Moodle Centers Cordoba It is a highly qualified platform that has been implemented throughout the entire town with the aim of facilitating access to the educational level for all students, in addition to optimizing administrative processes that are carried out daily in an educational establishment. As well as this, there are currently many other platforms that are offered to institutions with the aim of modernizing the administrative process and also evolving the way in which these are carried out.
Moodle Centers It is a platform with a national presence, which is why for this segment we will be knowing what it is about and how it is managed specifically in the city of Córdoba.
Origins of Moodle Centers, What is Moodle?
To get into the matter, it is important to first know what the Moodle tool is about and how it has been merged with centers. In definition, Moodle is a digital platform for purposes related to learning management or virtual classroom developed as free and open source software.
The purpose of this platform began being addressed to teachers where they can access a platform that allows them to create great educational communities online, this with the aim of improving content management, student-teacher communication and evaluation processes.
Although this platform is already used mainly in distance or blended learning, it can be easily adapted as a support tool in face-to-face classes. The main functions of Moodle are based on the possibility of sharing educational resources such as, presentations, images, videos, links, texts, among others. Also works as a communication channel between the teacher and students to teach activities, resolve doubts and even carry out evaluations.
Moodle Centros Córdoba and the distribution of this platform nationwide.
The merger of these two platforms arises thanks to the Ministry of Education and Sports, which makes the platform available to all institutions covered by public funds. Moodle Centers, the one that since its inception has been housed and served centrally from the Central Services.
Moodle Centers Cordoba, is a platform with an inclination towards free and open source software learning management that is developed with the aim of supporting teaching staff and encouraging them in turn to create large online educational communities in order to quickly and digital content, evaluations and other tools to all its students. It also has a functional design inspired by cooperative learning and constructivism.
This distinguished platform currently has a presence in large areas of Spain, including Huelva, Seville, Cádiz, Málaga, Granada, Jaén, Almería and, of course, Córdoba.
Platform versions and inclusion of mobile application.
Since the first launch, the Moodle Centros platform has integrated new updates where in each of these new functions and tools have been implemented. For the current year, Moodle Centros 21-22 is the update available, the one based on version 3.11 of Moodle, which includes HTTPS access and the possibility of operating through the mobile application.
To operate on this platform, each educational center has a independent category on what you have access permissions to be able to autonomously manage and administer the information emptied from the institution, as well as the evaluation modality and educational content.
When starting each course, the system records it cleanly without leaving a trace of the course or previously stored information. For this reason, it is of the utmost importance, in case teachers do not want to lose the previous information, to make data backups every time a school year ends and, if necessary, to perform a data restoration at the beginning of a new year.
The previous version of Moodle Centers Cordoba that is, 20-21 is still available for data backup purposes only. It is important to highlight that this version is only available temporarily and that to access it you must visit the Centers 2022 website.
How to activate Moodle Centros Córdoba 20-21?
For the activation of these modules that from the beginning will appear closed, you must request the opening of this to the Our team for the Moodle 20 space to be activated. In addition, the following must be taken into account:
- The member of the management team must have their IDEA credential in order to access and later perform the activation.
- Once accessed, you must press the option “Request Moodle space” and then wait for your approval.
Main functionalities of Moodle Centros.
This platform has great functionalities at an educational and administrative level, however, in terms of development there are various installation conditions and modules purely for administrators. Based on this argument, these specific functionalities and modules are:
Users module:
With access only for administrator at the software level, and it is where the roles are defined within the platform. This system is anchored with Seneca, which is why if you want to disable any type of user, it is not necessary to do so manually.
- Teacher user: This type of user is allowed to access the platform with their IDEA username and password. In the system, this type of user is called Manager.
- Student user: For this access, students must enter the platform with their PASEN credentials.
Classroom/course module:
By default, the platform generates two types of rooms or classrooms to start the user management process: the center's faculty room (teachers) and the center's meeting point (teachers-students). Due to the large amount of content and important teachings to impart, the teacher has the power to decide how many rooms are going to be created and these can be generated through "Classroom Management".
These rooms are created completely empty, and it is the teacher's task to migrate the programmatic content that will be taught or a backup of existing courses. A manager on the platform has the possibility to create new courses and categories that are not associated with Senecas.
Additional extensions to the platform:
The school, in this case the inclusion of new extensions is not allowed or functionalities on the platform, and in case you want to improve the site, it is possible to generate a request and through the evaluation from the Innovation Service can be taken into account. In these cases, Moodle Centros already has the following extensions installed:
- Text Editor Extension (Atto/TinyMCE)
- Video conferences with WEBEX
- Platform internal mail module
- Questions Wiris, Geogebra, MathJax
- Google Drive and Dropbox repository
- HotPot and HotPot Question Import, JClic
- MRBS (Meeting Rooms Booking System) reservation block.
- H5p (Interactive activities)
- Marsupial (allows to use publishers' digital materials in Moodle)
In case of having incidents when manipulating the platform, those that have to do with development, the user has the possibility of reporting the problem through the specialized technical support from Moodle Centros. Also for usability, the same platform has users manuals depending on the type of user to manipulate.
