Moodle 2.0

Creating Categories and Courses
For a course that allows guest access, setting this to Yes usually doesn't make
much sense. Remember that every anonymous, unregistered user enters the
course under the name Guest. So having a report that shows the grades and
activities for Guest is usually not very useful. If you want to track how many
people tried a sample course, and what parts of the course they sampled,
allow users to create a free account to use in the fully-functioning sample
course. Make this especially easy by not requiring e-mail confirmation when
the student registers; instead give instant approval. Then, you can track and
study individual usage in the sample course. To keep these anonymous users
out of the courses requiring registration or payment, use a Login Page for
such courses.
16. The setting for Maximum upload file size limits the size of a file that a
student can upload into this course. There is also a site-wide limit set under
Site Administration | Security | Site policies. The smaller of the two
settings—site-wide or course-wide—takes precedence here.
17. The color and icons that Moodle uses are determined by its theme. Usually,
you use the same theme throughout your site. However, teachers and
even students can change the theme that they use. The setting Force theme
determines whether users can choose a different theme when they are in this
course, or if they are forced to use the predetermined theme.
A theme can do more than just provide a pleasant color
scheme. For example, you can assign the courses a
distinctive theme for each teacher, or assign the same
theme to all of the courses in a particular category, and
so on. For more about themes, see the official Moodle site
at http://moodle.org.
18. Under Guest access, choose whether to allow guests to take the course. You
17.can also set a guest Password. This password applies only to guests, and
not to enrolled students.
19. Select the Group mode.
Group mode applies to activities in the course. Each course can have either
no groups or several groups. When set to No, all students assigned to the
course are considered to be in one big group. When set to Separate, all of the
students in the same group can see each other's work. However, students in
different groups, even though they are taking the same course, cannot see
work from another group. That is, the work done by different groups is kept
separate. When set to Visible, students are divided into groups but can
still see the other groups. Even though the other groups are visible to each
other, the work done by one group's students is not visible to the other
group's students.
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