Anthony Burik: Good morning, everybody, Anthony Burik from OTAN here. We're getting ready to start introduction to Moodle part two. Welcome back, if you were here yesterday. If you were not here yesterday, welcome, glad to have you here. Let's get started.

Just a reminder that OTAN is providing this training today. Hopefully all of you are actually aware of what OTAN is and does throughout the school year. We invite you to visit our website at otan.us. We have a lot of information for the adult education field on our website, and we hope that you will take advantage of what we have there right now for your instruction.

All right, so here is our agenda for today. Again, welcome back, or welcome if you are coming and joining us today for the first time. We're going to spend a little bit of time, not too much time, reviewing some of the important points from yesterday that we covered. And hopefully, we talked about a lot of things yesterday, an introduction to many of the basic features that you will encounter as teachers in your Moodle course. But some of it we didn't really get a chance to practice with yesterday, and hopefully by the end of today, you'll have a lot better sense of what those things are and how you use them in your Moodle course. So I just want to review a few things that we touched on yesterday.

Our plan for the day-- we're going to do something ambitious today, and hopefully it will work. I know that folks might be having internet trouble today. For some reason in the last 24 hours a number of internet issues have come up across the country, it's not just the Sacramento area. But hopefully what we're planning to do today will work out just fine. And really the intention today is to give you a lot of practice as teachers in courses, so that when you strike out and start using the Moodle platform for your online instruction, you'll have a much better sense as to how you go about managing those courses.

So that's our plan for the bulk of today, to do a lot of practice. And we're going to focus today-- we talked yesterday about resources and activities. I'll remind us about what those are shortly. But that's our plan, is to spend a lot of time actually working with those in your Moodle courses. Near the end of today, I hope that we have a little bit of time to talk about enrolling students, what that process is, and also to talk about the grade book.

And the reason why we want to hopefully get to a short discussion about the grade book is that when I get to the point where we talk about what options you have in terms of courses that you have in your account, there are many courses that OTAN has developed. We can give you copies of those courses, and you can start teaching with them. But in, I think, most of those courses there actually is a grade book that's already set up for you, meaning when the students start doing the assignments and the activities in the course, grades will be generated. And so we want to give you just a sense of the grade book and what that is and what it looks like, how information gets there, and what you can do about that.

So again, enrollment and grade book, we'll try to save some time towards the end to talk about those two particular issues. And then a reminder at the very end just about resources that you have available to you after today. So that's our plan for the next an hour and 50 minutes or so.

So again, let's do a little bit of review from yesterday. And I have the annotation tool, so I'm going to use that, if I remember how to do that. OK, so here's the annotation. I'm going to use the annotation tool. So first is, where do we find the OTAN Moodle site? OK, so if we go to the OTAN website, otan.us, we have two ways to get there.

So first is if you find the Resources tab that's near the top of the page, you open up that dropdown menu, and you can click on the link for California Adult Education Courses. So that's one way to get there. The other way is near the bottom, we have this button, it's kind of a bluish button. If you just click on the button, that will also get you to our Moodle site California Adult Education courses.

OK, so either one of those links will bring you to this page, California Adult Education Courses. You can also just type in the URL directly in the address bar, adultedcourses.org. And this will be the landing page where you're going to get started. OK, we also talked about yesterday how once you get to this page you have two places where you can log in. There's a log in block on the left hand side, so just go ahead and type your username and password and log in. And then in the upper right hand corner, there's also this place where if you just click on that blue link to log in, that will also get you to the log in location.

OK, and again, when you come to the Moodle course, or when you start working in the Moodle course, you basically have two options. So you can either request a blank course shell from OTAN-- so if your plan is to basically build your course from scratch, this is what you want to request from OTAN, so a blank course shell-- or, like I mentioned, we have a number of we call them developed courses, shared courses, and also EL civics courses for those of you in ESL.

