Essential functions and tips for using the open source learning platform Moodle effectively

Global standard LMS, Moodle has many functions . So that if you use Moodle efficiency or just file
server , is depending on the know-how of usage . This presentation was on elearning award forum
in Japan .
I hope you will love Moodle as We do .

Takeshi Matsuzaki
e-learning co., ltd.

● Takeshi Matsuzaki
● matsuzakit@e-learning.co.jp
● http://www.facebook.com/matsuzakit

● CEO of e-learning corporation ltd.
● Established in 2000
● http://www.e-learning.co.jp
● http://www.facebook.com/elearningJPN

● Courseware for IT Engineers
● Moodle service
● Setting , support
● Development
● Training

Reliable open source software .

Don't spend money to custermize .

Exploit your materials .

Don't loose time to understand .

Moodle
MySQL, PostgreSQL
Oracle , MS SQL

RDBMS

httpd

Apache
IIS

PHP
Linux
Windows

OS
Hardware/Network
• Points
– Performance
• Amount of students, courses

– Security
– Backup
– Server Admin

Where ?
On-premises
On the Internet
Who do it ?
bounds

• Using the images
– Microsoft
• Supplying Moodle as a part of Web Matrix
• http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/moodle.aspx/ja-jp
• Hosting by Micorosoft from $ 1.29/month

– Amazon Web Service EC2
• 64 images available, From only AWS price To AWS + $5/month

• Hosting company
– freemoodle.org
• http://www.freemoodle.org/

– Joe‘s web hosting
• https://www.lms.ac

• By e-learning co., ltd.
– Latest Moodle version, able to FTP/SSH, Design for the site 12,000yen/month
– http://www.e-learning.co.jp/?page_id=444

• Hints by Moodle alone
– Adding only pulldown menu, it becomes cool
• Home / ► Site administration / ► Appearance / ► Themes / ► Theme settings
• Add title and URL In [Custom menu items] text box .
• Layered structure is possible .

– Customizing front page
• Home / ► Front page settings / ► Edit settings
• Write HTML code in Front page summary or we recommend to use an iframe .

• Theme
– Moodle has many themes as plugin .
• You can install the theme by downloaded as zip file to upload to your
moodle .
– Home / ► Site administration / ► Plugins / ► Install add-ons
– The plugins excluding theme may be hard to select [Plugin type ] . -> Refer zip’s
README.txt .
– Select theme, Home / ► Site administration / ► Appearance / ► Themes / ► Theme selector

• Boot Strap
– Developed by Twitter, responsible design by using HTML5, CSS3, jQuery .
– Moodle offers the base design ‘bootstrapbase’ and simple ‘Clean’ theme .

•

We, e-learning corp., offers Moodle custom themes .

• Many converting tools for PPT to flash, PPT to HTML5, but not
enough .
• Moodle offers the module ‘Book’ similar to PPT
– ‘Book’ offers continuity pages (html)
– ‘Book’ can read from some htmls together .
– Pages in a ‘Book’ is editable as html, so that you can insert several kind
of contents such as Youtube videos .

• Weak point of ‘Book’
– Anyone can copy ‘Book’ as characters .
– A bit slow behavior
– ‘Book’ from Powerpoint is not working without IE .

• How about OSS image viewer ?
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Galleria Display http://galleria.io/
Image gallery with JS .
Free for basic version. Charged theme $9-$29
Changing PPT’s default size 960*720
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827745/

– File name was Japanese, change it to English .
• for /f "usebackq delims=スライド tokens=1" %i in (`dir /b スライド
*.JPG`) do ren スライド%i slide%i

• Using Galleria Display on Moodle.
– Zip files such as css , image, and js , upload them as files to
Moodle, Unzip and set main file.
– With htmls ,Making moodle ‘file’ or upload in another place. Embed as
iframe on other modules .
– Using PHP .

• Want to make videos .
– Excluding in this time.

