Create a New Moodle Course in your Staging Area

Log into Moodle and navigate to your Staging Area.

Click the grey More button.

Select the Add a new course option.

Complete the following requirements:

• Course full name – Displays at the top of the course.
• Course short name – Please follow our course naming conventions to make it easier to search for your course in the future.
• Course category – This should automatically select your staging area.

We recommend that you complete the following settings:

• Course visibility – Set to hide unless you intend to have students access the course.
• Course start date and end date – If creating a DEV course or INCOMPLETE, set these to reflect the proper dates of the course. This will make it so the course imports and adjusts dates properly.

NOTE: Deselect Calculate the end date from the number of sections if you want to set a specific course end date.

Scroll to the bottom of the page.

Click the Save and display button.

You are now ready to use the course. Here are some tasks you may want to complete.

• Import previous course into this new course
• Create new content as needed
• Enroll users manually
• Create a Meta-course (enroll users from another course into this course)