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Outline  What is Moodle?  Visit Moodle, login and open a module site  Basic Navigation (on a module site/page)  Communication  News Forum  Forums  Forwarding to your personal account  Contact details you might need  Network password problems  Problems with Moodle  Can’t find a link, reading material or an assignment on your course page?

What is Moodle?  Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised learning environments. (Source: accessed: 9-Sep-15)

Find Moodle, login and open a module site  Open a browser (ideally the latest version of Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome (or if you must), Internet Explorer 10 or above). More details…More details  Go to  In the top right-hand corner of the screen click on (Log in)  As prompted use your Roehampton network account username and password to login  On logging in successfully your Name will replace the (Log in) link. Click on the My modules link now at the top of the screen, to access the module sites you’re enrolled on in Moodle. Before lectures begin you may only see: Can't See Your Modules? READ ME!  Click on this module site link to access it (or any other).

Basic Navigation (on a module site/page)

Communication – News forum  The News forum usually appears as one of the uppermost blocks (titled Latest news) on the right-hand side your module site homepage (or main page).  There is also a link to it in one of the sections in the main column of the module homepage.  You should receive an to your Roehampton account whenever an announcement is posted. Click on links to see posts. But, you can’t reply to posts in the News forum Click on links to see posts. But, you can’t reply to posts in the News forum

Communication – Forums  If you tutor has created a forum, the link will have an icon like either of these: /  Click on it to enter the forum and read any instructions given and join in as shown 

Forwarding to your personal account  Visit this link to the StudentZone: IT and Media Services page for information about your Roehampton account including how to forward sent to this account to another account : dex.html dex.html

Contact details you might need Network password problems  Checkout the IT Helpdesk contact information: ex.html ex.html  Enrol for Password Self-Service here: y/index.html y/index.html Problems with Moodle  Contact Us – eLearning Services / Moodle Support Contact Us  Your help requests can be efficiently addressed by using Moodle Support online help and form Moodle Support online help and form  Get current Systems Status, Known Issues and Product Update informationSystems Status, Known Issues and Product Update information Can’t find a link, reading material or an assignment on your module site?  Contact your lecturer.

Bye for now, and do get in touch if you have any moodling queries Happy New Academic Year! Karen Shackleford-Cesare eLearning Adviser (for Children’s Literature)