Tutorial: Start setting up your course

3. Add and edit course content

With Edit mode on, you can add and edit your course content. Here we look at how you can add an individual item, an activity or resource.

Add an item

• At the bottom of the section where you want to add your materials, click Add an activity or resource and then click the item you want to add. (You can always move it to a different location later.)
• Complete the settings form you are presented with and save it. (Explore our courses Moodle Course Content and Moodle Course Activities for more detailed instructions.)

Modify an item

• Click onto the item.
• Click 'Settings' from the activity navigation and make your changes.
• If you want,  you can alert learners to the modifications by ticking 'Send content change notification' before you click to save.
• Save.

The following video explains how to edit your course.

Course editing

To edit the course main page and add content we first enable Edit mode by toggling the icon top right.

We can quickly rename our sections from for example Topic 1 to a name that's relevant to us by clicking the pencil icon, typing

in a new name and pressing Enter.

Clicking the three dots on the right allows us to add or modify the summary of this section.

Then after saving the changes you can see the summary on the course page and note how the name change is reflected in the course index on the left.

We can move sections, so we could move Topic two, which is not yet renamed, up above Topic one which has been renamed to Reading.

To highlight, hide or delete a section, we go to the three dots to the right.

Remember deleting a section also delete any content in that section, but you can get them back again from Course navigation > More.

The recycle bin usually only appears once you've deleted something, depending on your administrator settings.

This course has three topic sections.

We can add a new section by clicking Add topic in the area we want the section, or at the bottom.

Note that if we are using weekly format you can only add a week at the bottom.

Items in our course also have those three dots giving access to useful actions, for example, duplicating an item.

This is useful if you want several versions of, for example, a Page, which you will then edit each with different content.

Course activities and resources may also be moved by drag and drop, either up and down the course page, up and down the course index or from one to the other.

If you prefer, you can click the three dots and move from there.

If we hide an item, for example, Announcements, we see the note ‘hidden from students’.

To view your course as a student would, click the arrow next to your profile top right, click Switch role to.. Select student … and note how the Announcements

have disappeared.

Go back to your user profile, click Return to my normal role and you’ll see the Announcements again.

Enable editing again if needed but if you want to edit the settings or content of an item you can do this by clicking the item, such as our Course rules, and editing there. No need to enable Editing for this.

Click the short name of the course to return to the main page.

Finally, to add content such as Pages, files, assignments, with Edit mode enabled, we click Add an activity or resource.