This course is intended for aspiring or current LMS Administrators with a background in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, ICT, Educational Technology, or other related studies. The lessons covered in this course will provide learners with adequate skills and knowledge of LMS so that they will be able to maintain LMS in their organization. Some tips and best practices in LMS administration will be discussed and applied during the training for the learners to maximize their time and effort and instill in their minds the proper way of LMS management and administration.

At the end of this course, participants should be able to:

1. 1. 1. Manage categories and courses in the LMS, such as adding categories and sub-categories, deleting course categories, organizing courses and
         categories, creating courses, and managing courses in bulk.
      2. Enroll users or cohorts in 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 the overview of the Moodle look and feel, differentiate site versus dashboard navigation,
         customize navigation, and explore the front page 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.

1. 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.

1. 1. Browse the user profiles on 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.

1. 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.

1. 1. Customize the front page and navigation.
   2. Understand the 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.

1. 1. Discuss relevant settings and system configurations of the
      LMS for your organization.
   2. Distinguish between educational and technical
      configurations.

1. 1. Track users and view activity reporting on Moodle.
   2. Generate reports and analytics on Moodle.
   3. Discuss the different reporting tools of Moodle.
   4. Create and generate custom reports.

1. 1. Learn how to set up several 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.