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Overview of Moodle.

Learning Objectives:

• the concept of Learning Management Systems (LMS in short)
• Moodle as an LMS
• Who can use Moodle and
• Examples of Moodle websites

Learning Objectives - continued:

• Software and hardware requirements for running Moodle and
• Key features that will be demonstrated in the Moodle series.

Prerequisites

Learning Management System (LMS)

• An LMS helps us to create, manage and deliver any eLearning content.
• For example: educational courses and training programmes
• It also helps us to manage our courses.

We can create and edit content, give access to students, grade their submissions, etc.

Moodle as an LMS

• It is one of the most popular LMS used globally by educational institutes.
• Its security controls keep our data safe and protected.

Moodle as an LMS

• Moodle also provides detailed documentation, which makes it easy to use.
• The Moodle user community and forum help are very active.
• The free plugins available in Moodle make it even more feature-rich.

Features of Moodle:

• is easy to navigate on all devices.
• has detailed reports on activity and participation at course and site level.
• helps in collaborative as well as personalized learning.

Forums, peer assessments, group management, learning paths etc. can be used for that.

Who can use Moodle?

• Educational institutions like universities, colleges, schools and coaching institutes.
• Businesses for employee training and orientation.
• Hospital and health care training programmes.
• Any eLearning based institution.

Open https://moodle.iiitd.edu.in/

Open http://www.icfaionlineprograms.org/

Open https://moodle.ate.utsa.edu/login/index.php

Open https://ehub.eduinfinite.com/

Open http://girish.org.in/moodle30/

• Colleges like these.
• Private universities like these.
• Training institutes like this one.
• Coaching institutes like this.
• Individual teachers who want to offer their course online

…...and many more.

Here, you can check the registered Moodle websites from various countries.

Software requirements for Moodle

• Apache web-server
• A database like MySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQL
• and PHP

Hardware requirements for Moodle

Recommended hardware for running Moodle are:

• Disk Space: 200 MB for Moodle code, plus space to store content. However, 5GB is a realistic minimum.
• Processor: 1GHz minimum, but 2GHz dual core or more is recommended.
• Memory: 512MB minimum, but 1GB or more is recommended

These requirements may change based on the expected load on the system.

For example: number of courses and expected simultaneous logins.

It is always recommended to work with the latest stable version that is available.

Prerequisites for Moodle 3.3

• Apache 2.x (or higher version)
• MariaDB 5.5.30 (or any higher version)
• and
• PHP 5.4.4 +(or any higher version)

Software used for the series.

• Ubuntu Linux OS 16.04
• Apache, MariaDB and PHP obtained through XAMPP 5.6.30 and
• Moodle 3.3

• one for Moodle site administrators and
• another for teachers.

Moodle site administrator roles and responsibility

• will install Moodle on the server
• create course categories as per institute guidelines and
• manage courses and user accounts for multiple courses
  

Moodle site administrators.

• Check for packages on the localhost
• and setup the database

• Download and install Moodle

• The Admin’s dashboard
• The various blocks and the profile page and
• How to edit preferences

• Explains how to add and delete blocks and
• Set the Front page

• Add a user
• Edit a user’s profile
• And upload users in bulk

For eg: secondary admin role, teacher role and student role.

We will now move to the tutorials for teachers.

Teachers roles and responsibility

• Create assignments and quizzes to assess the students’ progress and
• Enroll students to their course and communicate with them.

• The teachers’ dashboard
• How to edit profile and
• How to edit preferences

• How to configure course settings
• And manage Activities and Resources in a course

• The various formatting options in default Moodle text editor
• And adding additional course material

• A URL resource and a book resource
• And edit resources

In this tutorial, we will learn about:

• Different types of forums in Moodle
• How to add a forum for discussion and
• How to create Assignments

• create Categories of questions and
• add questions to the question bank.

• Create a Quiz and
• Add questions from the Question bank into the Quiz.

• Enroll students who were uploaded via a csv file to a course
• Make groups in courses and
• Send messages and notes to the students.

Summary

In this tutorial we have learnt about:

• the concept of Learning Management Systems (LMS in short)
• Moodle as an LMS
• Who can use Moodle
• Examples of Moodle websites.

Summary - continued

• Software and hardware requirements for running Moodle and
• Overview of the key features that will be demonstrated in the Moodle series.

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