Preparation of a General Section

A course in Moodle is an area where teachers will add resources and activities for their students to complete. 

Courses may be created by admins, course creators or managers.  

By default a regular teacher can't add/create a new course. However, teachers can add the content and re-organise an already existing course according to their own needs.

To add a new course to Moodle, you need to have either Administrator, Course Creator or Manager rights

A teacher needs to ask from an IT admin to add or delete a course.

It might be a simple page with downloadable documents or it might be a complex set of tasks where learning progresses through interaction. One can add a screencast (video) in the text like the following:

The course page is made up of central sections which contain the tasks, the course index and (if desired) blocks inside the block drawer to the side. The course teacher has control over the layout of the course homepage and can change it at any time. Progress can be tracked in a number of ways.

Students can be enrolled manually by the teacher, automatically by the administrator or they can be allowed to enrol themselves. Students can also be added to groups if they need to be separated from classes sharing the same course or if tasks need to be differentiated.

A very useful option for a teacher is the ability to "Reset a course". This allows a teacher to empty a course of user data, while retaining the activities and other settings. 

Please be warned when choosing items you will delete your chosen user data from this course forever!