Moodle Training Courses

Moodle for Administrators (M4A) advanced level is a 4-week online workshop for anyone who wishes to be an administrator of a Moodle website. The workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Nellie Deutsch, an experienced teacher and admin of a few Moodle websites and coordinator of Moodle for Teachers (M4T) workshops. Click to join: Moodle for admin basic is open for enrollment here: http://www.integrating-technology.org/enrol/users.php?id=488

Participants will be given the roles of managers and administrators in a Moodle Admin Training Area and to practice. The workshop is based on hands-on activities where participants learn by doing and collaborating with the other participants.

The workshop is asynchronous (work at your own pace) with the information, activities, and facilitation on the Moodle course. However, you will receive ongoing facilitation and support during the course. Video recordings will be available on the Moodle course.

Participants of the course will learn about and demonstrate (through video tutorials) workable knowledge on how to:

1. Create categories and courses on a Moodle website.

2. Create methods of enrollment including PayPal.

3. Enroll users (students and teachers)

4. Provide students and teachers with permissions and teacher, manager and student roles.

5. Learn to search for items on the Moodle

6. Learn about the appearance of a Moodle site.

7. Develop the front page.

8. Create video text tutorials for students and teachers on how to use Moodle.

Moodle for Administrator Basic Training

The tuition for the self-paced course is $750 for a one-on-one self-paced course.

Participants get administrator and manager rights to practice what they learn on the latest Moodle site and as students in Moodle practice site https://moodle4teachers.com.

Participants do not need to buy a domain or install Moodle on their domain during the course.

Upcoming Workshops

In addition, groups and individuals can get customized courses. Contact Dr. Nellie Deutsch for further information on customized courses for your and/or your organization.

Support

Participants of the course may host with Integrating Technology Hosting & Consulting Services (ITHCS) and get support.

Moodle for Administrators

This is a course for advanced level Moodlers who would like to install Moodle and/or be administrators of a Moodle website. The course tuition is $750 for a one-on-one self-paced course.

Instructions on how to access the course

Take steps 1-3 if you don't have an account on Integrating Technology. Go to step 4 if you have an account.

Click here to create a new account (if you don't have one)
Confirm your new account by going into your email.
Go back to the site and login/sign in.
Enroll in the course here

Contact Dr. Nellie Deutsch for further information.

About MT4T

Moodle training for Teachers (MT4T) 4-week online workshop and/or a self-paced with full facilitation that can go beyond 4 weeks or less. The course will take place on a Moodle website called Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning (IT4ALL). The aim of the M4T workshop is to provide participants, who have never used Moodle or who would like to enrich their previous Moodle experiences, with the knowledge and skills to navigate a Moodle course, access resources, activities, and blocks from a student perspective and practice the same Moodle features in another practice and later on their own course on IT4ALL as teachers and managers.

Participants will watch tutorials, post to the discussion forums, and document their work using screencasting tools (video tutorials) as they practice Moodle tools with the roles of a student, teacher, and manager

Goal

The goal of the MT4T course is to help educators ensure the quality of online learning through systematic instructional design of online and blended online courses (BOL) and instructor training on online learning and e-pedagogies.

Description

This intensive four-week workshop is designed to engage the participants in theoretical and practical aspects of online learning and teaching with a Learning Management System (LMS) called Moodle. Participants or Moodlers as they are called will be introduced to the Moodle philosophy and course development tools. By successfully completing the program, participants will have acquired the knowledge and skills needed to create basic Moodle resources and activities for blended online learning (BOL) or blended learning (BL) courses and run their own Moodle course. As online learners, participants will understand online learning from the student's perspective so they can prepare their future courses with the learner in mind.

Workload & Format

MT4T course requires that participants be active at least 10 hours a week on theoretical and practical aspects of online learning. Participants will learn about resources, activities, and blocks as students and practice the role of a teacher in setting up resources and activities. In addition, teacher will have access to the admin settings for courses and for user enrollments. Participants will use Screen sharing (jing, screencast-o-matic) and authoring tools (Youtube, Vimeo).

Workshop Layout

MT4T facilitated workshop will cover the settings for the following:

Resources:

Label
Url
Page

Book

Activities:

Discussion Forums
Comment
Choice
Glossary
Quiz
Wiki
WizIQ Class
Workshop

Blocks:

Features without Manager rights.

Teacher Administrator Settings as Managers of a Course

Edit course

Users (enrollment)
Reports
Badges
Activities
Resources
Blocks

Expected Learning Outcomes

By the end of the workshop learners should be able to:

Manage & edit course settings
Manage enrollment methods and enroll users
Create and edit basic activities, resources, and use blocks as set by the administrator of the Moodle site
Run a Moodle course

Weekly Outline

Week 1 INTRODUCTION & ORIENTATION

Develop a working knowledge of Moodle as a learning management system for fully online and blended learning environments (a combination of face-to-face and online learning)

Learn about and apply Moodle features such as profile, navigation, browsers and settings, participants, discussion forums, assignment upload, chat, wiki, and blog.
Create content using Moodle activities and resources.
Work collaboratively with emphasis on teamwork, collaboration, communication, sharing, activities, and critical reflection.

Participants introduce themselves
Learn about the layout of a Moodle course.

Week 2 RESOURCES

Label
URL
Page
Book

Week 3 ACTIVITIES

Discussion Forums

Comment
Choice
Glossary
Quiz
Survey
Wiki
WizIQ Class
Database
Workshop

Week 4 BLOCKS

Blocks are features added by admin of a Moodle site. You can practice adding and removing the blocks in the Manager Practice Area (MPA) with the role of a manager (see week 4).

TEACHER PRACTICE AREA (TPA)

Practice with the role of a teacher and add activities and resources

MANAGER PRACTICE AREA (MPA)

Edit course
User enrolment methods
Enrol users
Add blocks

COURSE TUITION: The fee for the self-paced Moodle online course with a coach by your side and full support is $450 for as long as you wish to stay in the course.

Moodle for Administrator Training

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