Presenter

Jeff Nelson, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA

When?

2-29 September 2013

Registration

Space in each course in limited to the first 18 participants, with no more than 6 participants at the special rate.

Deadline: 7 days before the course starts

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Technology Requirements

More About This Course

This course enables teachers to install and manage their own course management system (CMS). In this course, participants install and customize a free, open source CMS program, such as Moodle. The course emphasizes sound systems management practices. A prior understanding of Web site/server management will be helpful, but is not required.  Students will need to provide their own Web hosting, which may involve a slight expense.

Topics covered

• Installation and Configuration of a CMS
• Creating courses
• Management issues

What Will I Learn?

• Learn about the difference between free and commercial CMS packages
• Install the CMS on a Web server on the Internet
• Create a sample course
• Administer backups
• Share course archives with other teachers
• Become acquainted with other topics such as user administration and upgrades.
• Be enabled to become independent administrators of their very own CMS on the Internet

About the Instructor

Jeff Nelson has taught English on three continents and currently works at Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA. He holds an MA in TESL and is a Red Hat Linux Certified Engineer. In his spare time he volunteers for the TESOL’s CALL Interest Section and for an educational foundation in Colombia.