Editing Moodle™ Content

Only users with creator privileges (or site administrators) can edit course content. When you create a new course you may assign roles to that course, including yourself and, optionally, other teachers who you wish to have creator privileges.
To add or change text, resources, or activities you must first “turn editing on.” Do this by clicking the button, so named, at the top right of the course homepage. You can turn editing off again by pressing the button (now named “turn editing off”). Once “on” you’ll see a box for “add a resource” and a box for “add an activity” in each topic area, as well as several editing icons.
When editing is on you will see one or more of the following icons (or facsimiles thereof) as are appropriate to various items or activities:

– “edit” icon lets you enter/change whatever resource or activity it is next to by taking you to it’s “behind the scenes” editing page.
– “help” icon shows a pop-up help window pertinent to the topic where it is located.
– “open-eye” icon means an item is visible to students. Clicking it will make the item invisible to students and change the icon to the closed eye.
– “closed-eye” icon means an item is currently hidden from students. Clicking it will make the item visible to students and change the icon to the open eye.
– “right” icon is used to indent course elements. There is also “left” icon for out-denting.
– “move” icon allows course elements to be moved up or down throughout the course.
– “move here” icon appears when moving a course element to another folder. It appears only after you’ve clicked the move icon, and indicates the destination of the item to move.
– “delete” icon permanently deletes something from the course after you confirm this on a warning page that appears when you click it.
– “marker” icon highlights the current topic, drawing a viewer’s attention to that section.
– “one” icon hides all other sections of the course, showing only this one. (this only hides it from your view, not from the student view later; used “closed eye” to hide section from student view)
– “all” icon shows all sections in a course.
  – “group” icons toggle; clicking on one changes it to the next type of group choice: first is “visible groups,” second is “separate groups,” and third is “no groups.