Last week I spent some time over at the E-Learning Guild’s Learning Exchange sharing tool tips. One of them was near and dear to my heart, as a student, and now as an Instructional Designer working in higher education and using Moodle as a Learning Management System (LMS).
The way our institution’s process works is that faculty members are responsible for adding all content to their Moodle course sites. As you can imagine, approaches to this are all over the map in terms of how faculty members choose to go about this task.
Often times, faculty will use the Moodle default settings, and when I receive their course to review, I see long lists of content and main page scrolling abound! I sob a little on the inside, but then I quickly rectify the problem. Here’s how I easily reduce main page scrolling on a Moodle course site:
- Turn Editing On.
- From the Administration block, select Edit Settings.
- Scroll to, and select Course Format.
- From the dropdown menu, select Show one section per page.
- Select Save changes.
If I’ve lost you, here’s a video demo:
Good tip! A lot of people seem to ignore it.