Get a practice course

To benefit most from this course, you should have an empty Moodle course in which you have the role of editing teacher. It is very useful also to have a sample student account which you can use to test your activities.

Ideally, your organisation will provide you with a course with teacher ac 

cess and offer you a test student account.

If that is not possible you can use our Moodle sandbox demo with the teacher login (username = teacher/password= sandbox) but be aware that this site is reset every hour so you won't be able to save your work.

Alternatively, explore and sign up to MoodleCloud, create a teacher login and a course and try out the activities there.

The video below demonstrates how to get a MoodleCloud site.

Video Transcript:

Setting up your practice course:

If you don't have a course from your organisation, you can get a MoodleCloud site, create a teacher and create a practice course there.

Here's how to do it.

First go to Moodlecloud.com and choose a package that you're interested in - perhaps you could start with the free trial?

Once you've signed up and got your site, from the top of the screen click Site administration, then Users, then Add a new user.

We're going to add an account to be the teacher in the course.

This can be you but it's better to use this account than your admin account.

Choose a username and a password and make sure you remember them both and then any other information for example first name and last

name, and the save this account.

Then from the Site administration, click the Courses tab, Add a new course.

You can give it any name you want - the full name and short name can be the same if they're not too long.

Choose a subject that's relevant to you or that you're interested in, 

add any other details you want and click Save and display.

On the next page click the Participants link, click the Enrol users button, assign 

the role of teacher - as admin you're allowed to do this - then search for the 

account you want to use as a teacher.

Click Enrol users. You've now enrolled that new account as a teacher in you course - so log out and then log in again with your teacher

account and now you're ready to start learning to teach with Moodle!