Add MOODLE Link to a file or web site your front page moodle website.

Managing MOODLE Site News on your front page moodle website.

This tutorial will describes step by step on how to manage site news on moodle and set the site news on front page which provide for the student and teacher latest information and news or an announcement. The example below will show how to manage it. The centre of the front page can display any combination of the following: news items, a list of courses, a list of course categories, a list of categories and courses or none. If you choose to display a list of courses when logged in, then students are provided with a list of only the courses they are enrolled in. This setting only applies if the front page is set to display news items or if you are using the Latest News block.

How to manage site news on moodle?

1. login as admin to manage site news.

2.  Go to site administraion-->Front page-->front page settings. Select News items on front page and front items when logged in to view site news. Select news items to be show. By default is 3. Click on save changes button to proceed continue changes.

3. You finally publish your site news on your moodle front page. This is your site news front page on moodle. 

Insert Label on your moodle front page website.

This tutorial will describes step by step on how to insert label on moodle and set the label on front page which provide information and annoucement for the  student and teacher. The example below will show how to insert it the label. A label is a way to add text to the content area of your course. Labels can be used to give a quick instruction or for telling users what to click on next. An exciting possibility for labels allows external or internal pages to be displayed in the middle of the moodle screen (instead of just putting a link to them).

How to insert label on moodle?

1. login as admin to create or insert new label on moodle.

2. Turn editing on. After turning on you may see the editing tool.

3. After turn the editing on, you might see see the editing tools such as resource and activity. Scroll down to insert a label which is located under a resource. Select insert a label to continue.

4. On this editor, you can put your label on the label text such as a text or an image. Do some formatting on the label. Click on the save and return to course button to continue adding a label.

Managing MOODLE blocks on your moodle website.

This tutorial will describes step by step on how to manage block on moodle and set the block on front page which provide the for student and teacher. The example below will show how to manage it. The activities block shows the student all the activities available in a course. In the Moodle Features Demonstration Course, all the activities are available to the demonstration student.

How to manage blocks on moodle?

1. login as admin to create or add new block.

2. Turn editing on. After turning on you may see the editing tool.

3. To add a block, select the drop down block that you want to add. For this example i will use online user. 

4. On this online users block, admin can move up, move left or move right
the block. It's depend on the admin where to put the block. If you want
to delete the block, you can simply click on the X link or if you want
to hide it, just click on the hide link. You may also assigning the
roles for the block if you wish too.

5. This your front page with block looks like. 

Insert the MOODLE google adsense module to view advertisement from your MOODLE site.

The MOODLE google adsense module can be published an advertisement which generated from google. It can be insert from the administer menu page of your site by using the menus link from site building. Inside this menus, Enable or disable add-on modules for your site  as well as rename and organize menu items. The Google AdSense module provides Web site owners with the means to earn revenue from visitors by displaying ads from Google's AdSense service, or Google's SiteSearch on their sites. Depending on the web site number of visitors and type of content, the revenue can barely cover the hosting costs, or be quite substantial.

Features

Adding Editing a course category on moodle.

This tutorial will describes step by step on how to add a new course category on moodle which provide the primary tool of teacher. The example below will show a new course category setup with a name on the course.

How to add a course category on moodle?

1. login as admin to create new course category

2. go to courses>>add/edit courses>>

3. click on the add new category button and fill up the category name and description(optional). When writing text for others to read, try and write directly to your audience. Explain your ideas as clearly and simply as you can to help avoid misunderstandings. One thing you can do is to avoid long words when a short one will do. In the forums it will really help to keep your whole posts short and on-topic. Instead of one long rambling post that makes many different points, it may be better to write several shorter ones (they may even belong in separate forums). Re-edit your text as much as necessary until you get it right. Even in forum posts you have 30 minutes after you've posted it to go back and improve it if necessary. When replying to others, try and think of interesting questions you can ask them. This will help both you and the other person think (and learn!) about the subject you are discussing. Click on create category. Now your new course category already been created.

Assign roles in SystemHelp with Assign roles in System.

By assigning a role to a user in a context, you are granting them the permissions contained in that role, for the current context and all "lower" contexts.

Contexts:

   1. System (the entire installation)
   2. Front page (the "site course")
   3. Course Categories
   4. Course Sub-categories
   5. Courses
   6. Blocks and Activities

So for example, if you grant a Student role to a user in a Course, they will have that role for the course, but also all Blocks and Activities inside that course. Their actual permissions may depend on other roles and overrides that have been defined.

WARNING! Any roles you assign from this page will apply to the assigned users throughout the entire system, including the front page and all the courses.

How to assign roles for the moodle user?

1. Login to the moodle elearning system.

2. Go to users --> permission --> assign system roles.

3. For this sample i will use the roles of student which students generally have fewer privileges within a course. Click on the student link.

Creating Moodle User on your Moodle site.

There some prerequiste that you need to do before proceeding creating course or adding modules. Creating user is one of the step to do. Here step by step on how to create a user and assign system roles on the course or module.

How to create a user on the moodle learning portal site?

1. Login to your moodle site.

2. On the site administration,  go to users -> accounts -> add a new users

3. Fill up all form with marked* which is compalsory. Click on update profile after finishing created a new user.

4. After creating a user, you may see the list of user that you have been created. Next tutorial will show how to assign system roles and give permission to a user.

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Installing Moodle Themes on your Moodle site

Moodle gives a lot of variety on the themes for user to change your moodle site look. You may download moodle themes from free download themes site such as below url. Here are the step by step tutorial how to install setup moodle themes on your moodle site.

How to  install moodle themes?

1. Download a moodle themes from this site, http://www.themza.com/moodle/. Choose your favorite themes. Unzip the .zip file to an empty local directory.

2. Upload folder to your web server to the /moodle/theme/[Theme Name]. (Replace [Theme Name] with the name of the theme you have downloaded.) Ensure the new theme folder and its contents are readable by the webserver. Change Read and Write permissions (CHMOD) for the files and folder to 755 - Owner read/write/execute, Group read/execute, Everyone read/execute. Incorrect permissions may prevent display of the newly installed theme.

3. Login to your moodle elearning portal.