 Hello and welcome everyone to our session. Get started with Moodle Cloud Admin with Mary Cooch, Education Manager at Moodle HQ, myself, Helen Foster, Community Manager at Moodle HQ. Great to have you with us. And in a moment I'm going to pass over to Mary who will give you a presentation. And whilst the presentation is going through, please feel free to ask any questions about anything you're not sure of, either in the big blue button chat for those of you with us here or if you're watching this on the live stream in the forum discussion thread. Then once Mary's presentation is finished we'll have a nice question and answer session and we hopefully be able to have time to answer all your questions. Okay, thanks again and over to you Mary. Thank you Helen and welcome everyone. Thanks for the introduction. So as Helen said, I'm going to be presenting some slides introducing you to Moodle Cloud Basic Admin. It's quite long but we do want to intersperse it with some questions and answers and then at the end, anything that we've missed or we haven't covered we will both of us answer questions then. So you might want, if you like, if you're new to Moodle, you might want to have either a real piece of paper in your old fashioned way, an old fashioned pen or a virtual notebook just to make a few notes because as we go along we will be giving you some hints and some useful links to websites and documentation and so on. That might help you. So first of all, I'd just like to ask the people in the big blue button chat here and we already had in our room we already had this question and we got some answers there. Could you please, if you're in this chat post one or two or three, one if you never use Moodle, two if you hardly ever use Moodle or three if you regularly use Moodle. Now those people who are watching the live stream you can also post we have an activity in our course. When I looked just beforehand I noticed that there were fewer people who'd never use Moodle and there were a few who regularly use Moodle. If you regularly use Moodle I hope you won't get too bored with this but you're very welcome to help Helen and me answering the questions. This is for utter and complete beginners in Moodle. I'm seeing a mix of ones and twos and threes here. Let's get started then. This is for complete beginners and as all the presentations will be recorded we are hoping that this might be useful for people who come to Moodle Cloud later on in the year as a quick starter to begin. It's important to realise that if you never use Moodle there's actually two sides to using and learning Moodle. There's the administration side which is where you decide what your Moodle site or your Moodle Cloud site looks like and you bring teachers and students in and you put materials on for them to learn or you set up the place but then there's the actual teaching so how can you motivate your students what sort of activities would they best like? Now today's session today's beginner session is about the administration side hence the name get started with Moodle Cloud admin for the teaching side that's a whole different area so I just want to say that tomorrow at the same time tomorrow we're going to be doing a session get started teaching with Moodle so you won't be learning or exploring anything about teaching activities here just how to set up the areas and get students in. So obviously you can't do any of this unless you have a Moodle site and there's various ways to get a Moodle site if you are a technical person you can actually just download it yourself it is entirely free for the whole world which is why it makes it the best learning management system if you want if you want someone else to do the hard work for you you can pay a Moodle partner our certified partners and then they will give you a customized Moodle site depending on what your needs are however we are going to focus on the very very quick and easy and up-to-date Moodle Cloud so Moodle Cloud is basically a Moodle site made for you by Moodle HQ so the people who make Moodle and if you go to MoodleCloud.com you have various options that you can choose from you can simply start with a free trial you just have to give your phone number it's not used for anything and then within a couple of minutes you are given your very own Moodle Cloud site it's as easy as that and many many teachers and other educators in this last few months of COVID have done just that and what happens when you sign up and when you've got your link is this this is the first thing that you see when you click on your new Moodle site and assuming and hoping that you remember the administrator name and the password that you set up you then log in and this is where we've discovered Helen and I, we've discovered that people who aren't particularly technical who've never been in charge of a whole learning management system themselves before do tend to struggle a bit which is why we wanted to do this session so if we log in then the first thing you see when you log in and this is genuinely a brand new Moodle site is this so on the left hand side this is what's known as a navigation draw and you have things for example a calendar a dashboard when you're using your site a bit more it's like a personalised page and in the centre here I just want to draw your attention when you first log in you'll see a little course or a page called Introduction to Moodle which has a few hints and links for you if you've never used Moodle before and we aren't going to look at it feel free to look at it if you want to if you have a Moodle cloud site but do be aware that as it says it's hidden and Introduction to Moodle is actually greyed out and so don't try putting teaching materials in there because students won't see it only you can see it but rather than focus on that we are actually going to take a look at the basic site admin by clicking Site Administration so when we click this link which is going to be the most