Moodle Administration Essentials Workshop - 2023

A 3-day on-premises, intensive workshop organized by LEARN in collaboration with EduNET.LK

This workshop aims to train the participants, starting from a fresh Moodle site, to set it up to suit their organization and also to take the responsibility to run the site as its site administrator.

This is an instructor-led, on-premises workshop with a heavy hands-on component. In three full days, totaling six sessions of 3 hour duration each, the participants will be guided through a series of short inputs and comprehensive hands-on exercises on practice Moodle sites.

Target Audience: Moodle LMS administrators of LEARN member institutions

Prerequisites for the participants:

The participants should be familiar with using Moodle either as a student or a teacher or both The workshop includes practical sessions providing hands-on work for the participants, and the participants must engage in and complete them. The participants need to bring their own laptops with wireless capability, running a modern browser such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Apple Safari in their latest versions.

Learning outcomes

• The participants will be able to:

• customize the site’s appearance to suit their institution

• plan and implement the user authentication method(s)

• plan and implement the course hierarchy to meet the needs of the curriculum and handle the end-of-year transition

• plan and implement the enrolment method(s) of users in the courses, also streamlining the procedure through global groups

• manage the courses: course backups, restore them when needed, archive the finished courses

• extend Moodle through additional plug-ins

• monitoring the site continuously

Contents

Unit 1. Organization. Introduction to Moodle. Authentication Methods

• Getting organized in to groups, get super user access to your group Moodle
• Background of Moodle and its architecture
• Local authentication: Creating user accounts by the administrator. E-mail-based Self-registration. Bulk user upload. Possible remote authentication methods.

Unit 2. Course creation and management

• Manual course creation. Course categories. Suitable models for universities
• Course backup and restore
• End-of-year roll-over

Unit 3. Roles and enrolments. Groups and cohorts

• The different roles in standard Moodle, their function and scope
• Manual enrolments and self-enrolments
• Enhance the default model

Unit 4. Customize the look-and-feel of Moodle

• The Moodle front page
• Study a sample collection of themes and customizing them on the GUI
• Further customizations through HTML and CSS

Unit 5. Extending Moodle through additional plug-ins

• Moodle Mobile App
• Find plug-ins in the Moodle developer database
• Install some samples, test them

Unit 6. Reporting and health. Special topics. Wrap-up

• System checks
• How to monitor the health
• Topics came up during the workshop