Moodlerooms

Moodle 500B is a 1.0 CEU (10-contact hour) instructor-led, interactive online course. It is a prerequisite for all other Moodlerooms Training courses.

Over 14 consecutive days, participants should expect to spend 30 minutes to one hour each day completing Moodle 500B activities and preparing to build their Practice Course. Throughout this course, there are various tasks and assignments to introduce Moodle’s features and teach basic navigation, course layout and settings as well as how to add resources and enroll students. This course also prepares participants for course creation in Moodle 501. Additionally, there are activities to facilitate the Moodle training program’s strategic alignment with existing, correlated organizational initiatives.

During Moodle 500B, participants explore Moodle primarily from the perspective of the learner or student while they develop basic Moodle skills, become familiar with the interface and prepare to build their own course during the next class, Moodle 501 - Course Creation for the Enterprise. This way participants will understand Moodle better from the learner's perspective, which will inform their instructional design choices later during Moodle 501 as they explore Moodle primarily from the instructional designer’s or instructor’s perspective.

Prerequisites: Participants should have basic computer and internet skills to succeed in this course. Before commencing Moodle 500B, participants will complete several readiness activities to determine if they're ready to learn online.

• Brainstorm and define a shared enterprise goal for integrating online learning using Moodle
• Reflect and identify an individual outcome to be achieved by the conclusion of Moodlerooms Training
• Define basic Moodle vocabulary
• Navigate a Moodle course using breadcrumbs
• Edit profiles and add profile pictures/avatars
• Integrate course Calendar features

• Post and reply to a Forum discussion
• Create a Glossary entry
• Plan and coordinate basic course settings
• Manage learner registration and enrollment
• Completion of this course makes enterprise instructors participating in the Moodlerooms Certified Trainer Program eligible for the One-Star Moodlerooms Trainee (1MRCT) designation.

• Create and add resources (e.g. text pages, Web pages, and labels)
• Link to remote Web sites and upload files
• Aggregate and co-locate digital (and other) Practice Course materials
• Begin the planning process for a Practice Course to be developed during Moodle 501
• Participate in a Moodle community of practice