The following 2 quick tips show teachers how to set up your Moodle courses easily.
Tip 1: Quick Moodle course start-up video tutorials
You can set up your Moodle course easily by uploading course materials, creating assignments and Turnitin Assignments (A plagiarism checking tool).
The following 3 videos might help you get started easily. For more advanced Moodle functions, please visit our online user-guide and online video tutorials.
| Quick Moodle course start-up video tutorials | Add course content (1 minute 29 seconds)  |
| Assignment (1 minute 53 seconds) |
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| Turnitin Assignment (3 minutes 4 seconds) |
Tip 2: Change the layout for new courses
Moodle courses are automatically created using the topic layout, i.e. having 10 topic sections in the course by default (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: Moodle course in Topic Sections
We have prepared two layouts for teachers, topic layout with 6 topic sections (see Figure 2) and weekly layout (see Figure 3). If you would like to use one of these layouts, please send the Moodle course code(s) to eLearningteam@hku.hk and we will help you to change the layout of the course(s). Note that this should be done before you start to upload course materials. Changing the course layout during running a Moodle course is NOT advisable.
Figure 2: Moodle course in 6 topic sections- This template is for teachers who want to organize the course content by activity nature.
Figure 3: Moodle course in Weekly format- This template is for teachers who want to organize the course content based on dates. The dates will be presented on the course content page in weekly format.
