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Moodle 200 is a 1.0 CEU (10-contact hour) instructor-led, interactive online course. It is an introduction to some of the most common, most basic, most important tasks performed by Moodle site administrators.

During the course of 14 consecutive days, participants should expect to spend 30 minutes to one hour each day completing Moodle 200 activities and configuring their own production site or a Practice Site. Building upon the prior knowledge gained as a Moodle learner (in Moodle 100) and then a Moodle instructional designer (in Moodle 101), during Moodle 200, participants explore Moodle primarily from the perspective of the site administrator.

Prerequisite: Introduction to Moodle & Course Creation

Throughout this course, there are discussions, tutorials and assignments by the end of which participants will be able to:

• Choose an authentication method
• Add a new user
• Upload users from a text file
• Create a new role and assign it in a context
• Edit user policies
• Add courses
• Schedule automated backups
• Edit language strings
• Add modules and enable blocks and filters
• Edit site policies
• Choose a new theme
• Add sticky blocks to courses and to My Moodle
• Edit front page settings
• Upload site files
• Contribute to official Moodle Documentation

Optional reference resources and tips are also included about the following topics: acceptable user policies, advocating for Moodle, site admin blogs, bells and whistles, better breadcrumbs, big files, bogus users, Calendar, Cam Studio, compress PowerPoint, convert files, edit images and multimedia online, groups, help files, logs, meta courses, Moodle demo, Moodle on your home computer, site files, student tutorials, student guide example, parent roles, re-size images, RSS, template course, tech support, The Tracker, YouTube, Zamzar, etc.

In a 14 day course, it is not possible to master (or even consider) all of the tasks of Moodle administration. However, participation in this course will help participants begin thinking like a Moodle administrator and will give them the opportunity to discuss Moodle administration with course facilitators, other site administration team members from their enterprise and other participants.

Each day, participants will:

1. participate in a discussion about the day's task (scored)
2. learn to perform one administrative task (not scored)
3. submit an assignment demonstrating that they have mastered the task (scored)

Completion of this course makes individuals participating in the Moodlerooms Certified Trainer Program eligible for the Moodle Site Administrator endorsement.

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