Moodle for course tuition
Use the Moodle system for your course tuition. Here you can upload slides and course schedules to the web so that your students can easily access them. The system has a news forum that acts like a mailing list for the course, and there is also a possibility for online assignment submission, course calendar, chat feature, wiki and much more.
If you synchronise with the student administrative system STADS, you will get the whole laid out for you in terms of the course participants. All you have to do is send a STADS-ID to helpdesk(at)ruc.dk. You can obtain the STADS-ID for the course from your study board secretary.
You can find Moodle on portalino.ruc.dk
To create a course
- Click on Login at the top right-hand side and then on All courses.
- Click on Turn editing on, and then on Add new course.
- Now you simply need to fill in a few fields. Most of the fields will not need to be changed. The following is a list of the most important fields.
- Select e.g. 2011 Spring Courses / STADS enrolment, if the course is registered in STADS, and the participants will automatically be transferred from there. If you select Manual enrolment, you will have to add the participants to the course yourself.
- Give the course a long and a short name. The short name could be the course's abbreviation, followed by the semester, e.g ATCF2011.
- Let it the Topics format be selected under Format and 10 under Number of weeks/topics. The figure is indicative of the number of course lectures or subjects in the course and can be changed later.
- Scroll down and click Save changes.
You have now created the course and can start to upload resources and organise it as you wish.
To upload resources to your course
You can organize your course in many different ways. The following describes how to organize the course lectures and upload PDFs and PowerPoint slides for the different lectures.
It is important to understand the function of the button Turn editing on/off. Editing must be enabled. Otherwise you will not be able to create sessions or upload your documents. When editing is enabled, a number of boxes will appear where you can choose to add various resources and activities.
Start by creating the first course lecture by clicking on the icon Edit summary and write e.g. 1st Course lecture in the field. You can always correct the text later.
When you wish to upload documents and Powerpoint slides for the first lecture, you must first upload the document and then link to it or select it. Follow the guide below:
- Choose Link to a file or Website on the dropdown menu Add a resource.
- Give the document a name, e.g. Exercises, and click on Choose or upload a file.
This opens a new window with a file folder. Each course has its own file folder for different documents. The uploaded documents can be reused several times on the site.
- Click on Upload a file, for example to upload your slides for the first lecture.
- Find the file on your computer and click on Open to upload it.
When you have uploaded the file, it is important that you then select it by clicking on Choose.
This opens another new window.
- Give the file a name such as Slides for 1st course lecture.
- Make sure you select New Window
- Click on Save and return to course.
Tips and tricks
Moodle offers a wide range of options to add different activities to your course, e.g. forums and wiki. You can switch roles so that you can see what your students see and there are many editing options where you can rearrange course lectures, etc.
You can use the News forum as a course mailing list to send messages to your students. Only you as a teacher can send messages, but the students can comment on them. The messages will be displayed under Latest News at the top right.








