Course Settings

ByJamie Drozda

A teacher or Moodle administrator, can change course settings in Administration > Course administration > Edit settings.

Frequently Asked Questions

You need to make the course visible to your students, to make the course visible:

  • Go into your course
  • At the top of the page, under the course title, select Settings
  • Set the Course visibility drop-down list to Show
  • Scroll down and click Save and display

The “My courses” list is driven by course start and end dates. Courses will display there upon the course start date and will disappear when the end date rolls around. You will always have access to your courses on your dashboard! The following instructions outline how to adjust the Moodle course start and end dates:

  • Go into your course
  • At the top of the page, under the course title, select Settings
  • Adjust the Course start date and Course end date fields
  • Scroll down and click Save and display

You need to enable groups at the course level. The following instructions outline how to enable groups at the course level:

  • Go into your course
  • At the top of the page, under the course title, select Settings
  • Scroll down and click the Groups heading to expand
  • Select Separate groups or Visible groups from the Group mode drop-down list
  • Scroll down and click Save and display

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