How to Create a Course in Moodle?

A guide in Moodle is a complete training session with theory and practice. The theory helps to convey knowledge with the help of lessons containing text, images, and videos; hands-on activities such as quizzes (check out our How to Create a Moodle Quiz: Step-by-Step Guide) allow you to check how much the student has learned.

Creating a Lesson in Moodle

As an example, we’ll build a course on Workplace Safety rules and a lesson on Fire Safety. To continue, you’ll need to open a class-specific folder and get the source file with text so you can just copy and paste it in the sample lesson.

Step 1 - Open your Course in Moodle

From the course overview, open your class-specific folder.

How to Add a Topic to the Course?

Step 2 - When you open a class-specific folder on Moodle, on the top right corner of the page click on setting gear icon. A drop-down menu list will open and from this list select “Turn editing on”.

Step 3 - Scroll down and you will see an option to Add an activity or resource and Add topics. Click on Add topics it and a window will popup to enter a number of topics you want to add. For this example, we will add only 1 (one) topic and click Add topics.

Step 4 - A new topic will be created Topic 1, rename this to Fire Safety and then, in this section of topic click Add an activity or resources. From Add an activity or resources popup window, under the list of Activities look for Lesson, select this activity and click Add.

You will be redirected to a page for the configuration of this Lesson. We’ll need to set up four sections:

• General: Enter the name of the lesson and its description.

• Appearance: Configure the lesson design. Would you like learners to see a progress bar or demonstrate the lesson as a slideshow?

• Flow Control: Set up the rules for taking the lesson. For example, it’d be wise to allow learners to view the lesson on fire safety several times, but for an exam session, it’s better to give just one attempt.

• Grade: Determine the rules of assessment. Will you use points or a scale to evaluate the results? What is the passing grade? For the sample lesson, set four points as the passing grade as there are four test tasks.

Step 5 - Click Save and display.

How to Create a Question Page?

Step 6 - Our sample lesson starts with the question, What do you do if you smell smoke? To add it, click Add a question page in the Edit tab.

Step 7 - From the list of select a question type; select Multichoice for the sample and then, click Add a question page.

• Next, you will be redirected to the question page setup. Starting with question page title and content.

Step 8 - Now you have to provide an answer and responses for multiple choice. Define the award for the correct answer. You may just leave 1 point by default.

• Make sure there are no points given, as this answer is wrong.

Step 9 - Click Save page.

• Your question page will be successfully added to the course.

How to Create a Content Page?

Step 10 - The content page is a building block for creating a lesson in Moodle. It may contain text, pictures, audio or video. You can click Add a content page in the beginning.

Step 11 - But in our case of this sample course, we first created question page after, we can create more pages by clicking on Add new page and from drop-down list select Add a content page.

• Below, you will also see a Content 1 (Content 2, Content 3, and so on) section. Using these fields, you can set up navigation within a lesson. Each Content is a button that forwards a learner to another page of the lesson. For instance, you can create buttons for every page of the lesson using the Jump option, so learners will be able to jump to a different page – next page, previous page, first page, last page, or any other page on the course. If you prefer closed navigation and don’t fill in the Content fields, then learners will have to study the pages one by one.

• For the sample course, we don’t need any extra navigation buttons except Next and Previous.

Step 12 - Create the Next button by entering the word, Next in the Content 1 description and choose to jump to the Next page on each new page you add, and Previous in the Content 2 description and choose to jump to Previous page on each new page you add.

How to Add More Content and Question Pages?

Step 13 - Create the rest of the pages using the lesson source file. By clicking on Add new page and from drop-down list select the type of page you want to add – content page, question page. etc. In the end, you should get the following structure:

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