We have a number of courses under those categories, and what you're looking at initially is a sample of the course. You can't actually do anything with a course, you can only view it as a sample. But again, if you like that course and you're really interested in using that course, in the upper right hand corner of each of those courses there is a course request block. You would go fill out the Google form, and then that request will come into OTAN, and then we will provide a copy of that course for you. And we will also make you the teacher in that course, so that you'll be able to begin using it, make edits, make additions, take things out, reorganize it the way you would like. So those are basically your two choices in terms of what you're getting.

And I mentioned yesterday, when we do these trainings a lot of people all of a sudden when they see the variety of courses that we have available for teachers, all the sudden they want four courses, six courses, eight courses. So our request at the moment is just to select the one course that you feel comfortable starting with, two if you feel that you can manage two. But really start with one, get a sense of how that course works, and then if you then want more courses down the road, then you can turn in those requests later on. But just try to start with one initially, and make sure you understand what's in the course, how it works, how you would use it with your students, and then request additional courses in the future.

And then, so unless we provide that course to you and assign you the teacher role in that course, any other course that you would come into, your role is going to be student. So yesterday, the course that we practiced in, you were all students. So you didn't see the full functionality of what the course would look like if your role was teacher, and that's what we're going to show you today.

So just remember, initially when you enroll in a course, your role is going to be student. So again, the exceptions are if we make a copy of it for you and assign you with the teacher role, or you ask OTAN to change your role in a course to teacher. And typically, the example is, you and your colleagues back at your agency are actually going to go ahead and co-teach a Moodle course. So in that case, you can just ask us to make yourself and any other colleagues teachers in the course, and then we'll go ahead and change your role.

And then finally, we also mentioned that when you go to the OTAN website, which is otan.us, you are able to create an account on the OTAN website and join the OTAN membership, but that account is separate from an account that you would create on the Moodle site. OK, so they're not linked. In the future, they may be, and we'll let you know if and when that happens. But at the moment, they're two separate log-ins. And again, for all of your students, they also need to create accounts as well on the Moodle adult ed courses site, so that they can enroll in your courses.

I didn't mention this yesterday, but I just want to bring this to folks attention, just take a minute to talk about an orientation to the Moodle course. So it's really a best practice when we're working online to have orientation materials available for the students in the course. And what I mean by orientation materials are some information about how, maybe an introduction to the content that's in the course, definitely some instructions about how to navigate around the course.

One of the things I mentioned yesterday also was that when you come into a course and you kind of look at it initially, you'll see that there are a number of icons that identify what items or pieces of content are included in your course. So you may want to include that information as part of the orientation materials. So maybe you have a table essentially, which would have the Moodle icons and then what each one of them correspond to. So if I'm looking at this icon, it means this is an assignment. If I look at a different icon, like the paper with a red check on it, that's a quiz. If I'm looking at-- I think the piece of paper with the globe in front of it, that is a link to another website.

So that kind of information to include in the orientation will be really good for students to understand, so when I click on this link, this is what is going to happen. And maybe some additional information about how do I navigate around the course, how do I submit an assignment, how do I take a quiz, and things like that. A good example yesterday was when a number of people were practicing in the discussion forum, and they were confused about how exactly to reply to another person's post. So some of that basic orientation would be really helpful to include in these kinds of materials.

If you happen to get a copy of a developed course or a shared course or an EL civics course, most of these courses have orientation materials included, and they're near the top of the course. So these would be good examples for you to look at. If you're looking around at some of those shared courses right now, just take a look and see what kinds of orientation materials each of those courses include. And those are really good examples of what you might include in your own Moodle course, but they're very important.

It's really, again, students, a lot-- I'm sure many of our students are coming into this learning environment for the first time, so materials that are going to orient them to what they're looking at and how they operate in the online environment are really essential. So keep that in mind.

So let's just talk about a few of the things that we talked about yesterday, and we're going to practice with these things shortly. So we talked about the navigation block in the dashboard. Again, the navigation block is on the left hand side of the Moodle course. Dashboard can be accessed from the navigation block. It can also be accessed from the upper right hand corner of your course after you log in. There's a little dropdown menu, which includes the dashboard link, link to the profile, link to preferences. So that's what those are.

