When you first get to the Columbus Dawah School site, you will see the list of Seats of Scholars classes. Once you login you can access and change stuff in there (provided that permission is given by the administrator).

Turn editing on

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Creating a New Course:

1. Click on one of the available course's names

2. In the left hand side menu look for Course Categories

3. Click on Seats of Scholars

4. Click on Add a new course button at the bottom of the page

5. Fill in the course's :

• Full name
• Short name (take the first letter of each word in the title)
• Summary: look at the the descriptions of each course already available
• "A four week audio lecture series by Muhammad Alshareef on ...."
• Format: choose Topics format
• Number of weeks/topics: choose 5

6. Under the Availability section:

• Guest access: choose "Allow guest without the key"

7. Click Save changes

8. You will be brought to the course page having Topic outline and the individual sections under it.

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Uploading Files:

1. In the left hand side menu, click Files

2. Click Upload a file

3. Choose the files pertaining to the course (flyer, notes (in Word), newsletter, etc)

4. You're done. Click on the course name at the top horizontal bar under "moodle" to go back to the course page.

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Putting up the Flyer & Introductory message

Topic Outline Section

1. There will be an item called News forum. Click on the eye icon to hide it. We don't need the News forum.

2. Click on the Add a resource pull down menu. Choose "Insert a label"

3. You will see a window with the title Label text. Click on the Insert image icon.

• Click on the flyer file and it will automatically go to the Image URL text box
• For Alternate text, type in "Course name" Flyer for example.
• Click OK (next to the Image URL text box)

4. If the flyer is too big, resize it by dragging the corner point

5. Type the introductory message under the flyer (bold Seats of Scholars, and which class (number) it is). Look at the other courses done.

6. Click Save changes

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DISCUSS Section

1. This section will have the number 1 on the top left

2. From the Add a resource pull down menu, choose "Insert a label"

3. In the Summary text box, type DISCUSS (bold, (color) #CC0000, size (18))

4. Copy and paste the standard message (look at other courses) under the DISCUSS heading

5. Click "Save changes"

6. From the "Add a resource" pull down menu, choose "Link to a file or website"

7. Fill in:

• Name: Course name Forum Thread
• Summary: "You can ask questions or discuss the class here."
• In the "Link to a file or web site" section, paste the URL of the forum thread for that class in the "Location" text box.
• In the "Window" section, choose "Same window" from the Window pull down menu
• Check the box for "Put resource in a frame to keep site navigation visible"
• If this choice is not visible, click on the "Show Advanced" tab to the right.

8. Click "Save changes"

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NOTES Section

1. This section will have the number 2 on the top left

2. From the Add a resource pull down menu, choose "Insert a label"

3. In the Summary text box, type NOTES (bold, (color) #CC0000, size (18))

4. Copy and paste the standard message (look at other courses) under the NOTES heading

5. Click "Save changes"

Making the notes webpages

6. From the "Add a resource" pull down menu, choose "Compose a web page"

7. Fill in:

• Name: Skeleton Notes Week " " for the skeleton notes and "Complete Notes Week " " for the complete notes
• Summary: Brief message e.g. "Skeleton notes for weekend " ""
• In the "Compose a web page" section, paste the notes from the Word document in text box
• In the "Window" section, choose "Same window" from the Window pull down menu

8. Click "Save changes"

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LECTURE section

1. This section will have the number 3 on the top left

2. From the "Add a resource" pull down menu, choose "Insert a label"

3. In the Summary text box, type LECTURE (bold, (color) #CC0000, size (18))

4. Copy and paste the standard message (look at other courses) under the LECTURE heading

5. Click "Save changes"

Linking to the site:

6. From the "Add a resource" pull down menu, choose "Link to a file or website"

7. Fill in:

• Name: "Course name" Audio Lecture
• Summary: "You can find the lecture below."
• In the "Link to a file or web site" section, paste the URL of the site where the lecture can be found (e.g. the exact page on Audio Islam containng the lecture files in the "Location" text box.
• In the "Window" section, choose "Same window" from the Window pull down menu
• Check the box for "Put resource in a frame to keep site navigation visible"
• If this choice is not visible, click on the "Show Advanced" tab to the right.

