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| | 1 | == Moodle Administration Essentials Workshop - 2023 == |
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| | 3 | A 3-day on-premises, intensive workshop organized by LEARN in collaboration with EduNET.LK |
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| | 5 | 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. |
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| | 7 | 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. |
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| | 9 | Target Audience: Moodle LMS administrators of LEARN member institutions |
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| | 11 | Prerequisites for the participants: |
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| | 13 | The participants should be familiar with using Moodle either as a student or a teacher or both |
| | 14 | The workshop includes practical sessions providing hands-on work for the participants, and the participants must engage in and complete them. |
| | 15 | 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. |
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| | 17 | === Learning outcomes === |
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| | 19 | - The participants will be able to: |
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| | 21 | - customize the site’s appearance to suit their institution |
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| | 23 | - plan and implement the user authentication method(s) |
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| | 25 | - plan and implement the course hierarchy to meet the needs of the curriculum and handle the end-of-year transition |
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| | 27 | - plan and implement the enrolment method(s) of users in the courses, also streamlining the procedure through global groups |
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| | 29 | - manage the courses: course backups, restore them when needed, archive the finished courses |
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| | 31 | - extend Moodle through additional plug-ins |
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| | 33 | - monitoring the site continuously |
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| | 35 | === Contents === |
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| | 37 | Unit 1. Organization. Introduction to Moodle. Authentication Methods |
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| | 39 | - Getting organized in to groups, get super user access to your group Moodle |
| | 40 | - Background of Moodle and its architecture |
| | 41 | - Local authentication: Creating user accounts by the administrator. E-mail-based Self-registration. Bulk user upload. Possible remote authentication methods. |
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| | 43 | Unit 2. Course creation and management |
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| | 45 | - Manual course creation. Course categories. Suitable models for universities |
| | 46 | - Course backup and restore |
| | 47 | - End-of-year roll-over |
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| | 49 | Unit 3. Roles and enrolments. Groups and cohorts |
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| | 51 | - The different roles in standard Moodle, their function and scope |
| | 52 | - Manual enrolments and self-enrolments |
| | 53 | - Enhance the default model |
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| | 55 | Unit 4. Customize the look-and-feel of Moodle |
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| | 57 | - The Moodle front page |
| | 58 | - Study a sample collection of themes and customizing them on the GUI |
| | 59 | - Further customizations through HTML and CSS |
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| | 61 | Unit 5. Extending Moodle through additional plug-ins |
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| | 63 | - Moodle Mobile App |
| | 64 | - Find plug-ins in the Moodle developer database |
| | 65 | - Install some samples, test them |
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| | 67 | Unit 6. Reporting and health. Special topics. Wrap-up |
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| | 69 | - System checks |
| | 70 | - How to monitor the health |
| | 71 | - Topics came up during the workshop |
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