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Instructor support

• User guides
• Site request
• F2F training
• Why Moodle?
• Policies
• Help and FAQs

Student support

1. Request a new site
2. Check the student list
3. Add students, if necessary and double-check with UmReports
4. Unhide your site from students
5. Inform your students

1. Request a new site

• Fill out Site Request Form
• If you are new to Moodle, review information on layout and basic editing instructions, so you may start building your site

2. Check whether your students were added to the site

• Go to the course homepage.
• Click Assign roles in the Administration block.
• Click Student link.
• Review the list of existing users with the Student role.

3. Add students, if necessary

• For the sites that support academic courses: autoenroll (autofetch) from PeopleSoft
• For non-academic sites: allow participants to self-enroll or add them manually.

4. Unhide your site to make it available to the students

• Go to the course homepage.
• Click Settings in the Administration panel.
• Under Availability choose This course is available to students.
• Click Save changes button.

Important:

• Make sure to have an enrollment key in place otherwise anyone with a Moodle ID will be able to self-enroll into your site (your autofetched students do not need to know it at all).
• Never enable anonymous read-only access, otherwise anyone in the whole world will be able to access and browse though your course site.
  • Student data at the University of Minnesota is governed by FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act). Please review this page, if you choose to do so.

5. Inform your students that your Moodle site is available

You may want to contact your students and let them know that they can access course resources via Moodle course management system.

• How to contact participants: http://umn.edu/moodle/instructor/guides/contact.html
• How participants can access Moodle sites: http://.umn.edu/moodle/students/guides/access.html