Training Overview¶
Introduction¶
Moodle Administration Advance is designed for you if you are part of a technical team responsible for reliable, secure, and scalable Moodle operations. It builds on foundational administration skills and focuses on production decision-making, operational discipline, troubleshooting, and platform lifecycle management.
The course does not teach Moodle plugin development in depth. Instead, it helps you understand how architecture, security configuration, caching, background processing, integrations, backups, monitoring, and upgrade planning work together in a real Moodle environment.
Training Objectives¶
After completing this training, you should be able to:
- Evaluate Moodle architecture options for production environments.
- Apply stronger security and access-control practices.
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks across application, database, cache, storage, and scheduled-task layers.
- Plan integrations, automation, and reporting workflows safely.
- Prepare controlled upgrade, backup, restore, and disaster-recovery procedures.
- Use structured operational troubleshooting during incidents.
Prerequisites¶
Before starting, you should already understand:
- Moodle site administration basics.
- User, role, course, activity, and category management.
- Moodle application files, database,
moodledata, and cron concepts. - Basic web-server, database, DNS, TLS, and command-line operations.
Two-Day Training Agenda¶
Day 1¶
| Time | Session | Main Focus |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM | Module 1: Advanced Platform Architecture | Production topology, environment separation, file storage, cron strategy |
| 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM | Break | Refreshment break |
| 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Module 2: Security and Access Control | Authentication, authorization, hardening, audit practices |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Lunch | Lunch break |
| 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Module 3: Performance, Scalability, and Caching | Caching, database load, sessions, queues, monitoring signals |
| 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Guided Scenario | Performance and security review workshop |
Day 2¶
| Time | Session | Main Focus |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Module 4: Automation, Integrations, and Reporting | Scheduled tasks, web services, external systems, reporting governance |
| 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM | Break | Refreshment break |
| 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM | Module 5: Upgrades, Backups, and Disaster Recovery | Upgrade runbooks, backup validation, restore testing, rollback planning |
| 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM | Lunch | Lunch break |
| 1:15 PM – 3:15 PM | Module 6: Advanced Troubleshooting and Operations | Incident workflow, logs, root-cause analysis, operational documentation |
| 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM | Final Exercise and Q&A | Build a Moodle operations improvement plan |
Expected Outcomes¶
You should leave with a practical framework for operating Moodle in production, including checklists for security reviews, performance investigations, upgrades, backups, monitoring, and incident response.
How to Use These Trainee Notes During Hands-On Training¶
Use these advanced notes as a working reference during each scenario and lab:
- Start each module by reviewing the operational decision you are learning to make.
- Follow the walkthrough or scenario using a non-production Moodle environment, diagram, sample log, or runbook template.
- Record evidence before proposing a fix, especially for security, performance, backup, restore, and upgrade decisions.
- Write down validation checks and rollback conditions before treating a change as complete.
- Convert each checklist into an organization-specific runbook after training.