Developing your course means you will be adding items and activities like files, web links, discussion forums, and assignments to your course site, and managing how and when your students engage with these items.

A good starting point is editing the summary in each section of your course. These summaries can include information about the course overall, and resources and activities in that section. To edit a section summary, turn editing on in your course, click Edit in the top-right corner of the section, and select "Edit ____". This text changes slightly based on the course format you're using, and may say "Edit Topic" or "Edit Week". 

Ideas for Section Summaries

  • Provide vital course information such as course format, announcements, or required readings.
  • Outline your objectives for each section.
  • Incorporate multimedia for a quick section overview. Information on creating a short audio or video recording in Moodle can be found in the Building & Editing Your Course - Go Further book in this section of the course. 

Regardless of how you choose to use your summaries, be mindful to not add too much content to them. These summaries are always displayed to learners if the section is visible, even in course formats designed to compress the course layout. 

Note: Some instructors copy and paste text in from Word documents or other websites. This text typically comes with multiple formatting issues that will disrupt how your text is displayed, and could break the formatting of your course. We recommend only pasting in text that's been copied from a plain text document. To create this in word: Open your document, choose File > Save a Copy, then change the File Format to "Plain Text (.txt)". This will remove all formatting from your document, making it safe to paste into your course.