All Moodle Academy webinars

Teachers face increasing workloads and limited time for professional development. Discover how the Centre de pédagogie universitaire (CPU) at UQAR turned the holiday season into a unique opportunity for teacher development through two creative Moodle-based initiatives: The Festive Calendar and The Holiday Learning Journey. These projects combined gamification, festive themes, and practical resources to inspire teachers while addressing their busy schedules.

The Festive Calendar offered daily pedagogical tips in December, while the Holiday Learning Journey provided tools for integrating generative AI, classroom management, and active learning strategies. Both initiatives followed the RICE model (Reach, Impact, Confidence, Effort), ensuring high impact with minimal effort.

Join Emilie Ringuet, Pedagogical and Technoeducational Advisor at the Université du Québec à Rimouski in Canada as she describes the reflective process behind those projects, the challenges of professional development for teaching resources, and the key outcomes of these projects. You'll also learn about the Moodle configurations and take home pedagogical resources and both projects in .mbz format. Let's unwrap the gift of effective, enjoyable and time-efficient professional development together!

In this webinar we welcome Riana Beachy-Hasenick, Liam Moran and Gosha Nikiforov from the University of Illinois Urban-Champaign.

ATLAS, the IT unit for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has spent the last couple years configuring a Moodle environment to work as an LTI tool integrated into the vendor-provided LMS platform adopted by the University’s central IT unit. This initiative has allowed faculty to continue providing high-quality educational materials designed in Moodle, while satisfying students’ and administration’s desire for the campus to use one central LMS.

Join this webinar to learn about ATLAS's user-centred development of the Moodle LTI tool, including user interface improvements, roster and group handling, grade syncing, notifications, and more.

Moodle, the beloved learning management system, allows for the integration with other tools to offer educators and learners even more flexibility in how they would like to learn. Portfolios are a wonderful addition to Moodle because they put learners into the centre of the attention and allow them the freedom to decide how they want to document their learning and what of that learning and the associated reflections they want to share.

In this session, we are joined by Kristina Hoeppner, the Mahara Project Lead at Catalyst IT.

Les rôles de Moodle sont une des clefs de la flexibilité de son utilisation. Cependant, la gestion de ces rôles est complexe et assez difficile d'accès. Ce webinaire, destiné avant tout aux administrateurs et administratrices de Moodle, mais aussi à toute personne curieuse du fonctionnement interne de Moodle, se donne comme objectif d'améliorer la compréhension de l'architecture des rôles de Moodle et, à l'aide d'exemples, de trucs et d'astuces, de rendre plus digeste l'administration de ces rôles. Des bonnes pratiques de gestion des rôles dans Moodle seront également présentées.

Join us for a webinar to discover the rebranded Moodle Educator Qualification (MEQ), previously known as Moodle Educator Certification (MEC) and the new Moodle Administrator Qualification (MAQ). Designed for educators and administrators, this session will provide an in-depth overview of these globally recognised programs. Whether you're an educator seeking to validate and showcase your Moodle teaching skills or an administrator looking to demonstrate your proficiency in managing Moodle sites, this webinar will equip you with everything you need to get started with Moodle Qualifications.

This presentation will highlight the process used to transform a government agency's new hire training program with the collaboration of SMEs, learning designers, and Moodle experts. Embracing the backward design model and leveraging Moodle’s versatile features, both asynchronous and synchronous tools were seamlessly integrated to cater to diverse learning needs throughout the new hire training program. This presentation will focus on the process, tools used and outcomes of the redesigned program.

The Moodle Tool Guide, first created by Joyce Seitzinger in 2010 for Moodle (version 1.9) has had an update and refresh for subsequent Moodle versions, including Gavin Henrick for Moodle 2.

Richard Oelmann and Tish Kirkland have each built on Seitzinger's initial work to create 2 further versions. In this webinar, they will each discuss their respective versions of the Tool Guide.

Join us in this webinar where the Moodle HQ and Tiny teams will dive into the integration of the TinyMCE editor within Moodle, now the default editor replacing Atto. This session is tailored for Moodle developers, and guides you through creating custom TinyMCE plugins and migrating existing Atto plugins to TinyMCE. Unlock TinyMCE’s full potential to enhance the editing experience and explore valuable resources for developers. This is a must-attend event for anyone looking to elevate their development skills and make the most of TinyMCE in Moodle. Agenda:

• Overview of TinyMCE editor in Moodle.
• Steps on creating TinyMCE plugins for Moodle.
• How to convert Atto plugins to TinyMCE.
• Maximizing the functionality of TinyMCE in Moodle.
• Developer resources and TinyMCE premium plugin options.
• Live Q&A session with experts.

During this webinar you will learn about the new features in Moodle 4.5 for administrators and teachers.

In this webinar we will welcome Gordon D. Bateson, Professor at Kochi University of Technology in Japan, and Marcus Green, Senior E-learning Technical consultant at Catalyst IT. This presentation will explore the integration of AI into Moodle plugins.

Gordon and Marcus will start with a technical description, suitable for developers, of how it is possible for a plug-in to communicate with an AI engine, such as ChatGPT, via an API. Then they will show the mechanism of how their plugins utilize API’s to get useful results.

In the latter part of the presentation, they will demonstrate their plug-ins and show examples that may be useful to educators.

While this webinar will be most suitable for developers and educators, it may also be interesting to administrators to see what is possible with AI-powered plug-ins, and what settings they may be asked to set.