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Start of Semester Checklist
Request a New Site
- Fill out Site Request Form
- If you want previous content to be copied over, paste the full URL of your old site into the Course URL text box. Archived sites are located at http://archive.moodle.umn.edu.
Check Whether Your Students were Added to the Site
- Go to the course homepage.
- In the Settings block, go to Course administration > Users > Enrollment methods > UMN auto-enrollment.
- Review the list of sections add to your site. (Instructors can add and remove sections).
Add Students, if Necessary
- For academic sites: Students are usually automatically enrolled in academic sites when they are created.
- For non-academic sites: allow participants to self-enroll or add them manually.
Remove Dropped or Withdrawn Students from your Site
By default, Moodle adds students who enroll and removes students who drop or withdraw. To change this setting, do the following:
- Go to the course homepage.
- In the Settings block, go to Course administration > Edit settings.
- Scroll down to UMN auto-enrollment.
- Choose an option from the Auto-enrollment on PeopleSoft events drop-down menu.
- Enroll and drop (default)
- Enroll only
- Enroll, drop, and withdraw
- Click Save changes button at the bottom of the window.
Unhide Your Site to Make It Available to the Students
- Go to the course homepage.
- In the Settings block, go to Course administration > Edit settings.
- Under Availability choose This course is available to students.
- Click Save changes button at the bottom of the window.
Important: Anonymous access key. Do not remove. This is NOT the Self-Enrollment key.
Access key allows anonymous login-free access to the course to be restricted to only those who know the password. Anonymous visitors will be required to supply the password each time they access the course. If the course designer allows read-only access to a Moodle site without a password, then anyone in world will be able to access the site. Student data at the University of Minnesota is governed by FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act). Please review this page, if you choose to do so.
Inform Your Students that Your Moodle Site is Available
You may want to contact your students and let them know that they can access course resources via Moodle course management system.
NOTE: If you are new to Moodle, review information on layout and basic editing instructions, so you may start building your site. You can also download the Moodle 2: Creating Basic Course Web Sites reference guide.
