Putting Moodle to Work Steve Rayson, Partner Mark Aberdour, Chief Executive

Agenda What is Moodle and who uses it? What you get with Moodle - and what you don't How you can use Moodle - Example implementations Licence free but investment you need to make 5 top tips and 5 key mistakes to avoid Moodle community support

What is Moodle and who uses it?

What you get with Moodle - and what you don't

How you can use Moodle - Example implementations

Licence free but investment you need to make

5 top tips and 5 key mistakes to avoid

Moodle community support

What is Moodle? Open Source LMS/VLE Linux/Windows/Mac Used by Open University Widely used Poll 2

Open Source LMS/VLE

Linux/Windows/Mac

Used by Open University

Widely used

Medium & Small Companies E-learning Guild Research – April 2007

10% of surveyed companies use Moodle in the US

10% of surveyed companies use Moodle in the US

Moodle Growth

How many active Moodle developers are there? How many community users are active answering questions each month on the Moodle forum? Is it available in different languages?

How many active Moodle developers are there?

How many community users are active answering questions each month on the Moodle forum?

Is it available in different languages?

Moodle Some Facts Development team size 130+ active developers Customer base 47,600+ registered sites serving 22m users 293 registered sites with over 10,000 users Open University: 3590 courses and 452,000 users Localisation 75+ language packs available Popularity 70,000+ downloads per month Nearly 500,000 registered community users Community growing at 850 users per day 30,000 active on the community site each month

The Open Source advantage No licence costs Avoid vendor lock-in Mitigation of vendor collapse or product discontinuation Enhanced reliability Fixes and patches get to market more quickly Ease of customisation Did you know that 24% of commercial LMS buyers want to change platforms? They cited a number of key problem areas: out of the box functionality management reporting ease of customisation inflexible data models and architectures rapid return on investment vendor service and support (Bersin, 2007)

No licence costs

Avoid vendor lock-in

Mitigation of vendor collapse or product discontinuation

Enhanced reliability

Fixes and patches get to market more quickly

Ease of customisation

Did you know that 24% of commercial LMS buyers want to change platforms?

They cited a number of key problem areas:

out of the box functionality

management reporting

ease of customisation

inflexible data models and architectures

rapid return on investment

vendor service and support

(Bersin, 2007)

Why do companies use Moodle?

How companies use Moodle

Four Key Moodle Uses E-learning launching and tracking Facilitating learning Discussion forums Chat rooms Wikis Supporting classroom courses Online performance support centre Sales academy

E-learning launching and tracking

Facilitating learning

Discussion forums

Chat rooms

Wikis

Supporting classroom courses

Online performance support centre

Sales academy

What you get Fully featured VLE/LMS Robust Scalable Customisable Easy to use Supported – free and paid

Fully featured VLE/LMS

Robust

Scalable

Customisable

Easy to use

Supported – free and paid

What features does Moodle provide?

What features does Moodle provide?

Features Upload range of content e-learning packages word documents pdf documents audio video web links Functionality includes full tracking calendar discussion forums chat rooms RSS feeds blogs wikis groups

Upload range of content

e-learning packages

word documents

pdf documents

audio

video

web links

Functionality includes

full tracking

calendar

discussion forums

chat rooms

RSS feeds

blogs

wikis

groups

Ease of Use Moodle modular with many components Simply turn them on and off as needed Create side blocks for news, promotions, links etc. Move side blocks with click of a button Change look easily Add resources easily

Moodle modular with many components

Simply turn them on and off as needed

Create side blocks for news, promotions, links etc.

Move side blocks with click of a button

Change look easily

Add resources easily

Case Studies

What do you need to spend money on?

Moodle Investment Hosting & back up Customise look and feel Reporting Course set up Admin and tutor training Bespoke modules

Hosting & back up

Customise look and feel

Reporting

Course set up

Admin and tutor training

Bespoke modules

Top Tips Start small eg sales academy Customise look and feel Use variety of media Let tutors run their courses/areas Integrate other tools eg Slideshare Youtube Surveymonkey News feeds

Start small eg sales academy

Customise look and feel

Use variety of media

Let tutors run their courses/areas

Integrate other tools eg

Slideshare

Youtube

Surveymonkey

News feeds

Community Support Moodle is a community project Great support from the Moodle community www.moodle.org

Moodle is a community project

Great support from the Moodle community

www.moodle.org

Resources www.kineo.com

Try It www.kineoopensource.com