Moodle Training course outline
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Date: | Saturday, 25 March 2023, 3:57 AM |
Moodle Training for Teachers

Course Description: This 40-hour full online training/ workshop is intended for Educators, Module Developers, LMS Managers, and Administrators to be fully equipped with knowledge and skills to produce and create a course in Moodle. It focuses on the use of key resources and functions inside the LMS and relevant templates and instructions, to deliver dynamic, effective, and stimulating online learning courses for learners
General Objectives:
At the end of the course, participants should be able to;
- Build a course in Moodle using its key resources and activities. Develop a dynamic and effective course by applying assessment strategies, collaboration and communications, learning workflow, restrict access and conditional activities, adaptive learning, giving rewards through badges, and other important techniques that an educator needs to learn.
- Increase participant engagement by developing or creating interactive media content using H5P.
- Extend pedagogic understanding of the theories, philosophy, and principles discussed in the Moodle Training for Teachers course.
- Reflect on existing instruments for educators’ digital competence and synthesize these into a coherent model that would allow educators at all levels of education to comprehensively assess and develop their pedagogical digital competence through Moodle LMS.
- Access powerful reports and analytics in Moodle that will provide educators with important data for their decisions.
- Create an instructional design that will fit the requirements of the learners.
- Create an assessment or evaluation for learners, and provide ways of viewing reports effectively.
Course Outline
Topics | Learning Outcomes | Duration |
Week 1: Overview of Moodle |
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5 hrs |
Week 2: Moodle resources and Learning workflow using activity completion and restrict access |
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5 hrs |
Week 3 Assessment tools and Question bank |
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5 hrs |
Week 4 Collaboration tools and Groups Vs. Groupings |
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5 hrs |
Week 5 Communication Tools in Moodle and add-on topic on Creating Interactive Design using H5P |
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5 hrs |
Week 6 Survey, Feedback, Choice activity, and Course reports |
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5 hrs |
Week 7 Adaptive Learning and Moodle mobile application |
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5 hrs |
Week 8 Badges, Certificate, and Managing in Moodle Course |
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5 hrs |
Total hours: | 40 hrs |
Methodologies

Moodle Training for Site Administrator

Course Description: 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 the course, participants should be able to;
- 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.
- Enroll users or cohorts into the course. Discuss forms of internal enrolment such as manual enrolment, self-enrolment, guest access, bulk user enrolment, cohort enrolment, and synchronization.
- Manage users. Discuss user profiles and user-defined profile fields, standard user actions, manual accounts, user authentication, and username best practices.
- Manage permissions. Discuss roles and capabilities, and create custom roles in the LMS.
- Explore the Moodle look and feel. Discuss an overview of the Moodle look and feel, differentiation of site versus dashboard navigations, customize navigation, and explore the front page settings, the Moodle themes, and the accessibility tool.
- Discuss the Moodle plugins. Discuss plugins overview, repositories, installing third-party plugins, and keeping plugins up to date. Determine good and bad add-ons.
- Configure Moodle settings. Distinguish between educational configurations and technical configurations.
- Discuss the Moodle logging framework and reporting.
- Discuss Moodle security and privacy.
- Monitor the performance and optimize the LMS on the site level.
Course Outline
Topics | Learning Outcomes | Duration |
Module 1: The Moodle System, Best Setup, Courses, Users, and Roles |
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5 hrs |
Module 2: User management |
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5 hrs |
Module 3 Managing permissions, roles, and capabilities |
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5 hrs |
Module 4 Site appearance, Moodle plugins, repositories, and integrations |
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5 hrs |
Module 5 Moodle configurations in educational and technical |
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5 hrs |
Module 6 Moodle Logging and Reporting |
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5 hrs |
Module 7 Security, Privacy, and support contact |
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5 hrs |
Total hours: | 35 hrs |
Methodologies
Additional guidelines; This 35-hour full online training self-paced course,, with 1-hour live session per week, and will run for a total of seven (7) weeks. A participant may allot 4 to 5 hours weekly to take the lesson, and answer the assessment, and accomplish other similar activities to acquire the certificate of completion.

Moodle Educator Certification
The MEC is a certification program for educators, or learning and development professionals, who have experience in teaching or training with Moodle LMS or Moodle Workplace. The MEC emphasises the importance of developing pedagogic and professional competencies to enhance and innovate online education and training. Although it is not a training program, as participants progress through the certification process they will reflect on their practice and this will strengthen their understanding and confidence when teaching with Moodle.
MEC is based on the widely used and accepted European Framework for the Digital Competence for Educators (DigCompEdu). It is a six-course certification program that allows experienced Moodle educators or learning and development professionals to demonstrate their expertise in teaching or creating learning development programs with Moodle LMS or Moodle Workplace and obtain official certification directly from Moodle.
Course & Topics | Learning Outcomes | Duration |
MEC Teaching and Learning
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8 hrs |
MEC Professional Engagement
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8 hrs |
MEC Digital resources
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8 hrs |
MEC Assessments
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8 hrs |
MEC Empowering learners
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8 hrs |
MEC Facilitating Learners' Digital Competence
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8 hrs |
Total hours: | 48 hrs |
Additional guidelines: The MEC course is a 48-hour full online training self-paced course, with 1-hour live session per week, and will run for a total of six (6) weeks. All MEC takers are required to take the pre-assessment exam. All participants who passed the pre-assessment will be able to directly take the MEC program. The participants are enrolled for 3 months which may be 8 hours weekly to take the lesson, submit the activities and answer the assessment to acquire the certificate of completion.

