Create a New Moodle Course in your Staging Area

Login to Moodle and Navigate to your Staging Area.

Scroll to the bottom of the page.

Click the Add a new course button.

You will need to set, at the very least:

• Course Full name (displays at the top of the page)
• Course Short name –  Please follow our course naming conventions (will appear in breadcrumbs, navigation, and must be unique!)
• Course Start date and End dates (may result in course opening/closing to students/guests automatically and determine where courses appear listed on the Moodle Dashboard for users.)

You are otherwise welcome to explore course settings here in your Staging Area and can always return later to change courses settings in your Staging Area, here’s some of what’s available to you:

• Completion Tracking Check Boxes
• Course format section:
  • Format: Reduce scrolling by showing one topic/week per page.
  • Course Layout: Choose if your course uses customizable Topics or automatically highlighted Weeks

Scroll to the bottom of the page.

Click the Save and display button.

You are now ready for the next steps of actually using the course:

• transfer existing Moodle course content into this course
  and/or
• create new content as needed
  and/or
• Enroll folks in whatever role manually or copy enrollments from other courses and duplicates their enrollments in this as a Meta-course