Moodle Training for Site Administrators 35 hrs
This course is intended for aspiring and current LMS Administrators with a background in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, ICT, Educational Technology, and other related studies. The lessons covered in this course will provide learners with adequate skills and
knowledge of LMS so that they would be able to maintain LMS in their organization. Some tips and best practices in LMS administration will be discussed and applied during the training in order for the learners to maximize their time and effort, and instill in their minds the proper way of LMS management and administration.
General Objectives:
At the end of this course, participants should be able to;
1. Manage categories and courses in the LMS such as adding categories, sub-categories, deleting course categories, organizing courses and
categories, creating courses, and managing courses in bulk.
2. Enroll users or cohorts into the course. Discuss forms of internal enrollment such as manual enrollment, self-enrollment, guest access, bulk user enrollment, cohort enrollment, and synchronization.
3. Manage users. Discuss user profiles and user-defined profile fields, standard user actions, manual accounts, user authentication, and
username best practices.
4. Manage permissions. Discuss roles and capabilities, and create custom roles in the LMS.
5. Explore the Moodle look and feel. Discuss an overview of the Moodle look and feel, differentiation of site versus dashboard navigation,
customize navigation, explore the frontpage settings, the Moodle themes, and the accessibility tool.
6. Discuss the Moodle plugins. Discuss plugins overview, repositories, installing third-party plugins, and keeping plugins up to date. Determine
good and bad add-ons.
7. Configure Moodle settings. Distinguish between educational configurations and technical configurations.
8. Discuss the Moodle logging framework and reporting.
9. Discuss Moodle security and privacy.
10. Monitor the performance and optimize the LMS on the site level.
Module 1: Overview of Courses, Users, Roles, and Course Management
Duration: 5 hours
Learning Outcomes:
1. Provide a high-level overview of courses, users, and roles.
2. Organize courses into categories and sub-categories.
3. Create and manage courses, individually and in bulk.
4. Manage enrollment of users in a course.
Module 2: User Management
Duration: 5 hours
Learning Outcomes:
1. Browse the user profiles in Moodle.
2. Perform standard user actions, either manual or bulk upload.
3. Create cohorts and assign cohort members.
4. Manage cohorts.
5. Authenticate users in the system.
Module 3: Managing Permissions - Roles and Capabilities
Duration: 5 hours
Learning Outcomes:
1. Understand how permissions work and how they fit into
different contexts.
2. Assign roles to different users in different contexts.
3. Modify roles and create new ones, including a role for
parents or mentors.
4. Manage a range of administrative role-related settings.
Module 4: Site Appearance, Moodle Plugins, Repositories, and Integrations
Duration: 5 hours
Learning Outcomes:
1. Customize the front page and navigation.
2. Understanding appearance customization and Moodle
themes.
3. Assess Moodle plugins before installation.
4. Incorporate data in the LMS through internal or external
repositories.
5. Understand how Safe Exam Browser works and how to set
it up in a quiz activity.
6. Manage H5P content types.
7. Provide an overview of site administration presets.
Module 5: Moodle Configurations
Duration: 5 hours
Learning Outcomes:
1. Discuss relevant settings and system configurations of the
LMS for your organization.
2. Distinguish between educational and technical
configurations.
Module 6: Moodle Logging and Reporting
Duration: 5 hours
Learning Outcomes:
1. Track users and view activity reporting in Moodle.
2. Generate reports and analytics in Moodle.
3. Discuss the different reporting tools of Moodle.
4. Create and generate custom reports.
Module 7: Moodle Security and Privacy
Duration: 5 hours
Learning Outcomes:
1. Learn how to set up a number of notification mechanisms that warn you about potential security issues and look at the built-in security report.
2. Learn how to set up a site policy and configure the antivirus scanner.
3. Review access to Moodle (self-registration, guest access, protection of user details, and course contacts), Moodle passwords, security in roles, and spam prevention.
4. Set up a support contact person or page for your user profiles.
Lorrie Mae Gallo
Instructor
Lorrie works at Nephila Web as a Sr. Moodle Support Specialist. She has been using and teaching Moodle for educators and site administrators for more than five (5) years now. She is a content developer, she customizes Moodle sites of Nephila Web clients, and she is also part of the onboarding team for the implementation of Moodle in different schools and organizations.
What do they say about MTSA?
The Nephila team is very helpful and accomodating to our inquiries and requests. They changed the coverage of this module at the start to respond to the call to make the training for relevant.
The training provided by Nephila has enhanced my knowledge and empowered me as the site administrator of our in-house Moodle site. The modules are arranged in such a way that the important tasks of a site administrator is presented in a logical order.
The experience was very interesting and eye opening.
This training is really beneficial for upcoming Moodle admin. The learning contents are very relevant and applicable to the functions of an LMS administrator.
The lessons are well-explained.
Nephila Web’s Site Administration Training is highly recommended to all businesses looking for ways to improve their internal training strategies. It helped me greatly in developing an interactive on-demand learning platform.
The presentation and methodology has been very helpful for me. Thank you, Nephila!
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