Creation and investigation into course

This summer I was trained to use Moodle.  I was given access to a trial service and began building a course.  I am currently using a full version of Moodle to build a course for AP Environmental Science.  Below is an image of my course shell.

I have built the first part of the course, preliminary activities and am working on unit 1.  First, let me show and image of some of the content for the "Preliminary Activities" section of the course.  Then I will describe the process of loading the content and give some insights into my experience.

I have actually posted quite a bit more in the "Preliminary Activities" section, but that is enough to give you an idea.

In Moodle, once the course shell has been made, adding content is easy.  You click a but that says "Turn Editing On."  Then, within each section of the course there is a button that says "Add an activity or resource."  Clicking that button gives the course builder a number of options.  I'll give a quick image of some of those.

I then simply click the option I want and proceed by following directions.  Some are easy and only require one or two step.  For example, the PDF and text files above ore simply added by choosing "File" from the activity or resource list.  You can then choose to upload a file or share a file from Google Drive.

Choosing "Forum" from the list of activities allows one to add a forum.  There are numerous options for different types of forums, but Moodle gives a description of each and inserting one is simple is clicking and following directions.

All and all, my experience with Moodle has been very positive.  One criticism I do have though is when a file is added from Google Docs, it automatically tries to open on students devices as a Word document.  That's great if they have Word, but if they don't, the document won't open.  That has forced me to use more PDFs.