START HERE: MOODLE

Home: Focused Information, Site News, and more.

Dashboard: Calendar, Recently Accessed Courses, Timeline, and more.

My Courses: Your Courses

Choice of Language or Message Bubble: If not logged in, you can change the language. Once logged in, you can send a message to another user.

Log In or Circle Icon: Log into Moodle using “Log in”. Once logged in, it changes to a drop-down menu which includes the following:

• Profile
• Grades
• Calendar
• Messages
• Private Files
• Reports
• Preferences
• Language
• Logout

If not logged in, you will see Piedmont CC. If you are logged in, you will see Welcome back.

This area displays Focused Information, Site News, and more.

Course menu is located on the left side. It can be collapsed by clicking on the “X” or expanded by clicking on the hamburger icon.

• Menu topics are boldfaced and can be expanded or collapsed.
• Clicking on “General” makes the center content to show the entire course in list form.
• Clicking on a topic (boldface) displays that topic in the center.
• Circles (green/white) are used for tracking your progress.

Course content is located in the center of the screen.

Menu at the top:

• Course: Course content.
• Participants: List of users in the course.
• Grades: Displays the status of gradable items such as tests, assignments, journal entries, discussion board posts, and the overall course grade.
• Competencies: Some courses may use course competencies. Denotes the level of understanding or proficiency of a learner in certain subject-related skills.
• Open LMS: Used to create reports based on activity.

Clicking on “General” makes the center content to show the entire course in list form.

Clicking on a topic (boldface) displays that topic in the center.

The blocks are located on the right side. It can be collapsed by clicking on the “X” or expanded by clicking on the arrow icon. The blocks shown may vary between courses. The instructor decides which blocks are available within the course.

Located on the course menu.

• Census Date Information: The last date the student can verify enrollment. The census date is located on syllabus too.
• Verify Your Enrollment: This is a quiz that is used for the official enrollment into the course and fulfills the census requirement.
• Start Here: This webpage provides general information on how to get started in the course.

Located on the course menu.

• Welcome: Provides information specific to the instructor and course.
• Instructor: Get to know your instructor.
• Course: Provides details about the course such as Syllabus, Tentative Schedule, and other information.
  • Syllabus – Read the syllabus, then ask your instructor any questions you have regarding it.
  • Tentative Schedule – Print the Tentative Schedule and use it as a checklist for the course.

Located on the course menu.

• Student Support: Provides information regarding taking distance education courses and the services offered at PCC.
• Virtual Tutoring Login: Online or face-to face tutoring is available at PCC. Sign up using this link.  piedmontcc.mywconline.com
• PCC Email: Access your student email here. Provides access to Microsoft 365 Suite such as MS Outlook, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS OneDrive, and more.
• Learning Commons: A location on each campus with collaborative workspace, library resources, writing center, and tutoring.
• Resources for Your Success: This webpage provides links to resources for your success at Piedmont Community College. Areas include the following.
  • Self-Care Resources
  • Distance Learnin
  • Learning Commons
  • Computer
  • Microsoft 365
  • Blackboard
  • Blackboard & Login Help
  • Student Support Services

Syllabus and Tentative Schedule is located here. Read the syllabus, then ask your instructor any questions you have regarding it.

Displays the status of gradable items such as tests, assignments, journal and blog entries, and discussion board posts. When you access your My Grades page from the Tools panel, you see grades for all the courses you are enrolled in.

Additional information on My Grades

Send email messages to other course members. The email message goes to PCC’s Microsoft 365 Outlook address.

Displays announcements for courses you are enrolled in and from your institution.

Announcements communicate important, time-sensitive information.

Displays events that your instructors have added. You can also post private, personal events.

Additional information on Calendar

You and your instructors can send course messages to each other, multiple people, or an entire class. The course message will go to Blackboard Course Messages within the Inbox and Sent folders.

Additional information on Course Messages

You can share thoughts and ideas about class materials.  Review Syllabus and instructions for posting and commenting expectations.

Additional information on Discussions

Links to the PCC Tutoring login page. Tutoring can be online or in-person.

Student Support button links to a webpage which provides information about locating the basic resources you will need at your institution as well as technical support.

• Self Care Resources
• Distance Learning
• Learning Commons
• Computer
• Microsoft 365
• Blackboard
• Blackboard & Login Help
• Student Support Services

Links to Blackboard Learn Help for Students where you can search by topics. Support is provided in the form of text and videos.

• Announcements
  • Announcements are located under the “General” section which is in the center and top of the screen.
  • Your instructor might have provided access to the announcements through a block called “Latest News”, which will be on the right side of the screen after clicking on the arrow icon.
• Activity Stream
  • Moodle uses Activity Completion – Using Activity Completion
• My Grades
  • User Report: Shows individual grades within a course. Open a course, click on Grades from the middle menu. Select User Report. Or click on the circle icon (top right) and select grades, then click on a course.
  • Overview Report: Shows the Overall Course Grade for all courses. Open a course, click on Grades from the middle menu. Select Overview Report. Or click on the circle icon (top right) and select grades.
• Course Messages
  • Click on the circle icon (top right) and select Messages.
  • To the left of the circle icon (top right), select the bubble icon.
• Access to Email
  • PCC uses Microsoft Outlook for email. Free access for current students.
  • PCC email link is located within the course menu under “Resources at PCC”.
  • PCC webpage under “Online Tools” which is located at the top of the PCC webpage.
• Calendar
  • Click on the circle icon (top right) and select calendar.
  • Your instructor might have provided access to the calendar through a block, which will be on the right side of the screen after clicking on the arrow icon.
  • Top menu (PCC), click on Dashboard to see the calendar.
• Discussion Forum
  • The discussion forum is located within the content area (center of the screen). From the course menu (left side), click on the current Module/Week (boldfaced) which assigned a discussion forum. Within the current Module/Week the discussion forum will be shown in the center of the screen.
  • Follow the Tentative Schedule as a guide.
• Syllabus
  • The syllabus should be located in the course menu named “Course and Instructor Information”.

PCC uses Microsoft Outlook for email. And it is free for current students.
How can I locate MS Outlook?

• PCC email link is located within the course menu under “Resources at PCC”.
• PCC webpage under “Online Tools” which is located at the top of the PCC webpage.

What is my Username and Password?

• Username is your Moodle username along with the @students.piedmontcc.edu part.
• Password is the same as Moodle’s password.

Follow these steps to send a message to a user:

• Look for the circle icon at the top right. Could have initials or an added image.
• Click on the icon then click on messages. Or click on the bubble icon to the left of the circle icon.
• Type in the name of the user into the search box.
• Select the user.
• The message box will appear at the bottom. Type in your message.
• Click on the send arrow to the right of the message box.
• The message will display as sent.

You will see a red dot on the bubble icon if you have a message to read.

• This tracks your Activity Completion. Completion indicators in the Course index on the left show which activities have to be completed and which still must be done. The completed activities display as a green circle.
• Additional information Using Activity Completion