Organizing your course

The main tools for organizing a course in Moodle are sections and labels. In this section, we'll look at how to use them and how to move material around on the course page.

Name your topics

In a course that uses the topics format, your topics are automatically named and numbered, like this:

This works well if you want your topics to be automatically numbered. If you rearrange the topics, the numbering will automatically be updated.

Instead of using the default topic numbering, you might want to name your topics and add a description to them, as follows:

To add a name and description to a Topic, do as follows:

1. Log in to your course as a teacher or a site administrator.
2. In the upper-right corner of the page, if you see a button that reads Turn editing on, click on the button. If it readsTurn editing off, you do not need to click on this button.
3. Next to the topic's number, click on the Edit summary button:

4. The Summary page for your Topic is displayed. You must uncheck the checkbox...