• Distribute videos .
– Study parameter
• Load of the server and network

– File format ?
• MP4 , flv , or wmv
– MP4 is the best

– How to distribute
• Embed in the moodle server
– High load of the server and network

• Using stream server
• Using CDN : Contents Delivery Network

• Cloud Front is Amazon’s CDN
– Data transfer rate $0.201/GB (about 100GB 2,000yen)

• ACFVideo offers function between Moodle and Cloud Front
– We, e-learning corp. , offer it as OSS .
– https://github.com/matsuzakit/moodle-activity_acfvideo

CDN
amazon cloud front

Set URL and
policy of expiry

Direct Access

• Self enrollment
– Users can add himself .
• Each course can have a different enrollment key .
• Home / ► Site administration / ► Plugins / ► Authentication / ► Manage
authentication
• Set ‘Email-based self-registration’ ON .
• By using reCAPTCHA, prohibit from spam by robots .

• Adding many users once
– Making CSV file .
– Changing user profile or adding group , is also possible .
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lastname

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email

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• Other systems integration .
– CAS, IMAP, RADIUS, Shibboleth
– Home / ► Site administration / ► Plugins / ► Authentication / ► Manage authentication

• You can insert ‘Quiz’ with many formats .
• Home / a course / ► / Question bank / ► Import
• For the format, there are some good documents, or you can
make it based on exported formats .
• Easy GIFT format (easy by using Excel)
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• What is badge ?
– Open Badegs
– a new online standard to
recognize and verify
learning
– Developed by Mozilla
– When a student fulfill a
condition , the badge
issues.
– The badge is saved in a
bag.
– An organization can have
its own bag , or Mozilla
offers it as ‘Backpack’ .

• Criteria
– Course completion
– Activity completion

Completion
Home / ► Site administration / ► Advanced features
Enable completion tracking ON
In a course, set ‘Enable completion tracking’ ON.
Conditional access
Home / ► Site administration / ► Advanced features
Enable conditional access ON
Home / ► Site administration / ► Badges / ► Add a new badge
Recommend PNG , Maximum size 256kb.
Mozilla Backpack needs square , 64x64px, 128x128px,
220x220px

• Want to sell your courses on
Moodle
• Moodle has paypal module .
– How it works ?
– Need Moodle account
• Recommend self-enrollment .

– Entering charge course, jump to
paypal .
– After finishing payment on paypal, a
few minutes later , he/she can study
the course .

May 2013, In Japan SoftBank and PayPal got relationship

• On Moodle
– Enable on the site
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Home / ► Site administration / ► Plugins / ► Enrolments / ► Manage enrol plugins
Set paypal and enable paypal .
Settings
Enter paypal’s mailaddress in ‘PayPal business email’ .
‘Allow PayPal enrolments’ YES

– Enable on the course
• Home / ► Courses / ► a course / ► Users / ► Enrolment methods
• ‘Add method’ PayPal
• Enrol cost

– Using sandbox
• config.php
• $CFG->usepaypalsandbox = true;
• You make virtual sellers and buyers on the sandbox , and testing .
– This Moodle plugin is called classic API , Paypal offers newer one, REST API .

• Changing character code
– To UTF-8

• On sandbox
• https://developer.paypal.com/
• Login as the ordinary paypal account
• From upper menu - Applications – Left menu -Sandbox accounts -[Enter
sandbox]
• When you are jumped to Non sandbox , Japanese site (maybe a kind of
bug), Enter this URL directory .
• https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/jp/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_account

Adobe® Connect™ is a web conferencing platform for web
meetings, eLearning, and webinars. It powers mission critical
web conferencing solutions end-to-end, on virtually any
device, and enables organizations from leading corporations to
the U.S. Department of Defense to fundamentally improve
productivity. (Adobe HP)
On-premise version, installing Adobe Connet to the own server .
（This time we use On-Premise version)
Hosted version , using Adobe Connect as SaaS .

From Moodle to Adobe
Connect directly
Single Sign On(SSO)
Able to make Connect
reference room by
Moodle .

Assign Moodle user

Connect role
Host
Presenter
Participant

•

Moodle official site forums
– Moodle QA forums , very active
– https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=50
– https://moodle.org/

•

Moodle Association Japan : MAJ
– A private organization in Japan, certified by Moodle HQ
– http://moodlejapan.org/home/
– https://www.facebook.com/groups/103710113036755/

•

Moodle Tokyo Cafe
– Learning Moodle together in Tokyo, Mr. Fujita in Yokohama NFPCA
– https://www.facebook.com/groups/136123803133175/

•

Moodle courses by e-learning corp.
– http://www.e-learning.co.jp/?page_id=438
– Course Creator (2days)
– Admin Basic(1day)

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