Week and Topic Sections

Change the Number of Week or Topic Sections
Add a Summary to a Week or Topic Section
Add a Label to a Week or Topic Section
Hide a Week or Topic Section
Move a Week or Topic Section
Show the Current Week or Topic Section Only
Highlight the Current Topic

Change the Number of Week or Topic Sections

1. In the Administration block on your course home page, click on Settings.
2. Click on the Number of weeks/topics down arrow and select the desired value.
   
   
3. Click on the Save changes button at the bottom of the page.

Add a Summary to a Week or Topic Section

A summary is a heading and/or other text that you add to the top of a week or topic section. An example of a summary for a topic section is shown below.

Note: Week or topic summaries should be short so that your course page doesn't become too long. If you want to add more than a sentence or two to the summary, then consider uploading a Word document to the week or topic section instead.

To add a week or topic summary:

1. Click on the Turn editing on button in the upper-right corner of your course home page.
2. Click on the Edit summary tool for the desired week or topic.
   
   
3. Enter and format the summary.
4. Click on the Save changes button at the bottom of the page.

Add a Label to a Week or Topic Section

A label is a heading and/or other text that may be positioned anywhere in the week or topic section below the summary. An example of a topic section with two labels is shown below.

To add a label to a week or topic section:

1. Click on the Turn editing on button in the upper-right corner of your course home page.
2. In the desired week or topic section, click on the Add a resource... down arrow and select Insert a label.
3. Enter and format the label.
4. Click on the Save changes and return to course button at the bottom of the page.

Note: To reposition the label, click on the label's Movetool and then click on the desired Move to here box.

Hide a Week or Topic Section

Depending on your course settings, hidden week or topic sections either will be grayed out (as shown below) or be completely invisible to students.

Note: To change how hidden sections display for students, go into the course settings and change the Hidden sections option.

To hide a week or topic section:

1. Click on the Turn editing on button in the upper-right corner of your course home page.
2. Click on the section's Hide tool.
   
   

Move a Week or Topic Section

1. Click on the Turn editing on button in the upper-right corner of your course home page.
2. Click on the section's Move up or Move down tool.
   
   

Show the Current Week or Topic Section Only

Every Moodle user can choose whether to view all weeks or topics in a course or only the current week or topic.

To view only the current week or topic section, click on the section's Show only tool.

To view all week or topic sections, click on the Show all weeks or Show all topics tool.

Highlight the Current Topic

Note: The Highlight tool is only available for the Topics format. In the Weekly format, the current week is highlighted by default.

To highlight the current topic:

1. Click on the Turn editing on button in the upper-right corner of your course home page.
2. Click on the section's Highlight tool.