Whether you are an instructor or a student, after you log into your account, you can click on the hamburger menu in the upper left corner of the Home page and then click on the Dashboard menu item to go to your personal dashboard page. The student or teacher Dashboard features their personal calendar of events.

A student can click on New Event and add what Moodle calls a User Event – which is an event that only the user who created it can see.

The personal Dashboard page Calendar provides users with links to their courses and activities within their courses, such as upcoming assignments.

We previously created a Moodle Category called Course templates. We then created a 12 week course in that category called Flexible Sections Course Template. We divided this course into 3 parts with each part taking 4 weeks. The first Week in Part 1 was divided into four topics each of which we will call a sub section or a lesson.

Different meanings of the word Lesson
We will use the term Lesson to mean an individual hour long class session with its associated Activities – including a reading assignment, a video watching assignment, a video conference class session and a quiz. We will use use Lesson 1.1 as an example of how to use various Moodle tools to create a lesson.

Unfortunately, Moodle calls each Lesson a Topic or a Section and assumes that we will only be covering one topic or section per week. In addition, Moodle has an Activity called Lesson which is actually a complex series of flow charts. Moodle’s use of the word Lesson to describe their complex flow chart is unfortunate because it can be extremely confusing for both students and teachers.

We will not be using the Moodle Activity called Lesson. But we will use other Moodle Activities to create each of our lessons and we will plan four of these lessons for each week!

In this article, we will provide a process for setting up a Moodle course as well as an annual and quarterly course schedule. Previously, in Article 3.1, we divided our first course, called Better Word Processing, into an Introduction followed by 3 Parts.

Each Part, when clicked on, displays 3 to 4 chapters – which Moodle calls Sections:

Each chapter when clicked on displays 4 sub-sections:

Each of our 12 courses at College in the Clouds is designed to be taught as a College level 5 credit course. The assumption of a 5 credit course is that the class will meet for 5 hours per week. This can be 1 hour each day Monday through Friday or for two hours twice a week (for example, 1 to 3 pm on Mondays and Wednesdays) with a one hour small group session after the large group video conference sessions. In addition, students are expected to spend at least 10 hours per week preparing for their class sessions and or completing projects and quizzes after their class sessions. It is also assumed that a full time schedule would be 3 five credit courses or 15 credits. Multiply 3 times 15 hours per course results in a full time commitment of 45 hours per week.