If you have NOT received a Username and Password, select the Login link in the upper right-hand corner of the page.
If you have received a username and password, go to Step 7.
3) In the right-hand column, click on the New Account link.
4) Enter your username and password in the resulting form. Continue filling out the form. Click on the Create my new account button.
5) The Confirm your account screen appears. Moodle also sends an email to your account.
6) This screenshot is an example of the email message sent to you via email. This message includes a link. Click on this link. The main Moodle page appears.
Note: If you do not receive a confirmation e-mail within 1 hour, please e-mail augustknecht@gmail.com
7) Under the Main menu column, click on the virtual institutes link and a page listing each of the virtual institute will be displayed.
Next click on the specific virtual institute that you would like to view.
8) The Login to the site page appears. In the left column, type in your username and password in the corresponding boxes. Click the Login button.
Forums
Note: It may ask you for a key the first time you join a specific virtual institute site on the Moodle. Please e-mail augustknecht@gmail.com for this key.
In the middle column at the top, click the News Forum link. You can also get to the News forum by clicking on the Forums link in Activities section in the left-hand column. Also, this page will look something like the screenshot. The various blocks can be easily moved around and more modules can be added.
11) The News Forum appears. This is a default forum that is used for general news and announcements. This forum has been setup to NOT force everyone to subscribe, giving each participant a choice. If you would like to receive every an email copy for each post, in the upper right-hand side, click the Subscribe to this forum link.
12) Towards the bottom of the page, click the Welcome! link under the Discussion column. This is the title of the first discussion thread.
13) The full message appears. On the lower right-hand side of the page, click on the Reply link.
14) The Your reply: form appears.
The white box next to Message: is a simple HTML editor. To find out more about it, click on About the HTML editor link or the 
icon after it.
15) In this case, your reply is shown under the original welcome message in nested form. The pop-up menu just before the messages let you chose other options shown in the next screenshots.
16) This is another example of the Display replies in nested form. Each reply is listed and indented under the message that it is answering.
17) This is an example of Display replies in threaded form. The replies are not shown until you click on a link. The links are indented in the same way the nested replies are.
18) This is an example of Display replies flat, with newest first. Even though the third message is a reply to the second message, it is displayed above the second reply and not indented. Similarly, there is one more option: Display replies flat, with oldest first.
Editing Your Profile
1) From a specific virtual institutes main page, click the Participants link in the People block.
2) A list of Teachers and Participants appears. Find your entry and click the Full Profile link at the bottom right of your box.
3) The Personal profile page appears. [The name “Full Profile” is misleading because it is actually a subset of the entire profile.] This page contains some general information about you. If you were given a default password please change your password by clicking the Change password button and follow the simple instructions.
Click the Edit profile button.
4) The Edit profile page appears. Look through the options and make any changes you like. The description is required and will have to be included if you make any other changes.
5) Go about 2/3 down the page to Current picture. The default picture is a smiley face. If you would like to change it, click on the Browse button on the New picture line. You can then browse your computer for a picture, using the Choose file box. Choose your picture and click Open. The directory information will appear in the New picture box.
At the bottom of the page, click on the Update profile button.
6) Your Personal profile page appears with your new picture and / or other updates.
New Ways to Navigate
Breadcrumbs
2) From the middle column, click the News Forum link. Observe the new breadcrumb on this page.
The left most link of this breadcrumb takes you to the main Moodle page where you could go into another virtual institute.
The Forums link will take you to a list of all the Forums in the current virtual institute. We will be discussing this type of navigation next.
Click on the second breadcrumb from the left and go to your virtual institutes starting page.
Navigating by Activities
In the Activities box, click Forums.
4) The Forums page will appear. This is the same page that you saw from the Forums link within the breadcrumb.
Navigate by Outline
In a given space, the activities can be set up by time – weekly format; topic; or social format.
2) The page was set up by types of communication (i.e. links to Forums, Mailing lists, chat, and the wiki)
Navigating by Jumping
These “jumps” are listed in the outline form – in our case the topic outline. To get to the main Journal page, select Journal under Topic 2.
Chat Rooms
You will see a screen that will confirm your entry in the chat room. Click on the Click here to enter the chat now box to go into the chat.
On the right frame, you will see a list of all the current people in the chat room.
To exit the chat, click the red X box at the upper right hand corner of the window.
Logout
