Online Courses
Some of Moodlerooms’ online courses are remotely facilitated by a Moodlerooms trainer, while others are self-paced without active facilitation. Our self-paced courses allow participants to learn on their own using in-depth, online resources, as well as to communicate with other members of their cohort using built-in communications facilities such as chats and forums. Remote-facilitated courses further provide individual attention to each participant, providing one-on-one feedback between participants and facilitators, as well as across the participant cohort. Both types of courses include a number of graded activities to help track comprehension and progress. Time investment quotes are estimates only. Actual time investment will depend on the user’s level of comfort in an online environment, prior knowledge, level of effort invested in the studies, and more. Below you will find a list of our online courses.
Purchasing a Seat:
Follow the instructions to self-enroll to the site. You will need to confirm your enrollment via e-mail. Once enrolled to the site, log in, access the courses list and then click on the course you wish to enroll in. Click on the Paypal button. Complete payment as instructed; you will then be re-directed to the course as an enrolled participant. Click here to submit an e-mail regarding any training purchase questions.
Introduction to Moodle 1.x/2.0
This course provides a general understanding of the core Moodle features that your faculty and staff can build upon. By the end of the course, your participants will be able to:
- Define basic Moodle LMS vocabulary
- Navigate a course
- Utilize the Navigation block to navigate the site or a course
- Dock and un-dock blocks
- Log into a course
- Create and edit a user profile
- Utilize key blocks: such as People, Messaging and Calendar
- Describe the functionality of Joule’s most popular activity modules
- Plan and coordinate the development of basic course structures
Appropriate For: Moodle and Joule | Delivery Mode: Non-facilitated | Time Investment: 1-2 hrs. | Cost: $99/seat
Effective Site Administration
This remote-facilitated online course will help new clients get started in site administration. Participants will review the Site Administration menu in detail, including topics such as:
- Enrollment
- Authentication
- Course templating
- Language localization
- Module configuration
The course will also focus on best practices in site administration and will be facilitated by an expert Moodle site administrator who will provide announcements, answer participant questions, grade assignments and more.
Appropriate For: Moodle and Joule | Delivery Mode: Remote-facilitated | Time Investment: 15-20 hrs. | Cost: $400/seat
What's New in 2 - Site Administration
Designed to provide site administrators a comprehensive overview in order to prepare for the transition from Joule 1.x to 2, this course will introduce participants to new features and functionality available in Moodle and Joule 2 from a site administrator perspective. Participants will explore and review:
- Admin features that have moved, changed or been added as part of the new Moodle and Joule 2 releases
- The new Moodle 2.0 File Repository system and best practices for working with it
- New options in the Admin block
- Navigational changes
From a Joule perspective, participants will train on:
- The significant upgrade to the Express block
- Joule Reports
- Folder View format
- Rubrics
- Personalized Learning Designer
Participants will leave the course with important takeaways, including quick review guides, comparison matrices and more. While this course will touch on some features relating to course building and facilitation, it is highly recommended that site administrators also take the “What’s New in 2: Instructor” program, as well.
Appropriate For: Moodle and Joule | Delivery Mode: Non-facilitated | Time Investment: 6-8 hrs. | Cost: $150/seat
What's New in 2 - Instructor
This online course will introduce participants to new course facilitation and building features and functionality available in Moodle and Joule 2, such as:
- Conditional release
- Rubrics
- Folder View course format
- Joule Reports
- Personalized Learning Designer
Participants will explore 1.x features that have moved, changed or been added as part of the new Moodle and Joule 2 releases. The course provides participants with important takeaways, such as quick review guides, comparison matrices and more.
Appropriate For: Moodle and Joule | Delivery Mode: Non-facilitated | Time Investment: 6-8 hrs. | Cost: $150/seat
Best Practices in E-learning in 1.x/2
Underlying all instructional design, from brick-and-mortar classrooms to virtual settings, is a set of best practices derived from experts in the field. Best Practices in E-Learning is designed to show you how to use the many features and tools of Joule to create effective, interactive, innovative, and accessible online courses. You will analyze the social constructivist pedagogy that is the linchpin of Joule’s Moodle core, which includes collaboration, activity-based learning, and critical reflection. We will also look at your own teaching and learning style, giving you information on types of course design and an instructor-planning template to help you get started.
Appropriate For: Moodle and Joule | Delivery Mode: Remote-facilitated | Time Investment: 10-12 hrs. | Cost: $225/seat
Best Practices in Course Migration 1.X
While Moodlerooms offers best-in-class course converter options to move your courses out of your legacy LMS and use them in Joule, this automated conversion is really only the beginning. This course is designed to provide administrators and instructors with best practices in migrating courses from a legacy LMS to Joule. The course consists of several videos and best practices overviews that dissect, in detail, options for re-arranging, rebuilding and strengthening your “other LMS” courses in Joule.
