The comprehensive training course is a free online course covering the A-Z of all things Great Barrier Reef and how best to share that knowledge with visitors.
Designed as a primer by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, the course aims to inspire people to learn more about the Reef, how valuable it is and how to deliver accurate information about it in an interesting and memorable way.
This course is suitable for anyone with an interest in the Great Barrier Reef and a passion for discovery.
It consists of 10 modules and is a one-stop-shop course that synthesises and describes the Reef's World Heritage values and the latest science and management information in a contemporary format.
Accessing the online training system
The Moodle training system has migrated historical user accounts from the old ILIAS system for the purpose of keeping previous records of completion.
If you previously accessed online training for any of the above courses, you can activate your migrated learning account in the new Moodle system and access the new 2024 versions of all courses to refresh your qualifications.
If you have never before accessed our online training, you can easily do so yourself by creating an account and accessing the new 2024 versions of all courses to begin your training.
For new users wishing to sign up to the Reef Discovery Course, follow these simple steps:
- Access the Moodle site to create an account here: https://elearning.gbrmpa.gov.au/login/index.php
- Click on “Create new account” which opens the window below
- Fill out the boxes. Note that Organisation is not compulsory, but we kindly ask that you include it because it is extremely useful for assisting GBRMPA in identifying and linking users with different program requirements.
- Click on “Create my new account”
- Login and click on “Catalogue” at the top of the page to see the open enrolment courses.
- Self-enrol in the required Eye on the Reef courses, being Introduction to Monitoring, Tourism Weekly and Reef Health & Impact Survey.
- The special “Reef Discovery Course – Master Reef Guide” copy of this course is not able to self-enrolled because it is only for nominated Master Reef Guides. Please state in an email that you have been nominated for the Master Reef Guide Program and send to reefdiscoverycourse@gbrmpa.gov.au This is so that we can tell apart program nominees from all the general public applicants we only want to be accessing the ‘Surface Skimmer’ copy of this course.
For existing users wishing to access the Reef Discovery Course, follow these simple steps:
- Access the Moodle site to activate your migrated account here: https://elearning.gbrmpa.gov.au/login/index.php
- Click the Lost password link underneath the Login button.
- In the “Search by email address” type in your email address that you were using in ILIAS and do not type anything in the username field.
- Click Search.
- If the system finds your email address, an email will be sent to that email address to reset your password.
- Use the link in the email to Login using the temporary password.