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#Moodle Administration Workshop

EdTech

During the month of May, I’ll be facilitating a Moodle administration course. The preliminary agenda, which appears at MoodleMayhem.org, is copied below. What topics would you add to a busy, 6 hour class for a small, fast-moving group?

About this Workshop

In this information-rich session guaranteed to cause migraines and make knees knock, participants will accomplish the setup of a Moodle instance—from scratch on their laptops—from scratch using XAMPP, learn how to customize a locally installed Moodle instance, and more. 

One of the resources I’m going to work hard to add is videos on how to install Apache, MySQL/PHP on UbuntuLinux. Anyone aware of an easy guide to follow? Installing XAMPP on UbuntuLinux isn’t that hard, but…

This session will explore, in particular, the following as time allows:

  1. Server Management

  2. Get a list of and copies of the software needed to setup a server from scratch.

  3. Setup of a XAMPP server on participant laptops (Video: Windows | UbuntuLinux)

  4. Customizing the PHP.INI file

  5. Installation of Moodle

  1. Facilitate discussion of the use of htdocs, folder permissions.

  2. How to make backups of your Moodle instance

  3. How to duplicate your Moodle instance to create new Moodles quickly and with existing permissions

  4. Modifying session cookies to keep Moodle instances apart when installed on a single server.

  5. Selecting and Adding Moodle themes, modules, blocks (Video: Part 1 | Part 2)

  6. How to modify the Config.php file in your Moodle instance

  7. How to Setup Cron Jobs to automate work on your Moodle.

  8. Playing with Fire - Interacting with MySQL Databases

  9. How to do SQL dumps and run simple SQL commands to enhance your reports and solve problems.

  10. How to use phpMyAdmin, SQLYog and/or Navicat Lite to interact with your database directly for backup purposes or to import data from a CSV file.

  11. How to optimize your MySQL database

  12. Dealing with Modules and More

  13. Managing Multimedia Filters to Allow Embedding of Multimedia Content

  14. Embedding Video Playlists

  15. Making RSS Work for You (Part 1 | Part 2)

  16. Building Photo Galleries

  17. Taking advantage of Elluminate to facilitate face-to-face virtual learning through Moodle (experimental)

  18. Upgrading Moodle

  19. Preparing Your Moodle 1.9.x Database for Moodle 2.0 Transition

  20. Upgrading your Moodle 1.9.x Instance to Moodle 2.0

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