COORDINATORS WORKSHOP ON MOODLE LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

IIT, Bombay under the aegis of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching organized a one – day Coordinators’ Workshop on Moodle Learning Management System for around 143 Remote Centres that participated was attended by Prof. Steefni Ema Cruz and Mr. Amit Sapkal. Moodle is a system which helps teachers and educators to create an online platform for more adaptive and customized learning. In the inaugural function, Prof. Kannan spoke of the importance of mastering the digital learning systems to make teaching more interesting to the students. He said that in this generation, when students are living in the digital world, the method of chalk and talk has to be rethought.

Following this Ms. Nancy Varkey introduced the Spoken Tutorial Forum. The workshop was solely based on this Spoken Tutorial Forum wherein participated were introduced to 17 videos on how to install and work on the Moodle system. Of these, the first video is an overview of Moodle, videos 2 to 9 were related to the System Administrator and videos 10 to 17 were for the Teacher. The 17 videos were as follows:

• Overview of Moodle
• Getting ready for Moodle Installation
• Installing Moodle on Local Server
• Admin Dashboard
• Blocks in Admin Dashboard
• Categories in Moodle
• Courses in Moodle
• Users in Moodle
• User Roles in Moodle
• Teachers Dashboard in Moodle
• Course Administration in Moodle
• Formatting Course Material in Moodle
• Uploading and Editing resources in Moodle
• Forums and Assignments in Moodle
• Question Bank in Moodle
• Quiz in Moodle
• Enroll Students and Communicate in Moodle

The participants had to watch each of these videos, follow the instructions and replicate the same in the Moodle system. If there were any difficulties then such questions were to be put up on the forum which was then replied to by the organizers. This was done so that all users of Moodle can see the questions and answers and get their issues resolved. This workshop was entirely based on self-learning so that the participants familiarized themselves to Moodle by getting a first-hand experience.

For the valedictory function, there was a panel discussion wherein the participants asked difficulties related to the working of Moodle and conduction of the Workshop in the respective Remote Centres. The organizers said that all material would be provided and the participants would have to replicate the videos exactly as how it was done for the Coordinators’ workshop. The Workshop ended with the reciting of the National Anthem.