Conference schedule (online)

This is a workshop for the first-time Moodler. Participants will be able to learn the basics of Moodle by working, hands-on with a real live online Moodle site. The basics of the site, course contexts and categories, giving online quizzes, handling announcements to students, providing handouts for download, chatrooms, forums, and information about the gradebook will be introduced. Teachers will make their own courses in the Moodle demo site provided. In particular, the most common features of Moodle: forums, quizzes and resources will be created. Further explanation of how these features can be used will be given in the following workshop.

If your institution doesn’t offer a Moodle for you, then this might be for you. Many think they need special skills to use a VPS (Virtual Private Server), but this is not true. Can you copy and paste? If so then you can set up a VPS and install Moodle and not worry about any limits. The presenter will talk about the pros and cons of maintaining your own VPS and Moodle site. The presenter will show how simple it is. The presenter will go through the steps needed and explain the requirements needed to have a Moodle site for 100 concurrent users up and running in less than 2 hours. The topics will also include setting up a firewall and a free SSL certificate, to help keep all data private and secure. Also, there will be some information about customization and its benefits as well as the pitfalls. The presentation will also show you some simple commands to help you update and maintain your VPS and Moodle site.

※当日の練習・体験用コースは日本ムードル協会にて準備いたします。本ワークショップは、ご自身の授業や研修において、はじめてMoodleを利用する方を対象としています。簡単なMoodleの解説の後、基本機能である小テストやフォーラム、課題、フィードバック（アンケート）などに学習者の立場で触れてみます。「Moodleでコースを作り込んでみたい！」という気持ちを少しだけ我慢して、まずは「どんな機能があって、どんなことができるのか、具体例と合わせて説明できるようになる」ことが本ワークショップのゴールです。Moodleには様々な機能がありますが、教育実践の場においてどのように利用可能なのか、体験を通じて整理していきましょう。なお、コース内の作り込みについては、続くワークショップにて体験していただくことができます。

Moodleを素手で作りたい人、このワークショップがおすすめです。多くの人はVPS (仮想プライベートサーバ)を使用するには特別なスキルが必要だと考えていますが、これは真実ではありません。コピー・ペーストができますか? もしそうであれば、VPSをセットアップしてMoodleをインストールすることができます。すると人数・ファイルサイズなどの制限を気にする必要はありません。VPSとMoodleサイトを維持することの長所と短所について話します。必要な手順を説明し、2時間以内に100人の同時接続ユーザのためのMoodleサイトを立ち上げるために必要な要件を説明します。また、すべてのデータをプライベートかつ安全に保つためのファイアウォールと無料のSSL証明書の設定についても説明します。また、カスタマイズとその利点と落とし穴についても説明します。VPSとMoodleサイトの更新とメンテナンスに役立つ簡単なコマンドも紹介します。

In this workshop we will develop the skills you attained in the first one and add to them. Introduction of multimedia into Moodle, more detailed student and course management, and how to add resources and other activities will be covered here. For those that didn’t attend the first workshop but have a basic understanding of Moodle, you are welcome to join this too.

This is an online hands-on activity that aims to inform participants on what Mahara can do and how to use it. The 90-minute online workshop will take place via BigBlueButton made available by MoodleMoot Japan 2022 conference. During the event I will engage every participant in a bundled environment integrating both Moodle and Mahara. Each learner will access an online course "Mahara in 90 Minutes", which includes six lessons and six hands-on assignments. These lessons cover: Overview of Mahara, Creating in Mahara - ePortfolio pages and collections, Creating in Mahara - Plan and record development, Sharing with Mahara, Engaging in Mahara - Groups, and Assessment with Mahara - Mahoodle. The six assignments will guide participants to dive into the provided Mahara site and create their own ePortfolio pages, collections and groups. The course embraces the approach of creation-based learning and follows a novel online teaching model CLEAR (Create, Locate, Enlarge, Apply, and Reflect) by Dr. Jingjing Lin. It is also designed to be a self-regulated learning experience so that anyone can use it independently.

