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Categorization is an innate human behavior that allows us to perceive and understand the environment that surrounds us. Modal designers must have recognized our tendency to categorize, because modal contains a flexible categorization system that allows the creation of categories in which you may house additional categories and courses.
Any educational program that offers courses of various varieties will invariably be using a categorization system like this for grouping courses on the specific categories.
A language program, for example, my group courses into skill-specific categories such as those of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
A larger entity such as a college, would likely group courses and to content-specific categories such as literature, sciences, speech communications, and the like, with additional circuit agrees used inside each of those main categories.
No matter what the categorization system, modal is well equipped to accommodate via it's intuitive user-friendly course category creation interface.
We will quickly walk through the manual creation of a simple categorization system in the next few pages. It should be noted that course categories can be created automatically via the use of the bulk course upload tool that will be introduced later in this chapter.
While the automated creation process is certainly a more efficient one, it is a good idea to understand how to create, edit, and I just categories manually as the need to make adjustments may arise after categories have been created automatically, and at that point, the only practical method may be why the manual process.
Moodle’s login links are at the top right hand side of the page or at the bottom of the Home page as shown in diagram1.
Diagram 1
Click on the Login link and Moodle’s login screen will be displayed in the Browser as shown in diagram 2.
Diagram 2
Enter the Administrators Login ID and Password set for the administrator at the time of installing Moodle. Then click the Login button. Once the Administrators Login ID and Password have been accepted the Moodle Administrator screen will be displayed in the Browser as shown in diagram 3.
Diagram 3
Now access to all the functionality and features and Moodle is now available. The Logout links are shown in diagram 3.
From the menu items on the left hand side of the Admin Home Page traverse the following menu path:
Site administration -> Courses –> Add/edit courses as shown in diagram 4.
Diagram 4
The Course categories screen will be displayed in the Browser as shown in diagram 5.
Diagram 5
Click Add new category as shown in diagram 5. The Add new category form will be displayed in the Browser as shown in diagram 6.
Diagram 6
Since this is the top category ( to which a single or multiple courses can be bound ) select Top from the Parent category drop down list box.
Next enter the Category name ( which is mandatory ). Then in the Description text area enter a detailed description of the category being created.
Finally when all is complete, click Create category.
To Cancel all the information entered and abort the data entry process click Cancel.
A category to which a single or multiple courses can be bound has been created
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