And then again, blocks, we can collapse them. We can expand them. We can dock them, which means we move the block entirely over to the left hand side and collapse, if we want to free up some space in our courses. And then a reminder about the breadcrumb trail that will help you quickly navigate within a course and then around the Moodle site. And I'm going to go live shortly, but I just want to mention these things once again.

OK, Moodle interface. Probably the thing that everybody forgets when they first come into the courses is, OK, well, I'm ready to change things, but how do I do that? So you just have to remember to turn on the-- or you have to push the Turn editing on button. So it's actually in the upper right hand corner, not the left hand corner-- my mistake, I'll change that. Or, you can look for the command and the administration block, which is on the left hand side. And then you can also change some of the look your course by clicking on Edit settings, which is also in the administration block.

So to change the content of your course, you want to look for Turn editing on. To change the look of your course, you want to Edit the settings of your course. And again, those are both within the administration block, left hand side.

We talked about switch role too, and I'll show you again where this is. It's on the left hand side. It's a really great way for you as you're organizing your course to see the course from both the teacher perspective and the student perspective. So again, when you're the teacher in a course, you can switch your role to student. And what that will do is that will basically change the view to a student view. So they won't see the teacher editing icons there, they won't have the teacher commands that you have. They have a much different view of the course than you do.

If you hide things in your course, for example, then you can see what you have hidden and showing as a teacher. But when you switch it over to the student, they will only see the things that are showing, they won't see the hidden things at all. And better yet, we suggest that you actually have to Moodle accounts, one teacher account, one student account. And really then when you have the student account, you can actually do the things, and have those things recorded. You basically can practice out the things that you're creating as a teacher.

OK, when we turn on that editing, then all the sudden we have this add an activity or resource option that appears. And again, this will help us to access activities, and also resources. Resources tend to be those things that you might find on a typical website. So for example, links to other resources, maybe you might include files, PDF files, Word documents, PowerPoints, things like that. You can also think about a website that has different web pages. So these are the typical resources that we're talking about.

Activities really refers to the more interactive features of a Moodle course. So for example, if you create an assignment, if you create a discussion forum, if you create a quiz, if you create a choice activity where students can basically provide some feedback. So the more interactive features of the Moodle course are called activities, rather than the static things that are the resources, which are just sitting there-- files to be downloaded or links to be clicked on, things like that.

OK, before we practice let me go up to the Moodle platform for just a second. OK, so you should be seeing my screen, which is the OTAN home page, otan.us. So again, to get to adultedcourses.org, we can either open up the Resources tab and click on the link for adult ed courses here, or we can scroll down a bit, depending on what kind of device you're using, and you want to look for this bluish button here, CA adult ed online courses. So we click on this, this should open up the California adult education courses website or adultedcourses.org. Again, the log in block is here on the left hand side, or you can also log in here on the upper right hand corner.

So I'm going to go ahead and log in to my teacher account first. OK, so when I'm logged in as a teacher now, so now I can see the navigation block-- it's over here on the left hand side, and here's that link to the dashboard-- or if I go up in the upper right hand corner where I'm logged in, I can open up this dropdown. Here's the link to dashboard, I can change my profile, I can send messages out here, I can also change my preferences, I can also log out from here as well.

I'm going to go to one of my courses. So in the navigation block on the left side, if I open up the My Courses dropdown-- let me see here. Let me go to-- actually let me open up this one, I should be able to. OK, so now I've come into this course called ITEC. OK, so I have the navigation block again on the left hand side. Now I have a administration block here also on the left hand side. So here's where the turn editing on command is, and then here's also where edit settings is as well.

OK, and then I can also turn editing on over here in the upper right, it's a button. So when I go ahead and click on that button, so now I have that add an activity or resource option that is visible now. So if I click on that, I get this menu. So at the top are the activities, again, the more interactive features of the course, assignment, for example, choice is another one, the discussion forum is here. If I keep scrolling down I see quiz as well, and then towards the bottom are the resources. So if I want to add a file, if I want to add a page, if I want to add a link to a website, these things are here. I'm going to cancel that.

