Online courses
Our synchronous and asynchronous training options teach participants how to use the Moodle and Moodlerooms platforms to their fullest potential.
Our self-paced courses allow participants to learn on their own using in-depth, online resources, as well as to communicate with other members of their cohort using built-in communication tools.
Many of our online courses are remotely facilitated by a Moodlerooms consultant, while others are non-facilitated. Remote-facilitated courses further provide individual attention to each participant, providing one-on-one feedback between participants and facilitators, as well as across the participant cohort. Both types of courses include a number of graded activities to help track comprehension and progress. Our non-facilitated courses are designed for participants who do not wish for facilitator feedback or need access to a subject matter expert.
Time investment quotes are estimates only. Actual time investment will depend on the user’s level of comfort in an online environment, prior knowledge, level of effort invested in the studies, and more. Below you will find a list of our online courses.
Purchasing a seat:
Follow the instructions to self-enroll to the site. You will need to confirm your enrollment via e-mail. Once enrolled to the site, log in, access the courses list and then click on the course you wish to enroll in. Click on the PayPal button. Complete payment as instructed; you will then be re-directed to the course as an enrolled participant. Click here to submit an e-mail regarding any training purchase questions.
Available courses:
Configuring Conduit for Moodlerooms
Automating administrative tasks can save your staff valuable time while ensuring greater accuracy. Moodlerooms has created a systems integration tool called Conduit that allows administrators to load critical information quickly from an existing SIS, ERP, or other learning databases into Moodle. This course is designed to teach the ins and outs of Conduit, its functionalities, and best practices of its use.
Appropriate for: Moodlerooms | Delivery mode: Non-facilitated | Time investment: 12-15 hrs. | Cost: $250
Moodle/Moodlerooms Effective Site Administration
This remote-facilitated online course will help new clients get started in site administration. Participants will review the Site Administration menu in detail, including topics such as:
- Enrollment
- Authentication
- Course templating
- Language localization
- Module configuration
The course will also focus on best practices in site administration and will be facilitated by an expert Moodle Site Administrator who will provide announcements, answer participant questions, grade assignments, and more.
Appropriate for: Moodle and Moodlerooms | Delivery mode: Remote-facilitated | Time investment: 15-20 hrs. | Cost: $400/seat
Flexpage in Moodle
Flexpage is a Moodle course format that provides teachers with complete control over how educational materials and assessments are presented to students, by giving them the ability to determine how many columns of data are contained within a course. With it teachers can create a flexible set of pages and sub-pages by placing blocks and activities in any location on the page, instead of being restricted to the right, left, or center column. This course introduces the Flexpage format from how to get started and to how to complete more complex tasks such as using pages and templates, and restricting access to pages.
Appropriate for: Moodle and Moodlerooms | Delivery mode: Non-facilitated | Time investment: 8-10 hrs. | Cost: $250/seat
Getting Started with Online Course Facilitation
Being an effective online facilitator requires a set of skills that is similar yet different than those required in the face-to-face classroom. The online or blended learning facilitator must be able to build community while having little to no face-to-face contact, offer clear and informative feedback, communicate effectively in a medium that lacks body language and voice tone, as well as use instructional strategies that are independent of time and space to support student learning. Add to that the technical aspect of using an LMS and other technologies. This course will introduce you to the many facets of online facilitation as you build skills in four areas: technical, managerial, social, and pedagogical. Finally, to synthesize all you have learned, you will build a Facilitation Checklist to help guide your ongoing facilitation needs. This course focuses on course facilitation and is not platform specific; therefore, it is relevant to all users, no matter the system participants plan to use for delivering courses.
Appropriate for: Moodle and Moodlerooms | Any platform / Update to Facilitated / Update to 6-8 hours / Update cost to $400
Getting Started with Online Course Design
The goal of this course is to help teachers get started with online course design. While teachers know how to design a course for the face-to-face environment, they don’t always have the knowledge required to design an online one. Designing online courses requires a paradigm shift in thinking about what a course is and how it is delivered. It can be more challenging than most expect. For this reason, we’ve created this course to aid in easing the transition and in creating an online course that meets the needs of both students and teachers. The course introduces participants to best practices for online course design, and it provides an Online Course Planning Document to use while planning and designing online courses. A course facilitator will review submitted design documents and provide feedback to course participants. This course focuses on course design and is not platform specific; therefore, it is relevant to all users, no matter the system participants plan to use for delivering courses.
Appropriate for: Any platform | Delivery mode: Facilitated | Time investment: 8-10 hrs. | Cost: $400/seat
Introduction to Moodle
This course provides a general understanding of the core Moodle features that your faculty and staff can build upon. By the end of the course, your participants will be able to:
- Define basic Moodle LMS vocabulary
- Navigate a course
- Utilize the navigation block to navigate the site or a course
- Dock and un-dock blocks
- Log into a course
- Create and edit a user profile
- Utilize key blocks, like as people, messaging, and calendar
- Plan and coordinate the development of basic course structures
Appropriate for: Moodle and Moodlerooms | Delivery mode: Non-facilitated | Time investment: 1-2 hrs. | Cost: $99/seat
Introduction to Moodle for Students
This course provides students new to Moodle, or migrating from another learning management system, an understanding of the core features of Moodle. By the end of this course, your participants will be able to:
- Navigate a Moodle site
- Describe the basics of Moodle from a student perspective
- Identify ways that you may personalize your Moodle experience
- Recognize the features in a Moodle course that are key to a successful learning experience
- Participate in the most common activities and resources in a Moodle course
- Identify how to monitor academic progress through a Moodle course
Time investment: 1-5 hours | Delivery mode: Non-facilitated course installed on the client’s site
Pricing:
- Non-TRAIN client purchase with no maintenance (no upgrades for new releases): $3k
- Non-TRAIN client with maintenance (will be upgraded, as needed, for new releases): $3k plus $750 annually
- TRAIN: $2500 annually
- TRAIN Lite: $1500 annually
Mastering the Gradebook in Moodle and Moodlerooms
This course is designed for the course builder and course facilitator, taking you from ground zero to full on grading and facilitation, utilizing the most efficient pieces of the gradebooks and grading methods. Learn how to set up your gradebook, choose aggregation methods that meet your course goals, create and grade with advanced and alternative grading methods, and more.
