Manage Course Activities and Sections in Moodle

This guide provides a comprehensive overview of managing course activities and sections in Moodle, making it essential for educators looking to streamline their course organization. It offers step-by-step instructions for duplicating, hiding, and deleting activities, as well as utilizing bulk actions for efficiency. By following this guide, users can enhance their course management skills, ensuring a more effective learning environment for students. Whether you're new to Moodle or seeking to optimize your existing setup, this resource is invaluable.

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Moodle

Navigate to your[Moodle course](https://moodle.adelphi.edu/).

Ensure the "Edit mode" field is turned on.

Ensure "Edit mode" is toggled on.

When in Edit mode, activities have a menu item that appears. The menu opens to show many options for you to manage your course sections and activities. For this demo, we chose to Duplicate the item.

You can edit the activity settings, move the item up or down the page, show or hide, as well as duplicate and delete. We chose to "Hide" this activity.

The duplicated activity shows as "HIdden from students"

Clicking "Delete" will remove the item and send it to the Recycle Bin, more on that in just a few.

You will be prompted with a confirmation screen to "Delete" the activity.

You can also manage your course activities and sections via the "Bulk actions" toggle on your course page.

Click the checkbox to select which activities you want to manage. You will see a floating toolbar at the bottom of your screen.

You can change availability, duplicate, move and delete items.

Clicking on availability will show you this pop-up screen to select your choice.

Click "Apply" once you are finished making changes.

Click on the X to exit the "bulk editing" view. We can also see the activities are now all hidden.

The "Mass Actions" block is also useful to use when you need to make multiple updates. Clicking on the button "Enable bulk editing" will once again show the checkboxes, floating toolbar and the Mass Actions Menu

After selecting which activities you want to edit, you can choose your action from the menu in the block drawer. Here we selected Delete

A confirmation screen asks us to confirm if we are sure we want "Delete" - click on the button when you are finished.

You can see the items have now been deleted from the course page.

The edit menu for each section can also be used to edit visibility settings, duplication of sections, as well as deletion of sections. Here we chose to "Hide" the entire section.

Upon refresh, we can see all of the activities within the section are now hidden.

If you would like to retrieve something you have deleted, navigate to the "More" tab under your course title on the main course page, and select "Recycle bin" from the menu.

Here we can see the items we've recently deleted, as well as buttons to "Restore" or "Delete (permanently)"

Please note that Contents will be permanently deleted after 14 days.

You can also use the Mass Actions block or bulk editing to delete, duplicate, or move multiple activities or sections at once. Here we are deleting 2 sections.

As with most delete actions, a confirmation will show.

You can quickly select all the items in a section using the "Select all in section" option in the Mass actions block.

This allows you to quickly duplicate content or course structures to additional sections.

Using this action button, click to complete the duplication, move, etc.

Refresh your screen and you will see the activities we duplicated from one section to another. Additional edits will be needed to update the names of each to correspond to the new section.

Manage Course Activities and Sections in Moodle

Faculty Center for Professional Excellence
29 steps