OK, let me just do a quick check. Blair, do we have any questions before we jump into the practice?

Blair Roy: I think we're doing great.

Anthony Burik: OK, good.

Blair Roy: Well, the questions are great. I hope the answers are OK.

Anthony Burik: And hopefully, I'm not half bad this morning. So I'm just going back through my notes just to make sure-- oh, just a couple of other things here. Again, when I'm looking at my course, upper left hand corner up here, so under the name of the course, here's the breadcrumb trail that I was talking about. So this is where you're going to find the breadcrumb trail. If I quickly want to go back to the home page, I can just click on Home. OK, so we can use that breadcrumb trail to navigate around.

We talked about turning editing on. Oh, the switch role. Let me go back to that course for a second, the ITEC course OK, so I'm back in the ITEC course, left hand side again, navigation block towards the top. If I scroll down a bit, I see the administration block. And then actually-- oh, OK, at the bottom of the administration block, here's where that switch role to command is.

So if I open it up, if I switch my rule to a student-- OK, let's look at what I'm looking at the moment. So right now I'm logged in as a teacher, I've turned the editing on, all of these editing icons and such have opened up. But if I switch my role to a student, I'm only going to get the student view of the course. So I have the navigation block. I actually have a much smaller administration block as a student.

OK, in this case, I'm allowing my students to look at their grades. So when we get to the discussion about the grade book later, you have the option of making grades visible, for example, so that students can also see their grades too. But students have a much smaller administration block view than you do as a teacher. OK, I can switch my role back to my normal role or my teacher role, and now I'm back on the teacher page where I can turn editing on and all that kind of stuff. Activities, resource-- OK, I think we're good. If we don't have any questions, I'm going to go back to my slides.

Blair Roy: Anthony?

Anthony Burik: Yes, Blair.

Blair Roy: I'm going to clarify this real quickly. The question is, "is there a place that shows us if we're logged in as a teacher?" Do you want to take that?

Anthony Burik: So logged in as a teacher-- well, OK, when I'm looking at this dropdown-- OK, first of all, I know that I'm logged in because I can see my name. And if I've added a picture, I can also see my picture. So for the moment I know that I'm logged into Moodle. OK, so there is a way-- well, OK, let me go to-- Blair, if I show participants, is that what you're thinking? Is that we want to show people, or are you thinking about something else?

Blair Roy: Well, you're not seeing all the basis of the questions that we're getting, so if you don't mind, can I just go real fast?

Anthony Burik: Go ahead.

Blair Roy: So what happens is when you create an account in Moodle, or any LMS for that matter, and you log into the LMS, and you're not in a course yet, your role is just a generic role. It's not until you enter a course that you are assigned a role-- teacher or student or non-editing teacher. So for instance, right now Anthony is in-- he's logged into an account. He's in Moodle, but he's not in a course. So if Anthony goes into a course-- so let's say, pick a course that you have, Anthony.

Anthony Burik: As a teacher or a student, or any course?

Blair Roy: Well, you're just going to go into a course. So when he clicks on a course, if it's a course that he's the teacher, then he can edit, then he can change the course, and he's in control of that course. But if he enrolls himself into a Moodle course-- and there's an exception to this, of course-- when he enrolls into most Moodle courses throughout our LMS, he's going to be assigned the role of student. He will not be a teacher, he can't make changes, he can only participate as a student. When you were here yesterday, the course that you were in, you enrolled yourself, and your role was set as student.

Now the exception to that-- and that's how it typically works-- the exception in that is that Anthony created courses yesterday. You're going to enroll yourself in these special courses where he has set the default role that when you enter the courses today, you will automatically be assigned teacher because that helps us as part of the workshop. We don't have to go in and promote all of you to teachers. So I hope that clarifies. Your role is defined by the course that you're entering. And if there are any other questions, then send them off.

