Creating your course
Before you start building your course, it needs to be "created" in Moodle. If you're working in a school or university, then there are three ways this might happen:
An administrator has already created it: Sometimes, administrators create empty courses for all the official courses taught by an institution.
Put in a request: In other situations, the administrators require that teachers request new courses; the administrator then approves the course, and it's created.
Create it yourself: In other circumstances you might have permission to create courses yourself. If it was you that installed your Moodle then you will definitely have permission to create courses.
How is it that you cannot create courses but your colleagues can? Let's look at this in the next section.
Do you need to create your course yourself
You might be lucky, your administrator may have made you a manager or a course creator, meaning you get to create your own courses. Note that managers have slightly more...