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Revision as of 21:51, 16 May 2019

Time
Narration
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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Explain your question briefly . Someone from our team will answer them.

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11:51 Please do not post unrelated and general questions on them. This will help reduce the clutter.
11:59 With less clutter, we can use these discussion as instructional material.
12:05 Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India. More information on this mission is available at the link shown.
12:18 This script has been contributed by Nancy and Priyanka. And this is Nancy Varkey along with the Spoken Tutorial team signing off.

Thanks for joining.

Contributors and Content Editors

PoojaMoolya, Sandhya.np14