Make your Moodle course page look like a webpage

[satopham]

Beautiful, thank you!

[raygabmiamizzi]

BIG thanks, will use this everywhere now!!!!! XXXXX

[saritsh7]

what happens when you'll import this course next year? the links still connect to the old course.

[Icabad]

As far as the questions on how to link to sections, you can view a section, minimize all the others (by clicking the small rectangle in the upper-right of a section) and then copy the URL at that point- if you read the query string (info in the URL) you should see the information about the course and section.

As far as this video, an additional step i would take to make the page even cleaner is to hide section 1- it can't be gotten rid of (there's no option for zero topics/weeks).

[InWonderlandIAm]

Awesome video, @UsingMoodle. Very helpful. Thank you!

[NorthlandsGED]

I tried this in my online classroom and the students absolute loved it. I have a video of it on my account.

[aking1012]

Converteds, don't be lame. It's a course management system for e-learning. If you want to try it out and can't get your head around installing a full course management package check out turnkeylinux and their moodle vm/iso. If that is too complicated, I would suggest contacting a "techie" person and paying them for their knowledge. It is a trade just like any other and skill is not always free. As to the video, nice job

[MrandMissConverted]

Please explain the basics regarding what exactly Moodle is. Is it a website with folders and sub-folders? How and where will I need to add my own customized (non-Moodle) regular website homepage? How can you customize specific Moodle pages, do you have to find relevant HTML pages that you customize with code?

I can not find ANYONE or ANYTHING online that explains the basics of Moodle. So it makes it too complicated for the average, non-techy person to set up.

[verobeatriz]

Wonderful ! thanks for the tip ! :)

[AlanJHaywood]

I love the idea. Thank you

... but I think you will have to relink if you copy the course.

[josephthibault]

@AlanJHaywood you're right you will need to relink both the images and the images to the correct resources and activities.

[nswic]

This is great, I added 8 images into a table and then linked my 8 sections individually to a graphic. I found the easiest way to do this was to add in the section block and then click on the section locator and copy the URL. I then assigned this URL as a hyperlink to the image. Hiding the topics in settings didn't work for me so my menu of images are now acting as anchors. This is working nicely and the course looks much more professional than it did before.

[jennaandsteve]

I couldn't get this to work either. But try this  - Make a table in a label in the first topic box. Put a link in each cell to the quizzes page, the forums page, the participants page, etc. If there isn't a ready made page, make an HTML page of links and link to that from the table. Then, in settings, just display the first topic box. This works for us.

[Philee21]

Excellent tip!! However, how do you link a whole topic section rather than specifics in a topic?? Thanks

[DivineChoice]

This very useful...

[daibarnes]

A great tip to make things more dynamic. Busy pages are off putting for most users.

[johnheav]

Ingenious! I will put this in my "bag of tricks". Thanks. I loved your voice, also. R U single? :-)

[2gobeond]

so simple but yet so good

[MsLivetv]

This is very helpful but its does not work for me

Because I can not link to the subject or week just linking to Approach a certain element such as a task

i hope i'm rong somewhere

thank you

[nightskydrama]

very nice! thank you so much for sharing :)

[whchuang]

Cool & good job!