The purpose of these activities is to reinforce what you have learned from working through the resources in this session. The activities are not compulsory however you will benefit most from this session by working through the relevant activities as well as the resources. It is advised that you work through only the activities that are relevant to you, depending on if you have a Student or an Administrator account within Moodle.

Student activities

Activity 1

Proceed to the login page of your Moodle system using the methods as outlined by your manager, teacher or system administrator. In the event that you ever forget your password, the system can email you a link in order to reset it. Test this out by clicking the appropriate button on the login page and entering the requested information. Proceed to set up a new password for yourself and then use these new details to login to your Moodle system.

Activity 2

Access your profile using the method described in this session and set your preferred language. Choose a suitable photo as well, if you haven't already done so. Then using the appropriate method, make sure that the emails you receive from the Moodle system are delivered in Plain Text format.

Administrator activities

Activity 1

Using the appropriate method, proceed to add a new user to your Moodle system. This could be a real life person, or a made up user for the purpose of practice. Fill in all required fields and make sure that the user is set to receive Plain Text format emails and also enter a telephone number into the appropriate field.