You can organise your courses into categories for ease of use by teachers and learners. Create and edit courses under site administration.
Before you begin:
Required Knowledge: Moodle
Required LRM Access: Admin
Required Pre-Steps: Add a Course in Moodle
1
Adding a Category
- Go to Administration > Site administration > Courses > Add a category
- Complete the details required and click Create category
- Alternatively, you can go to Administration > Site administration > Courses > Manage courses and categories and click the link Create New Category
2
Editing or Moving a Category
- You can edit the details of a course category by clicking the actions icon next to its name in Administration > Site administration > Courses > Manage courses and categories and selecting Edit
- You can move categories up or down by clicking the up/down arrow next to the category you wish to move. You can bulk move categories by checking the box to the left of their name and then by selecting from the dropdown Move selected categories to
3
Adding Sub-Categories
Sometimes it might be useful to have a sub-category of a course. For example, you might have a category “Business” and wish to have sub-categories “Management”, “Marketing” and “Finance”.
- You can make one category a subcategory of another by checking the box to the left of its name and then by selecting from the dropdown menu Move selected categories to. You can create a new, empty sub-category by clicking the actions icon next to its name in Administration > Site Administration > Courses > Manage courses and categories and selecting Create new subcategory
4
Hiding Categories
Categories may be easily hidden or shown via Administration > Site administration > Courses > Manage courses and categories and clicking the ‘eye’ icon of the category you wish to hide. Hidden categories are only visible to site administrators or those with the capability to “view hidden courses”.
Note
- Categories may be sorted by ascending/descending names or ID numbers from Administration > Site administration > Courses > Manage courses and categories
- You can limit the number of categories that are displayed in the front page ‘List of Categories’ or ‘Combo List’ from Administration > Site administration > Front page > Front page settings Deeper level categories will appear as links and the user can expand them.