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About this course

Site: Training Site for 6OU
Course: Start Teaching with Moodle
Book: About this course
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Date: Thursday, 22 January 2026, 5:24 PM

Description

Before you begin, review the Course overview, Learning outcomes, Course structure and Completion and assessment information.

Table of contents

1. Course overview

Aim

In this course you will:

    • Explore how to find your way around a Moodle site;
    • Learn what the Dashboard and My courses tab do;
    • Explore what a Moodle course is and how to set up and customise your course layout;
    • Discover how to add and edit text in your course;
    • Explore the benefit of adding blocks to your course;
    • Learn how learners can access your course.

2. Is this course right for you?

This course is designed to help you understand the basics of teaching with Moodle.

You will need to have a Moodle course with an editing-teacher account. If your organisation is unable to give you a Moodle course with a teacher account then look at the page Get a practice course.

This course IS...
  • For anyone interested in teaching with Moodle, whatever your background.
This course IS NOT...
  • For people who want to manage a whole Moodle site as an administrator.
  • For people looking for advanced Moodle training.

3. Learning outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Describe how to navigate and edit a Moodle course;
  • Define the layout of your own Moodle course as a teacher;
  • Add and edit text in your Moodle course;
  • Add blocks to your Moodle course;
  • Identify how learners can access your course.

4. Course structure

  • This is a free, self-paced course provided by Moodle Academy.
  • You must have an editing teacher role in a Moodle course in a Moodle site. If your organisation cannot offer you a course, then follow the instructions in the page Get a practice course.
  • Although this course is not facilitated, you are welcome to ask any questions in the General discussion forum.
  • We would love to hear what you think of the course, if anything is unclear, or you have any ideas for improvements. Please provide feedback so we can improve the course for everyone.

Welcome

Find out how the course works, confirm that this course is right for you, get a practice course and join in an optional general discussion.

Review, learn and practise

Explore the interactive books and use the tasks provided to practise yourselves. 

Course check

Test your understanding in the final quiz.

Feedback

Answer few questions to help us improve this course.


5. Completion and assessment

To complete the course you need to complete the following activities:

Completing the activities

  • Some activities are automatically marked as completed based on specific criteria.
  • Some activities require you to manually mark them as done.

Make sure you complete the activities according to their completion conditions.


6. Digital competences

"Being digitally competent means using digital technologies in a confident and safe way" (DigComp 2.0).

Moodle Academy courses in the Educator learning pathway use a Moodle specific version of the Digital Competence Framework for Educators (DigCompEdu). This is the same framework used by the advanced Moodle Educator Certification (MEC).

This course relates to the following competence(s):

3.1 Teaching

7. Moodle versions

The activities and screenshots in this course are based on the standard Boost theme and the latest version of Moodle LMS, currently 4.1. See Moodle 4.1 documentation overview and New Features 4.1 documentation.

 If your Moodle site looks different, ask your Moodle support staff about the theme and version being used.

 You can access documentation about earlier, supported versions of Moodle LMS below: