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Once you've turned editing on you can start to add sections and populate your course. You can add a number of different "activities", as Moodle calls them, to a section. These activities include Assignments, Quizzes, Chats, Wikis, as well as many others. Once you add more sections you'll be able to move them around and arrange them how you see fit. You can indent activities and resources within a section to give the section more of a hierarchy and organization within the section.
There aresome are some useful options in your user drop down in upper lefgleft. you You can choose to view the course as a different "role" such as Non-Editing Teacher or Student. A Non-Editing Teacher is a teacher who can grade and teach the class but can't edit the activities or modify the class structure. A Student is a student of the class. They can't grade activities or assignments or modify the class.
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