Anthony Burik: And since you all know as teachers that when you are a teacher in a Moodle course, you are able to turn the editing on and edit the settings and such. If you found yourself in a different course, and you didn't see any of those commands, and you saw that much smaller administration block that only allowed you to do a couple of things, then most likely you are a student in that course. You are not a teacher in that course because you're not able to do anything in that course that a teacher would normally be able to do when they have that role. OK, other questions, Blair, or are we good?

Blair Roy: I think that's pretty much good. I think the role-- we're getting some other questions coming through. So when Anthony was talking about setting up two accounts, so for most of us what we do is we set up one account that we use as our teacher account, and then we have another account that we can then-- with a unique email address-- that we designate as a student account.

So I have a Blair teacher account and a Blair student account. All that does is it allows me when I'm creating my course, I can enroll my student-- as Blair student, I enroll in that course. And then when I make changes, I can log out of my Blair teacher account, and then I log into the course as Blair student and function as a student in the course. The switch role is fabulous. It works about, I don't know, 90% of the time for what you can see as a student. So having that separate teacher account, student account within your course allows you 100% verification of everything you're doing.

Anthony Burik: Yeah, and I'll just say too, having two accounts is actually a good practice in-- all of these tech tools that you use and learn about, I typically have two accounts because if I'm-- a tool we talked about recently was Padlet a while back. Well, maybe Padlet's not a good choice, maybe something like Kahoot, for example. So if you use Kahoot, or quizzes, or Quizlet, any of those kinds of tools, you should have two accounts. You should have a teacher account where you're creating the Kahoot quiz, and then you have a student account where you can actually practice the Kahoot that you've set up.

So just in general, it's a really good practice as a teacher. Any of these technology tools that you're using, you really should consider having two separate accounts with two separate addresses, two separate log in credentials sets. Yeah, it's just a good practice to keep you sane, and make sure you really understand how the tool works, both as the teacher and as the student.

OK, why don't we get ready for our practice activity. OK, so here's basically what's going to happen to start. So hopefully, many things are going to happen in the next 90 minutes, but here's what we're going to start with. OK, so here's the idea. We have created nine different practice courses, and they are organized by your last name. All right, and we'll show you in a second how those are organized.

So what's going to happen is you're going to find the appropriate practice course based on your last name. When you enroll in this particular course, again, as Blair just said, we have set it up such that when you come into this course only, you will automatically become a teacher in the course. Again, this is not the normal practice, normally you come in as a student. But we've changed a few of the settings for these courses to allow everyone who comes into these courses to be teachers automatically. OK, so we're going to give it a couple minutes for everybody to get into a course. OK, and then once we basically have a sense that everybody is in a course who wants to be in a course, then we'll go to the next activity.

So here's what we're going to do. So we're going to go back out to the-- sorry, let me switch my thing here. We're going to go back out to adult ed courses. OK, so everybody should be on the adult ed courses page, adultedcourses.org. You're going to scroll all the way down. It's alphabetical, we're going to scroll down to T for training. OK, and you get to this training courses category. You want to go ahead and click on training courses.

Blair Roy: Anthony, take a pause real quick. Oh, can you go back one page?

Anthony Burik: Yes.

Blair Roy: For some of you, what you might see is view more. So if you don't see training, click view more, and it'll open up the whole menu. I always have to do a view more, too small of a monitor.

Anthony Burik: Yeah, I think it might be because I'm currently logged in as well. If you're not logged in yet, you might have to view more. OK, so either on the first page you'll see training courses or view more to continue the alphabetical list, but you want to get to training courses. Once you're at the training courses, we called it categories, so training courses category. Go ahead and click on that link, that will bring you to the courses within the training courses category. And near the top of the list, you should see our practice courses.

