== 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