Moodle Educator's Masterclass - CLASS #1 - A First Look at Moodle! (Skillshare)

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Moodle Educator's Masterclass - CLASS #1 - A First Look at Moodle! (Skillshare)

Looking to create a world-class online course? Want to learn a LMS that is trusted by 80+ million users worldwide? Want a powerful skill on your resume? Whatever your motivation to learn Moodle, you've come to the right place. Moodle is trusted by institutions and organizations large and small, including Shell, London School of Economics, State University of New York, Microsoft and the Open University.

Master the World's Most Popular Learning Management System - MOODLE in this Comprehensive Course.

  • Learn the LATEST version - Moodle 3.0 - and stay miles AHEAD of the curve
  • Start from the very basics - this course makes no assumptions
  • Earn promotions with your new skills - Become indispensable in your institution
  • BONUS - learn how to install Moodle 3.0 on your Windows laptop - or just use Moodle's powerful and full fledged DEMO site for all of your learning and experimentation
  • Create HIGH LEARNER ENGAGEMENT - Practice Quizzes, Video Lessons, embed YouTube videos, Glossaries, Assignments, Books, Surveys, Question Banks and a whole lot more

Learn Moodle 3.0 to create Powerful Learning Experiences for your Learners

  • Any Device, Any Where - learn to create online classes that can be used on ANY device with a screen and learners can access from Anywhere
  • High Engagement with Social Tools - like the Discussion forum, WIKI, blogs
  • Save Hundreds of hours and Thousands of dollars - with automated tools such as reusing the course structure, self evaluated quizzes, Gradebook, Video lectures etc
  • Leverage the power of sites like YouTube for how-tos, Wikipedia for articles - literally embed ANYTHING into your own course
  • FLIP classes!! Have students prepare for topics BEFORE they come into your physical classes. - Create lectures ONCE - and have it reused millions of times
  • BLENDED learning - mix and merge online, offline learning to create very powerful blended classes

What am I going to get from this course?

  1. A step-by-step video tutorial starting from the absolute basics - all the way to advanced topics.
  2. Video lectures, extensive resources, PDFs etc - over 56 separate lessons
  3. Countless hours saved with Moodle's learning and teaching automation tools (like the Quiz and Grade Book)
  4. Respect of peers, students, school administrators
  5. A powerful and absolutely essential teaching tool that is indispensable in the future of education
  6. A lifetime access to this course - and all future updates, enhancements
  7. BONUS: Administration section including very detailed instructions on how to install on a Windows computer (non-production usage)
  8. Tips, tricks, pitfalls and other points distilled from a lot of experience - these are distributed through out the course lessons

This is the first class of a series on Moodle for Educators.
PROJECT OBJECTIVE:

  1. Get a first hand feel of Moodle - understand the Role Based Access system, Basic navigation of the site
  2. Login for the 1st time, Discover the Moodle Interface, Configure your Profile, Preference settings
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