Quick Start Guide
To use the Noodle Homepage you need to get the correct address of instance, that you want wo 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 times, the address should also be found on the official school's or universities' homepage.
To login, you need to use the credentials you where 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 ether your password or your username is not correct.
If you are just setting up your instance, you need to use the credentials, that you where provided with your personal license. After you finished searching for a couple 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 of 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 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 to deadlines or the lectures of the day are been displayed here.
In the section Module you can find a list of all modules, as well as their description and the materials, that were uploaded to the module. If you click on the entry of a module, you get to the module window and can see, which materials where 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 modul 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 his chosen modules are displayed.
If the user has the role teacher he can ether decide to see, the next appointments for the modules he teaches, as well as the calenders of all courses he teaches, so that he can plan his lectures so that, no appointments interfere with each other.
creating a new apponitment (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 now 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 future the teacher should be able to add these grades, but currently this function is not yet implemented.
In the section Nutzer you can find a list of all current users, as well as their enlisted courses. You can ether 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 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 login
- Passwort: The password of the user with which he can login
- Martikelnummer: The individual ID for each student, that is handed out by the school or the university. It must be filled if it is student and it must not be filled for a teacher.
- Rolle: You can ether chose the role student or the role teacher, corresponding to the privileges the user should get.
- Vollständiger Name: The complete Name of the student
- 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 users password, you can simply click in the entry of the corresponding user on the same icon, that is already familiar from the topbar. In the popup window you can simply fill in the 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 ether 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 copurse 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" entry and get logged out.