Moodle Training course outline

Week 1:  

Overview of Moodle

1. Discuss the LMS, Moodle, and differences between courses, users, and roles.
2. Clarify the role of the teacher in Moodle.
3. Create a sandbox course and enroll participants in a course.
4. Add an activity from the Activity chooser and explore the Moodle text editor.
5. Create a course plan and instructional design through sketch noting.

1. Explain the use of Moodle resources such as, book, file, folder, label, page, and URL.
2. Identify and Enumerate the different types of restrictions such as Activity Completion, Date, Grade, User Profile, and Restriction Sets.
3. Access restrictions through the application of Activity Completion.
4. Design your own instructional design in Moodle using the tools learned during the discussion.

1. Create and set up assessments using quiz and assignment activity
2. Identify and enumerate question types and the text templates for uploading bulk questions.
3. Manage questions on the question bank, such as organizing questions from categories, importing, exporting, status versioning, assessment type formative, and summative.
4. Give grade, view, and override the file submission of the student.

1. Explain the use of Collaboration tools in Moodle such as database, glossary, and wiki.
2. Build and design a glossary of key terms using the glossary tool.
3. Design and collect data from participants using the database activity.
4. Collaborate with the team or group using the wiki activity.
5. Create groups and groupings inside the course and assign them to a particular activity.

1. Explain the use of communication tools in Moodle such as a forum, chat, messaging, and BBB.
2. Discuss the H5P and Enumerate the content type features.
3. Create course presentation
4. Embed and reuse the H5P content.

1. Discuss the similarities and differences between the Survey, Feedback, and Choice activity.
2. Manage course reports in Moodle such as Logs, Live logs, Activity reports, Course participation, and Activity completion.

1. Discuss some useful plugins for the Student and Teacher.
   
2. Develop an adaptive online learning course through the Lesson activity.
3. Download Moodle mobile app and access the LMS in the Moodle app
4. Give examples of the best practices in mobile app-friendly courses.

1. Explain the use of badges and certificates;  such as designing, adding, managing, and giving rewards.
2. Demonstrate how to backup and restore a course
3. Course copy from within a course

Module 1:  

The Moodle System, Best Setup, Courses, Users, and Roles

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. 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.

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. 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.

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

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.

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.

MEC Teaching and Learning

• Teaching
• Guidance
• Collaborative Learning
• Self-regulated learning

1. To plan for, implement, experiment with, and develop use of Moodle to enhance your teaching
2. To enhance interaction with learners, offering timely targeted guidance to learners, and exploring new ways to support them.
3. To foster and enhance learner collaboration and knowledge creation

1. To use a variety of communication methods to enhance communication within their organization.
2. To collaborate and share resources
3. To improve your practice through critical reflection and feedback
4. To engage in continuous professional development using sites such as MoodleNet

• Selecting digital resources
  
• Creating and modifying digital resources
• Managing, protecting, and sharing digital resources.

1. To locate, assess and select appropriate open content such as from MoodleNet
2. To create and share appropriately licensed open content
3. To respect and correctly attribute open content and apply privacy and copyright rules

• Assessment strategies
• Analyzing evidence
• Feedback and Planning

1. To use summative and formative approaches appropriate to your learners
2. To track and support learner progress by informed use of activity and course reporting
3. To provide timely, targeted support with a range of feedback options appropriate to your learners

• Accessibility and inclusion
•  Differentiation and personalization
• Actively engaging learners

1. To create accessible and mobile-friendly courses to ensure inclusion
2. To create personalized and adaptive learning paths to meet learners’ diverse needs
3. To foster learner independence and creativity by using a range of strategies to motivate and reward learner success

1. To guide learners to source and critically evaluate online materials
2. To encourage learner communication, collaboration, and civic participation
3. To provide opportunities for learners to co-create content relevant to them
4. To guide learners to be safe online
5. To challenge learners with technical problem-solving activities and scenarios

Week 1:  

• Introduction to H5P
• H5P Content Types
• Interactive Video
• Flashcards

1. Determine the requirements on how to develop H5P content on their own site.
2. Discuss H5P development in the Content Bank and how to add it to the courses.
3. Identify the H5P content type categories.
4. Discuss the Interactive Video and Flashcards.
5. Know when to use Interactive Video and Flashcards content types.
6. Create the above H5P content types in Moodle.

