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Moodle has flat and linear navigation, therefore all links to your activities or materials will be posted right on the course homepage, one under another, in the appropriate section for topic or week, although you may get more creative later, once you will be more familiar with the system.

Turn editing on

To add an item, click Turn editing on button in the upper right corner of the course homepage.

In the editing mode you will be able to see additional control icons and drop-down menus.

Drop-downs

Drop-downs will allow you to add 3 items to the site: Resources, Activities, and Blocks.

• Resources - site materials, such as webpages, PowerPoints, Word documents, links, short labels, etc.
• Activities - site activities, such as forums, glossaries, quizzes, assignments, wikis, etc.
• Blocks - additional tools, which provide some additional functionality to the site, e.g. calendar, who is online, class roster, etc.

Control icons

Once you add an item to the site homepage, you will be able to move it to the desired location or modify its appearance, by using the control icons explained below.

	Edit	Update settings for the Resource or Activity. The Settings page can also be accessed by clicking on the link to the resource or activity, and then clicking Update button in the upper right corner.
	Hide	An open eye indicates that an item is visible to students. Clicking on the icon will hide the items Visibility can be also controlled on the Settings page for the individual resource or activity (under Common module settings: Visible)
	Show	If any of your items are hidden, you may unhide them by clicking on this icon
	Delete	This icon deletes resources and activities (with a warning), whereas it only removes blocks, which can be added at any time later (except HTML block).
	Indent/Outdent	move to the right /move to the left
	Move up/down
	Placeholder	This icon will appear only once you click Move up/down icon Clicking on Placeholder will move your item to the new location
	Build-in help files
/	Highlight	This icon will allow you to highlight the current topic, if your site uses Topic layout (weeks are highlighted automatically)
/ /	Group mode	Some activities can be done in groups. This icon represents what kind of group mode is currently set for the activity: No groups/ Visible groups/ Separate groups. Group mode can be also controlled on the Settings page for the individual resource or activity (under Common module settings: Group mode)
/	Collapse/Show all sections	This icon will allow you to view only one section (topic or week) at a time. If you choose to collapse, the “Jump to” dropdown menu will appear on the bottom of the course homepage. Note that this this an individual setting, and each user has to set it on his/her own.