4TVirtualCon- Moodle Administration

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The Moodle Administrator Adventure

Want to get Moodle started in your learning environment but don't know what questions to ask?

Or, have questions but don't know the answers? Then this session can get you started down the road

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Session Facilitated by Miguel Guhlin (Twitter: mguhlin)

http://mguhlin.net and http://mguhlin.org

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Mark It Up – What is 1 thing that you hope to get out of today's workshop that will make it a success?

How To Setup My Own Moodle Server on

My Laptop or Desktop Computer

How To Convince My Organization to Adopt Moodle so I can Use It for

Instruction

I want to know How Moodle Can Help Me Be a Better Educator

I'm Not Sure, just looked interesting!

What I hope you’ll get out today’s session!

When you see a slide like this one, it means, “jump in” and share your ideas, questions, comments (no tomatoes, please!)

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When Sandra awoke Tuesday morning, she just knew that she had to get through to the people in her organization. For her student population, learning online could present opportunities just not possible in face to face settings. She'd already spoken to Juan and Lorena—fellow teachers—and they were supportive.

She'd sent an email late Monday night advocating for the use of Moodle, a free open source course management system. Though brief, she had asked to meet with her boss and others this morning. Maybe she'd been too hasty to press SEND.

As she walked into the office, George the Network Director, stood near the Jacob's (their boss) office. His red face sent a message all its own. “We've got that new server yesterday and we're a Microsoft shop!” George's voice carried down the hall, more pleading than angry. As Jacob and George became aware of her, their conversation grew silent.

“Good morning,” she said warmly. “I'm wondering if we could meet about a new way of better serving our students?”

Meet the Problem

In order to help Sandra, let's

share what our hunches are

about this situation, what we know, what

we need to know to help the

person/people in this situation.

Hunches/Guesses





Meet the Problem






What We Know





Meet the Problem






What Do We Need to Know?

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Who are the Stakeholders?

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What are the Most Important Questions that need to be answered?

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Miguel's Story – I started looking for an online space to facilitate meetings but found it easier to just setup our own.

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So, we turned off Internet Information Server and installed Apache/PHP/MySQL on the Server.

Where We Ended Up

Where We Started

Apache/MySQL/PHP server: These 3 components are often referred to as "AMP" with one of the following letters in front of it to represent an operating system. For example, you'll see the term "WAMP" as representative of "Windows Apache MySQL PHP." Macintosh users might refer to it as "MAMP" and GNU/Linux users as "LAMP."

We had a server running Windows, but switched to Apache/MySQL/PHP in time.

Apache Software. . .must remain a platform upon which individuals and institutions can build reliable systems, both for experimental purposes and for mission-critical purposes.

We believe that the tools of online publishing should be in the hands of everyone, and that software companies should make their money by providing value-added services such as specialized modules and support, amongst other things.

Web Server

Database (MySQL) and web pages (PHP) that allow us to interact with the database.

Then, I started to wonder, how could we facilitate online professional learning?

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How would you facilitate professional learning with Moodle (or are you already) ?

Also, how could we facilitate blended instruction for our Middle School students?

How could Moodle be used to facilitate Organizational communications?

Key Challenge #1: Optimizing eLearning Opportunities...explore this challenge in tomorrow's session.

Key Challenge #2 – How to provide in-house Moodle support with minimal “technical” expertise?

Cost?$575 to $3000

Anyone dealt with this key challenge already? If so, how?

Solution – Get Techies to Setup Server Initially but grant rights to....

PhpMyAdmin – Allows you to interact with databases


Or, if not phpMyAdmin, SQLYog (on Windows).


You also need File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Rights to the Moodle PHP folder and the MoodleData folder

What terms are we having trouble with?

Play on your own with XAMPP – Installation instructions available!

Moodle Administration Overview

Install XAMPP for Your Computer

Operating system

Go to Moodle.org and getMoodle 1.9.x

Only get 2.0 if feelingDangerous.

Create the Moodle dbaseUsing phpMyAdmin or

SQLYog

Make your MoodleDataSubdirectory and MoodleFolder to house PHP files

Navigate to MoodleAdmin directory:

Localhost/moodleinstall/admin

To start Moodle install

Choose unattendedoperation and let it go.

3 Parts of a Moodle Installation

View video online in the Moodle Course or on YouTube or via Dropbox links shown above. Then, try the installation on your own computer.

Video: Installing XAMPP on Windows


Video: Starting XAMPP on Windows

View video online in the Moodle Course or on YouTube or via Dropbox links shown at start of preso. Then, try the installation on your own computer.

Video: Accessing XAMPP on Windows


Create Your Moodle Data Folder at C:\XAMPP

Create your MoodleData folder and add shortcuts to your Windows Desktop so you can access content quickly!

Creating Your Moodle Database

Go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin to create your Moodle Database. Video tutorial walks you through this part.


When creating a new database, make sure to use “utf8_general_ci”


What success looks like!

Restoring Courses from Other Locations

Get free courses you can adapt or modify online...here are a few sources:

l MoodleMayhem provides a list of sites - http://moodlemayhem.org/moodle-courses

lMoodleShare - http://moodleshare.orgl Open High School of Utah - http://goo.gl/cPfyQl JISC RSC East Midlands - http://goo.gl/xz1cpl Just ask Moodle Mayhem members to share....

Sharing Courses with Others

Reflecting on Today's Session

Extending the Conversation....

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