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User quick guide

So you've got a new Moodle account? What now? This page will help you navigate ABOUT MOODLE

around your site as a student or teacher.

Features
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New features in 3.9
1 Your pro!le Philosophy
2 Your noti!cations and messages Pedagogy

3 Your courses Standards

4 Your dashboard Accessibility

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Your pro!le Usage

Moodle site - basic

You can access your pro!le from the user menu top right. It's where you see your name structure
and an arrow. Click there (1) to open up the menu (2) Clicking the Pro!le link will then Moodle key terms
display other options, such as a list of your courses, any forum and blog entries and a
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link to edit your pro!le (3).
User quick guide

Your pro!le page

Clicking the Edit pro!le link will allow you to change certain information such as your
correct timezone, add an avatar, description and, optionally, extra contact details. You
cannot normally change your username and your admin might have restricted other
changes too.

When you upload an image, it will appear in the user menu by your name and also on
your Dashboard page.

Your noti!cations and messages

Your site can alert you when you have new messages from your teacher and other
participants. You can receive alerts about new forum posts or graded assignments and
more.

You can receive these alerts via email or pop up, and you can control how you receive
them from Preferences > Message preferences in the user menu. The documentation
Messaging gives more detail.

Sending a message

If your Moodle admin has set the site up for the mobile app, you can also receive alerts
on your mobile phone. See Moodle Mobile for more information.

Your courses
How you !nd courses depends on how the administrator has set up the site.

Site front page - Some sites display all their courses on the front page and students
click to enrol themselves into a course. When you are logged in, some site front pages
may display only the courses you are enrolled in (to avoid clutter and confusion).

List of available courses

Dashboard - This is your personal page which you can customise and view your
enrolled courses and outstanding tasks. More information in the section below.

Your dashboard
Every user has their own dashboard which they can customise. The screencast
Dashboard gives a brief introduction to this, and the documentation on
Dashboard gives further information.

Your dashboard

You can access your dashboard quickly, from the user menu top right and your site may
redirect you automatically to your dashboard once you are logged in.

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