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There are many options under the setting link that you can change. Many of these are unimportant to most users. There are however a couple of settings that you need to make decisions about that affect access and how your course is structured. 

To edit course settings

1. From the Settings panel, click Edit settings. The Edit course settings window appears.

   Note: only some important settings are covered in this procedure, for more information on other settings click the ? button or read documentation at moodle.org

       

   Summary

   The Summary text will appear in the student course list. By default the Summary field is empty. There is no need to complete this section.

   

   The Summary text will appear in the student course list. By default the Summary field is empty. There is no need to complete this section.

   Note: The first three fields are automatically filled by the automation process, these fields cannot be edited.
2. Format

   The format setting determines how you want your course to be structured. Weekly or Topic are the most frequently used for standard courses.

   
   Weekly: Only use Weekly if you have specific material or activities that you want to structure by week. If you have a weekly format you will also need to set the course start date to ensure your dates are correct. 
   Topic: Most courses are structured into topics, that might run over one or several weeks. If you choose the Topic format you have the flexibility of still writing the dates the topic spans as part of the topic heading.  
3. From the Format drop-down list, select Topic format.
   
4. Number of Weeks/Topics
   Set the number or topics you will need. You can always change the settings to add more later.
5. Show gradebook to students
   If you aren’t planning on using the gradebook to manage students grades, you should set this to No. You might also want to hide the gradebook from students until you have completed setting up the assessments.
6. Availability

   Changing the availability of a course will affect whether students can or cannot access the course. With the setting "This course is available to students" set, students can log in to a course, provided they are permitted by the following two settings. If the teacher changes the status to "This course is not available to students" then access will be denied.

   

   Important Note: In the automation process all courses will be set to This course is not available by default. This is to prevent students from seeing or accessing the course before it is ready. It is your responsibility as teacher of a course, to go into the settings and set this to This course is available to enable students to access it.

7. Once you have changed your course settings, scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save changes.