Course Home Page

The Course Home page is displayed when the user clicks a link of a necessary course on the Home Page.

Fig. 'Course Home Page'

 

The Course Home page displays general description of the course, and gives the user an access to basic modules of the course. Course modules can be accessed if a user clicks a corresponding icon in the top course menu:

Icon	Name	Description
	Home	Brings a user to the Home Page .
	Courses	Brings a user to the Courses List .
	Subscriptions	Brings a user to the Subscriptions page .
	File Library	Brings a user to the File Library .
	Course Home	Brings a user to the Course Home Page .
	Announcements	Allows a user to manage course announcements .
	Documents	Allows a user to work with course documents .
	Learning paths	Allows a user to manage course learning paths .
	Links	Allows a user to manage course links .
	Quizzes	Allows a user to manage course quizzes .
	DropBox	Allows a user to manage files for shared usage .
	HomeWork	Allows a user to set course home tasks .
	Attendance	Allows a user to register Students' attendance .
	Forum	Brings a user to the course forum .
	Chat room	Brings a user to the course chat room .
	Conference	Allows a user to enter Online Video Conference .
	Gradebook	Allows a user to set grades for course Students .
	Tracking	Allows a user to track statistics within course modules.
	Mailbox	Allows a user to manage mass e-mail sending .
	Users & Group Management	Allows a user to manage the membership of course groups .
	User Options	Allows a user to change the current settings : the language for the user interface representation and the role for course viewing (Student or Teacher) and to make notes .
	Help	Displays online Joomla LMS documentation .

The Course Home page can display the main modules of the course: HomeWork, Announcements and Dropbox, so that users can have easy access to them. For corresponding modules to be displayed, the settings of the Course Home page should be customized. For the page customization, click the Edit () and the Settings () links in the top right corner of the page.

The Settings form allows the Teacher of the course to customize the visual representation of the Course Home page for themselves and
for Students participating in the course.

To customize the Course Home page:

1. Click the Settings link on the Course Home Page.

2. Fill in the form fields as described in the following table:

Field	Step
Grading method	Specify if student's results (i.e. quiz results, gradebook results, learning path results) would be tracked by the best attempt or by the last one. Select the necessary radio button.
Autoredirect to learning paths (for Students)	Specify the visual representation of the Students' Course Home Page: Select Yes if you want the Students to be re-directed to a specific learning path when the Course Home page is displayed. From the list below select a necessary learning path. Select No if you want the Students to view the Course Home page.
Show course description for learners	Select Yes if you want the course description to be published on the Course Home page. Select No if you do not want the course description to be published on the Course Home page.
Homework module is published	Select Yes if you want the Homework module and all its entries to be published on the Course Home page. Select No if you do not want the Homework module to be published on the Course Home page.
Announcements module is published	Select Yes if you want the Announcements module and all its entries to be published on the Course Home page. Select No if you do not want the Announcements module to be published on the Course Home page.
DropBox module is published	Select Yes if you want the DropBox module and all its entries to be published on the Course Home page. Select No if you do not want the DropBox module to be published on the Course Home page.
Mailbox module is published	Select Yes if you want the Mailbox module and all its entries to be published on the Course Home page. Select No if you do not want the Mailbox module to be published on the Course Home page.
Certificates module is published	Select Yes if you want the Certificates module and all its entries to be published on the Course Home page. Select No if you do not want the Certificates module to be published on the Course Home page.
Latest Forum Posts module is published	Select Yes if you want the Latest Forum Posts module and all its entries to be published on the Course Home page. Select No if you do not want the Latest Forum Posts module to be published on the Course Home page.
Maximum attendees count in the course	Enter the number limiting the amount of the course attendees. All those students who will try to join your course while the maximum number of attendees exists will be added to a waiting list. Or they may be added to your course by the site Administrator.
Teacher's Menu	Select the modules you would like to be visible in the top course menu. Please note that the Tracking and Users&Group Management modules are available for the Teacher only.
Student's Menu	Select the modules you would like to be visible in the top course menu. Please note that the Tracking and Users&Groups Management modules are available only for the Teacher.
Additional registration info	Select Yes if you want to get some additional information from a user when he/she will be registering for the course. Enter the question and a default answer to it into the Registration question field below. Select No if you do not want a user to be asked any questions during registration.

3. When finished, click Save in the top right corner of the form to save the settings.