Site: | OpenLearn Create |
Course: | How to use OpenLearn Create |
Book: | Setting up the structure of your course |
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Date: | Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 12:58 PM |
You need to choose and set up the structure of your course. Moodle offers various course format options which determine the layout of the course page.
Moodle offers various course format options which determine the layout of the course page.
Instructions for setting up the Topics format and Free form layout are shown on the following pages.
If you choose to have no section headings (e.g. weekly, topic) and display all your course materials on the course home page in section-0 then the learner activity record will be blank as the system will not pick up any learner activity from section-0. Therefore, you are strongly advised to create at least one section heading (regardless of which format you use) and put all your course materials, activities and quizzes below that heading so they will be picked up for learner activity records.
Each topic contains a section/week of learning to make the progression through the course simple to follow, with additional topics used for resources or additional information at the start or end of the course.
This guide has been set up using the Topics section layout. Other examples of the topics format and how this looks on the course content page (the additional tab in the course layout which is generated when a topic is created) can be found at MND MDW Multi-disciplinary Working - making it effective for Motor Neurone Disease and any of the TESSA project courses.
If your open course doesn't have a set structure or is very short you can choose the Free Form layout which means everything will display on one page rather than in sections. You will use the pages/headings/labels/content links to organise the content over shorter pages.
Observing the Night Sky: What next? provides a good example of using a free form structure with each separate page view created using Pages (Resources) which have been arranged in sections and sub sections.