Weekly outline

  • Welcome to Intermediate Moodle 103


    • This course is designed to expand on your basic Moodle knowledge and have you practice skills focused on improving your own course design and course management.

      Within each section below, you should study the content material, practice it on one of your own courses, then take the review quiz to test your knowledge. The topics may be taken in any order.

  • Backing up and Restoring Your Course

    This module is a review of how course level backup and restore works, and why you as an Instructor should back up your courses for safekeeping.

    Objectives for this module are:

    1. Be able to back up your course with all enrolled users and with only content
    2. Be able to download a backup copy of a course to your computer
    3. Be able to restore a full course to a new course
    4. Understand how to manage your Backups and the three different sections in the Restore menu

  • Video

    This module is a review of how to add video resources to Moodle content in your courses.

    Objectives of this module are:

    1. Be able to add a video embedded link in a Page from an external site like Youtube
    2. Understand the options for playing the video in the Moodle player, controlling window size and type
    3. Know the difference between embedding/linking to a video and uploading a video file to your course


  • Engaging Participants

    This module provides an outline of six key ways you can improve participant engagement in your course design.

    Objectives for this module are:

    1. Understand each of the six ways of improving engagement
    2. Be able to to implement each of the six ways in your courses

  • Participant Best Practices

    This module will provide you with some widely successful general best practices for participants to begin and use courses more successfully.

    Objectives for this module are:

    1. Understand how your course design affects navigation and student engagement
    2. Appreciate how you can eliminate user frustration with clean, consistent course design elements