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)