Navigating & Moving Around

When moving around in your Moodle course, use the navigation tools to move from one area to another. Below are the tools and buttons, you can use to move around in your online course.

Bread Crumb Trail

Use the bread crumb trail to move around in your course. The bread crumb trail is located at the top of the Moodle window. As you move through the layers of your course, you will see a bread crumb for each layer. The last bread crumb represents your current location. To move to the previous screen, click on the next bread crumb. To return to the main course page, click on the course title. Clicking on Home will return you to the Moodle home page, listing all of your available courses.

bread crumb trail

Jump To... Tool

The "Jump to" tool is a drop down list with links to resources and activities in the course. To jump to an item in the list, click on the item name.

jump to drop down list

Course Link

The course button located at the bottom of page in the course site will take you back to the main course page or the course home page. This button is labeled with the course name and is located on every page in the course site. On the main course page or the course home page, this buttom will be labeled "Home" and will take you to the Moodle home page listing all available courses.

course button

Other Tools

The items below are tools and icons in Moodle that you may find helpful when navigating and moving around in your course.

Collapse & Expand Weeks/Topics

On the main course page, you will see a button at the top right corner of each section. A single box collapse sections button means that all available sections are visible. By click on this button, you can collapse the list and view only the selected section. If the icon contains a double box expand sections button , you are seeing a collapsed view of the course. Click on the button to view the other available sections.