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Moodle ISU: Instructor Procedures

1. Course Creation and Faculty Assignments. Login into Moodle ISU

1. Moodle ISU courses are created based on courses listed with the registrar. Prior to the beginning of the semester, check course listings in Moodle ISU. (New semester courses with faculty assignments will be generated automically, but those not having faculty assignments will not be listed in your course listing.) Check the ISU Class Schedule or departmental chair for faculty assignments.
   
   

   Term	Date for automatic creation
   Spring 2010	Nov 16, 2009
   Summer 2010	Feb 15, 2010
   Fall 2010	To be Determined

   
   
2. If you would like to begin developing your course before the class schedule is is complete and courses are created for a given semester, you may request a development course (Development courses do not enroll students, and may be used repeatedly as a place to store and modify your course materials over subsequent semesters.).
   
   

2. Student Enrollment

1. When registration is open for the course, students are automatically enrolled. Student access to Moodle is given the week prior to the start of classes.
   
   
2. If you are teaching multiple sections of the same course and would like to have a single Moodle ISU course, you will need to request a multi-section (meta) course.
   
   

3. Course Maintenance (preparing for the next semester)

1. Backup your courses at the end of the semester
   1. Faculty are responsible for backing up their own courses using the "Backup" option listed in the Administration block of their course. Instructions are found in the ITRC website under Handouts>Backing Up your Moodle Course.
   2. If you plan on using the same course for a future semester, you can import from existing an course or restore content from a backup file. Instructions are found in the ITRC website under Handouts>Importing Content From Another Moodle Course and Restoring Course Data from a Backup
   3. Course removals happen 21 days after the start of the summer term the following year. This is to give time to instructors to backup course content.
      
      
2. Courses will be made unavailable to students about 2 weeks after the end of the semester.
   
   

   Term	Unavailable to students	Course removed
   Summer 2009	Aug 24, 2009	June 7, 2010
   Fall 2009	Jan 4, 2010	May 30, 2011
   Spring 2010	May 14, 2010	May 30, 2011
   Summer 2010	Aug 20, 2010	May 30, 2011
   Fall 2010	Jan 3, 2011	May 28, 2012

   
   
3. If you do not want to see older courses you may unenroll from the course. Select the "Unenroll me " listing in the Administration block in your course and remove yourself from the course. Make sure you have made a backup of your course first.