H5P Interactive Content Training

Course Description: The H5P Interactive Content Training is designed for educators, course creators, content or multimedia developers, LMS administrators, and those who will be developing course content for their Learning Management System (LMS) using H5P. This training will be focused on creating interactive content through the use of the H5P content hub with content-type categories such as; Games, Multimedia, Questions, and Social Media.
General Objectives:
At the end of the course, participants should be able to;
- Determine the requirements on how to develop H5P content on their own site;
- Design and develop content using different H5P content types through guided hands-on training;
- Learn how H5P as an authoring tool works for many different content types;
- Build capacity to develop sustainable content through an open-source and HTML5 platform that enhances instruction and teaching using H5P;
- Create an effective learning experience with H5P;
- Foster instructional alignment including objectives, resources, learning activities, and assessment;
- Develop knowledge and skill to improve digital competence in teaching practice;
- Explore and experiment with how H5P supports approaches to teaching and content development.
Course Outline
Topics | Learning Outcomes | Duration |
Week 1:
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5 hrs |
Week 2:
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5 hrs |
Week 3
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5 hrs |
Week 4
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5 hrs |
Week 5
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5 hrs |
Total hours: | 25 hrs |
Methodologies

Moodle Workplace Training for Site Administrator

Course Description: This 64-hour full online training/ workshop is intended for aspiring current LMS Administrators to be fully equipped with knowledge and skills to maintain Moodle Workplace Enterprise Learning Management System (ELM) in their organization. The lessons covered in this course will enable you to centralize training and learning programs that automatically administer, monitor, and report on all compliance and professional development training.
General Objectives:
At the end of the course, participants should be able to;
- Overview of Moodle Workplace Enterprise Learning Management System.
- Explore the Moodle look and feel. Discuss an overview of the Moodle look and feel, differentiation of site versus dashboard navigations, customize navigation and explore the frontpage settings.
- Manage LMS's categories and courses, such as adding categories and sub-categories, deleting course categories, organizing courses and categories, creating courses, and managing courses in bulk.
- Manage user accounts such as uploading users and enrolment methods.
- Distinguish the roles, permissions, and capabilities from different roles.
- Installing third-party plugins, and keeping plugins up to date.
- Programs. Allocate and establish learning pathways for your employees that are typically used for onboarding employees.
- Certifications. Manage compliance training such as turning your learning programs into certifications and Creating automated recertifications.
- Organization structure. Deploy department and position hierarchies to represent your organization structure.
- Dynamic rules. Define and execute centralized and automated rules.
- Report builder. To provide a powerful custom reporting tool.
Topics | Learning Outcomes | Duration |
Module 1: Moodle Workplace Overview |
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8 hrs |
Module 2: Basic Admin Functionality |
Manage categories and courses
User management
Managing Roles - permissions and capabilities
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8 hrs |
Module 3 Advanced Admin Functionality |
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8 hrs |
Module 4 Programs and Certifications |
Programs
Certifications
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8 hrs |
Module 5 Organizational structure |
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8 hrs |
Module 6 Dynamic rules |
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8 hrs |
Module 7 Report Builder |
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8 hrs |
Module 8 Multi-tenancy |
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8 hrs |
Total hours: | 64 hrs |
Methodologies

Moodle Training for Advanced Users

Course Description: This 30-hour full online training workshop is intended for educators, trainers, LMS Administrators, and Managers who have some experience teaching using Moodle LMS. The lessons covered in this course will provide learners with a high-level overview of the features of what concepts and what “more” they can do with Moodle LMS.
At the end of the course, participants should be able to;
- Explore more of what Moodle can offer; Provide a high-level overview of the Moodle LMS features.
- Manage categories and courses in the LMS such as adding categories, and sub-categories, deleting course categories, organizing courses, creating courses, and managing courses in bulk.
- Develop a dynamic and effective course using the key resources and activities in Moodle.
- Enabling enrollment methods that suit the organization; self enrolment, guest access, manual enrolment, cohort enrollment.
- Manage grader reports and settings.
- Setting up competency and learning plans to ensure that the users are active beyond their individual roles.
Topics | Learning Outcomes | Duration |
Module 1: Moodle LMS Features |
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5 hrs |
Module 2: Moodle activities, resources, and default settings |
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5 hrs |
Module 3 Manage categories and courses |
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5 hrs |
Module 4 Manage users with cohorts |
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5 hrs |
Module 5 Gradebook |
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5 hrs |
Week 6 Competency and Learning Plans |
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5 hrs |
Total hours: | 30 hrs |
Methodologies