popular link for you what happens next is oh my goodness we get all of these tabs, users courses, grades, plugins all of these Emily I'm just spotting perhaps if you you might need to maximise Emily has typed in the big blue button chat that she can only see my webcam but not to see my screen so I'm just wondering Emily if you might need to maximise the big blue button screen sharing try bottom right there's a little cross hairs icon okay I'll carry on, thanks Helen so if this is a bit too much for you then do note there's a search button here and if you just type something that you want to know type it in there it will take you to some useful places where you'll be able to more easily find it and of course we're not going to look at all of these that will be too much so we're just going to focus on the absolute minimum of getting started on Moodle Cloud so I'm going to get you involved again and people who are in the chat you might like to type a number if you're watching the live stream just think to yourselves in your head what order do you think would be the best to do this supposing you've just got a brand new Moodle Cloud site what do you think you should do first do you think number three should you make your front page attractive and all the sites in fact make it look nice do you think number two should you get all of the students and possibly teachers on the site should you number one should you add your teaching materials or is it something that I didn't think of so I put a number four if you're watching the live stream you think I'm getting a lot of different ones here three three two one four quite a mix actually now it is arguable that number three could be a good one to start with you want to make your front page attractive I personally am going to start here by doing it in exactly this order number one number two number three because I don't see the point of adding the students and teachers until we've actually got some teaching materials for them because yes you could make your site attractive number three but we'll leave that to last because we just want to get started teaching so how do we do it right well we can't just start by getting our power points and our word documents or whatever it is and putting them on the site and that's it it doesn't work like that so if you're brand new to Moodle and to Moodle Cloud admin the first thing to realize is that if you've got some teaching materials you want to share with your students you've got to put them in an area on the site in the in the face to face world if you can remember that far back we used to call it a classroom or a learning space and the Moodle term is a course and actually this is can be confusing because I remember when I first started using Moodle in 2006 in a high school I thought well I don't want to teach a course I just want a place to teach my students we don't do courses we have to teach them from September until July but basically course can be just a page that you use to share learning materials with learners or students in fact in this global site they're actually called rooms as a matter of fact and you can if you want to order them into categories so you might for example be a languages teacher and so you would want to have a languages category in which you could have courses in French Spanish Chinese and number four you might think well isn't that a bit obvious teachers teach students learn I think I know that this relates to the understanding of what Moodle calls roles as we'll see a little bit further on if you have a teacher role in a course you can add the materials delete then modify them if you have a student role all you can actually do is just learn submit your work join in conversations so how do we add a course a course looks like something like this now there are many different ways that courses could look but I wanted to show you this is a fairly typical one the first thing to notice is that it's got a different background it's got a blue background that's because as we'll explore when we do number three making your site attractive you can change the way it looks we've got the navigation draw down there and the bulk of the teaching materials the teaching content is in the central area there and then over on the right at will a teacher can add other blocks these are called blocks which add extra information to the course so that's the kind of thing that you'd be aiming for and if you're interested in how all of these work then come to our session tomorrow on getting started with Moodle it's interesting to look at these boxes you see the tick or checkboxes here these are a useful thing to have activated because they help the teacher and the student to know their progress through a course and what they've completed so we're going to add a course so that we can put our teaching materials on it and so we need to go to site administration and then we go to the courses tab and remember if that's too much to think of just type it in the search box and we actually have a few here that say course so let's take a look at each one at a time here right upload courses well upload courses they need to know what it means to see whether you want to use it or not this is where if you've got in your head a list of different courses or subjects you want to put on your Moodle site you can make them in a spreadsheet you're basically uploading course information on a spreadsheet which you save as a CSV file a text file and then when you upload it from there Moodle creates them automatically that's fine if you're going to have a lot and you save them as a CSV file but we're just going to do one now another one to pay attention to is restore course so restore course is if you've got a Moodle course perhaps a colleague gave it to you from another organization perhaps you did one of our learn Moodle basics MOOC or another Moodle training with a Moodle partner and your takeaway was a Moodle course which you're keen to put