Moodle: Homepage and My Courses Page

My Home Page

You can access some institutional reminders and resources from the Moodle home page without having to login. However, you must login in order to access your courses. On the home page you can find:

1. Important reminders highlighted by a color bar
   
   
    
2. Access to various resources, such as Moodle FAQs, LSU Libraries, and Technical Support
    

To find your courses, profile, and more, navigate to the My Courses page.

My Courses

The My Courses area of Moodle is where you can find your profile, your courses, course deadlines, and grading and forum notifications. To get to the My Courses area:

1. Log in to Moodle using your LSU username and password
2. In the upper-right corner, click on the My Courses link.
   
   
   
   You can also find the link in the breadcrumb at the top of any Moodle page.
   
   
    

On the My Courses page, your courses will appear as course cards. They are arranged by year of course start date, and by alphabetical order. Clicking on the title of a course card will bring you to that course.

Instructors can also access courses that are set as Hidden in Course Settings by clicking Hidden courses at the bottom of the page.

On the My Courses page, a tab system helps Moodle users better find and organize their courses. Each tab contains course cards linked to all courses in which a user is currently enrolled and can access. These tabs may include:

• The Courses tab: Contains your Moodle courses that are set to be visible to all enrolled users. If you are only enrolled in LSU campus courses, you will see those courses here. If you are not enrolled in any visible campus courses but you are enrolled in an LSU Online degree program, you will see your LSU Online courses here.

• The Archives tab: Links to courses an instructor taught prior to 2023 First Summer on the LSU Online Moodle site (see LSU Online Moodle to Campus Moodle Integration 2023 for more information).

• The Blueprints tab: Contains all of an instructor's Blueprint courses (see Moodle: Blocks: CPS: Request a Blueprint Course to learn how to request a Blueprint course).

• The HRM tab: Contains all HRM training courses and is visible to all users.

• The LSUOnline tab: Contains LSU Online program courses taught after 2023 First Summer. This tab is visible only for those also currently enrolled in a visible campus Moodle course.

• A tab will not be visible if there are no courses to display in that category.

• You can favorite a course, which moves the course to the first tile, by clicking on the star icon in the upper-right corner of the course card.
  
  
  • NOTE: For more details on favoriting a course or requesting its removal after completion of a course, please see: Moodle: Organize Courses.
     
• On the right-side of the screen, you'll find upcoming deadlines, recent messages and forum posts. Instructors will also see notifications for assignments that need grading.
  
  
   
• Along the top of the screen, you can choose to close the window to return to the previous screen, or click to access your Profile, My Home (the Moodle homepage), Preferences, Grades or Log out.
  
  
  
  For more information on your preferences and profile, see GROK article 20168.

Resources

For more information on Moodle's Home Page, read the following documentation from Moodle Docs. Note that the documentation does not show the SNAP Theme, but the functionality of the settings is the same. All links will open in a new window.

• Moodle: User Quick Guide