In Chiba University Moodle, the system administrator is to create courses upon receiving applications from faculty members. Applications for course creation are accepted through the Syllabus Edit on the Student Portal or by email. Please note that no notification will come from the administrator to users about the completion of course creation, so please check the status on your own. If you still do not see your course after one week from submission, please notify Moodle Support (moodle-support◆chiba-u.jp) (Please change “◆” to 1 byte ”@”).

The methods of applying for the creation of a new course are classified by the following three categories, depending on the content of the course and other factors.

　(1) Applying for a course that is already listed in the Syllabus on the Student Portal (automatically enrolling students who have enrolled for the course)

　(2) Courses that are not listed on the Syllabus of the Student Portal.

　(3) Apply for courses outside of the class.

From the Syllabus Edit screen, click the "Request" button under "Create Moodle Course".

・Courses are created within 2 days of application (subject to delay due to maintenance, etc.).
・Students who have already enrolled for the class will be automatically enrolled as student role users of the course.
・Faculty members who have already been enrolled in the Campus Plan as teachers in charge of a course are automatically enrolled as teacher role users of the course.
・Both specific teachers or students can be added manually afterwards.

I want to cancel a course applied from the Syllabus.

It is not possible to cancel a course creation request applied from the Syllabus through the Syllabus. You can hide a course from students by changing its visibility in the settings screen. 

To hide a course from students: 

① Click "Settings" of the course in Moodle you wish to hide.
② Set "Course visibility" to "Hide" and save.

※Courses that are hidden are displayed in a light gray color only for users with the Teacher role.

Apply for course creation by sending an email to Moodle Support.

　・There is no automatic enrollment of students through course enrollment. Students should be given a self-enrollment key to enroll themselves, or faculty members will enroll students manually.
　・Teachers also need to be enrolled by themselves. There is no linked registration from Campus Plan which is the curriculum management system in CU.
　・Courses are generally created within two days of application, except during the academic year changeover period and on days when the office is closed.

Information required at the time of apply

To apply to create a course, please send an email to Moodle Support with the following information:

Moodle Support: moodle-support◆chiba-u.jp; change “◆” to 1 byte ”@”

・Applicant's name and email address (required)

・Username and last name of the representative faculty member (required)
  * Only one representative faculty member can be enrolled at the time of application.

・Course category (required)

・Class (course) name (required)

・Course Term and Timetable (Example: T1-T2, Wed. 4)

・Purpose of use

・Number of students expected to use the course

* Even if you are applying for a course that will be taught by more than one teacher, only the representative teacher is available to be enrolled as a teacher role at the time of  course creation. Other teachers should be added by the representative teacher.

Course application instructions are also available in Moodle. Please refer to the Course Application and Course Usage Guide (for faculty and staff).

For applications other than class courses and applications for other uses
Please contact Moodle Support (moodle-support◆chiba-u.jp; change “◆” to 1 byte ”@”) to find out if it is possible to create a Moodle course with the content you require.

Course application instructions are also available in Moodle.
Please refer to the Course Application and Course Usage Guide (for faculty and staff).

When the requested course is created, a link will appear in the course participant's "My Courses".
Before creating a course, make sure that the course settings are correct.

Moodle offers three types of enrollment methods: Kyoumusync enrolments, Manual enrolments, and Self enrolment, allowing you to use multiple enrollment methods for the same course.

For courses created by a Syllabus Request, the teacher and enrolled students are automatically enrolled in the course. 

For other courses, participants should be manually enrolled by the teacher or self enrolled by the student. 

For courses created by other than Syllabus Request, please faculty members who are enrolled in the Teacher role basically register the participants including adding the other faculty members.

In Moodle, an assigned set of privileges for each user from the teacher of the course is called a "role". In order to use a course, course participants must be assigned a role according to their status.

There are five types of roles for the users: "Teacher," "Teacher without editing privileges," "TA," "TF," and "Student. Each role has different permissions to use Moodle. Some functions, such as viewing grades, require careful handling, so you need to be very careful when enrolling.

※For registering a student as a Teaching Fellow (TF), the student must have completed prior training. Please refer to the following link for details.

Handling of TF (Teaching Fellow) and TA (Teaching Assistant)　

For courses that are taught by multiple faculty members or in which TFs or TAs participate, the appropriate users should be manually enrolled in the course.

Users with the Teacher role can set the role of "Teacher," "Non-editing Teacher," "TF," "TA," and "Student" for users enrolled in the course.

When setting roles, please set the appropriate role for each user.

※Students who can be enrolled for the TF role must have completed TF training in advance. Please check with the Academic Affairs Section of each faculty before enrolling.

If a user wishes to participate in a course his/her curriculum enrollment is not yet reflected, the user may enroll him/herself for the course through the instructor's settings. In this case, the user needs a process of a password of an "Enrolment key" delivered from the instructor to access the course.

Enrolment Key setup

Edit the class course and place materials, videos, assignments, quizzes, etc.

Although setting up a course and adding content to a course is from the faculty member's perspective, it is also important to see how the course looks from the student's point of view while the course is being run.

The teacher and students of a course have different actions they can do while in the course due to differences of each authority they are given.

In order to avoid the situation where the content you wanted to show is visible only to the faculty but not to the students, this section explains how to check the course from the students' point of view.

Use the "Switch role" function to check how the course is seen by students.

When the display changes, the title "Student" will appear next to the user menu on top right. 

By switching the view settings, you can hide topics and activities that you do not want to make public to students yet, such as topics or assignments that you are working on. Topics and activities that are hidden from students are marked with a grey icon.

How to set hide from the Student role

To hide from students it can be set by each of the following options (range) as referred in the below figures.
For details, please refer to the respective pages in the manual.

１．Hide a Course
２．Hide a Topics
３．Hide an Activity or Resource

The areas separated to make up a course are called "sections," and 16 empty sections are pre-installed in the initial course.

You can create a section for each lesson, for each handout, or to suit the content of your lessons.

Lessons can be constructed by adding and creating "activities" and "resources" within the sections you have created. Here we will explain the common method of adding "activities" and "resources". How to set up each will be explained in detail in each chapter

You can import the contents of a previous year's course or other courses of the current year into a new course. 

For detailed instructions, please refer to "14. Import" of this manual.