on your site that's where you click to get it restore course the next one is add a new course and that is the simplest way to just make an empty space to add your teaching materials and because we're into Moodle admin Moodle cloud admin basics that's what we'll do so we click add a new course and we simply fill in the form it's fairly self-explanatory and if you get stuck click the question mark icons for more help so we give it a full name and a short name it can be the same if they're not too long anyway scroll down fill in other details as we scroll further down you can give it a description and you can give it an image the course image we've got a swan here note that will display on the dashboard of people who are enrolled in the course and sometimes depending also on your front page however you've got that set up further down and there are lots of sections which you can click to expand and get more information about we're not going to go through all of those but I do want to point out that if you're an admin or a teacher on a Moodle cloud site or any Moodle site at the bottom of your page you'll see Moodle docs for this page and this is a very very useful because if you ever get stuck and you don't know what you're doing then click there and it will take you to some context specific documentation and explanations as to what to do so assuming we know what we're doing here we click save and display and we actually go to a place called participants this here this is the link in the navigation draw because Moodle expects once you've made an empty course to start adding students or teachers to it which I'm not quite sure that's a good idea since they would be coming into a completely blank course but to do it you can click the enroll users button here we're going to look at this a little bit in more detail later but what we could do for now is we could actually add ourself this one single admin on this Moodle cloud site as a teacher in our very first course it's not the best way to do it you're probably better making a completely separate account but we're going to just add ourselves Alex admin is the person on this Moodle cloud site that they got 10 minutes ago give themselves a role of teacher if you're an individual Moodle cloud user and you're the only admin then you could add yourself as a teacher or make a teacher account because then the course will appear on your dashboard you'll be able to find it quickly and you'll be notified if students post messages or submit assignments so we'll do that for now and see Alex admin is now a teacher in the course and then it says proceed to content ah well we don't have any course content because we've just made the course and in order to add anything such as our wonderful powerpoints or word documents or videos we need to turn on the editing you either do that by clicking the button turn editing on or in some Moodle versions and at the moment this is Moodle cloud but shortly it will change you can click this cog icon here and that also will enable you to turn on the editing but we're not going to go any further down that route because that is heading into teaching with Moodle and that's something that we're going to do tomorrow so we're just going to take a step back now we've actually made a course where we can add our teaching materials so we've fulfilled number one on the list so I'm going to add have a little quick check here think the answers to yourself there's no need to type anything in the chat if you're on watching the live stream think the answers and I'll show them to you shortly and if you want to try these yourself then these activities they're called H5P are in the course so which link do you press to create one new empty course and the answer is you press the link add a new course which everyone got I hope next one which link what do you click to upload a course from another Moodle site so you've done a Moodle training course and they've given you a copy of it and you're keen to put it on your Moodle cloud site you need to click restore course and the last one if you want to bulk upload so course information so you've got a list of courses and you've put them in a spreadsheet how would you have to save your file to upload that course information and I did remember to say it if you were paying attention and the answer is a CSV file okay so we're moving into the second part now we've got our learning space we've got our course we've got our tutorials tomorrow and then assuming we know how to do that we're going to look at number two getting your students and teachers on to the site and this again and the reason why we wanted to do this session on getting started with Moodle cloud admin is because this is something that confuses people very much you need to understand about roles in Moodle and then you need to understand about how precisely you can get into a Moodle course so you could argue that Moodle is very dictatorial because there is one person who can do absolutely everything that is the administrator that's you with your Moodle cloud site they can also do absolutely everything and delete absolutely everything and cause mayhem so if you're going to have a colleague who's also going to be the administrator think very very carefully about adding an extra admin it's useful to have one if you go on holiday or something but not too many then everyone else is just called Moodle terminology an authenticated user so there's no such thing as actually adding a teacher to the site or adding a student to the site you don't do that you add a user who is when they have an account authenticated then when you go into a course then you give people roles in courses so a teacher and remember we saw that right at the beginning a teacher or to be more precise they're called an editing teacher is the one that goes in and does the teaching they can add and modify the teaching materials they can grade the students they can see the logs of what they've