1. Discuss the Multiple Choice, Fill in the Blanks, True/ False Question, Single Choice Set, and Quiz (Question Set).
2. Know when to use Multiple Choice, Fill in the Blanks, True/ False Questions, Single Choice sets, and Quiz (Question Set) content types.
3. Create the above H5P content types in Moodle.

• Image Hotspots
• Image Choice
• Dialog Cards
• Timeline
• Course Presentation

1. Discuss the Image Hotspots, Image Choice, Dialog Cards, Timeline, and Course Presentation.
2. Know when to use Image Hotspots, Image Choice, Dialog Cards, Timeline, and Course Presentation content types.
3. Create the above H5P content types in Moodle.

• Drag and Drop
• Find the Words
• Drag the Words
• Mark the Words
• Interactive Book

1. Discuss the Drag and Drop, Find the Words, Drag the Words, Mark the Words, and Interactive Book.
2. Know when to use Drag and Drop, Find the Words, Drag the Words, Mark the Words, and Interactive Book content types.
3. Create the above H5P content types in Moodle.

• Crossword
• Image Sequencing
• Branching Scenario

1. Discuss the Crossword, Image Sequencing, and Branching Scenario.
2. Know when to use Crossword, Image Sequencing, and Branching Scenario.
3. Create the above H5P content types in Moodle. 

Module 1:  

Moodle Workplace Overview

1. Discuss the Moodle Workplace Enterprising Learning Management.
2. Differentiate site versus dashboard navigations, and explore the front page settings.
3. Define roles and distinguish their differences.
4. Identify and classify the major functionalities.

Manage categories and courses

1. Discuss the categories and courses and explain how they work together.
2. Create a course and set up an activity.
3. Enroll participants in the course; manually, guess access, and self-enrolment.

User management

1. Authenticate users in the system.
2. Browse the user profile; update and suspend the user account.
3. Perform standard user actions, either manual or bulk uploads.

Managing Roles - permissions and capabilities

1. Introduction to context and roles.
2. Understand how permissions work and how they fit into different contexts.
3. Assign roles to different users in different contexts.

Programs

1. Describe the utilization of the programs.
2. Add a combination of courses or a hierarchical sequence of courses.
3. Allocate users to the program.

Certifications

1. Describe the purpose of certifications.
2. Associate certification within a program
3. Creating automated recertifications

1. Create and Describe how organizational structure is used.
2. Adapt to organization structure hierarchy based on departments, positions, and jobs.
3. Create team managers by assigning jobs with "Manager" or "Department lead" positions to users.

1. Learn and understand the Report Builder
2. Accessing and creating a custom report.
3. Sending report results

1. Describe the purpose of Multi-tenancy
2. Explore the look and feel structure, users, and learning entities.
3. Enable the configuration for multiple tenants with different themes and permissions.

Module 1:  

Moodle LMS Features

1. Explore more of what you can do with Moodle LMS
2. Discuss the Moodle LMS features in general, administrative, course development, and management features.
3. Explore the Moodle navigation in different users and roles.
4. Manage user profiles and Available functionalities (Preference settings, Blogs, Notes,

1. Review what you currently know Enumerate and discuss the activities or resources in Moodle.
2. Know what more you can make use of the different activities or resources and when to use them.
3. Definition and adding of H5P Interactive content with the use of the Content Bank
4. Understand the use of different and general settings of activities and resources

1. Understand the category and how it is organized in descriptive categories.
2. Management of categories such as;  adding categories/subcategories, editing or moving, hiding, and sorting.
3. Assign a category admin or a manager in a course category.
4. Identify what can a category admin do.

1. Understand the cohorts and how it is organized in the categories and user-context roles.
2. Managing category cohorts, such as; add/upload, delete, move, and configure cohort themes.
3. Assigning user-context roles to all cohort members.
4. Add a custom profile field.

1. Define and learn the overview of the grade book.
2.  Learn and understand the grade settings.
3. Management of the grader report.

1. Define and explain the difference between competency and learning plans.
2. Describe the level of understanding or proficiency of a learner.
3. Create and set up competencies; Courses and activity levels
4. Adding competencies to a learning plan template.
5. Assigning learning plans to users or cohorts.