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| 00:01 | Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Overview of Moodle. |
| 00:07 | In this tutorial, we will learn about: the concept of Learning Management Systems (LMS in short), |
| 00:16 | Moodle as an LMS , |
| 00:19 | who can use Moodle and examples of Moodle websites. |
| 00:26 | We will also learn about the: software and hardware requirements for running Moodle and |
| 00:33 | key features that will be demonstrated in the Moodle series. |
| 00:39 | Learners of this tutorial should know how to browse a website. |
| 00:45 | Let us first understand what Learning Management System or LMS is. |
| 00:53 | An LMS helps us to create, manage and deliver any eLearning content. |
| 01:01 | For example: educational courses and training programs. |
| 01:07 | It also helps us to manage our courses. |
| 01:11 | We can create and edit content, give access to students, grade their submissions etc. |
| 01:21 | Moodle is a responsive, free and open source software. |
| 01:27 | It is one of the most popular LMS used globally by educational institutes. |
| 01:33 | Its security controls keep our data safe and protected. |
| 01:39 | It has some very powerful features that empower both teachers and learners. |
| 01:47 | Moodle also provides detailed documentation which makes it easy to use. |
| 01:54 | The Moodle user community and forum help are very active. |
| 02:00 | The free plugins available in Moodle make it even more feature-rich. |
| 02:06 | Moodle is easy to navigate on all devices;
has detailed reports on activity and participation at course and site level. |
| 02:18 | Helps in collaborative as well as personalized learning. |
| 02:23 | Forums, peer assessments, group management, learning paths etc. can be used for that. |
| 02:32 | Let us see who can use Moodle LMS: |
| 02:36 | Educational institutions like universities, colleges, schools and coaching institutes. |
| 02:44 | Businesses for employee training and orientation. |
| 02:49 | Hospital and health care training programs. |
| 02:53 | Any eLearning based institution. |
| 02:57 | Let us see some of the websites built using Moodle. |
| 03:02 | Colleges like these. |
| 03:05 | Private universities like these. |
| 03:09 | Training institutes like this one. |
| 03:13 | Coaching institutes like this. |
| 03:17 | Individual teachers who want to offer their course online and many more. |
| 03:24 | Moodle has detailed statistics of usage on the following URL. |
| 03:30 | Here, you can check the registered Moodle websites from various countries. |
| 03:40 | To install Moodle, we need: Apache web-server, |
| 03:46 | a database like MySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQL and
PHP. |
| 03:54 | Moodle is a resource consuming software. |
| 03:58 | Recommended hardware for running Moodle are: |
| 04:02 | Disk Space: 200 MB for Moodle code plus space to store content. However, 5GB is a realistic minimum. |
| 04:15 | Processor: 1 Gigahertz minimum, but 2 Gigahertz dual core or more is recommended. |
| 04:23 | Memory: 512MB minimum, but 1GB or more is recommended. |
| 04:31 | These requirements may change based on the expected load on the system. |
| 04:37 | For example: number of courses and expected simultaneous logins. |
| 04:44 | At the time of making of this series, Moodle 3.3 was the latest stable version. |
| 04:50 | It is always recommended to work with the latest stable version that is available. |
| 04:57 | Moodle 3.3 requires the following: |
| 05:01 | Apache 2.x (or higher version)
MariaDB 5.5.30 (or any higher version) and |
| 05:11 | PHP 5.4.4 (or any higher version) |
| 05:17 | For this series, we have used the following OS and software:
Ubuntu Linux OS 16.04 |
| 05:26 | Apache, MariaDB and PHP obtained through XAMPP 5.6.30 and Moodle 3.3 |
| 05:36 | This Moodle series is divided into 2 parts - |
| 05:41 | One for Moodle site administrators and another for teachers. |
| 05:48 | Moodle site Administrators will install Moodle on the server. |
| 05:54 | Create course categories as per institute guidelines and manage courses and user accounts for multiple courses. |
| 06:04 | Here are the glimpses of some key features covered in this series, for Moodle site administrators. |
| 06:14 | Getting ready for Moodle installation tutorial explains how to check for packages on the localhost and setup the database. |
| 06:29 | Installing Moodle on Local Server tutorial explains how to - download and install Moodle. |
| 06:39 | Admin’s dashboard in Moodle tutorial explains the Admin Dashboard.
The various blocks and the profile page and how to edit preferences. |
| 06:53 | Blocks in Admin's Dashboard tutorial - explains how to add and delete blocks and |
| 07:05 | set the Front page. |
| 07:08 | In the next tutorial, Categories in Moodle, we will learn to create categories & subcategories. |
| 07:19 | In Courses in Moodle tutorial, we will learn how to create a course and configure it. |
| 07:28 | Users in Moodle tutorial will help us to understand how to - Add a user, |
| 07:36 | Edit a user’s profile,
and upload users in bulk. |
| 07:43 | User Roles in Moodle tutorial will help us to learn how to assign various roles to users. |
| 07:52 | For e.g: secondary admin role, teacher role and student role. |
| 08:00 | There will be many more tutorials in this series for Moodle site administrators, in the future. |
| 08:07 | We will now move to the tutorials for teachers. |
| 08:11 | Teachers will be responsible for uploading and editing content for their course. |
| 08:17 | Create assignments and quizzes to assess the students’ progress and |
| 08:22 | enroll students to their course and communicate with them. |
| 08:27 | Now, let me show the glimpses of some key features covered in this series for teachers. |
| 08:34 | Teacher’s dashboard in Moodle tutorial explains -
the teachers’ dashboard , how to edit profile and how to edit preferences. |
| 08:46 | Course Administration in Moodle tutorial explains- how to configure course settings |
| 08:53 | and manage Activities and Resources in a course. |
| 08:59 | Formatting course material in Moodle tutorial explains - the various formatting options in default Moodle text editor |
| 09:10 | and adding additional course material. |
| 09:15 | Uploading and Editing Resources in Moodle tutorial explains how to upload - a URL resource and a book resource
and edit those resources. |
| 09:29 | The next tutorial in this series is Forums and Assignments in Moodle. |
| 09:34 | In this tutorial, we will learn about: different types of forums in Moodle. |
| 09:39 | How to add a forum for discussion and how to create Assignments. |
| 09:48 | In the Question bank in Moodle tutorial, we will learn how to create Categories of questions and add questions to the question bank. |
| 09:58 | Quiz in Moodle tutorial will teach us: to create a Quiz and
add questions from the Question bank into the Quiz. |
| 10:12 | In the tutorial named Enroll Students and Communicate in Moodle, we’ll learn to:
enroll students who were uploaded via a csv file to a course. |
| 10:25 | Make groups in courses and send messages and notes to the students. |
| 10:31 | Later, there will be many more tutorials for teachers and students in this series. |
| 10:37 | For now, let us summarize.
In this tutorial, we have learnt about: the concept of Learning Management Systems (LMS in short) |
| 10:48 | Moodle as an LMS , who can use Moodle and examples of Moodle websites. |
| 10:57 | We also learnt about the: 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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