll take a look at these in later videos. If we want to change how the course sections in the middle look, we go to the administration block and click the link Edit Settings. This takes us to the core setup screen where we can also change the full name and the short name of the course if our administrator allows it. On scrolling down, we can add a…

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