Course-level configuration

Now that you've configured your courses at the site level, let's set up a project-based course.

Course settings

First, we will add a course. Remember that we learned how to do that in Chapter 1, Preparing to Build an Exemplary Moodle Course, in the Site administration menu, where you can add a course by creating it within one of the categories you've created. 

In the Site administration menu, perform the following steps:

1. Click on Manage courses and categories. The Course and category management page appears, displaying the Course categories list as shown in the following screenshot:

2. Now, click on a category and then select Create new course.
3. On the Edit course settings page, enter the mandatory details in the Course full name and Course short name fields and then click on Save changes.

Now, we're ready to set up the course so that it will work well for students collaborating on projects. Let's keep it simple to avoid confusion. The following are the ideal settings:

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