8. Click "Save changes"

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EXAM section:

1. This section will have the number 4 on the top left

2. From the "Add a resource" pull down menu, choose "Insert a label"

3. In the Summary text box, type EXAM (bold, (color) #CC0000, size (18))

4. Copy and paste the standard message (look at other courses) under the EXAM heading

5. Click "Save changes"

Linking to the Reloaded Exam thread on the forums:

6. From the "Add a resource" pull down menu, choose "Link to a file or website"

7. Fill in:

• Name: "Course name" Reloaded Exam
• Summary: "You can participate in the Reloaded."
• In the "Link to a file or web site" section, paste the URL of the thread that hosts the Reloaded exam. in the "Location" text box.
• In the "Window" section, choose "New window" from the Window pull down menu

8. Click "Save changes"

Making the Online Exam:

9. From the "Add an activity" pull down menu, choose "Quiz"

10. Fill in:

• Name: "Course name" Online Exam
• Summary: "Seats of Scholars, Course Name, by 'speaker'" (make these center and resize and color them, look at other courses Quiz page)
• In the "Timing' Section, you can "Open the quiz" by unchecking the "Disable" check box. (this enables people to actually take the quiz)

11. Click "Save changes"

12. You will come the Quiz front page.

13. click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the page

14. You will come to the page having "Questions in this quiz" section on the left and "Question bank" section on the right.

Entering the questions:

For ease, create only matching, multiple choice, true/false and short answer questions. For short answer questions, make sure the answers are only one word and a non arabic word because Moodle will only take the exact answer you give as the correct answer. You might also have to give some other possible answers. If you make an arabic word as the answer you would have to deal with spelling issues, so it's better to avoid arabic words as the answer to the short answer question altogether.

1. In the "Question bank" section, go to the "Create new question" pull down menu.

2. Depending on the type of questions you want to make, choose the type of question (Multiple choice, matching, true/false, etc)

3. As you create questions, they will be added to the "Question bank"

4. Once you're done creating these questions, click "Select all" and click the "Add to quiz" button. All the questions will now be added to the "Questions in this quiz" section.

5. In the "Questions in this quiz" section, click "Save changes" and you're done. The quiz (online exam) is now ready for previewing.

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NEWSLETTER section

1. This section will have the number 5 on the top left

2.From the "Add a resource" pull down menu, choose "Insert a label"

3. In the Summary text box, type NEWSLETTER(bold, (color) #CC0000, size (18))

4. Copy and paste the standard message (look at other courses) under the NEWSLETTER heading

5. Click "Save changes"

Putting up the newsletter:

6. From the "Add a resource" pull down menu, choose "Link to a file or website"

7. Fill in:

• Name: "Newsletter name"
• Summary: "Presenting the newsletter from this class..."
• In the "Link to a file or web site" section, click "Choose or upload a file" button
• Choose the newsletter file (usually in PDF)
• In the "Window" section, choose "Same window" from the Window pull down menu
• Check the box for "Put resource in a frame to keep site navigation visible"
• If this choice is not visible, click on the "Show Advanced" tab to the right.

8. Click "Save changes"

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Concerning the menu on the left hand side of the Course page:

Settings

If you need to change anything about the course information: go to "Settings" in the left hand side menu on the course page

Files

If you need to upload more files pertaining to the course: go to "Files" in the left hand side menu on the course page

Reset

Do not go to "Reset", UNLESS you need to remove yourself as "Teacher".

If you do,

1. Click "Reset"

2. uncheck ALL except "Teacher" in the "Course" section under "Remove" and the items in the "Forums" section below (we don't use forums)

3. Click "Reset course"

4. Ok everything

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Changing Stuff:

1. You can change items in the DISCUSS, NOTES, LECTURE, EXAM, NEWSLETTER sections by clicking on the hand holding a pencil icon.

2. You can hide a resouce or activity (links, note pages, online exams, etc) by clicking on the eye icon

3. You can delete a resource/activity by clicking on the X for that particular resource/activity

4. You can move items by dragging the arrow junction icon

When you're done, click "Turn editing off"

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Concerning the menu on the right hand side of the Course page:

Calendar

1. You can add new events to the calendar (upcoming class for example) by going to the right hand side menu and clicking on "Go to calendar".