Moodle

ITS will enroll students into your Moodle courses at the beginning of each term using the most up-to-date data available from Banner.  After this initial enrollment, faculty are responsible for enrolling and removing students from their Moodle courses as enrollments change.  Following are the steps for enrolling and removing students from a Moodle course.

Enroll Students

• Login to the Moodle course into which you wish to enroll students
• Scroll down to the Administration block on the right side of the screen
• Click Users under the heading Course administration
• Click on Enrolled users
• When the Enrolled users screen appears, click on the Enroll users button in the upper right corner
• If not already selected, change Assign roles drop down menu to read Student
• Enter the last name of the student you wish to enroll in the Search box and press Search
• Click the Enroll button next to the student’s name
• Repeat the previous two steps for each student you wish to enroll in your course
• When you have finished enrolling students, click on the Finish enrolling users button
• Click on your course name at the top of the page to return to your course’s main page

Remove Students

• Login to the Moodle course from which you wish to remove students
• Scroll down to the Administration block on the right side of the screen
• Click Users under the heading Course administration
• Click on Enrolled users
• When the Enrolled users screen appears, scroll through the course list until you find the student you wish to remove
• Click on the X furthest to the right from the student’s name (under the column titled Enrollment methods) to remove the student
• Click Continue to confirm the removal
• Repeat the previous three steps for each student you wish to remove from your course

Before beginning the copy process, the course into which you are importing data must have the same number of topics/weeks as the course from which the data is coming.  For example, if there are 10 weeks in last year’s course, there needs to be 10 weeks in this year’s course.

Add Topics/Weeks:

1. Go to the course into which you want to add topics/weeks.
2. Click on Edit settings, found under Course administration (under Administration on the right side of the screen)
3. Scroll down to Course Format and click to expand the options
4. From the Number of sections drop down menu, select the appropriate number of topics/weeks
5. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save changes to return to your course page.

Import Content From an Old Course:

1. Go to the course into which you want to copy content.
2. Click on Import, found under Course administration (under Administration on the right side of the screen).
3. Select the course from which you will be importing content. Only the courses in which you are a teacher will be displayed.  Click Continue.
4. Leave all Backup settings checked and click Next.
5. Uncheck any elements that you do not wish to import.  You can uncheck entire sections/weeks by unchecking the box next to that section/week.  Click Next.
6. Confirm that all elements to be imported have been checked.  If not, click on Previous and check them off.  If they are, click on Perform import.
7. When Import complete appears, click on Continue to return to your course page.  All imported content should appear.

• Go to the Moodle course you wish to backup
• Click on Backup, found under Course Administration (under the Administration block)
• For a general backup, check all the boxes that appear on the next screen except:
  • IMS Common Cartridge 1.1
  • Anonymize user information
  • Include course logs
• To create a backup without student information (e.g., take with you to a new institution, copy of course content only), uncheck Include enrolled users which will automatically disable (not backup) related items – will appear grayed out
• Click Next
• Review the items in your course and uncheck anything that you do not want backed up, if anything
• Click Next
• Change the file name to something that will be easy to identify later
• Click Perform backup at the bottom of the screen
• When the message “The backup file was successfully created” appears, click Continue
• Scroll down to User private backup area
• Download the backup file you just created to by clicking on Download next to the name of the file