Quick Start Guide
To use the Noodle Homepage you need to get the correct address of instance, that you want to visit and enter it into the address bar of your browser. Currently, there are two possible ways:
- If you deployed noodle on your personal computer, you can simply visit the address 127.0.0.1:8080
- If you want to visit the noodle instance of your school or your university, you need to ask the corresponding administrator. But most of the time, the address should also be found on the official school's or universities' homepage.
To login, you need to use the credentials you were given with your account and enter the username into the field username and the password into the field password.
If you entered the wrong credentials or your account has not been created yet, you get a red warning saying that either your password or your username is not correct.
If you are just setting up your instance, you need to use the credentials, that you were provided with your personal license. After you finished searching for a couple of hours and are frustratingly calling our support, just try putting in the combination of administrator and administrator, which should simply work. But please remember to change the password of this user or create another administrator and delete this one, because otherwise everybody else using your instance will try the same trick.
To use noodle, you should probably first try using it, because we originally designed it, so that it is simple and intuitive to use. And maybe, just maybe, we are not creative enough to write a good instruction manual.
But if you need help, or really want to learn all functions of the noodle frontend, we indeed created a manual for all the main functions in the following section. Because not all functions are possible to use for everybody, the letters behind each entry correspond to the needed privileges. s stands for student, t for teacher and a for admin. If there are multiple letters, users with different privileges can use the section, but the functions may differentiate.
- Home (s/t/a)
- Module (s/t/a)
- Kalender (s/t)
- Noten (s/t)
- Nutzer (a)
- Kurse (a)
- Passwort ändern (s/t/a)
- Logout (s/t/a)
In this section currently only the name of the user is displayed and no other information. But it is planned, that in the near future the most important information, for example the next two deadlines or the lectures of the day will be displayed here.
In the section Module you can find a list of all modules, as well as their description. If you click on the entry of a module, you get to the module window and can see, which materials were uploaded to the module. If you have many modules you can use the filter bar to insert the first bits of its name and only those modules are displayed, that have these bits in its name.
Creating a new module (a)
To create a new module, you can simply press the button "NEUES MODUL ERSTELLEN" and the following window pops up:
To be able to create the module, the title of the course must be provided in the input field "Titel" and a course as well as teacher must be chosen. Optionally a description of the module can be provided as well, before the module can get created by clicking the button "ERSTELLEN"
Deleting a module (a)
To delete a module, you can simply click on the trashcan icon behind the desired entry.
In the section Kalender the next appointments are displayed.
If the user has the role student the lectures that are part of the modules assigned to his course are displayed.
If the user has the role teacher he can either decide to see, the next appointments for the modules he teaches, as well as the calendars of all courses he teaches, so that he can plan his lectures in a way, that no appointments interfere with each other.
Creating a new appointment (t)
As a teacher, to create a new appointment for your lecture, you can simply press the button "NEUEN TERMIN ERSTELLEN" and get presented with this popup window:
To be able to save the appointment, you need to first choose a module, to which this appointment belongs. You also need to add a date, as well as a starting and an ending time. Further, you can additionally add a description, as well as a room, so that the students know where they need to go to visit the lecture.
In the section Noten the user can see each grade and the number of ETCs he got in his attended modules. At the top, the average grade and the amount of his reached credits are displayed as well.
In the course view, teachers can add grades for the students in the modules he teaches. Administrators have the ability to add grades for the students in each module.
In the section Nutzer you can find a list of all current users, as well as their enlisted courses. You can either create new users, delete users or change the password of the user.
Creating a new user (a)
To create a new user, you can simply press the button "NEUEN NUTZER ERSTELLEN" and the following window pops up:
To be able to create a new student, you need to fill in all 7 input fields with the corresponding information and if you want to create a teacher you only need to fill in 6 input fields.:
- Nutzername: The username of the user with which he can log in
- Passwort: The password of the user with which he can log in
- Martikelnummer: The individual ID for each student, that is handed out by the school or the university. It must be filled if it is a student, and it must not be filled for a teacher.
- Rolle: You can either choose the role student or the role teacher, corresponding to the privileges the user should get.
- Vollständiger Name: The user's full name
- Adresse: The personal address for the user
- E-Mail: The E-Mail address of the user
After you created the user, it is ready to be used.
Changing the password (a)
To change a user's password, you can simply click in the entry of the corresponding user on the same icon, that is already familiar from the top bar. In the popup window, you can simply fill in the new password and apply the changes by clicking on the button Ändern
Deleting a new user (a)
To delete the account, you can simply click on the trashcan icon, that is behind the desired user entry.
In the section "Kurse" you can find a list of all courses. You can either create courses or delete them.
Creating a course (a)
To create a course, you can click on the button "NEUEN KURS ERSTELLEN" and the following window pops up:
To be able to create the desired course you need to insert the name of the course in the input field "Name" and select all students, that participate in the course, in the next input field.
Deleting a course (a)
To delete a course, you can simply press the trashcan icon behind the desired entry.
When clicking on the corresponding icon, a window pops up and you can change your personal password.
After you finished all your work, you can press the "LOGOUT" button and get logged out.