A Training Program, organized by LEARN. This program aims to enhance professional communication by focusing on effective and courteous email practices a vital competency in today’s workplace. The training will commence on 16th September 2025 and run for six weeks until 21st October 2025, with sessions scheduled every Tuesday from 10:00 to 11:00.
An on-line workshop sessions on 7, 21 November and 5 December. Instructor: Dr. Nimal Ratnayake.
For details see the public announcement.
Over 150 tasks and auto-corrected assignments in entry level programming
In their book Programmieren lernen (Learn to program) [out of print, PDF] and its accompanying web site Programmieraufgaben.ch (Exercises in programming) Philipp Freimann and Martin Guggisberg teach programming through numerous exercises. Authentic examples encourage students to solve them independently. They learn to connect different aspects of programming and create programs that run. All exercises are formulated independently of a programming language. The book is suitable for self-study as well as a supplement to computer science lessons.
This Moodle adaptation we convert the original tasks in to automated grading Moodle assignments in the form CodeRunner and Virtual Programming Lab (VPL) activities and VPL question type.
> More in the public announcement.
2 June 2024. The workshop material is now available on self-learn basis to the registered users of the site.
This webinar on the question type Formulas, was conducted by its lead-maintainer Prof. Dominique Bauer of ... Montreal, Canada. It is now available as a self-learn course for the registered users of the site.
Format of the webinar: There are preparatory exercises that need to be done before the webinar. You can enter the course starting from 3 February 2024. For those who want to dive deep, there are hands-on exercises with guidance. Please consult the detailed instructions in the course homepage.
Course schedule
- Sa 11 Nov 2023: Unit 1. About LAMP. Getting ready, live session
- Mo 13 Nov 2023: Unit 2. Get your Moodle site up. Initial configuration, self-study
- Th 16 Nov 2023: Unit 3. Install additional plug-ins, security considerations, live session
- Sa 18 Nov 2023: Unit 4. Take a site backup, upgrade your site, self-study
- Mo 20 Nov 2023: Unit 5. Restore a Moodle site from a backup, self-study
A 3-day, on-premises, intensive workshop organized by LEARN in collaboration with EduNET.LK. Venue: From 7 to 9 February 2023, IT Center, Univeristy of Peradeniya
This workshop aims to train the participants, starting from a fresh Moodle site, to set it up to suit their organization and also to take the responsibility to run the site as its site administrator.
This is an instructor-led, on-premises workshop with a heavy hands-on component. In three full days, totaling six sessions of 3 hour duration each, the participants will be guided through a series of short inputs and comprehensive hands-on exercises on practice Moodle sites.
Learning outcome: After successfully completing the workshop the participants will be able to:
- customize the site’s appearance to suit their institution
- plan and implement the user authentication method(s)
- plan and implement the course category hierarchy to meet the needs of the curriculum and handle the end-of-year transition
- plan and implement the enrolment method(s) of users in the courses, also streamlining the procedure through global groups
- manage courses, specifically backup courses, restore them, archive completed courses
- extend Moodle through additional plug-ins
- continuously monitor the site for its health
Target Audience: Moodle LMS administrators of LEARN member institutions
Prerequisites for the participants:
- The participants should be familiar with using Moodle either as a student or a teacher or both
- The workshop includes practical sessions providing hands-on work for the participants, and the participants must engage in and complete them.
- The participants need to bring their own laptops with wireless capability, running a modern browser such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Apple Safari in their latest versions.
Assessment and completion: To complete the course you need to complete all the activities marked by a completion button. Some activities are automatically marked as completed by the LMS and others will be manually marked by the instructors.
Upon successful completion of all the compulsory activities you will be awarded a certificate.
Instructors: Mercy Anandakumar (LEARN), Ganganath Harischandra (Faculty of Veterinary Science), Dhammika Ihalagedara (Faculty of Dental Sciences), Visvanath Ratnaweera (EduNET.LK)
Infrastructure support: Deepthi Gunasekara (LEARN)