Additional Orientation Course Information

What to Expect

Enrollment Duration

You will have access to this course for the 2026-2027 academic year.

Time Commitment

This course was designed to take approximately 1-2 hours to complete while allowing you to work in a self-paced environment.

Hands-on Experience

The course activities in this orientation are designed to give you direct practice with the types of activities you will find in Moodle.

No Facilitation

This course is not actively facilitated by an instructor. You will not receive grades for this course.

Computer Requirements

Is your computer ready to take this course? Make sure you have access to the following:

Device Requirements

Be sure that whatever device you use (desktop computer, laptop, tablet, etc.) and its internet browser have all necessary updates installed. While any standard-supporting browser from the past few years (e.g., Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Edge, Internet Explorer) may work with Moodle, Chrome and Firefox generally work best with Moodle.

Word Processing/PDF Reader

We link to some Google Docs files, PDFs, and other resources in this course. You may download or bookmark these resources for you to use later. To view downloaded copies, you will need to have access to a word processing program (e.g., Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, etc.) or a PDF Reader application (e.g., Adobe Acrobat or most modern web browsers).

Course Completion

When you meet the complete a course resource or activity, a button with a check mark and the word "Done" will appear in the top right of each activity (see screenshot below). Incomplete items will instead have a button with the words "To Do"; clicking this button will show you what you must do for it to be marked complete. Some activities may be automatically checked as complete while for others, you may have the option to click the box to manually mark it as complete depending on how your instructor has set them up. Be sure to use this feature to help keep you keep track of your progress.

While we do have completion turned on for this course so that you become familiar with how it operates, please remember that this course is not for a grade.

If you would like to save this book for later, you can either:

1. Click Print Book to download and save it, or
2. Return to the Getting Started page, click the arrows icon next to this book's title to convert the book into a PDF or other file type of your choosing using Brickfield Accessibility's file conversion tool (see screenshot below).