Moodle Training Course

About Moodle

Moodle (https://moodle.org), which is free and open source software, is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners, course developers with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised learning environments.

Moodle is a leading virtual learning environment for your online course. Since it is open source software, it is free.

About the Moodle Training Course

This course incorporates the principles of instructional design, showing you how to apply them to your Moodle courses. With this guidance, you will develop and deploy better courses, content, and assessments than ever.

The Moodle training course will guide you as you learn how to build and incorporate many different types of course materials and dynamic activities. You will learn how to improve the structure and presentation of resources, activities, and assessments. All this will help you to create better for self-led courses, instructor-led courses, and courses for collaborative groups. The use of multimedia features to enhance your Moodle courses is also explained in this course.

Course Prerequisites

Participants must bring a laptop to the course. We do rent laptops.

What You Will Learn

Build a course structure that fits your goals
Design a unique appearance
Manage the resources and activities
Tips for better organisation of your course content
Select and set up assessments
Include effective instructional strategies
Incorporate competency frameworks
Run and archive webinars
Motivate learners by incorporating badges

Course Content

Module 1: Preparing to Build an Exemplary Moodle Course

Module 2: Planning Your Course

Module 3: Organising Your Course

Module 4: Best Practices in Content Delivery

Module 5: Designing Self-Paced Independent Study Courses

Module 6: Developing Cohort-Based Courses with Teacher-Student Interaction

Module 7: Creating Student-Centered Project-Based Courses

Course Venues and Dates

Cape Town – T B A

Courses are conducted from 9:00 to 15:00.

The course can be conducted anywhere in South Africa if there is sufficient interest. Do complete the enquiry form on the left (if you are viewing this page on a PC) or at the bottom (if you are viewing this page on a cellphone).

General Remarks

FLOSSNet will setup Moodle for a fee even if you do not attend the course. Just send us a request.

FLOSSNet will host Moodle for you for a modest fee.

FLOSSNet is also able to upgrade your Moodle to the latest version or migrate it to another hosting provider.

The course can be conducted on-site for a group.

The course can also be conducted over 2 Saturdays or a Friday and Saturday.

In some instances we can conduct the course on a Saturday and Sunday for a specific group.

Discounts

We have generous discounts for early bird payments and where two or more participants registers from the same organisation, company, or school.