Tutorial: Introduction to Moodle for students
The HAW Moodle (Übergangsmoodle) offers students and lecturers virtual course rooms to share media, to communicate and to collaborate. This short tutorial is aimed at new students who would like to have an introduction to the HAW Moodle.
- What is Moodle? What is it used for at the HAW?
- How do I get access to the Moodle and other HAW online services?
- The first Login into Moodle
- The Dashboard - a list of all courses you are enrolled in
- Useful functions in the header menue
- The Course Search - find your courses
- Enrolment in a course by lecturer or by self-enrolment
- Your course room
1. What is Moodle and what is it used for at the HAW?
Moodle is an Open Source Learning Management System (LMS) to organise virtual course rooms.
At the HAW the Moodle courses are usually used in parallel to face-to-face courses.
Via Moodle students can:
At the HAW the Moodle courses are usually used in parallel to face-to-face courses.
Via Moodle students can:
- access texts, images, videos and files shared by their lecturers;
- communicate in forums and via comments;
- participate in collaborative or individual activities;
- submit files and tests for grading.
For your study, you will also need Microsoft Teams as part of Microsoft Office 365 for video conferencing and text chat - two things Moodle does not provide.
For both Moodle and MS Teams you need a HAW Microsoft Account with a two-factor-authentification (e.g. a smartphone for the second authentification method). In the next chapter we'll explain how the account works.