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Moodle Administration Intermediate Training Overview

Course Purpose

This training helps you move from basic familiarity to reliable operational ownership of a Moodle site. You will practice the decisions and workflows needed to support courses, users, enrolments, plugins, reports, scheduled maintenance, and common support escalations.

Before starting, you should be able to:

  • Navigate Site administration and course administration areas.
  • Create or edit users, courses, categories, activities, and basic roles.
  • Explain the purpose of Moodle code, database, moodledata, cron, themes, plugins, and caches.
  • Perform basic troubleshooting using logs, user reports, and configuration checks.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the intermediate training, you will be able to:

  1. Plan and execute repeatable course lifecycle and user management workflows.
  2. Configure enrolments, groups, cohorts, and role assignments with fewer permission mistakes.
  3. Evaluate plugin and theme changes using a structured risk review.
  4. Build useful operational reports and identify data quality issues.
  5. Maintain site health through scheduled checks, cron awareness, cache handling, and simple automation.
  6. Triage common support incidents and communicate changes clearly to stakeholders.

Suggested Two-Day Agenda

Day 1

Time Topic
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome, prerequisites review, and intermediate administration mindset
09:30 – 10:45 Module 1: Course and User Operations
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:30 Module 2: Roles, Enrolments, and Groups
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Module 3: Plugins, Themes, and Site Configuration
15:00 – 15:15 Break
15:15 – 16:00 Day 1 lab: controlled configuration change review

Day 2

Time Topic
09:00 – 09:15 Day 1 recap and questions
09:15 – 10:45 Module 4: Reporting, Analytics, and Data Quality
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:30 Module 5: Performance, Maintenance, and Automation
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Module 6: Support, Troubleshooting, and Change Management
15:00 – 15:15 Break
15:15 – 16:00 Capstone scenario and action planning

Your Practice Environment

Use a non-production Moodle site whenever possible. You will get the most value if your practice site includes sample categories, courses, users, cohorts, groups, enrolment methods, logs, reports, scheduled tasks, plugins, and theme settings.

How You Will Show Progress

You will demonstrate progress through practical outputs:

  • A course rollover plan.
  • A role or enrolment diagnosis based on symptoms and logs.
  • A plugin or theme request review with documented risks.
  • An operational report or report interpretation note.
  • A short change announcement and rollback note.