The University of Jordan

King Abdullah II School for Information

Technology

"Moodle" user manual

March, 2013

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Introduction:

The Moodle e-learning system is used by the University of Jordan to provide a

suitable virtual electronic learning environment for the instructors and students. The UJ

Moodle system implements the necessary e-learning functionalities that are needed by both,

students and faculty members. For example, Moodle can be used to post courses

documents, files, assignments, grades, and to create e-groups. In this manual, we address

the most important functions in Moodle like: login process, listing courses and contents,

uploading files, formatting courses pages, and appending more topics.

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Login to Moodle:

Start the Internet Explorer, or any web browser of your choice, and type the

following address: (http://elearning.ju.edu.jo).

Enter your UJ user name and password.

Click on (log in), see Figure 1.

In this field enter

the password for

In this field enter

your UJ account.

Figure 1

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Successful login will lead you to the main page that shows you all your courses.

See Figure 2.

Figure 2

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Click on any course you want. You will see a screen similar to Figure 3.

Figure 3

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Click Turn Editing On button to activate the editing options for your course. See

Figure 4.

Figure 4

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From any Add resource drop down list, choose Link to a file or website to upload

your file. See Figure 5.

Figure 5

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You will see the Add resource screen. See Figure 6.

Figure 6

Enter the needed fields as you see in Figure 7.

Figure 6

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Click Choose or upload file button to complete the upload process. You will see

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Click Upload file. The result screen will be as Figure 8.

Figure 8

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Click browse to explore the files on your computer. Choose the file you want to

upload and the result will be as in Figure 9.

Figure 9

Click Upload this file. You will see Figure 10.

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Figure 10

click choose beside

the uploaded file

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click choose beside the uploaded file. You will see Figure 11.

Figure 11

Click Save and return to course, to go back to the main page of your course. From

there you can do another upload process.

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Sending Electronic Messages to your students:

Click on “Participants” , You will see a screen similar to Figure 11.

Figure 12

The students registered in the course will appear as in Figure 11. Select the

students that you want to send them a message, or click on “Select all” if you

want to send the message to all students.

Note: The students will receive the message in their used email that they have

in their profiles.

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Choose “Add/ send message” from the dropdown list as in Figure 12.

Write the message in the text area as in Figure 13.

Figure 13

Click on “Preview” when you finish writing.

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The message will appear as in Figure 14. Click on “Send message” if the message is

fine, otherwise click on “update” to return to the previous screen and make

changes.

Figure 14

For more information that is needed to make use of all the available services

in the elearning system, please follow the youtube channel that is belong to

the elearning system of the University of Jordan. You can reach it through

the URL:

http://elearning.ju.edu.jo