done in a role called a non-editing teacher and that's a bit like a classroom assistant so they can help you grade students but they can't actually change or delete anything and then if you give someone a student role in a course then they will submit their work and they can study your materials so these are only in individual courses you don't make them throughout the whole site and before anyone says yes you can but the very very few reasons why and when you would do that so let's just have a quick check I'm going to read it out this little quiz which is again as Helen posted in the chat these are also available in the course we to try and see as I go through if you can remember the wording it's actually really important to understand this in Moodle all new users in Moodle are they do not have a teacher or student site wide you have to add teachers and students to and think carefully if you want to add another and I'm just going to show it to you rather than repeating it there so authenticated users you give them roles within a course if you want another admin just think carefully because you don't want them to delete all of your hard work okay so now we come on to two key words in terms of getting started with Moodle cloud admin and those two words are authentication and we heard that in authenticated user and enrolment enrolment is felt with one L if you're British by the way so two Ls if you're American so it's not a spelling mistake and it's important to understand this in order to know how to get students into courses I'll just read it out and see those people who know it already in order for learners to access your courses they first need an account on your site and this process is called one of those two then they need to be given access to the course or courses they will study in and this process is called and both of these courses are required so it's a two step process authentication getting them onto the site enrolment getting them into a course now you can if you know how to do it and it's beyond the range of our getting started with admin session you can actually do both of those in one by doing clever things with a spreadsheet and a CSV file but we'll just take a look at it one at a time because we just want to keep it simple to get started so we're going to look at authentication first of all and that's adding users as they're called to the site just getting them onto the site because at the moment in this which is called my new Moodle site did you notice we haven't even given it a name yet all Moodle cloud sites are called my new Moodle sites until you actually change their name in order to add a user we need to go to the users tab and then we've got two here that are worth exploring so we've got add a new user and that is actually just the same as when we went to add a new course so it takes you to a form that you fill in with the individual details of one user which is very good if you only have a handful of people but if you've got a long list of people just like if you have a long list of courses then you'd go to upload users and fill in their details and upload them with a CSV file which is exactly what the Moodle tech people here did for the global Mood uploading over a thousand users we didn't go it one at a time it was done like that so let's just have a look at a couple of useful things to know here if you click the add new user link and then you start filling in the details of one individual user do you notice there's a thing here which says generate password and notify user this is really useful because it basically means that you don't have to then go and email them or telephone them or write them a letter they will automatically get an email saying you've got an account this is your password login and so if you're going to do it manually one at a time tick that box and you can also force them to change their password once they've logged in if on the other hand you want to add a lot of users in one go in a CSV file and you're going to use the upload users then this is very handy if you go to that link there's a downloadable example of the kind of file you need so all you have to do is to change the details for the people that you want on your Moodle site that's how to do that now you might be thinking yeah but all of that's too much work I've seen like for example on learn Moodle where people just go and make their own account I don't have to do anything manually as the admin how can I do that or you might be thinking that you've noticed in some sites that you can just sign in or create an account with your Google or your Microsoft account so we'll have a quick look at the bare minimum of how you can do those especially this one creating a new account because then you don't have to do the work as the admin so remember that this is called authentication so we need to go to our site administration and we go to plugins it doesn't matter why but Moodle is Moodle is modular and it's made up of lots of modules called plugins authentication plugins being an example of one so if we scroll all the way down we see available authentication plugins it just means ways of getting users on the site and I've highlighted too I've highlighted what's known as email based self registration which is simply the name for people create their own accounts on your site and if they do you've got to be very careful about potential spammers you can have various ways to restrict people by captures and so on so once you don't get anyone logging into your site creating an account when people use this they will get an email and be aware that sometimes that email goes into their junk box or their spam box so they might need to be explained to them you simply open the eye of email based self registration and there are a couple of other settings as well and then they'll be able to create their own accounts on the other hand if you want them to log in via Google or Microsoft or Facebook then you need