What just happened?

I've just broken up my Backyard Ballistics course into five "topics", that is, five numbered boxes because that's how my course is structured in the real world. Again, five topics is a natural fit.

You can still adjust the number of topics / weeks in your course once your course is populated with content. However, if you reduce the number then later topics will disappear. So if you have 10 topics, and later reduce it to eight, anything that you had added to topics nine and 10 will vanish from view but are still there (and are still accessible if people bookmarked them). This is a technique you can use to reveal teaching materials and activities as your face–to-face teaching progresses (so you don't get lots of questions from your students on topics you haven't yet taught).

You can also switch from weekly to topic view any time you like.

Defining each topic/week

Moodle now gives you the right number of sections or "slots" to fill up with course content. But each topic is blank, it lacks any kind of title or description, let alone educational content.

Let's add descriptions for each section in our course.