ITS automatically imports all your enrolls faculty and students in their courses using information from the Registrar's Office. When you log logging into Moodle you will see all the courses available to you.
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Overview
Instructors: The courses will be sorted first by availability (courses that have been made available to students will show up first followed by courses not available to students), then by semester. For example, if you are teaching a course in the current semester and it is available to students, it will appear at the top of your course listing. If you are teaching a course in the current semester and it is not available to students, it will appear after all the courses that are available to students.
Students: You will see all the courses that are available to students in order by semester. If you don't see a course that you are enrolled in, the instructor has not made it available to students.
Customizing the Moodle home page
You can control the number of courses that show up on the home page as well as their order by logging into Moodle and clicking on the Customize this page button on the top right of the Moodle home page. In the course overview block, you can select the number of courses to display and use the four-way arrow icons to rearrange the order of classes. The course overview section contains a listing of all the courses available to you. The default settings are to display each course in a box, sorted alphabetically, which is not always optimal. There are several ways to organize the listings.
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It is possible to show only courses happening this semester or courses from the past or in the next semester (future). There are other options viewing "starred" (favorite) courses or courses you have hidden. The Moodle course listing uses the start and end dates of the course to determine which tab to put the course in (In Progress, Future, or Past).
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Sorting Courses
Courses can be sorted by name or by the when they were "Last accessed". If you tend to visit the same courses over and over, it is probably easier to sort by "Last accessed".
Display
The default view is "Card", which shows a course with its thumbnail image (which can be customized by the professor). To condense the view, it is possible to switch to a "List" or "Summary" view.
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It is possible to "star" commonly used courses and hide courses you are not interested in seeing. Click on the settings for a course (three dots) and select "Star this Course" or "Hide from View".
You can view starred courses using the course filter option described above. To un-hide a course, use the filter option to display hidden courses and unhide them.
Other Settings
You can control how many courses show up on the home page with a control at the bottom of the "Course Overview" box. There are other controls for switch to the next page.
If you are an instructor, you can set a custom course image to show up on the course listing.
I can't see my course
If your a course does not show up in the Moodle home page, it could be because you are not check to see if the Dashboard view has a filter or if the course has been hidden. See "Filtering Course Listings" and "Starring and Hiding" above.
If the course doesn't appear anywhere in Moodle, you may not be enrolled in the course. Check in Faculty Services (for faculty) or MySwarthmore (for students) to make sure you are enrolled in the course. If you have customized the course listing to limit the number of courses shown on the front page, it is possible that the course of interest does not appear. Make sure you have clicked the Customize this page button and switch the "Number of courses to display:" pull down menu to "Always show all" courses and look for your course. You can then move the course to the top of the screen and reduce the number of courses shown.
Students: If you are enrolled in the course, but it does not show up in your Moodle home page, most likely your professor has not made the course available to students. They might not be using Moodle or they may be waiting to make the course available. You can check Check with your instructorprofessor.