OK, so again, we have nine different courses. They're organized by your last name. So go ahead and enroll in the appropriate practice course based on your last name. And I'll leave that there for the next minute. OK, and if you have any questions about that, please put a question in the chat. If you're not sure still how to get here, we can show that again. But you want to go ahead and enroll in the course based on your last name. And Blair, let me know if I need to show anything again for folks.

Blair Roy: Okey-dokey.

Anthony Burik: Just a point here, if you don't have an account on the adult ed courses site, you still need to do that first. So that may be the reason why you're not able to get into the course. So you have to have an account that you can log into in order to enroll in one of these practice courses. And we'll give people maybe another 30 seconds or so to get into their appropriate course. And Blair, let me know if there are questions ready.

Blair Roy: "I'm not sure how to get there."

Anthony Burik: OK, so let me go back to the beginning.

Blair Roy: And people are saying, I don't see my name, so I think just covering that again.

Anthony Burik: OK, so again, we want to start at the California adult education courses website, adultedcourses.org. OK, and if you don't know how to get here, just type it in the chat, and we'll let you know how to get here. You can start at the otan.us website to get here as well. You want to scroll all the way down, it's an alphabetical list. You're going to find the categories for the letter T. You may need to view more. You may need to go to page two for some of you. But you want to look for this training courses category.

So again, click on the training courses category, this will provide the list of Moodle courses that are within the training courses category. And then we have nine practice courses here at the top of the list, they're organized by the letters of your last name. So just find the appropriate practice course based on your last name and go ahead. If I click on-- let me click on one that I'm not enrolled in, this one, for example. OK, you'll come to this course. And then you just go ahead and click this enroll me button, and that should allow you into the course.

I picked T-Z, so you can see actually these four participants today-- first of all, congratulations, you are in the correct course-- but you also have all become teachers-- so Elisa, Rene, Francis, and Mike. So we know that some of you, anyway, have gotten to the right place.

Blair Roy: I'm going through the courses and looking at the participant list. Great job, I think every course has people in it.

Anthony Burik: OK, fantastic. Good. OK, step number one. OK, Blair, do we feel fairly confident that most people have gotten into the course, or do we need any more instruction on how to get there?

Blair Roy: I see people asking, they don't see their name, and I'm not sure what that means. But what you're going to do, so--

Anthony Burik: OK, so let me--

Blair Roy: Well, OK, if your last name is hyphenated, go ahead and pick last name BRM. It really doesn't matter, these are just-- yeah, so just pick which course you want to go. Even if you get into the wrong course, Anthony is not going to call you out, right?

Anthony Burik: Yeah, that's fine. We were hoping that in all of these courses there are no more than 10 of you in there. So I think just based on our list today and how the number of courses, I think we should be good. So if you find yourself accidentally in the wrong course-- or maybe on purpose, maybe you're feeling rebellious today. I don't know, we are on day whatever of the quarantine. But if you ended up in the wrong course, don't worry about it, it's fine. OK, so again-- all right, Blair, do we feel pretty good about that?

Blair Roy: One other thing is if you're having trouble, if Zoom is taking up-- well, can you explain to them about how to minimize Zoom, so that they can split and have Zoom on one half of the monitor and the browser on the other, please.

Anthony Burik: OK, so let's see if I can do that myself. OK, so currently I am in Zoom. I wonder if the easier thing would be-- Melinda, would it be easier if I just stopped sharing and then-- no, I should do-- OK, let me see if this works because I'm not getting that green. Let's see, let me switch back to-- actually let me switch back to my PowerPoint for a second. Is something happening now?

Blair Roy: Yes, we can see what you're doing.

Anthony Burik: OK, so what I'm doing is I've grabbed my Zoom window, and I'm basically resizing the window to be half the size. So it's going to stay on the left hand side in my case. Then I'm going to click on my browser window, and I'm going to resize that so it will fit into the other half. So hopefully, you're seeing what Blair just talked about doing. Yes?

Blair Roy: Yes.