Appropriate for: Moodle and Moodlerooms | Delivery mode: Facilitated | Time investment: 10-12 hrs. | Cost: $350/seat
Using Blackboard Open Content for Moodlerooms
Blackboard Open Content is an advanced learning object repository that allows users to author and store rich educational materials and use them across multiple courses and even across multiple platforms. Using Blackboard Open Content will change the way you discover, deliver, share, author, and copyright content. This course is designed for teachers, content developers, instructional designers, and anyone else involved in the building of online and/or hybrid courses. Take this course to learn how to easily add Open Educational Resources to your courses; share your resources with teachers around the world; and share content across your school, county, or district. This course addresses a number of common use cases for Blackboard Open Content use in practice, and focuses on best practices for using the Blackboard Open Content system within Moodle and Moodlerooms . Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
- Discuss what Blackboard Open Content is and what it can do
- Explain the Blackboard Open Content licensing model
- Explain the various copyright licenses
- Navigate in Blackboard Open Content
- Search Blackboard Open Content to find content
- Reuse existing Blackboard Open Content content in a course
- Create a new version of Blackboard Open Content content based on an existing Blackboard Open Content resource
- Manage versioning of resources
- Author new content resources in Blackboard Open Content
- Use channels to distribute Blackboard Open Content content
- Grade in Blackboard Open Content
Appropriate for: Moodle and Moodlerooms | Delivery mode: Non-facilitated | Time investment: 2-4 hrs. | Cost: $350/seat
Moodle/Moodlerooms Course Building for New Users
Learn how to get started in Moodle and Moodlerooms by learning how to navigate in the system and use its basic functionality to build courses. This course focuses on skills for new Moodlerooms users and includes topics such as using the Moodle file repository for managing files, using the HTML editor, updating of profile settings, and creating resources for a course. This course also covers how to use Moodle’s activity completion and restricted access settings, how to add video to increase engagement, how to leverage available communication tools, and how to work with course management tools such as enrollment and course backups/restores. Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
- Navigate through a Moodle and Moodlerooms course
- Set up a course
- Use the Moodle file repository system
- Use the HTML editor to add content, format text, and add media
- Incorporate labels, files, URLs, pages, books, folders, and IMS content packages into a course
- Use conditional release and activity completion
- Communicate with students through Moodle
- Use course management tools
Appropriate for: Moodle and Moodlerooms | Delivery Mode: Facilitated or Non-facilitated | Time Investment: 6-8 hrs. | Cost: $325/facilitated; $150/non-facilitated
Moodle/Moodlerooms Course Building for Intermediate Users
Build your knowledge of Moodle and Moodlerooms by learning how to use the gradebook, create graded activities, and use key Moodlerooms features. This course focuses on configuring the Moodle and Moodlerooms gradebook, creating commonly used activities, best practices to follow as you build your courses, how to grade using Moodle and Moodlerooms grader, and how to use powerful Moodlerooms features such as the Personalized Learning Designer (PLD) and messaging and alerts. Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
- Set up and manage the gradebook for their course
- Add assignments, forums, advanced forums, and quizzes to a course and grade them
- Create rules using the Personalized Learning Designer
- Run and filter Moodlerooms reports to analyze course data
- Stay up-to-date with course events and messages by selecting to receive various types of Moodlerooms streams and alerts
Appropriate for: Moodle and Moodlerooms | Delivery mode: Facilitated or Non-facilitated | Time investment: 11-13 hrs. |Cost: $325/facilitated; $150/non-facilitated
Moodle/Moodlerooms Course Building for Advanced Users
Take your courses to the next level by learning the advanced features of Moodle and Moodlerooms . This course focuses on creating advanced activities in Moodle in order to add collaboration, increase interactivity, and gain student feedback. It also covers how to grade those activities, map outcomes to resources and activities, use select widely used third-party plug-ins, configure groups and groupings, create and award badges, and best practices. Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
- Incorporate glossary, lesson, SCORM, wiki, workshop, and database activities into their courses and grade them
- Add chat activities to your courses
- Gather student feedback and opinions using the choice, survey, and feedback activities
- Utilize the following popular third-party plug-ins: Quickmail block, attendance block, class list block, drag-and-drop matching quiz questions, questionnaire, lightbox gallery, and certificate
- Activate outcome sets within a course
- Map modules to outcomes and mark them as complete or incomplete when evaluating each student’s performance
- Use groups and groupings in courses
- Create badges and award them to students
Appropriate for: Moodle and Moodlerooms | Delivery mode: Facilitated or Non-facilitated | Time investment: 10-12 hrs. | Cost: $325/facilitated; $150/non-facilitated
Course Building Bundle
- Moodle/Moodlerooms Course Building for New Users
- Moodle/Moodlerooms Course Building for Intermediate Users
- Moodle/Moodlerooms Course Building for Advanced Users
Appropriate for: Moodle and Moodlerooms | Delivery mode: Facilitated or Non-facilitated | Time investment: 27-33 hrs. | Cost: $750/facilitated; $375/non-facilitated
Get more information
- Flipped Classroom with Moodlerooms - September 8, 2016
- Consulting Services - July 28, 2016
- Onsite Training - July 28, 2016