Moodle - short manual for students - Moodle - TUM

Content:
1. The learning platform Moodle
2. Login
3. General settings
4. How can I reach a course in moodle?
5. The course overview
6. Help and support
1 The learning platform Moodle
As the openly accessible and central learning management
system of the TUM, Moodle enales students to study selfdirectedly
and cooperatively as well as their mentoring by
lecturers and tutors indepently from their location or point
in time of access. Moodle excels through simple usability,
well-arranged courses and a context-sensitive support
function. Moodle facilitates fast embedding of materials
and learning activities directly into a course date or subject
area as well as the support and promotion of communication
and teamwork.
Moodle - short manual for students
Basic information
To achieve this, a Moodle course offers different functions,
such as (amongst others) document filing, the message
area, homework hand-over, online exercises as well as a
feedback function. Communication tools, including chats,
e-mail, forums and wikis, allow the exchange of information
between students as well as students and lecturers. This
could be used to answer questions regarding the learning
subject or work on exercises as a part of an online study
group or to hand in collective results, which can then be
graded. Furthermore, Moodle offers the possibility of presenting
students with e-tests to monitor the individual study
progress and as a preparation for exams.
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2. Login
Access Moodle through www.moodle.tum.de/ and click
on Login. You will be referred to a new page.
Logging in with a TUMonline account
If you are a member of the TUM, select the button
TUM-Login. Now enter your TUM-identification (your main
e-mail-adress or LRZ-identification) with the corresponding
password.
Hint: If you have questions regarding your TUM-identification,
please contact it-support@tum.de.
Logging in with a LMU account
As a student of the LMU select the button LMU-Login and
login using your LMU-identification and the respective
password.
Logging in as a guest
If you want to login as a guest without a TUM-identification,
please select Als Gast anmelden [login as a guest].
Hint: Guests without a registration in TUMonline can only
login into Moodle anonymously. They can access course
material and read posts, for example in forums. However,
they cannot be graded, take part in e-tests or create new
content.
3. General settings
Important! Moodle works with single login. This means it
is necessary to activate cookies in your browser to be able
to login.
After the inital login, you must accept the terms and conditions
once, so you can use the learning platform.
To log out close the browser or delete your cookies. This
is especially important if you access Moodle via a public
computer.
The Moodle welcome page
The welcome page of Moodle is divided into three sections.
On the left hand side you can find the Hauptmenü [main
menu] and the navigation, which allow you to access the
course overview of the current or other semesters by selecting
Kurse [courses].
The middle part is used to show you current news regarding
Moodle by the eLearning-team of the media center.
The right hand side contains a calendar and information
regarding Moodle instruction courses.
Main menu
+
Navigation
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News
Calendar
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Moodle courses

Your personal Moodle page
If you are logged in, you can see the main menu, the
navigation as well as the area Einstellungen [settings],
which allows you to edit your personal profile (à Editing
profile) on the left hand side.
Navigation,
Settings,
etc.
Course overview
with dates
Calendar,
Important dates,
etc.
Editing profile
Selecting Einstellungen [settings] à Mein Profil [my profile]
à Profil bearbeiten [edit profile] allows you to enter additional
information about yourself and edit further settings like
the visibility of your e-mail-adress, subscriptions to forums,
display of forum posts, etc.
4. How can I reach a course in Moodle?
Registrating for a Moodle course
1. Regular students of the TUM, who are registered for an
event in TUMonline are automatically assigned to the corresponding
Moodle-event via interface, if this has been set
up by the lecturer.
2. Students of the LMU or guests that are registered in
TUMonline have to sign up for the course themselves in
Moodle or are assigned by the lecturer.
3. Some courses are also available for anonymous guests
and can be accessed by participants without an account.
Accessing a Moodle course
A general overview of all courses that are currently offered
in Moodle can be found in the navigation under the
menu item Kursübersicht [course overview]. You can also
find courses by using the field Kurse suchen [to search for
courses].
Courses, for which you are registered, are shown in the navigation
under Meine Startseite [my homepage] à Meine
Kurse [my courses].
With the correct keys, which can be requested from the
lecturer, you can register yourself for a course.
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5. The course overview
When accessing a course, you are presented with the
course display. In the central area of the page your lecturer
can provide you with study material, such as PDFs,
links, video- or audiofiles and tools for communication and
cooperation (Aktivitäten [activities]) such as forums, wikis,
homework-upload, etc.
The right hand side of the course shows important dates,
like deadlines for homework, as well as notifications for
new messages - for example in a forum.
Material
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activities
Important dates,
etc.
You can hide and reveal different sections like „Navigation“,
„Kalender“[calendar], „Suche in Foren“ [search Forum] etc.
for a better overview and for an appropriate presentation of
the page on displays with smaller resolutions.
To hide a section click and to reveal it again.
Individual menu items can be folded in or out by clicking
the minus or the plus symbol .
In the course section you can see only one topic or weekly
area by clicking . The other areas are hidden.
To return all to display, click .
6. Help and support
Don‘t hesitate to ask the Moodle support team if you have
any questions. The support team can be contacted via
e-mail at lms-support@tum.de.
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