You should now be logged in. If you got a login error, please double-check your password and MyWhittier ID. Try using the same credentials to login to MyWhittier. If they work in MyWhittier use the Moodle link on the MyWhittier Home page. If you cannot logon to MyWhittier, please contact Kathy Filatreau or any librarian in Wardman Library.
You should see your courses when you click on "My courses" in the Navigation block on the left. You will not see any listings if you are not enrolled in any courses.
Click on the arrow next to My courses. You should see semesters listed. Click the down arrow next to the current semester to see the courses for that semester. You will normally be enrolled in a Moodle course site the day after you officially register for a course.
Your profile is your identity on Moodle. All Whittier Moodle users can see it, including your instructors.
To change or add information about yourself, such as your picture or interests, click on My profile settings in the box below Administration on the left side of the screen, then click Edit settings..
Your profile will open, showing the information others can see about you. Click the Expand all link to open all the options (upload an image, or add/change other pieces of information.) Scroll down and click Update profile when finished.
If you would like to include a picture with your profile click on User picture and drag a photo to the New picture file area. Please use either GIF or JPG format and keep the picture small (about 100x100 pixels max with a file size less than 500 KB). Again, remember that this profile is accessible to all members of the Whittier College community—your professors and everyone else will be able to see this picture. The same caution is applicable to any personal description you might include.
Several settings that are accessible from your profile can be customized. Some of the more useful ones are:
If your professor has put a forum in your course, the link on the main page will look like this:
Be sure to change the Subscription setting to reflect your preference—if you want to receive emails of every post to the forum, set it to "Send me email copies of posts to this forum." If not, set it to "I don't want email copies of posts to this forum." Some faculty may have set their forums to force you to be subscribed or to not allow you to be subscribed, in which cases this option will not appear.
Click on the name of the thread in the forum, and click the "Reply" link at the bottom right of the post to which you want to reply. The fields are the same as they are for making a new thread.
You can change whether you're subscribed to a given forum at any time by clicking on the name of the forum, then clicking the "Subscribe/Unsubscribe me from this forum" link in the top right of the window (under the Lafayette Moodle logo bar).
Some faculty may use groups. If you want to see the forum posts for a particular group, select the group name from the drop-down menu that will appear on the forum's page. Depending on how your professor has configured the forum, you may be able to see only those posts made by members of your group(s).
If you want to know anything more about Moodle, try looking it up on http://www.moodle.org/. For additional help, contact Kathy Filatreau at the Wardman Library (x4843).
