Moodle Edit Icons

In order to add learning activities and resources to your course or even to change the wording and description in your course sections you need to have the editing turned on so let's take a look at that now and see what the editing icons mean and do. We turn the editing on either by clicking the button top right or by going to the administration block and clicking the link Turn editing on. Icons appear then in the blocks and against each activity or resource which we have so let's zoom in and take a look at them. Other themes may have different editing icons from these but they will be in the same order The first icon which here looks like a pencil if you click it it allows you immediately to change the title of a particular resource or activity then cick Enter and you've changed very quickly the arrow allows you to indent an activity or resource to the right or then back to the left on the icon which looks like a cross hairs icon when you click on it you can drag an activity or resource into a different location. If you don't see this but she see two arrows one up and one down,it's worth asking your administrator to check your browser settings and the Moodle site settings The next icon allows you to go into the edit screen for the resource or activity and update it in more detail. The icon next allows you to make a quick copy of a resource or an activity duplicating for example for a different class or group. The next icon the X is for deleting so for example if we go over to the search forums block on the left here if we click it with the X we're aked whether we want to delete this block and when we click yes it's gone. In the case of blocks we can add blockd back again by clicking the add block drop down and selecting it/ We'll look at blocks in another video later. the eye icon enables you to hide a resource for activity from a student or learner and we can check this by clicking it now. You can see the eye has a line through it and if we go down to the administration block to the very bottom, we see Switch role to and as the teacher we can switch our role amongst others to a student or learner as we've renamed it in this course. This then re displays the course page as our students or learners would see it and the announcements are nowhere to be seen because we've hidden them so if we go back in the administration block and click to Return to my normal role and then remember to turn the editing on again we can see that the announcements block hasn't vanished. It's just that we hid it with the icon. Finally the icons at the end relate to groups and roles- something which we won't go into into much detail in this Teaching with Moodle Introduction course.