As in other locations, Moodle Centers Seville has ventured into the educational field within this town with the aim of improving its processes. In addition, it promotes the inclusion of technological tools for teaching long-distance classes and courses, one that allows students with other obligations to access their classes from anywhere.
Moodle Centers, has taken on the task of being the number one platform at the educational level, offering institutions the possibility of managing all their processes digitally and the possibility for their teachers to expand their educational community with online rooms. Next, you will learn what this platform is about and what its benefits are at an educational level.
Moodle Centros, number one educational platform in Spain.
Platform Moodle Centers is the one available for any of the Spanish provinces based on educational management and developed in Free Software totally free. This educational system arises from the need to amplify and introduce technological tools in the educational process of institutions, reasons that increased with the arrival of the global pandemic by Covid-19.
Once this platform is installed in the institution, students and teachers can access it with their IdEA credential according to the type of user on the global platform. However, this was separated by provinces in order to provide greater autonomy to the institutions, for this reason, to enter you must go to the link of the corresponding province.
This popular platform in times of pandemic was considered a tool to be able to teach long-distance classes and courses and contribute to blended courses. However, currently it can be taken into account as a digital and technological support in face-to-face classes.
Moodle Centers It is available in most of the institutions supported by public resources located in the provinces: Córdoba, Málaga, Huelva, Cádiz, Granada, Jaén, Almería and Seville, offering total autonomy of content, evaluations and modalities to all institutions.
What does the Moodle Centros Sevilla platform offer?
As you might suppose, Moodle Centers Seville It has a wide variety of modules that at an educational level are used effectively by each of the campuses. In addition, the latter are divided into segments allowing to avoid the clash of institutions or the possible leak of content, evaluation methods, among others. Among the features of this system are:
User Management:
In this case, the platform is divided into users for teachers; who can enter with their credential. And the user for the students; where it is possible to enter through your PASE identification.
- The teacher user:
It allows access to several tools, which highlight functionalities on a personal level and already in educational terms. On a personal level, this platform allows you to modify registration data such as language, forum settings, text editor settings, course preferences, calendar preferences and notification preferences.
At an academic level, this type of user can create new rooms or course blocks, enroll students in courses, register for newly created courses, self-register, and divide courses into groups.
- The student user:
This type of user only allows modification on a personal level, as well as inclusion in new courses if desired.
Management of classrooms or virtual education rooms:
This module can only be modified by the teachers' users, however the user for students can access it, being able to know the content, the number of students entered in these, the evaluations and classes virtually. This module called virtual rooms is the one where teachers can add educational content in the form of different resources to teach the subjects.
In addition to this, within this module, the evaluation modality of each content must also be added. Other functions that can be carried out through these virtual classrooms are based on the creation of new rooms, configuration of the rooms, the possibility of creating subgroups within the room, adding activities and resources for study, activation of the course mode, holder the course, add forums to the course, add labels, files and tasks to the course, add digital books, among other functions.
Management of video conference rooms:
Moodle Centers Seville It has a segment of virtual rooms that at the teaching level are quite effective for teaching classes. This platform allows teachers to schedule video conferences shared with the students and thus promote the inclusion of distance classes in a more direct way.
In this module, the teacher can carry out activities such as creating videoconferences and configuring them, the latter includes the programming and duration of the same.
Management of course backups:
Being a platform Moodle Centers Seville which is constantly updated, the creators of this grant the possibility to educational users to make backup copies of what is taught in a course. Nevertheless these copies are made without any user data because currently that option is disabled, but it is possible to perform the backup just by going to the option “Security Copy”.
Course Restoration Management:
If the teacher has created a backup of previous courses, it is possible to course restoration in a new room. This option is implemented with the objective of not losing the programmatic content taught in a previous course and having to teach it again in a new year.
To do this, it is only necessary to go to the room where you want to place the restoration, go to the configuration icon and press the option "restore" and follow the steps relevant to this action.
Room reservation management:
This segment is called room reservation block and it is the one that allows teachers to reserve spaces, and just by accessing this module the manager can easily reserve a room where he can configure the period for which it is needed, the time, the course, among others.
Internal email.
This is a segment to which all types of users have access, and it is that channel through which the communication between teachers and students. Located in the upper right part of the screen and that works as a chat to solve doubts and concerns, this icon also turns red when there are unread messages.
Extensions:
Institutions are currently not allowed to install extensions for both additional applications and formats or new tools if they are not approved by the creators of the platform. Despite this, the platform comes with a large number of plug-ins that can be used by all its users. These include extensions that allow you to design or embed different types of activities and games: H5P, Games, JClic, HotPot, GeoGebra, Wiris, and others.
Training users digitally:
For the use of the platform Moodle Centers Seville, the same company provides a series of user manuals for all types of users to accelerate the process of adaptation and usability of the platform. They also have a technical support team that allows to solve problems related to the software.
