Moodle courses

Moodle manages activities and stores resources in courses, and this is where learning and collaboration takes place. Courses themselves belong to categories, which are organized hierarchically, similar to folders on our local hard drive. Moodle comes with a default category called Miscellaneous, which is sufficient to show the basics of courses. We will deal with categories in more detail in Chapter 4, Course Management.

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Moodle is a course-centric system.

To begin with, let's create the first course. To do so, go to Courses | Manage courses and categories. Here, select the Miscellaneous category. Then, select the Create new course link, and you will be directed to the screen where course details have to be entered. For now, let's focus on the two compulsory fields, namely Course fullname and Course shortname. The former is displayed at various places in Moodle, whereas the latter is, by default, used to identify the course and is also shown in the breadcrumb trail...