主に教師の立場で、コースページの管理と学習活動（課題、小テスト、アンケート等）のコースへの追加、評点や学生の学習履歴の確認を体験していただきます。（初心者ワークショップを引継ぎ行ないますので、全くの初心者の方は極力そちらのWSに参加後、こちらにご参加ください。）

同時に大勢がアクセスするMoodleを、パブリッククラウドを用いて構築するときの勘所について説明します。I will explain the key points when building a Moodle cluster with a large number of simultaneous users using the public cloud. 説明では主にAmazon Web Servicesの各サービスを使う例を説明しますが、考え方は他のパブリッククラウドを活用する場合でも応用できると思います。In the explanation, we will mainly explain examples of using each service of Amazon Web Services, but I think that the idea can be applied even when utilizing other public clouds. 学校の中にMoodleサーバを置く場合とパブリッククラウドの違い、パブリッククラウドへの回線接続方法、複数台のMoodleサーバを束ねるロードバランサー、高可用性を備えるデータベース、データを保管するストレージ、高速化のためのインメモリデータストア、などについて説明します。The difference between putting a Moodle server in a school and a public cloud, how to connect a line to the public cloud, a load balancer that bundles multiple Moodle servers, a database with high availability, storage for storing data, an inn for speeding up Describes memory data stores, etc.

This workshop is intended to help people get started using competencies in Moodle. After a brief discussion of what competencies are and why they are useful, participants will have an opportunity to try the following: create a competency framework, add a framework to a class, and connect a competency to an activity. Time permitting, the workshop will conclude with how to create a learning plan for students which encompasses competencies. . It is hoped that this surface-level introduction to competencies will provide a jumping-off point from which participants can continue to learn about implementing competencies in their classes.

Accessibility is key for all - teachers and students alike. This session will go through the key aspects of accessibility when creating web content. Traditional training works – however, for skills and awareness building learning by doing is important so this workshop will have attendees tackle key accessibility issues typically found in Moodle courses. The workshop will provide access to a course in Moodle for the attendees to improve both by using the core tools in Moodle and by using the Brickfield Education Labs Accessibility Toolkit. Attendees will learn more about accessibility and what the foundation stones are to a better Moodle course.

Do you want your students to interact with students from other countries but don’t know how to organize that? Do you want your students to not only use English as an “academic” language but to use it in real-world communication? If the answer is “yes” then join this workshop! The phrase "Global community" is used a lot but experienced by few students studying EFL. The International Virtual Exchange Project (IVEProject) is changing that. Over the last 6 years more than 30,000 students from 25 countries interacted with each other online via this project. These students now have a better idea of what it means to communicate with people around the world. This experience puts them in good stead to feel more confident in future international interactions. Students have authentic communication with non-native speakers and thus develop intercultural communication skills. Students often have to negotiate meaning and acquiring this skill is essential to developing better communication. Employers appreciate students with a better understanding of non-native English writing and speaking as non-native speakers will be the majority of people they will be communicating in English with in the coming century. In this workshop, the project will be outlined and some results from research done on participating students presented. The research shows students with low levels of English ability increase their interactional confidence, intercultural sensitivity, knowledge of their own culture, gain motivation to learn English, and are more interested in other cultures after participating in simple virtual exchange. The IVEProject is sponsored by the Japanese government and is therefore free-of-charge to participate. Participants in this workshop will then have a hands on session to learn how they and their students can participate. This session will showcase the Moodle features and extra tools developed for the project that help teachers and students gain the intercultural understanding and communicative competence that comes with active participation in the IVEProject.

This workshop will show participants how to personalize Moodle language strings on their own Moodle sites, and contribute to the translation of core and plugin language strings by using AMOS on the Moodle translation site. The base language of Moodle is English but currently, there are more than 100 language packs available for download and installation. These packs contain all the language strings that comprise Moodle core features, but they exist in varying degrees of completion. By making an account on the AMOS translation site, anyone can contribute to the translation of a language pack. In addition to core code, almost all of the plugins listed in the Moodle Plugins directory are also ready for translation in AMOS. While Moodle core in Japanese is mostly complete, some plugins remain partially or entirely untranslated. And, because some Moodle administrators in Japan will not install any plugins that are not wholly translated, there is some urgency in getting these plugins into Japanese. Moodle administrators can customize language settings on their own sites first and then upload the results to AMOS, or anyone with an account may stage proposed translations directly on the Moodle AMOS translation site. This workshop will demonstrate these processes, then invite participants to collaborate on the actual translation from English to Japanese of an untranslated plugin. Participants will thus gain hands-on experience at making Moodle “speak the language they want”.