Design and Build
Staff guides
Context: The following guides will help you get started with building your QMplus course area. More guidance can be found on the Moodle Docs site
We recommend starting here: Building your QMplus module area – the basics
- Adding a Calendar (Moodle Doc)
- Calendar Settings (Moodle Doc)
- Adding a Scheduler activity (Moodle Doc)
- Adding a Workshop Activity (Moodle Doc)
- Adding or deleting sections/topics (under review)
- Adding text, images and video using a label (Moodle Doc)
- Using labels (Moodle Doc)
- Adding Web Links (Moodle Doc)
- URL settings (Moodle Doc)
- Building your QMplus module area – the basics
- Changing the look of your course with formats (Moodle Doc)
- Converting PDFs to a ‘Page’ resource in QMplus (Moodle Doc)
- Course Creation and Settings: Adding a Sticky Block (Admin) (under review)
- Course creation and Settings: Displaying important information with the module info block (under review)
- Course creation and Settings: Using the Tab Display (Moodle Doc)
- Creating a Glossary (Moodle Doc)
- Creating a Lightbox Gallery (Moodle Doc)
- Creating a page (Moodle Doc)
- Creating interactive activities with H5P (Moodle Doc)
- Customising your course page with blocks
- Database tool in QMplus (Moodle Doc)
- Enrolment/Access: QMplus Enrolment Mapper (Admin)
- How to add the grid format
- Landing pages in QMplus (now QMplus ‘My Home’)
- Making the QMplus Media course media gallery visible to students (under review)
- Moving content around with the sharing cart
- Organising QMplus course content into tabs
- Pulling in external content with an RSS Feed
- Reducing the length of your course page with ‘one section per page’
- Setting your module image and announcements area (Moodle Doc)
- Stealth activities – available but not shown
- Tidying up and naming the files on your course page
- Uploading a file (Moodle Doc)
- Uploading multiple files as a zipped folder (Moodle Doc)
- Using a book to structure your content (Moodle Doc)
- Using the Assessment Information block in QMplus to organise assessments
- Using the checklist activity to keep students on track (Moodle Doc)