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Moodle Qualifications Competence Frameworks
As Moodle Qualifications continue to gain traction since the official launch of our second Qualification program earlier this year, we're dedicating this month's newsletter to exploring the robust competence frameworks that form the foundation of both the Moodle Educator Qualification (MEQ) and the Moodle Administrator Qualification (MAQ).
MEQ: Built on the European Framework for Digital Competence of Educators
The MEQ is based on the widely accepted European Framework for the Digital Competence for Educators (DigCompEdu). This comprehensive framework addresses educators' professional competences across six key areas:
Professional Engagement: Focusing on organisational communication, professional collaboration, reflective practice, and digital continuous professional development (CPD).
Digital Resources: Encompassing the selection, creation, modification, management, protection, and sharing of digital resources.
Teaching and Learning: Covering collaborative learning, self-regulated learning, teaching methodologies, and learner guidance.
Assessment: Including assessment strategies, analysing evidence, and providing feedback and planning.
Empowering Learners: Addressing differentiation and personalisation, accessibility and inclusion, and actively engaging learners.
Facilitating Learners' Digital Competence: Developing information and media literacy, problem-solving skills, responsible use of digital tools, communication skills, and content creation abilities.
This framework ensures that educators qualified through the MEQ program demonstrate proficiency in using digital technologies to enhance teaching and learning while maintaining appropriate pedagogical approaches.
MAQ: Structured around the DigCompLMSAdmin Framework
The Moodle Administrator Qualification (MAQ), launched in February 2025, is structured around four thematic areas:
1. Infrastructure:
Implementation (installation, security, privacy, site policy).
Maintenance and Support (performance, upgrading, year-end/rollover, support structures).
2. Operation:
Site Structure (site and course defaults, course/category management, repositories and portfolios).
User Management (authentication, enrolment, roles, capabilities and permissions).
Site Look and Feel (navigation, customisation, accessibility, inclusion).
Monitoring (site reports, course reports, analytics, event monitoring).
3. Integration:
Plugins and Extensions (integration policy, community contributions, commercial add-ons, LTI, web services, Open Educational Resources).
4. Practice:
Professional Practice (community troubleshooting and collaboration, reflective practice and digital CPD).
This structured approach ensures that MAQ-qualified administrators can effectively implement, maintain, operate, and integrate Moodle LMS within their organisations while continuously improving their professional practice.
Why these frameworks matter
These competence frameworks provide significant benefits:
Comprehensive coverage: They ensure that both educators and administrators develop a full range of skills necessary for their roles.
Global recognition: MEQ’s framework is based on an internationally recognised standard, while MAQ’s framework is natively developed within Moodle, ensuring they have worldwide validity.
Professional development pathways: They offer clear progression routes for continuous professional growth, as they are used by Moodle Academy for the Educator and Administrator learning pathways.
Institutional value: Organisations benefit from staff who can fully leverage Moodle's capabilities as educators or administrators.
Ready to start your Qualification journey?
To ensure you're prepared, start by taking the pre-placement quiz on Moodle Academy for the:
If your quiz results indicate you're ready, you'll be directed to a contact form. Complete the form, and we'll connect you with a Moodle Certified Partner or Service Provider in your area to guide you through the Qualification process.
If you need additional preparation, the quiz results will recommend you to take some more training, either self-paced courses through Moodle Academy or facilitated training from our Moodle Certified Partners and Service Providers.
What’s new?
Courses
Moodle Certified Integrations Course
A new course has just launched to showcase Moodle Certified Integrations to Moodle Academy users. Moodle Certified Integrations are the culmination of a meticulous quality assurance process designed to guarantee the reliability, security, and performance of third-party integrations. By adhering to strict standards and conducting comprehensive testing, Moodle ensures that certified integrations deliver a seamless experience for users.
Visit the Moodle Certified Integrations course.
Acceptance Testing with Behat developer course now available
In this intermediate level course developer developers will learn about the importance of acceptance testing in Moodle development. This course will introduce learners to acceptance testing using the Behat testing framework that is used in Moodle.
Participants will learn how to set up the Behat testing environment in their Moodle development environment and run existing Behat tests from the command line. This course will also provide some guidance on how to write good Behat tests for Moodle.
Enrol in the Acceptance Testing with Behat developer course.
What’s coming up?
Webinars
What's new in Moodle 5.0 - 24 April 2025, 13:00 UTC
During this webinar you will learn about the new features in Moodle 5.0 for administrators and teachers. Register for the What’s New in Moodle 5.0 webinar.
Courses and programs
What's new in Moodle 5.0 - course available 24 April 2025
This intermediate course is for anyone who wants to learn about the new features and improvements in Moodle 5.0. You should already be familiar with Moodle in order to benefit from the webinar and course materials. Learners who complete this course can earn a badge as admin and/or as teacher. Enrol in the What's new in Moodle 5.0 course.
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