to enable something called OAuth2 and we're not going to go into detail about it because it's more complex for this session it's just to show you that those are the other alternatives and we're hoping that this beginner session will make you want to go and explore some of the other options that are available to you okay a quick check so I'm going to read it out and you can think the answer to yourself you have to select which of these statements is or are true and there might be more than one so if you want people to sign up to your site themselves this is called email based self registration if you enable this think about security and spam risks and your new users will need to confirm their account via an email link and of course they're all true they're all correct all of those three okay so with some sort of we've got people on the site now we need to get them into our course and this again this is where we need to understand the bitters of what an admin can do and you are the Moodle Cloud admin and what a teacher in the site can do so as an administrator you can bulk and roll teachers and learners or students with a CSV file we're not going to show you how to do it here but you can do it and it's good news if you're going to have lots of students even if you have the free trial Moodle Cloud site you still have enough students there or the possibility of enough students to want to find out how to do that alternatively you as the administrator you can go into a course and directly through the enrol users button you can add them individually now if you're a teacher in the course so you don't have these admin rights but you can you can enrol students directly into the course and very important as well you can let them enrol themselves which is kind of like the course equivalent of signing up to the site or email based self registration so we're just going to look briefly at those so if we go back into the course and you remember we were here right at the start just after we made this one course and there is a link called participants and if you click the participants link then you will see the enrol users button I've got two numbers here number one and number two so I'm going to deal with them both so number one you might remember that we clicked this one just to enrol ourselves as a teacher not ideal but you can do that so if you click enrol users then you can enrol any other people who you've made accounts for or who've got accounts on the site and as an admin you can enrol them as a student for example now the other alternative is if you click where number two is this cog or gear icon you've got something called enrolment methods and the reason you might want to go there is so that your students can find themselves into your course so you don't have to do the work and if you click enrolment methods you've got self enrolment and it's grayed out it's grayed out that means that it's not available so you can open its eye you can actually do other things as well so other things that you can do is you can click these settings or the little gear icon and you can set an enrolment key which is a password to the course so only people with that password or enrolment key can enter the course you can also set a limit to the number of people who can join your course if you've got a course limit for example you can allow guests to access the course by opening that the few things you need to think about if you're doing that but that's the way of getting them to get into the course themselves here's another quick question for you and if you want to try this for yourself it's in the course and this is a good example of an H5P activity because it's like a hotspot so you need to click where you think you'd go to enable self enrolment self enrolment is when you allow a student to enrol themselves into a course so would you click number one the enrol users button number two to find them here or number three in this cog or gear icon and hopefully you're thinking and you're hoping that I'm going to click number three because that is the right answer click there enrolment methods and self enrolment right so we've actually made a course and we've signed up for tomorrow's get started teaching with Moodle session to create some teaching content we know how to get students into the course into the site into the course so the only thing left is to have a think about how we can make not only the front page but the site as a whole more attractive if you don't think that Moodle cloud is attractive anyway and then there's something else I don't actually have anything to something else now we're just going to to answer questions afterwards so let's take a look now remember when you first log in to your Moodle cloud site as a new Moodle cloud admin first thing you see is that it's called my new Moodle site so we're going to have to change that and then the second thing is why can you only have the login box why can it not be like some of these fancy sites which have lots of attractive things well if you are using Moodle cloud one of the restrictions very few restrictions but one of them is that you do just have the login box by default when people have logged in so when they've got accounts and they signed into your site you can then make your front page attractive but by default you'll just see the login site so we're going to log in as a Moodle cloud admin and now remember we've made our course basic English that's one image that we added depending on how many courses you have you might see images on your front page you might not actually want this display anyway so we're going to look at how we can change the front page display and how we can change its name from my Moodle site so of course we need to go to site administration and scroll all the way down and if you think that's too much effort just type front page in the search box and we get to front page settings and remember on a Moodle cloud site these are for when