Courses and course formats

You can call them anything you like, but Moodle started with the standard Australian view that each essential separation is done by calendar year. Each Year Level can be a Category, that is then divided into Subjects, which correspond to 1st Level sub-Categories. These sub-Categories essentially contain Courses, the actual subject material. For example, Teacher A will teach English to Class X, to Class Y in the same sub-Category, but also teach English to another class in a different sub-Category. Or The Moodle can be divided into Subject areas or disciplines, with Year Levels as the sub-Categories with Teachers as the sub-sub-Categories. I have come to the conclusion that connecting grade levels to age is not always the best solution, but it is the one that works best in this country, I'm sure others will disagree, but I suspect best option may be to set a student off on something and then get out of their way while they are learning and not limit them by an artificial boundary which would make all the separations a bit of a nonsense.

The problem is that there is no one way a "proper" Moodle can be constructed, it's whatever works best in your situation. The issue is that every Activity and Resource has been developed to act within a single container, "Course". One course would be say, "Highway Code to English Students" for you and each of your Lessons would be a separate Topic. That topic would then contain a set of resource notes specific to a point or set of laws in the Highway Code, another resource that contains a descriptor and asks a student to draw what is happening under those rules, a number of exercises, a quiz, a short research assignment, even "Lesson", whatever is appropriate to that topic. The "Course", is "Highway Code to English Students" one course, Lesson 22 might be laws covering driver responsibilities in the event of running over a sheep whereas Lesson 21 might be something like what to do with driver actions and speeds when emergency vehicles are responding to a call. Just call it whatever suits you.