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The administrator role in Moodle learning management system (LMS) is one of the three default roles. And it's crucial; something like it's akin to the role of the captain in a ship, given the tasks the role performs. So, here in this blog post, we will focus our discussion on the important tasks (at least a few of them!)of a Moodle admin. By the way, this blog will be helpful (we hope so!) to those geeks who wanna take up the Moodle administration as their long-term career. Let's dive into the tasks of a Moodle admin straight away...

Welcome to the LearnerScript Moodle Report access permissions using roles explanatory short video. In this video, you will see how we can assign and revoke a Moodle report access to any particular role! Let's dive into the video now! In this LearnerScript Custom dashboard, you can see two report widgets related to Badges and SCORM summary. Click on the "view more" button from any one of these two report widgets to set the access permission to any particular role. From this copy Badge Summary report page, you need to click on the "permissions" tab. From the dropdown below choose "User with selected roles" then set the Context level and Role for this particular report access permission and then click on add button. Here you can see in this table that the context level and role levels that we have added earlier are being shown here for this report permission. You can also set the conditions for multiple role access permissions then click on the update button from the bottom. Now to cross-check whether this copy badge summary report is available to this particular manager role we need to log in with manager role credentials. Once you log in as a manager you can check whether the copy badge summary report is accessible to you or not, by selecting the add widgets action icon from the top menu. Here the manager can see the "copy badge summary" widget is available in the reports list for his access, let's add it to the dashboard. Now let's revoke the copy badge summary report access from the manager role. to do so you need to log in as admin and select that particular report and go to the permissions tab then delete the role access from this table and click on update. once the admin revokes the manager role access to the copy badge summary report, the manager will not find it in his dashboard. here you can see how the manager is unable to find this particular report in his dashboard. Like this, you can grant and revoke any particular moodle report access to a

Let me put it straight and to the point, why hire a Learning Management System (LMS) administrator (admin, hereafter)? You think of doing the admin job without him. Or you think the LMS vendor will support you 24/7. Or you think, still further, that you or one of the managing folks handles it as and when required...

How about having an engaging course on your Moodle LMS? And who doesn't like to create such a course if they are a teacher, an admin, or a course creator? Hence the contents of your course play a king's role in the successful engagement of your course. So, how to add content to your Moodle course? If you are a beginner in the Moodle administration, make no mistake. Add some content to a course as we show you in the following step-by-step beginner guide. Let's get started and create a wonderful course on Moodle LMS...

Moodle for Teacher Administrators (M4TA) 6-week online workshop for those who wish to be administrators of 2.0 or 1.9 Moodle (see syllabus: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=198FgVeVX26bZatNBNJehHWc_inCV90w2u85TsnYroqk). The workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Nellie Deutsch, an experienced admin of a few Moodles and facilitator of Moodle for Teachers workshops and Dariem Garcés Urquiza the tech support person for IT4ALL and creator of the WebQuest module for Moodle. Join the January 2012 course to ensure your place (first 20). Moodle for Administrators is a 6-week workshop for teachers who wish to be an administrator of a Moodle (see syllabus). The tuition for the course is $150 with ongoing support. Enroll today for the next workshop that will begin on January 10, 2012: http://www.integrating-technology.org/course/view.php?id=363

Who doesn't love a 'thing' which cuts through a long process/the oodles of data and gives you what exactly they search for? Filters on LearnerScript will do the same for you, as you are already aware of if you are a Moodle admin, teacher, or student. There are six important filters on LearnerScript. You will quickly get through the Moodle analytics to get 'what you look for', by using them. One more thing. In case you do not know what LearnerScript is, here is the gist: LearnerScript offers Moodle analytics for Moodle and IOMAD. Available as a Moodle plugin, this reporting tool has the respective demo sites. Walkthrough a demo site whenever you feel like wanting more info. And there you will spot all these filters by yourself. Each of these filters intends to do a specific job.

A brief about Quiz in Moodle The courses in the Moodle Learning Management System (aka Moodle LMS) form its essence. And there are various methods to assess the learning experience of your folks. They include Assignments, Polls, Surveys, and Quizzes. Moodle Quiz is part and parcel of a Moodle course. In the sense, if you are a (Moodle) admin or teacher, you can add a quiz, to check your learners' progress, across the course. In order to form a quiz, you need questions from a Question Bank of your course. It contains a variety of Quiz Question Types in Moodle, which we will discuss separately in another post. So, you save these quiz questions of a course here for usage as and when required...

LearnerScript, the Moodle reporting tool, is something that can be used right away, with or without minimal configuration after you plug it in on your Moodle. To make it happen, this Moodle analytics tool comes with a set of useful Canned Reports or default reports. Let's dive into the video now to check the 5 most common Canned Reports from LearnerScript to Start Your Moodle reporting journey. #1. Course Summary: Course Summary is one of the most common Canned reports. Since the Moodle platform is primarily course-based, this default report on LearnerScript is even more useful. In this report, drill down each metric such as enrolments, activities, assignments, grades, time spent, etc., to evaluate your course further.  In addition to this, do the comparative analysis of courses side by side. It will help you know why a certain course is faring well and why others do not. #2. Learners Summary This Canned report on LearnerScript shows the complete learning process of your learners. The metrics include his enrolled courses, in-progress ones, completed courses, badges, grades, etc. drill down some of the components of the Learner Summary to get more insights from the report. You can do the Comparative Analysis of learners to learn how different learners are going forward about their learning. #3. Quiz Summary In this report, you will see the highlights of all your quizzes as the Moodle Teacher report (role). This Canned report includes metrics such as quiz, course name, grades, total attempts, completed learners, in-progress learners, etc. This same report is available to the Moodle student role with metrics such as quiz name, the number of attempts, the marks he scored, etc. #4. Assignment Summary This Canned report mainly showcases the columns such as submitted learners, completed learners, non-graded learners, total time spent, number of views, various grades, etc. This is another Canned report available on the Moodle Teacher reports and t