4TVirtualCon- Moodle Administration

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Organizers for allowing me to
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2. The Moodle Administrator
Adventure
Session Facilitated by
Miguel Guhlin (Twitter: mguhlin)
http://mguhlin.net and http://mguhlin.org
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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
of Moodle administration.
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3. Want Session Resources?
Get copies of the presentation, software
and videos for Today's Session at
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Join online Moodle course
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Enrollment key - 4tadmin

4. Seeking New
Horizons?
Be sure to join the Moodle
Mayhem Email list and
visit Moodle.org Forums!

5. How To Setup My Own Moodle How To Convince My Organization
Server on to Adopt Moodle so I can Use It for
My Laptop or Desktop Computer Instruction
I want to know How Moodle Can I'm Not Sure, just looked
Help Me Be a Better Educator interesting!
Mark It Up – What is 1 thing that you hope
to get out of today's workshop that will make
it a success?

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

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

8. Meet the Problem
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?”

9. Hunches/Guesses
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.

10. Meet the Problem
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?”

11. What We
Know
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.

12. Meet the Problem
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?”

13. What Do We
Need to Know?
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.
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14. Who are the Stakeholders?
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15. What are the Most Important
Questions that need to be answered?
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16. Image Source: http://www.hdmx.com/images1/original/phpbb.jpg
Miguel's Story – I started looking for an
online space to facilitate meetings but
found it easier to just setup our own.

17. 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."
Where We Started
Where We Ended Up
So, we turned off Internet Information
Server and installed Apache/PHP/MySQL
on the Server.

18. 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-
Web Server added services such as specialized modules and
support, amongst other things.
Database (MySQL) and web pages (PHP)
that allow us to interact with the database.
We had a server running Windows, but
switched to Apache/MySQL/PHP in time.

19. Image Source: http://intouch.saisd.net/plc
Then, I started to wonder, how could we
facilitate online professional learning?

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

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

22. How could Moodle be used to facilitate
Organizational communications?

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

24. Cost?
$575 to $3000
Key Challenge #2 – How to provide in-
house Moodle support with minimal
“technical” expertise?

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

26. Solution – Get Techies to Setup Server
Initially but grant rights to....
PhpMyAdmin – Allows you to interact with databases

27. Solution – Get Techies to Setup Server
Initially but grant rights to....
Or, if not phpMyAdmin, SQLYog (on Windows).

28. Solution – Get Techies to Setup Server
Initially but grant rights to....
You also need File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Rights to the
Moodle PHP folder and the MoodleData folder

29. What terms are we having trouble with?

30. Play on your own with XAMPP –
Installation instructions available!

31. Moodle Administration Overview
Go to Moodle.org and get
Install XAMPP for Create the Moodle dbase
Moodle 1.9.x
Your Computer Using phpMyAdmin or
Only get 2.0 if feeling
Operating system SQLYog
Dangerous.
Navigate to Moodle
Make your MoodleData Admin directory:
Choose unattended
Subdirectory and Moodle Localhost/moodleinstall/
operation and let it go.
Folder to house PHP files admin
To start Moodle install

32. 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.

33. Video: Installing XAMPP on Windows
View video online in the Moodle Course or on YouTube or via Dropbox
links shown above. Then, try the installation on your own computer.

34. 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.

35. Video: Accessing XAMPP on Windows
View video online in the Moodle Course or on YouTube or via Dropbox
links shown above. Then, try the installation on your own computer.

36. Video: Accessing XAMPP on Windows
View video online in the Moodle Course or on YouTube or via Dropbox
links shown above. Then, try the installation on your own computer.

37. 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!

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

39. Creating Your Moodle Database
When creating a new database, make sure to use
“utf8_general_ci”

40. Creating Your Moodle Database
What success looks like!

41. 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
lMoodleShare - http://moodleshare.org
l Open High School of Utah - http://goo.gl/cPfyQ
l JISC RSC East Midlands - http://goo.gl/xz1cp
l Just ask Moodle Mayhem members to share....

42. Sharing Courses with Others

43. Reflecting on Today's Session

44. Extending the Conversation....
Join Moodle Mayhem.org email list or
Facebook page....
Send a tweet to @mguhlin
Connect with folks on Moodle.org
Forums....
Search on the #moodle hashtag
Tweet session with this
tag...#umvirtualcon