Moodle 2.2.1 – Basic User Guide

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How To Create Course Categories

1. The number of courses in your portal will eventually grow and will need to be managed

properly. This can be done by putting the courses into different categories.

2. Click Site administration and choose Courses, Add/edit courses. A list of courses or

categories will be shown. In the example below there is only 1 category called

Miscellaneous.

3. To create a category click Add new category and enter the particulars like the example

below. Click Create category to complete the process.

4. Go back to Add/edit courses and you should have 2 categories like shown below.

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5. Inside the category Miscellaneous is a course WAJ3105 – Literasi Nombor. Let us move it

into WAJ category. Click Miscellaneous and put a inside the box under Select. Then click

the down arrow on the right of the combo box and select WAJ.

6. Go back to Add/edit courses and you will find that WAJ3105 – Literasi Nombor is now in the

WAJ category

7. We can also rename a category. To rename Miscellaneous click the edit symbol on its

right. Then change the category name to BMM, for example.

8. Click Save changes.

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9. As categories will also increase we may have to organise them into sub-categories. Let us

create another category called Semester 1 and then move WAJ and BMM categories to

become sub-categories of Semester 1.

10. Click Add new category to create the category Semester 1 (refer to step 3 above).

11. To move WAJ under Semester 1, click the combo box on its right and choose Semester 1.

12. Go back to Add/edit courses and you will find that WAJ is now a sub-category of Semester

1.