you're logged in if we go to front page settings the first thing that we want to do is to change the full site's name and the short name to something that's meaningful to us instead of my new Moodle site ours is just called cloud control central we have a site called Mount Orange it could be any name that is appropriate to you to your organization or it could just be Mr Jones Moodle site whatever you can give it a summary and beware though that doesn't appear in the central area of your front page there's a different way of doing that this summary would only normally be seen in a side block and as you scroll down you've got various boxes which allow you to decide what you want to show on that logged in front page for example a list of available courses that's well and good but what about these rather well I actually like the circles very much but what if you wanted a different background what if you wanted different colors well for that we need to go back to site administration and we need to look in the appearance tab and everything that's going to help you make your front page and your site look attractive is found in the appearance tab and this is where we can see themes so themes are the background or the skin of a Moodle site and as a Moodle cloud admin you've got extra themes to what everyone else has when they first have Moodle so boost and classic are the two standard themes that everyone gets when you have a Moodle site in Moodle cloud you also have Moodle cloud and school we're using the boost theme that's the one that comes as normal that's the one within navigation draw here so we'll explore that one you can change themes from clicking theme selector but each of these themes has its own page where you can change its settings and if for example if we click into the boost theme settings page there's a lot that we can do so for example I'm sorry I've made this small I've made it small because I wanted to get a lot into it we can for example you can see some upload box here background image so if we uploaded an image here then these circles would change to like the blue we had in an example site I showed you or anything you want you can play around with that you can also change colors from this color scheme here so you have text and links of a different color and if you understand about theme presets and we're getting advanced here which is a marker to me to start winding down if you understand about presets then you can go to and you'll click on the links to an area we have with some example boost presets or theme presets which you can use in a dot even better if you understand a bit about coding can you see where it says advanced settings if you click there you can add some extra coding to customize it even more but we are just getting started with Moodle Cloud admin so we're not going to go down the road of advanced settings instead what we're going to do is we're just going to finish off by suggesting where you can get help with Moodle and then in the last few minutes answer any other questions and so on so the benefits of the Moodle community is that it's global and it's full of free help and even with Moodle Cloud site there's lots of free help so first of all if you want to know more about Moodle admin basics and this isn't only for Moodle Cloud this is for all Moodle sites go to learn.moodle.org because there we have a free MOOC or a free online course all about Moodle admin basics and you'll learn much more than we can do in this short hour okay that's always available there's Moodle, there's learn.moodle.org we also have a MOOC for teachers that's for tomorrow then if you want free support if you have a question go to our Moodle.org community forums and I'll show you the link there and we have forums in different languages and also we have documentation in many languages and we have some admin basics documentation as well so all of this is free and you're very welcome to go and join us for questions this is Moodle.org and you see where my hand there, community forums when you click community forums that will take you to a list of languages and you can choose your language and engage with that and literally if some people's hobby just answering questions particularly for new Moodle admins if you think this is good but I don't really know what a course is like, I don't understand the ways of setting it up why not go to our Mount Orange school demo site, this is a demonstration site that sits link there and it's set up as a school at 8 to 18 but that doesn't actually matter because everything it uses applies to any kind of learning or training situation and you can log in as a manager or a teacher or a student to delete everything and then every hour on the hour it's reset so you don't need to have any concerns about breaking anything because we've got a hidden site somewhere in cyberspace that will replace it back to normal at the end of the hour in fact if you wanted to try this it's always better to try it at about 5 past or 10 past the hour before other people around the world have tried so do try that and if you want inspiration then we have archive.moodle.net is the link to a site where for example you can get some theme presets if you want to try those under the free content and as Martin mentioned in his keynote we're hoping that very soon Moodle.net Moodle.net will be the place to go for connecting with other Moodle admins or Moodle users and so on so that was quite quick but we can add the links in fact Helen has already added some of these links into our course as it is so I'm going to stop there and I'm hoping that Helen will join me now with a few minutes left and to ensure that we finish before the end as well just to see how you found it and if you have any questions we can answer and my cat is finally decided he wants to go out so I'm just going to let him out. Well thank you very much Mary for your presentation I think you must have answered lots of questions as you