Moodle Training Course Outline - 2024
Site: | Nephila Web Technology Education |
Course: | Nephila Web Technology Education |
Book: | Moodle Training Course Outline - 2024 |
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Date: | Wednesday, 29 November 2023, 2:20 PM |
1. 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.

2. Moodle Training for Teachers
Course Description:
This 35-hour full online training/ workshop is intended for Educators, Module Developers, LMS Managers, and Administrators to be fully equipped with knowledge and skills in creating Moodle courses. It focuses on the use of key resources, activities, 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 creating course modules, applying assessment strategies, collaboration and communications, learning workflow, restricting access and conditional activities, adaptive learning, giving rewards through badges, and other important techniques an educator needs to learn.
- Familiarize oneself with the new updates and functionalities of the recent version of Moodle.
- Increase participant engagement by developing or creating interactive media content using H5P.
- Extend pedagogic understanding of the theories, philosophies, 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 or learning design that will fit the requirements of the learners/ participants.
- Create an assessment or evaluation for learners, and provide ways of viewing reports effectively.
Course Outline
Topics | Learning Outcomes | Duration |
Module 1: Overview of Moodle LMS.
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5 hrs |
Module 2: Moodle Resources and Add-on Topic: Creating Interactive Design using H5P.
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5 hrs |
Module 3: Assessment Types and Tools in Moodle
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5 hrs |
Module 4:
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5 hrs |
Module 5: Collaboration and Communication Tools in Moodle
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5 hrs |
Module 6:
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5 hrs |
Module 7:
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5 hrs |
Total hours: | 35 hrs |
Methodologies
Guidelines:
- A total of seven (7) weeks with an estimated time of 35 hours to complete the course.
- The participants are enrolled for 3 months which may allow 4 to 5 hours weekly to take the lesson, submit the design challenge, answer the assessment, and accomplish other similar activities to acquire the certificate of completion.
- Each participant shall be provided a course sandbox that serves as their working space to design their work.
- The Participants will receive a calendar invitation before the webinar schedule
- After completing this course, you will be able to download your certificate. The skills you acquired from this training will be your ticket if you want to pursue it later on if you choose to undergo training in Moodle Administration (Full Moodle Course) and the Moodle Educators Certification or MEC.
Mode of Delivery: Three options are available;
- Virtual training (for online training). There will be seven (7) webinar sessions for the full discussion and demonstration each week. The Live Webinar duration is 45 mins to 1 hour, it is recorded and made available in the course.
- Blended learning (for a mix of online and in-person training). There will be a one (1) day session for the discussion and demonstration.
- Self-paced training (for full online). Enrolled in the course for three months.
3. 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
4. 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.

5. 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
