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Moodle: LSE VLE
Moodle is an the open source Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), or ‘learning platform’ used at the LSE that . It provides an online presence for courses and programmes.
LSE Moodle is available to all teaching staff and students and is used for a variety of academic purposes. Timetabled LSE Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses are automatically created on Moodle.
See also our Moodle Baseline for requirements on how to structure a Moodle course.
Step 1: Go to LSE Moodle
The LSE Moodle homepage is https://moodle.lse.ac.uk
Step 2: Log in
Click on the Login button in the top right hand corner.
Login to Moodle with your LSE username and password.
NOTE: Your LSE username is NOT your email address.
Usernames for LSE accounts usually start with the first letters of your surname, sometimes followed by your initials and/or a number, e.g. OTHER or OTHERAN or OTHERAN1.
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You will then two login options.
Staff and students with @lse.ac.uk email accounts should choose the 'Office 365' option to log in with their LSE email address and password. (You may be required to confirm your identity via Multi-Factor Authentication).
For guests that do not have an LSE email address, but have been given a public account, you should log in via ‘LSE Identity Provider' and then choose “Registered LSE guests” on the next page. Your username will be the email address with which your public account is associated, and the password is the one you set when creating the account.
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Forgotten password
In case you have forgotten your credentials:
If you have an LSE account, reset your password following the ‘forgot password’ instructions
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If you have a public account (non LSE account) click Forgot username of password and follow the steps.
Step 3: Finding your way around
Your Dashboard
After logging in, you will be taken to your Dashboard. Your Dashboard has a
Course Overview with two tabs:
Timeline – which We have set a default Dashboard, which you can customise to suit your needs. We recommend you keep the timeline and course overview.
Course Overview – here you are all courses that you are enrolled in. You can use the filter at the top of the Course Overview to determine which courses show here. You can also chose how to sort your courses and which format to view them (Card, List or Summary).
Timeline – this contains any deadlines or dates for activities in Moodle.
Courses – under this tab you should be able to see any courses that you are enrolled into (In progress, Future, and Past)You can use the tools in this block to determine the period of time shown, whether to sort events by date or by course, and how many events to show.
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Blocks
On the left hand side you will see various blocks:
Navigation - this block appears in every course and lists the courses your are enrolled into and also links you to your Dashboard and the Moodle Site home page.
Calendar - this block displays any deadlines or events from courses that you are enrolled on.
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Customise your Dashboard
Put your page into Edit mode (top right button). Then either drag exisiting blocks or add other blocks to your page
To move any blocks, click on and hold the cross icon in the top right of a block.
To configure, hide or delete a block, click on the cog icon in the top right of the lock.
Use Add a block to select and add other blocks to your dashboard.
Left Side Menu
On the left hand side there is a general menu, which you can expand via the ‘hambuerger icon’, the three stacked small lines at the top.
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Profile
In the top right hand corner you will see your name and an icon with an arrow. Click on the arrow to access your Profile, Preferences, Dashboard, Grades and Messages.
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Menu
The top navigation menu, includes links to other services (LSE Life, Library, Moodle Archive) and the COURSE SEARCH.
It also contains a drop down list of the courses you are enrolled on and a search feature where you can search courses by course name or course code.
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Course page
Once you have selected a course, you will be taken to the course main page. The layout consists of a two-column layout focuses on the left, you will find blocks, and next to it, the main course content divided into sectionsmain sections, i.e. the actual course content. Depending on your teachers' or departments' choice(s) it will either be in collapsisble topics or in a grid format. The below screenshot shows the grid format. LSE has moved to Moodle Version 4.1 (as of 11th August 2023), and there have been considerable improvements to navigation.
You can find information blocks in the BLOCKS drawer on the right, if you expand it by clicking the < arrow. At the top of each course page are shortcuts to often needed areas, like other students or your grades. There is now also a course index, which presents a linear textual navigation INDEX for you to quickly find resources and activities.
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Sections
Sections represent weeks or topics, depending on the selected course format. In each section, you can add content, activities and resources.
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Blocks display additional information and features for courses.
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Hidden content
Some resources on the page are coloured grey, which means that they are hidden from students. Only teachers and editors can see such items. Entire sections can be hidden if required.
Course formats
The most two commonly-used formats in LSE Moodle are:
Weekly
It creates a section for each week of the course. Make sure your course start date is correct. If it is not your weeks will have the wrong date on it.
Topics
The course is organised into sections with a custom topic title.
Grid
It creates a grid of sections displayed as an image or an icon.
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Collapsed topics
Similar to the Topics format, but all sections can be toggled on and off.
Navigating within a course
In this of blocks, you will find the Navigation block. This will provide easy access to the different sections, pages, features, activities and resources of your course.
Additionally, when navigating your course you will find a breadcrumb trail at the top of the page. This will show a path of links to up to the page you are currently viewing.
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