Redbridge London MLE Training

2009 - 2010

To book your course - email Tina Pennells on tina.pennells@redbridge.gov.uk

or register directly on www.redbridgepdc.org.uk
Contents

Fronter Administrator: Basic (Optional Certification)..................................................................................3

Administrator Course: Intermediate Certification’.......................................................................................3

Fronter Administrator: Advanced................................................................................................................4

Teaching and Learning with the MLE: Inspiration for Early Adopters ..........................................................5

WebFronter .................................................................................................................................................6

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Fronter Administrator:
Basic (Optional
Certification)
Are you new to Fronter, or maybe
completed your Fronter Administra-
tion training a while ago and feel the
need for some updates?
This one day course is open to all new Fronter Admi-
nistrators as well as any previously trained Adminis-
trators who want to refresh their skills. We will take
you briefly through all the basics, then focus on some
of the areas we know from experience, new admi-
nistrators tend to feel less sure about. At the end of
the course, you may opt to take the assessment unit
which leads to Certification at the Basic Level.
By the end of the ‘Fronter Adminis-
trator: Basic’ course, you will be able
to:
• Confidently administer all areas of your Fronter
space
• Manage members of your rooms /
communications groups
• Set up and design a range of useful settings for
your members
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Administrator Course:
Intermediate Certification
Are you a confident Fronter
Administrator feeling ready to take
your skills to the next level?
The ‘Administrator Course: Intermediate’ is open to
those who have completed the initial 2 Day Fronter
Training programme (and /or the Basic Level course
outlined elsewhere in this brochure) and covers a
number of areas which are not visited during that
training. This course will be assessed and leads to
certification at the Intermediate level.
By the end of the ‘Administrator
Course: Intermediate’, you will:
• Understand how to use the ‘settings area’ to an
enhanced level
• Make improved use of inherited rights and access
rights
• Have enhanced knowledge of using Fronter to
read /send LGfL Staffmail messages
• Make more efficient use of the Fronter calendar
(import/export routines)
• Be more aware of the capabilities of the design
tool
• Be confident in setting up parental accounts
• Have improved understanding of personal and
room tool bars
• Have a good working knowledge Fronter
templates and how best to use them
• Make more effective use of the resource booking
function
• Be confident in the routines associated with user
account generation
Fronter Administrator: Advanced
Are you a very confident Fronter
Administrator looking to take your
skills to the top level ?
The Fronter Administrator: Advanced’ course is open
to those who have successfully received certification
at the Intermediate level. At the end of the course,
trainees will take an assessment which leads to certifi-
cation at the Advanced Level.
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By the end of the ‘Administrator
Course: Advanced’ you will be able
to:
• Create, manage and manipulate Webforms for a
variety of ‘enrolment’ uses in school
• Create, manage and manipulate Infofronter for
selecting and publicising parts of your learning
environment to other areas of the internet – such
as existing school homepages.
• Efficiently administer the ILP tool for individuals
and groups
• Define and locate administrative errors and
manage error correction (eg, finding and
amending lost accounts)
• Effectively manage assessment grading
Teaching and Learning with the MLE: Inspiration for
Early Adopters

Did you take up Fronter in the early By the end of the ‘Inspiration for
phases? Looking for new, fresh ideas Early Adopters ’ course, you will be
now? Need to be updated on some of able to:
the later functionality?

The ‘Teaching and Learning with the MLE: Inspiration
for Early Adopters’ one day course will encourage
you to stretch your knowledge of Fronter through
discovery and exploration of a selection of tools
which may currently be unfamiliar to you, including
newly released ones, to create engaging, informative
activities which will inspire your students. The trainer
will accept requests from trainees before the course,
so that the day can be focussed as much as possible to
provide real relevance and benefits for busy teachers.
Use an extensive range of online tools to plan, deliver
and track a variety of online learning and planning
activities. The suite of tools covered will depend on
preferences expressed by trainees, but will include
updates on all the major new tools of the last two
Fronter releases.

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WebFronter
Does your school need its own new
website? Have you been asked to
create one? Not sure where to start?
Book on to the ‘WebFronter’ course, and you will be
shown how to use the tools inside your London MLE
environment to create an engaging, informative, easy
to manage website for your school.
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By the end of the ‘Webfronter’
course, you will be able to:
• Confidently approach simple webpage layout and
design
• Upload and update your webpages
• Manage basic site maintenance and development
Recommended for: Teachers (and/or Admin staff)
responsible for creation and management of their
school’s website, who are already confident users
of the Fronter learning platform.
Redbridge London MLE Training 2009-2010

Course title Duration Dates Price per delegate

Administrator: 08/12/09 £95

9.30am to 3.30pm
Basic 15/06/10 £95

11/11/09 £95
Administrator: Intermediate 9.30am to 3.30pm 06/01/10 £95
11/06/10 £95

Administrator: 27/01/09 £95

9.30am to 3.30pm
Advanced 18/06/09 £95
Teaching &
18/11/09 Free of charge
Learning with the MLE:
Inspiration for Early
9.30am to 3.30pm 24/03/10 Free of charge
07/07/10 Free of charge
Adopters

24/11/09 £95
Webfronter 9.30am to 3.30pm
03/02/10 £95

Venue info:
All courses will take place at the Redbridge Teacher Centre, Melbourne Road, Ilford, IG1 4HT

Course duration:
All courses in this brochure take place during one full day

To register your interest, or find out more about any of the courses, email tina.pennells@redbridge.gov.uk
or, register directly on www.redbridgepdc.org.uk

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 More than 100 tools for teaching and learning online

Personal work &

Portfolio
Learning &
Teaching

Set-up &
Administration

Collaboration &
Communication

Publishing

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