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Moodle 4.0 for teachers and course creators

Course Access: Lifetime

$29 AUD

Course Overview

This course provides all the information you need to learn ‘how to’ in Moodle with walkthroughs, hints & tips and more.

Have you just started with Moodle and found all the information is scattered everywhere over the internet?

Then this is exactly what you need.

Everything you need to know in the one place that will show you how to complete all the common tasks that a course creator or teacher needs to work with Moodle.

Additional tricks and tips section showing you easier ways to create content and activities.

Course development walk throughs with examples demonstrating how to create a course from scratch and how to setup grade book.

This course will continue to evolve and provide the most up to date and useful course development instructions.

This course will get you on the right track, provide all the information you need to not only get started but to continue to learn and improve your Moodle course development skills.

How do I use Grade-book?
How do I use Scales or how do I use Letter?

This Moodle 4.0 course is perfect for teacher and course creators as well as being extremely useful for Moodle administrators that need to learn how Moodle works.

By working through the course you will learn about all the tools, activities, resources and plugins that are commonly used in delivery courses through the Moodle platform.

Let’s start Moodling…

Course contents

Moodle Basics

Welcome(1:03)
Login To Moodle(2:20)
Introduction To Moodle Layout(6:41)

Creating Courses

How To Turn Editing On(4:07)
Introduction To Course Formats(5:49)
How To Change A Course Theme(3:07)
Introduction To Course Completion Tracking(5:07)
Course Groups(4:33)
How To Rename Roles In A Course(2:49)
How To Enrol Participants In A Course(4:09)
How To Backup A Course(3:02)
Badges(5:02)
Grades Overview(8:22)
How To Use Sections(3:04)
How To Add A New Course To Moodle(7:32)
How To Add A Course Block (Course Creators)(4:48)
Calendar Basics(5:34)
How To Use A Ruberic In Gradebook(13:06)
Setting Up A Marking Guide(7:15)
Introduction To Course Group Mode(5:30)
How To Restrict Access To Activities Or Content(9:47)
Understanding Hidden Sections/Topics(2:49)
How To Group Questions In A Quiz(5:49)

Getting Started With Activities

Introduction To Content And Activities Examples(8:41)
Assignment Example(14:10)
Chat Example(4:20)
Choice Example(3:43)
Feedback Example(4:36)
Forum Example(8:42)
Glossary Example(6:25)
Lesson Example(7:46)
Quiz Example(12:35)
SCORM Package Example(6:27)
Wiki Example(8:12)
H5P Activity Example(8:27)

Understanding Quiz Question Types

Adding A Drag And Drop Quiz Question(4:15)
Adding An Essay Question To A Quiz(6:12)
Adding A Matching Question To A Quiz(3:04)
Adding A Multiple Choice Question With One Correct Answer To A Quiz(5:07)
Adding A Multiple Choice Question With More Than 1 Correct Answer To A Quiz(5:07)
Reordering And Grouping Questions(3:40)
Adding A Select The Missing Word Question To A Quiz(7:12)
Adding A True Or False Question To A Quiz(4:08)

Discover Course Resources

Book Example(7:44)
File Example(4:28)
Folder Example(3:40)
Label Example(2:28)
Page Example(3:59)
URL Example(3:50)

Grade book In Detail

Introduction To Gradebook(8:44)
Setting Up Activities For Gradebook(2:48)
Scales In Gradebook(4:57)
Letters In Gradebook(4:49)
Adding An Assignment To Grade By Teacher(3:46)
Setting Up Weightings In Gradebook(7:03)
Adding Categories To Gradebook(3:33)

Discover Awesome Plugins

The 7 most useful plugins for Moodle(9:39)
Plugins Introduction(6:10)
How To Install The Grade Me Plugin(1:41)
Grade Me(5:42)
Completion Progress Install(1:52)
Completion Progress(3:37)
Tiles Course Format Install(4:16)
Using The Tiles Course Format(5:05)

Administrator Skills

How To Add A Dashboard Block (Admin)(3:15)
Introduction To Roles(6:03)
How To Create Categories In Moodle(4:10)
How To Change Language Files(5:23)
How To Bulk Enrol Students Using A Spreadsheet(5:14)

Discover Moodle Themes

Introduction To Themes(6:50)
How To Install The Adaptable Theme(3:23)
How To Install The LearnR Theme (Was Fordson Theme)(3:58)
How To Install The Moove Theme(3:40)

Tips And Tricks

Cleanup Quiz Question Content In A Course(4:37)
Removing Extra Images From A Course(3:58)
Setup Activity Auto Linking(3:34)
Using Clearfix To Fix Image Position Issues(2:42)
How To Add An Image To A Page(4:00)
Using Bootstrap Tables In A Resource Page(3:49)
Embedding YouTube Videos Into A Page(4:05)
Using A Bootstrap Alert In A Page(3:15)
Embedding Vimeo Videos Into A Page(1:55)
Inspecting And Editing Page CSS Trick(2:39)
Moving Word Document Content To Moodle(11:58)
Using An Attribution Maker To Speed Up Development(7:31)
Modifying Image Borders Using CSS(4:38)
Using Bootstrap Grid To Position Content(3:55)

The course is taught by a Moodle expert with many years of experience. Chris is a natural teacher and makes it easy and comfortable for you to work through each section. No stress, no annoying messages, just easy to listen and follow instructions.

Chris Richter has been involved in online education content delivery for over 20 years. Chris has developed 1000’s of courses and course content for Universities, Colleges, Government departments and private training organisations. Chris has worked on projects ranging from $5k course content development to $4M projects working with large teams to develop full online degrees in many different areas including Business, Health, Animal Studies, Digital Media, Music, Fitness, Outdoor Education and many more.

Chris has spoken at many conferences including Moodle Moot, Edtech and the Sydney Opera House technology symposium. Chris has taken part in many emerging technology trials specialising in web based educational content.

Chris has also developed web based software for Australian and European universities and colleges as a .NET, PHP expert and web developer. Chris understands the education environment as well as having highly advanced technology skills that can benefit the education sector.