Moodle Dashboard

The Course Overview block can be filtered to show:

• All (except hidden)
• In Progress
• Future
• Past
• Starred
• Hidden

The courses can be displayed in the following forms:

• Card
• List
• Summary

The courses can be sorted by name or last accessed date (in descending order), and 12, 24, or 48 courses can be displayed per page.

Important:

All Moodle courses have a start and end date, in the control of the instructor. If not updated, the start date is the day the course was created by the school TELT Administrator, and the end date is left blank.

It is very important that the start/end dates are kept up to date, as they control whether the course exists in the In Progress, Future or Past tabs. If the end date was left blank or set in the future, it will be in the In Progress tab.

A course end date of 23 November 2017 has been set for teaching courses in teaching periods up to Semester 2, 2017 so that the courses are correctly displayed in the Past tab after the Moodle upgrade.

For teaching courses starting from Summer Semester, 2018, every course will have an end date of 8 months from its start date automatically added when the course is created in Moodle.

From Summer Semester 2018, every course will have an end date of 8 months from the date it was created in Moodle. Each faculty/school will manage the end date according to their business requirements.

The Timeline block provides an overview of deadlines. Deadlines may be sorted by due dates, or by dates or course.

The Starred courses block may be added to the Dashboard to display the courses which an enrolled user has 'starred' (bookmarked).

Courses can be starred using the Course Overview Block

The Recently accessed courses block, displayed by default on the Dashboard displays the courses which an enrolled user has most recently accessed.

The Recently accessed items block may be added to the Dashboard to display the activities and resources which an enrolled user has most recently accessed, allowing them to quickly find where they were previously on the site.

Not all activities will be displayed on the Moodle dashboard. The following table summarises which activities and resources will or will not be displayed on the dashboard. 

Use the search bar when looking for a specific course on Moodle. This is useful when you know the name of a course, but don't have the direct link on Moodle.

This can be found by selecting Site Home in the Navigation block.

After entering keywords into the search bar, your results will show. If the course has an image, it will also be shown in the results.

By default, a coloured pattern is displayed as the image for a course on the dashboard. Instructors can edit the course image in their course settings. To edit a course image:

1. In the Settings block > Course administration in your course home page, click on Edit settings. 

2. Upload the image you wish to use as your course image in the Course image under Description settings. 

3. Click Save and display to save your course image. 

Note: Use an image size of approximately 960px x 150px for the image's size to be correctly proportioned on the Dashboard.