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Moodle Qualifications (previously Certifications)
We’re excited to announce that the Moodle Educator Certification (MEC) is transitioning to become the Moodle Educator Qualification (MEQ), with the rebranding set to complete in December 2024! This change brings a fresh, updated certificate while retaining the program's core purpose: Empowering educators with key digital skills. Any MEC you've already earned remains valid and will seamlessly transition to the MEQ.
If you’ve taught with Moodle LMS or Moodle Workplace™, completed a Moodle Academy course, or trained with a Certified Partner, consider qualifying your skills with the Moodle Educator Qualification (previously MEC) program. Updated in 2024 to incorporate AI's impact on education, the program includes refreshed content and assessment types. Our partner translators continue to work on making the program available in multiple languages, so now is a great time to take the Are you ready for the MEQ? quiz and advance as a quality-focused education professional.
Stay tuned for more updates and details, including the exciting launch of the Moodle Administrator Qualification (MAQ) in 2025!
What’s new?
Moodle Assessment Tools program now available
Our latest program offers a comprehensive look at Moodle's assessment tools and methods, equipping educators with effective strategies for formative and summative evaluation in online learning. Through five focused courses—Assess Your Learners, Assessment: Exploring Forums, Assessment: Exploring Assignments, Assessment: Exploring Glossaries, and Assessment: Exploring Quizzes—participants will gain the skills needed to implement various assessment types, apply advanced grading techniques, manage competencies, and use interactive activities to enrich learner engagement. By the end of the program, you’ll be ready to leverage Moodle's Gradebook, configure peer-assessment, and benefit from specialised quiz features to support accurate and meaningful assessment practices. Take the program today.
What’s New in Moodle 4.5 course and webinar recording
This intermediate level course is for anyone who wants to learn about the new features and improvements in Moodle 4.5. You should already be familiar with Moodle in order to get the most from the webinar recording and course materials. Learners who complete this course can earn a badge as admin and/or as teacher. Enrol in the course.
Creating TinyMCE plugins for Moodle - webinar recording available soon.
In this webinar, the Moodle HQ and Tiny teams dived into the integration of the TinyMCE editor within Moodle, now the default editor replacing Atto. This session was tailored for Moodle developers, and guided attendees through creating custom TinyMCE plugins and migrating existing Atto plugins to TinyMCE. The webinar was part of the Creating TinyMCE Plugins course and the recording from the session will be available soon. Register for the course to find out more and get access to the webinar recording.
What’s coming up in November?
Webinars
Moodle Tool Guide - Wednesday 20 November, 09:00 UTC
The Moodle Tool Guide, first created by Joyce Seitzinger (@catspyjamas) 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. Register for the webinar.
Utilising the Backward Design Process to Rethink a Training Program - Tuesday 3 December, 15:00 UTC
At this webinar we will welcome Amy Sudduth, Learning Designer in the Moodle US team at Moodle HQ. This presentation will highlight the process used to transform a government agency's new hire training program with the collaboration of Subject Matter Experts (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. Register for the webinar.
Courses and programs
Moodle Admin and Teaching programs updated to cover Moodle 4.5
By the end of November the Moodle Teaching Basics and Skill programs, along with the Moodle Admin Basics and Skills programs will be updated to reflect the improvements and new features implemented in Moodle 4.5, the latest version of Moodle LMS. Relevant videos in the programs are currently being updated too and being made available on YouTube.
MoodleMoot Global 2024
MoodleMoot Global 2024 took place in Mérida, México, on 22-24 October 2024. The recordings from all the presentations will soon be available to watch on YouTube. Visit the Moodle YouTube channel for more information.
Find out more and register for free at Moodle Academy!