Moodle 500B - Introduction to Moodle for the Organization
| Start Dates: | Upon request |
| CEU Credits: | 1.0 |
| *Fee: | $4,000 for 20 participants |
*travel expenses are extra if necessary
Moodle 500B is a 10-contact hour or 1.0 CEU instructor-led, interactive online course. It is a prerequisite for all other Moodlerooms Training courses.
Over fourteen (14) consecutive days participants should expect to spend 30 minutes to 1 hour each day completing Moodle 500B activities and preparing to build their Practice Course. Throughout this course there are tasks and assignments to introduce Moodle’s features, basic navigation, course layout and settings, add resources, enroll students, and prepare 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 you explore Moodle primarily from the perspective of the learner or student while you develop basic Moodle skills, become familiar with the interface, and prepare to build your own course during the next class, Moodle 501 - Course Creation for the Enterprise. This way you will understand Moodle better from the learner's perspective which will inform your instructional design choices later during Moodle 501 when you will explore Moodle primarily from the instructional designer’s or instructor’s perspective.
Pre-requisites: Participants should have basic computer and internet skills competency to succeed in this course. Before commencing Moodle 500B, participants will complete several readiness activities to determine if they're ready to learn online.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- 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
- post and reply to a Forum discussion
- create a Glossary entry
- analyze activity-based e-learning and the activity-based e-learning design process
- practice the Moodle philosophy of social constructionism
- describe the functionality of Moodle's standard activity modules
- plan and coordinate basic course settings
- integrate course Calendar features
- manage learner registration and enrollment
- create and add resources (e.g. text pages, web pages, and labels)
- link to remote websites and upload files
- aggregate and co-locate digital (and other) Practice Course materials
- begin the instructional design process for a Practice Course to be developed or re-developed during Moodle 501
- identify practice course target audience, pre-requisites (if any), instructional needs, and learning outcomes matched to Blooms Taxonomy
- participate in a Moodle community of practice
Completion of this course makes enterprise instructors participating in the Moodlerooms Certified Trainer Program eligible for the One-Star Moodlerooms Trainee (1MRCT) designation.