Adding Topics and Dates to Sections in Your Moodle Course
Before you begin
The instructions below are intended for classes with the Course Format of Collapsed Topics. If you need assistance with other course formats, please contact the Help Desk.
Weekly Dates created through Moodle settings
Most courses in Moodle will be set up in the Collapsed Topics format. The instructions below will show you how to automatically populate the name of each section with the dates of the week.
Week structure will allow you to add section or topic names in addition to automatically adding the dates of the week for you.
1 In your Moodle course, click on "Settings" in the navigation bar underneath the title of your course.
2 Check your Course Start Date and edit to reflect your first class date.
The course start date setting determine the first date of each week that displays. For instance, if you select the start date to be on a Tuesday, weeks will begin with dates that fall on subsequent Tuesdays.
You may instead choose a different date in order to start on a different day of the week.
3 Scroll down to the section named Course Format and click on the words "Course format" to view the available settings.
4 In the dropdown next to Structure, select "Collapsed Topics" (this is the default for most courses).
If you choose the Weekly sections course format, your sections will have weekly dates with no further steps, but you cannot easily add more text to your section titles.
5 Configure Collapsed Topics to show week dates
Collapsed Topics has many options in the course format section. You may want to read through them and use the question mark icon beside each setting for further help.
To add week dates to each section, use the Elements dropdown menu to select an option that includes "Week x" in it, such as "'Topic x' / 'Week x' / 'Day x'". Then set Structure to Week.
6 Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the blue Save and Display button.
After you save, you will see your sections labelled by their respective dates.
Add Topics to your Weekly Sections
You may choose to add a description or topic to your weekly sections to organize content or inform your students of topics covered during a particular week.
As opposed to manually entering dates in a topic structure, adding additional text to the weekly structure will automatically update dates should you change the order of your sections or if you import your class to a future semester.
1 In your Moodle course, click on the "Edit mode" toggle in the upper right corner.
2 Click on the pencil icon next to the section name.
3 Type what you like into the text field and hit the Enter key to save your change.
Be sure to hit Enter or else your changes will not save.
