New user, planning Trainer & Group profiles

I am familiar with Joomla, but not so much with Moodle and Joomdle. My plan is to create a sign up for 'trainers' and 'trainer groups' with form requirements then after those are met, testing requirements before being accepted. Any direction would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Shane, sorry to say, I am not quite sure what you are trying to achieve.

- Signup for trainers and trainer groups sounds ok using various extensions.
- testing requirements before being accepted - you dont say how being accepted nor what the requirements are.

What would be useful is the objective of groups from joomla perspective. How will they be used?

If you just want to collect the data but have not affect in joomla, you could just collect this information using user profile fields, registration forms (may options available here).

Also you do not indicate if there is a relationship between those groups and joomdle / moodle.

I would like the groups to have an option of accepting trainers. So single trainers and then groups that have 1 - many trainers under the group. Maybe even single trainers could have a group name to simplify things, and they are the admin for that group, able to accept other trainers.

I would like to give these trainers privileges based on an approval by the Super Admin of the whole website at two levels. One is based on them turning in important information needed before testing and the second will be based on them passing their training and tests.

I hope this makes more sense. I would like to use the least tools needed, starting with Joomla and using Joomdle if it makes sense. With that said do I need to install Moodle as well, or does Joomdle component handle this?

Joomdle and Moodle are very different. Joomdle is only a tool to connect and integrate Joomdle and Moodle.

I think a good place for you to start would be to better understand what the three tools can do for you.

With regards to accepting trainers, etc. you do not really specify what you are accepting them into. Just a group? Then what is the purpose of the group? Is there a course? An application? etc.

Thanks for taking the time Chris. I was given a project and am figuring out the plan as I go, so pardon the vague questions. I was hoping to create groups as my core feature needed, then focus on how to make them trainers.

I ended up getting the Community Builder Pro for these features as it looks like there is a way to tie into Joomdle if needed. What I would need is the ability to have a full online training with different levels. The top level would be Groups that have one or more trainers that require online training themselves. Next would be those that need to be trained (students) that take less online training and are trained (live and online) by the trainers and trainer groups.

I know it gets a little complex, I might have to create a flow diagram with those requesting this to really understand myself.

OK sounds good. Personally, I would start by understanding Moodle and seeing how you are going to work with your students. Once that is done you can consider Joomdle to integrate it with Joomla. There really isn't much point in looking at it from the other perspective until you have worked through the content.