Moodle 2.0

Creating Categories and Courses
21. The Default grouping for the course determines how groups are filtered in
the gradebook. This setting has no effect unless you are using groupings.
22. While you're working on a course, you may want to set Availability to This
course is not available to students. This will completely hide your course
from students' view. Teachers and administrators can still see the course, so
you can collaborate on the course content with them.
23. Select a setting for Force language. Selecting Do not force enables a student
to select any language on the pull-down list of languages.
Remember that the languages on the pull-down list are limited by the setting
you chose under Site Administration | Language | Language Settings |
Display language menu and Languages on menu. Also, remember that you
must have the language pack for any language that you want to use installed.
Also remember that only Moodle's standard menus and messages are
automatically translated when a student selects a different language. Course
material is not translated unless the course creator entered material in
another language and used the Multi-language Content filter.
24. If you want to use different terms for the roles in your course, you can
use Role Renaming. Moodle inserts your term for teacher or student into
Moodle's standard messages. For Teacher, you can substitute any term such
as Instructor, Leader, and Facilitator. For Student, you could use terms such
as Participant or Member.
25. At the bottom of the page, click on the Save Changes button.
Congratulations! You now have a new, blank course.
You're ready to start configuring it and filling it with
great material.
Enrolling teachers and students
Who will teach your course? And how will students be enrolled? The settings that
you choose for your course enrolment will determine these things.
Assign teachers
After a site Administrator or Course Creator has created a blank course, (s)he can
assign a Teacher to build the course.
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