Appropriate For: Joule 1.x Only | Delivery Mode: Self-paced (no facilitation) | Time Investment: 3 hrs. | Cost: $175/seat
Course Building Bundle
- Course Building Fundamentals
- Advanced Course Building
Appropriate For: Moodle and Joule | Delivery Mode: Combo | Time Investment: 18-22 hrs. | Cost: $500/seat
Course Building Fundamentals in 1.x/2.x
The Course Building Fundamentals course is designed for faculty and course builders who are new to Moodle/Joule. It focuses on configuring the gradebook, how and when to add commonly used resources and activities to courses, and grading. The course is remotely facilitated by a Moodle/Joule instructional designer, who models best practices in course facilitation, as well as provides personalized feedback, grades and announcements.
- Navigate through a Moodle/Joule course
- Setup and build courses using best practices in Moodle course design
- Setup and manage the gradebook for courses
- Communicate with students through Moodle
- Add labels, pages, books, files, and websites as course resources
- Add assignments, forums, glossaries, and quizzes to a course
- Grade common assignments.
- Use the administrative settings to import/export grades and backup and restore courses.
Appropriate For: Moodle and Joule | Delivery Mode: Remote-facilitated | Time Investment: 10-15 hours | Cost: $275/seat
Advanced Course Building in 1.x/2.x
The Advanced Course Building online course is designed for faculty and course builders who have already mastered configuring the gradebook and using common resources and activities used to build courses. This remote-facilitated course covers advanced resources and activities, best practices, and grading. Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
- Add folders, lightbox galleries, and IMS content packages into courses as a resource
- Add lessons, SCORM packages, certificates, forums, advanced forums, polls, chats, wikis, workshops, databases, choices, feedback, surveys, and advanced quizzes into courses as graded activities and grade them
- Grade advanced activities
- Create rules using the Personalized Learning Designer
- Run and filter Joule reports to analyze course data
Appropriate For: Moodle and Joule | Delivery Mode: Remote-facilitated | Time Investment: 12-15 hours | Cost: $275/seat
Course Building Fundamentals for 2.x- Non-facilitated
The Course Building Fundamentals course is designed for faculty and course builders who are new to Moodle/Joule. It focuses on configuring the gradebook, how and when to add commonly used resources and activities to courses, and grading. This course is not actively facilitated by an instructor, and is designed to provide a lower cost option to the facilitated Course Building Fundamentals course. Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
- Navigate through a Moodle/Joule course
- Setup and build courses using best practices in Moodle course design
- Setup and manage the gradebook for courses
- Communicate with students through Moodle
- Add labels, pages, books, files, and websites as course resources
- Add assignments, forums, glossaries, and quizzes to a course
- Grade common assignments.
- Use the administrative settings to import/export grades and backup and restore courses.
Appropriate For: Moodle and Joule | Delivery Mode: Non-facilitated | Time Investment: 10-15 hours | Cost: $150/seat
Advanced Course Building in 2.x - Non-facilitated
The Advanced Course Building online course is designed for faculty and course builders who have already mastered configuring the gradebook and using common resources and activities used to build courses. This course, which covers advanced resources and activities, best practices, and grading, is not facilitated by an instructor and is meant to be a low cost alternative to the facilitated version. Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
- Add folders, lightbox galleries, and IMS content packages into courses as a resource
- Add lessons, SCORM packages, certificates, forums, advanced forums, polls, chats, wikis, workshops, databases, choices, feedback, surveys, and advanced quizzes into courses as graded activities and grade them
- Grade advanced activities
- Create rules using the Personalized Learning Designer
- Run and filter Joule reports to analyze course data
Appropriate For: Moodle and Joule | Delivery Mode: Non-facilitated | Time Investment: 12-15 hours | Cost: $150/seat
Course Building Bundle for 2.X - Non-facilitated
- Course Building Fundamentals for 2.x - Non-facilitated
- Advanced Course Building for 2.x - Non-facilitated
Appropriate For: Moodle and Joule | Delivery Mode: Combo | Time Investment: 18-22 hrs. | Cost: $250/seat
Foundations of Moodle Course Facilitation
Available: January 15
Being an effective online facilitator requires a set of skills that is similar yet different than those required in the face-to-face classroom. The online or blended learning facilitator must be able to build community while having little to no face-to-face contact, offer clear and informative feedback, communicate effectively in a medium that lacks body language and voice tone, as well as use instructional strategies that are independent of time and space to support student learning. Add to that the technical aspect of using Moodle and other technologies. This course will introduce you to the many facets of online facilitation as you build skills in four areas: technical, managerial, social, and pedagogical. Finally, to synthesize all you have learned, you will build a Facilitation Checklist to help guide your ongoing facilitation needs.
Appropriate For: Moodle and Joule | Delivery Mode: Facilitated or Non-facilitated | Time Investment: 10-15 hrs. | Cost: $350/facilitated; $150/non-facilitated
Mastering the Gradebook in Moodle and Joule
Available: Immediate
Mastering the Gradebook in Moodle and Joule is designed for the course builder and course facilitator, taking you from ground zero to full on grading and facilitation, utilizing the most efficient pieces of the gradebooks and grading methods. Learn how to set up your gradebook, choose aggregation methods that meet your course goals, create and grade with advanced and alternative grading methods, and more!
Appropriate For: Moodle and Joule | Delivery Mode: Facilitated | Time Investment: 15-18 hrs. | Cost: $350