1. Moodle Basics
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kanda Runapongsa Saikaew
Asst. Prof. Dr. Pattarawit Polpinit
Department of Computer Engineering,
Khon Kaen University, Thailand
2. Agenda
● How to log in to Moodle
● How to create a course
● How to add an activity or a resource
● How to add a calendar event
● How to edit course participants
● How to manage settings in your course
● How to customize your profile
● How to manage files and folders 2
4. What is Moodle?
● MOODLE - Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning
Environment
● CMS - Content Management System
● VLE - Virtual Learning Environment
● Open Source - free
● Open access to world-wide information
● Differentiate learning & accommodate multiple learning
styles
● Create communication & collaboration channels
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5. Tools of Moodle
● Calendar & Personal Content
● Resource Tools
○ Files created in Moodle, Office, PDF, and web links
● Activity Tools
○ Online and offline assignments
○ Individual and group
○ Graded and ungraded
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6. How to Log in to Moodle
● Go to https://e-learning.kku.ac.th
● Login with the username and password that
you use for your KKU mail account
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13. How to Make a Change
● The layout of a course homepage revolves around the
weeks/topics in the center of the page
● To make a change of the course web, press the icon
“Turn editing on”
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14. How to Edit Course Summary
● Press the gear icon at the topmost topic
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15. How to Change Section Name
● Uncheck the checkbox “use default section
name” to change the section name
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17. Text Editor Tools (1)
1. Text Editor Tool Icons
2. If you see the arrow on any icon, you can
click to expand the commands
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18. Text Editor Tools (2)
● To learn more about each text editor tool
icon, you can place the mouse on the icon
● Then the text that explains about that icon
will appear
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19. How to Use Text Editor Tools
1. Select the text that you want to apply the tool
2. Then click the tool that you want to use
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20. How to Save Changes
● Press the button “Save changes”
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52. Agenda
● How to log in to Moodle
● How to create a course
● How to add an activity or a resource
● How to add a calendar event
● How to edit roster associations
● How to manage settings in your course
● How to customize your profile
● How to manage files and folders 52
53. How to Add a Calendar Event
● Go to block “Upcoming Events”
● Click Add Event
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55. Edit the Calendar Event
● Modify the event by clicking at the gear icon
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56. Upcoming Events Block
● Upcoming Events block display only about
upcoming events within 3 weeks
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57. Add a New Block
● In the block “Add a Block”, select the block
type that you want to add
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58. A New Calendar Block
● A new calendar block which displays all
events in each month
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59. Course Participants Users
● Usually the Institute of Learning and
Innovation Technology at KKU will add
course participant users for all KKU courses
● However, the teacher can also add, modify,
or delete course users
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60. How to Edit Course Participants
● Click at menu “Participants” in the block
“Navigation”
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61. Choose User Type & Find User
● Choose User Type
● Find User by using
email
● Then press button
“Search”
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62. Enrol users
● Press button “Enrol” to enrol the found user
● Press button “Finish enrolling users”
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81. Uploaded File in the Created Folder
● Uploaded file in the created folder
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82. Conclusions
● You have learned how to log in, create a
course, add a resource, add an activity,
create an assignment, create an event, edit
course settings, edit user profile, and
manage files and folders
● In practices, we have used Moodle with
Google Apps and Facebook
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84. Thank You
● Asst. Prof. Dr. Kanda Runapongsa Saikaew
Email: krunapon@kku.ac.th
Web: http://gear.kku.ac.th/~krunapon
● Asst. Prof. Dr. Pattarawit Polpinit
Email: polpinit@kku.ac.th
Web: http://gear.kku.ac.th/~polpinit
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