Using Moodle

• Having reached this far you will already have some idea of how a Peoples-uni course works. We are not going to tell you all about ‘Moodle’, which is the software you use on all courses, just highlight a few important elements. We hope that the environment is reasonably intuitive but we also believe that you will learn more about what is available by exploring it for yourself.

• As you know, the course is divided into 5 Topics with, normally, one topic being studied every two weeks. Each topic will be introduced by means of the competences that the Topic covers. Under the competence is a list of 'assessment criteria', which can be considered as 'sub-competences', and a guide to what you will be expected to be asked for in the assignments.

• Then there is a set of resources, for example which, once you click on them, will contain text, and links to other websites. The resources are relevant to the competences and assessment criteria.

• You can download most of the resources as pdf files to look at later from the zip file in each Topic marked like this
  

• To help understand these resources, and to exchange experience between students and tutors, there are discussion forums, for example . These are a central part of the course and to get the most out of it you will need to spend time joining the discussion and interacting with the tutors and other students. You will receive an email copy of all discussion postings, but please reply through the Discussion forum, and not directly to the email. You can find out more about how the discussion forums work through the Moodle documentation site.

• There are also quiz questions to check your understanding of the issues in many ot the Topics such as this

• You will also see assignments such as this (although these might not be visible at the strat of the course)