Course formats guide

You can manage a number of the settings for City Course Format and other formats from the module settings.

Select Settings from the contextual navigation menu to open the module settings.

Check that the Module full name is correct. If the name of the module is incorrect, the name must first be amended in SITS. Contact your Course Office team to change the information in SITS. The updated titled will pushed to Moodle and the module name updated.

If your module has a short name that starts GEN or MDL, log a ticket with IT Self Service Portal and IT can change the name for you.

From the General settings you can change the module visibility from the drop-down menu. If Show is displaying on the Module visibility drop-down menu the module is available to students.

If a module is hidden from students it will display the text Module is hidden when staff visit the module page. You can quickly make the module visible by clicking on the Show Module button and confirming.

You can set a module to automatically open on a certain date by setting the Module visibility drop-down option to Hide and setting a Module start date in the future.

The Enable download module content setting enables you to control the bulk download of module content. If you change this to No, students and staff will not be able to bulk download module content. Users will still be able to download content file by file.

You can drag and drop a Module image to give your module a distinct visual identity in the Module overview block on the My Moodle and My Modules pages. You can access graphics from a OneDrive folder. If you want to use an alternative image, it should be a JPEG, GIF or PNG or SVG and be no larger than 250MB.

 If you add an image, remember to select Save and display at the end of the Settings page.

The City Course Format displays as CUL Course format in the Format drop-down list.

• Hidden sections can be set to be invisible to students (Hidden sections are completely invisible) or be displayed as not available to students. (Hidden sections are shown in collapsed form).
• The format to use setting enables you to structure your module by Topics or Weeks
• We recommend that Show the section summary is left as default No to ensure section are easy for students to review. 

You can choose to hide activity types and/or Quick Links in the Module Dashboard from the Dashboard settings.

You can also manage the visibility of these from the Module dashboard on the module with Edit mode on.

Additional guidance

Appearance settings do not normally need to be changed.

• Number of news items setting controls the number of posts to display in the Latest news block.
• Show gradebook to students setting should not be changed for taught modules as these modules should be displaying Grades to students.
• The Show activity reports setting determines whether a student can view their own activity reports via their Profile page.

Enable completion tracking defaults to Yes for all new modules. Activity completion conditions can then be set in the settings for a resource or activity.

If you make any changes, remember to select Save and display at the bottom of the page.