Moodle Student Guide

What is Moodle?

Moodle is the ‘brand name’ for Virtual Learnin Environment (VLE). A VLE is a piece of software which runs on a computer (on the university network and over the internet) in order to provide a webbased environment for the creation of resources, learning activities and webpages. The VLE enables online interaction between staff and students in various ways including:

• the creation and delivery of webbased resources, activities;
• interaction between staff and students (locally or remotely);
• management of the learning process;
• tracking of activity to further enable learning and feedbak.

• How to log-in?
• The Moodle Homepage
• Main menu
• The Calendar
• The Course category box
• User profile
  • Required information
  • Optional information
    
• See also

How to log-in

The Moodle Homepage

Having logged in you will be taken to the Moodle Home page. The Moodle Home page is split into a number of different areas; these are explained below.

Main menu

The "Main Menu" box contains studies documentation, references, applications and regularly updated new that is important to all students.

The Calendar

The Calendar will be kept up to date with upcoming ISM University Courses events. Other information the calendar will contain are holiday dates, assigment deadlines and other course specific information.

By clicking on the month link you can add your own calendar dates for events that are important to you personaly.

The Course category box

The course category bos is visible when you login into Moodle. This area contains a list of available courses.

User profile

Majority of user information is automatically obtained from other university systems but you may find that you need to add a small amount of information before you can continue. When the first time you log in to Moodle you should check the following information to see if it's present.

Required information

• First name, surname, e-mail address;
• City;
• Description box.

NOTE: If the information is already presented in these fields DO NOT CHANGE IT.

Optional information

• Image of yourself or an avatar to your profile;
• List of interests;
• Contact information: cell phone number, ICQ id etc.