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 |
|
5 hrs |
Module 2: User management |
|
5 hrs |
Module 3 Managing permissions, roles, and capabilities |
|
5 hrs |
Module 4 Site appearance, Moodle plugins, repositories, and integrations |
|
5 hrs |
Module 5 Moodle configurations in educational and technical |
|
5 hrs |
Module 6 Moodle Logging and Reporting |
|
5 hrs |
Module 7 Security, Privacy, and support contact |
|
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.
