Overview
This page provides tips and information about moving around in UNSW Moodle 3.7.
Navigation in Moodle
Instructional video for navigating within the Moodle 3.7 LMS.
When to use
On this page you will find information about:
- moving about within a Moodle course
- moving between courses
- helping your students navigate within and between courses.
It's important to learn how to navigate any Learning Management System efficiently, and how to avoid common issues related to moving from page to page.
Benefits
There are many ways to move around Moodle, some of them more straightforward than others. This page will show you some navigation shortcuts, and help you avoid common issues, such as losing your page edits or viewing an outdated version of a page.
Guide
Step by step instructions
General navigation tips
The My home page—movement between courses
When you log in to Moodle, the My home page offers you a list of all your courses. You don't always have to return to this page to move from course to course, though. You can jump from course to course using the Navigation block within any course, or the Courses (My courses) block if it is installed.
The course home page—movement within courses
When you click a Moodle course name, the course home page displays. This page is a key element in how you present your course to your students, whether all at once or topic by topic. Once you and your students are accustomed to the course, you may prefer to use the Navigation block or a Course Menu block to move around within the course. This saves you having to return to the course home page to move, for example, from one topic to another.
Moving around
Don't use your browser's Back and Forward buttons when moving around in Moodle. Use the Navigation block to move between and within your courses. This way you will always see the latest version of a page—such as a forum with all posts.
When you're changing content in Moodle, be careful to update, save or post any changes you make to any page before you move on to another page. Your work may be lost if you don't save it.
The Navigation block
The Navigation block is one of 2 standard blocks that display on every Moodle course page (the other is the Settings block).
Using the Navigation block you can access:
- My home—a personalised home page displaying links to your courses, with information about recent activity in each course, e.g. unread forum postsm, upcoming assignments
- Site pages—site search tags, site calendar and site news links
- My profile—this item links to your profile, forums posts, blogs and messages, private files and repositories
- My courses—links to the front pages of all your courses. Click the arrow next to a course's shortname to see a list of all sections of the course. You can navigate to a specific section, resource or activity.
Breadcrumbs
As you move deeper into a course, your route is tracked by the breadcrumbs at the top of the page just below the tabs. Blue text indicates a link that you can link to return to a previous page.
To move between courses, you can click the My home breadcrumb 
and choose a course from the Course overview list, or you can go to the Navigation block and click My courses > [name of the course].
The Courses block
If you want to, you can add the Courses block to a course, so that your courses are always listed on the left of the course page:
The Course menu block
Add the Course menu block to a course to aid you and your students' movement within the course. Here is a sample course menu.
For more specific movement, e.g. to a resource or activity within a topic, use the My courses link in the Navigation block.
Additional information
Further assistance
If you experience technical or other issues, consult the Where to get help page.