Anthony Burik: OK, so what I have is this would be your Zoom window on the left hand side, this would be your browser on the right hand side. Well, that's how I've set it up, so mine's on the right hand side. So all you're doing again is-- am I in my browser? OK, so again, I'm in my browser, I'm just basically resizing sizing. I'm not minimizing it necessarily, I'm just resizing it. So I'm pulling it so that it's now going to be half the size. So now I have both of these things side by side. I have my Zoom window on the left in my case, my browser is open on the right.

So if you find that helpful, then please go ahead and do that. If you don't understand what we're doing, don't worry about it. But maybe for the purpose of what I want to do next, maybe I'll just keep this like it is for the moment.

OK, so if everybody's in a course basically, we're going to continue on. OK, so now what we want to do is-- so let's review who is in the course because people were saying they're having trouble seeing if they're in the course or not. OK, so if you are in a course-- so I'm just going pick A-B as the example here. So actually let me-- I'm going to resize it to regular size, sorry. OK, so I'm in A-B, maybe I will enroll myself in here.

OK, so now you're in your course, you're at the home page of your course. So you have a couple of options in terms of seeing who's actually in this course. So if you go to the current course in the navigation block, left hand side, and you open that up. So currently the current course I'm in is Moodle Practice A-B, but right under that I have this linked to the participants.

So if I click on the link to the participants, and there we go, a little slow. OK, so now I can see, in this case, the three people who are actually in this course. Lilian is here, Deborah is here, and the other Deborah is here as well. OK, so I know that those three folks are in this particular course. OK, so that's one way to see the participants in the course.

Another way that we'll talk about later-- I don't want to talk about it right now-- is in the administration block. If you click on Users, and you see the enrolled users, that's another way to also see who is in the course. And that actually gives you a fuller view of who's in the course because that also includes the roles of people, so whether they are teachers in the course or students in the course. You get a more complete picture of the participants by clicking on Users, and then enrolled users.

OK, but for the moment, I'm just going to look at this participant list here. OK, so right now I see that there are three participants in this course, Lilian, Deborah, and Deborah. OK, so are there questions about that so far? OK, so if not, I'm going to go back to my next instruction here. OK, so the first thing that we're going to do in this course is we're going to change the format of the course. So when you're looking at that participant list, I would like the first person on the participant list to do this activity. OK, so whoever the first person is, I'm going to assign you to this next activity.

OK, you're going to do two things. Number one, you're going to change the format of the course from weekly to topics. The second thing you're going to do is you're going to change the number of topics to 15. OK, the way that you do both of these things is you have to go to edit settings in the administration block. So I'm going to show you how to do this first, and then once you understand how to do it, then the first person on the participant list is going to do this activity.

OK, so let me switch back to my course. And actually what I'm going to do is I'm going to change to a different course to show you how to do this. So this is the practice that I'm going to show you how to do. OK, so let me turn the editing on. Oh, and this is not a good example, but it'll get you to the same place. OK, so to change the format of your course, you want to scroll down to the administration block. OK, and you want to click on edit settings. This is going to open up the edit course settings page.

Now, in the edit settings, actually, you can do a number of things. You can actually change the name of your course, you can also change the short name of your course. The short name actually shows up in the breadcrumb trail. So the full name will appear out on the adultedcourses.org site. The short name is what shows up on the breadcrumb trail here. OK, your school will appear as the course category once you get it your own course. For now, I believe, you're just in the training, you should see training as the course category. Visible is the different-- so you have two options for visible.

Currently, all of the practice courses are showing, which means they are visible on the adult ed courses site. If they are hidden, then they are not visible on the adult ed courses site, and your students will not be able to enroll because the course is not showing. So a lot of folks forget this, they forget to change it from hide to show. So just remember, this is where you do it, you do it in the edit settings place.

So let's scroll down to the two things that I've asked you to do. When you scroll down to this course format option, you have to open up this menu. And here are the two things that you do. OK, you change the format of the course, you have a few different options. Currently, the format is a weekly format, you want to change it to the topics format. OK, and that way what we're going to do is currently when you're looking at the course right now, you see a series of weeks-- April 9 to 15, April 16 to 22, April 23 to 29, April 30 to May whatever, and so on and so on. So we want to change that from the weekly format to the topics format. OK, step one, that's how you do that.