were going through because I checked the forum and there's no new questions there but there was just one question from before your session from Tony and Tony asks can anyone log into Moodle cloud i.e. is it the same as we would have logged in for the Moodle Moodle site Well everyone has their own Moodle cloud site really which is cool so you have your own login to your own Moodle cloud site so it's quite secure and safe for you and it is a different login from for example the login that you might have for this Moodle Moodle global or a different login for if you go and join Moodle.org and join our community there I hope that clarifies it. I do hope if you haven't got a Moodle cloud site that you go and try it even if you try the free trial which is great for giving you some experience. Okay any more questions you're very welcome to ask them if you're in our big blue button room read out the questions for those watching on the live stream otherwise feel free to ask the questions in the forum discussion Even afterwards as well Okay Emily is asking how are desired plugins installed Oh do you want me to answer that? Sorry you want me to answer Sorry you want me to answer I thought we could alternate Alternate Okay alternate my turn Well with Moodle cloud one of their restrictions because you're getting the site hosted for you is that you can't install extra plugins so if you have extra plugins that you really want to use on your Moodle site the answer is to go to a Moodle partner and ask them to help you with hosting or another alternative is you could organize hosting yourself if you were very technical What is good to know though is that Moodle cloud does include some very very useful plugins in it which aren't standard we particularly like one called group choice for example and there's a retro quiz space invaders game these are these are part of Moodle for school paid sites and they're very good and a few other plugins as well Thanks Mary So we have another question from Neville saying I'm a Moodle user but there are lots of other teachers using Google Classroom What would you say to teachers to help them consider converting to Moodle from Google Classroom I would say that well I mean there are a lot of people who have issues with the BMR that is Google and with privacy and giving your identity and your soul to Google whereas with Moodle it's completely different your data is yours I would suggest that they get a basic free trial Moodle cloud site as an individual because it gives them so much more possibilities than Google Classroom I know Google Classroom is quite straightforward to begin with but there's a lot less you can do with it and we do hope that people will join us not only tomorrow but on Thursday and Friday when we show you all of the possibilities of Moodle we're very very keen that people who are not familiar with Moodle understand how to use it like with this session for example which will go on YouTube and anyone can watch it and get started quickly with Moodle or with our two MOOCs on Learn Moodle because your data is better it's better for your students and there's more things that you can do with it basically and I think Kelly's agreeing with me there I would consider the privacy of Google Thanks Mary I remember that so you say your name pretty name there saying hello what about games on Moodle well there's lots of possibilities with games on Moodle and gamification when you when you get into it and yeah I really encourage that you come along to other sessions to learn more about games in Moodle Yes and if you have Moodle for schools like as I said there is something called Quiz Venture which is a built in game that you can use with quiz questions so it's a learning game as well and there are other ways of playing games in Moodle whether that's a good idea or not depends on your learners but yeah there's lots of options so oh Monica's asking what is the time limit for recording sessions on Big Blue Button and how many times are the records available in Moodle Cloud I think once you've recorded something in Big Blue Button and it's available on your course for you to see as many times as you want to I'm not sure about the time limit because Big Blue Button is an example of a plugin that comes with Moodle Cloud Moodle for school so it's not part of Moodle so we're not as familiar with it as we are with Moodle I think we'll finish in a few minutes because Helen and I need to be in another room on the hour actually yeah let's try and finish up the last couple of questions though remember if we didn't have chance to answer your question or if you have any questions after this session which can be likely then a field boot post in our forum Emily was just saying would we see what games are installed if we can see the plugin list that's right on your site as an admin if you've got Moodle for school you can see the plugins that are installed including the one that Mary mentioned about the quiz I think it's called that's right yes and is that the answer to Eileen's question what was the name of the activity that you can use in Moodle quiz maybe that quiz venture yes Kelly is just posted a good link unfortunately we can't share that link with people who are watching the live stream so do post in the forum if you have any questions because that's a really great place for sharing links and as Mary mentioned in our course area for this workshop we've also added more links for helpful resources and places you can go I've also added a link which I will add in our course which is a link to the which shows you the plugins available on Moodle cloud if you expand where it says plugins you'll be able to see quiz venture and other plugins which Moodle cloud, Moodle for school users have so I think we'll so thank you very much everyone for joining us in this workshop and a big thank you to Mary for your presentation and we hope it's helped you to get into the idea of Moodle cloud admins thank you