Blair Roy: Anthony, can I interject real quickly?

Anthony Burik: Please.

Blair Roy: So we have a question about who's supposed to change the format

Anthony Burik: OK, so remember, it's the first person on the participants list. That's the person who's going to be doing this in just a minute. OK, we will remind you where you can find the participants list in just a second. OK, so format is here. And just a reminder, yesterday we talked about that more information icon, so when you click on that-- if you ever have any questions about what the different formats are, just click on that help icon with the question mark.

So format is here, right below that is number of sections. OK, so when you open up this dropdown menu, it's between-- well, 0-- but between 1 and 52. OK, so what I asked you to do was to change the number of sections to 15. So you're going to click on that number 15, make sure you scroll all the way down to save it. So go ahead and save. OK, so I actually changed it to 15. So let me turn that edit off. So in my case now, I have 15 topics. OK, I think I only had maybe 10 before, now I have 15 topics. OK, and also I've changed from the weekly format to the topic format.

OK, so the first person listed on the participants list, so in the navigation block. Again, current course, we have the option to see participants, go ahead and click on that participants. In this case, there's only one person in this course, just me. But you should have a list of the participants. So whoever is the first participant is the person who's going to be doing that in each of the courses. Questions?

If you're good to go, then the first person go ahead and do those two things. Weekly format to topics format, and then expand it to 15 topics. And let us know if you have questions about that. For the rest of you who are waiting, I'd give it about 30 seconds or so. And then you want to refresh your screen, and then you should see the changes that your participant number one just made. OK, but give it about 30 seconds or so. And let us know if you're having any trouble. And Blair, let me know.

Blair Roy: I'm seeing a lot of success.

Anthony Burik: Oh my goodness, things are happening.

Blair Roy: Yeah, I was going to say, maybe Marjorie or Melinda check from the bottom up. I'm checking from the top down, and it looks good.

Anthony Burik: OK, good. Good, good. Let me go back into A-B. Perfect, fantastic. I see now topics rather than weeks, and now I see 15 topics. Fantastic. Success. Again, now we have four people. Oh, actually I want to take myself out of this course, but anyway that's OK. OK, any questions on that so far-- topics and the number of topics? OK, if you're still having trouble, let us know, and we'll swoop in and help you.

OK, so now the next activity-- let me switch back to my PowerPoint for a second. OK, so we changed the format. Fantastic. OK, now everybody just breathe deeply for a minute on this one, so that you understand what we're going to do. OK, so we showed where participant list is, and there should be a number of participants in each of the courses.

OK, so first thing is, what I would like you to do is to find your position on the participants list. Meaning, are you first on the list, are you second on the list, are you third on the list, are you fourth on the list, and so on. OK, so first thing is identify your position on the participants list. OK, step number one.

Step number two, once you figure out which position you are, I want you to find the number of the topic that corresponds with your position. Meaning, if you are the first person on the list, you are assigned topic 1. If you are the second person on the list, you are assigned topic 2. If you are the third person on the list, you are assigned topic 3. If you are the fourth person on the list, you are assigned topic 4, and so on down the list.

OK, so again, find your position, figure out which number topic corresponds with your position. OK, then once you have that figured out, what you're going to do is you're going to change the topic and the number to your name. OK, so for example, in the A-B course, I'm in the second position, so that means that I've been assigned topic 2. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to change topic 2 to my name. So topic 2 will then become Anthony.

OK, remember, in order to do this, you have to turn editing on first. OK, so let me show you what I mean. All right, I'm going to go back out to a practice course. OK, I'm in the A-B course right now. OK, so in this course there are four participants, I am the second person on the list right. Deborah Bird is first, Anthony is second, the other Deborah B is third, Lilian is fourth. OK, so I'm the second position, that means I'm topic 2.