Lambda Solutions Webinar | Moodle 3.3 a New Experience
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Are you ready for the power of Moodle 3.3? Moodle is a powerful learning management system which is widely used by academics, corporations, and non-profits to build online courses and eLearning programs around the world. Moodle themes let you quickly establish a great looking platform, without too much development time and resources. Moodle 3.2 and 3.3 have introduced newly designed theme templates that improve the user experience.
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Lambda Solutions Webinar | Moodle 3.3 a New Experience
- 1. A C C E L E R AT E L E A R N I N G P E R F O R M A N C E Ben Young Director of Learning Solutions Moodle 3.3 – A New Experience
- 2. Housekeeping • Sound and Audio • Poll Questions • Q&A at the End • Presentation Recording and Slides • Post-Webinar Survey
- 3. Today’s Speaker Ben Young Director of Learning Solutions
- 4. Agenda • Overview of the legacy theme • The new Moodle 3.2 Boost theme • New community themes based on Boost • New course overview block • New User Tours • Tips and Tricks
- 5. # Poll Question #1 Are you using an LMS as part of your training program? We have an LMS, and are happy with it We have an LMS, but want to improve costs and efficiency We do not currently have an LMS, but are doing our research
- 6. # A Look at the Past
- 7. Legacy Theme • Navigation resides in the blocks • Blocks used heavily through the site • Dashboard and course navigation is only presenting enrolled courses
- 8. Legacy Theme
- 9. Legacy Theme
- 10. Legacy Theme
- 11. Legacy Theme
- 13. Moodle – Boost Theme Focus on Improving the user experience and accessibility • New theme called boost • Better navigation • Improved messaging • User menu • Changes to blocks
- 14. Moodle – Boost Theme Demo of the new Moodle Boost Theme
- 15. Moodle – Boost Theme
- 16. Moodle – Boost Theme
- 17. Moodle – Boost Theme
- 18. Moodle – Boost Theme
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- 20. Moodle – Boost Theme
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- 22. Moodle – Boost Theme
- 23. # Poll Question #2 If you are using Moodle what version are you currently on? Moodle 3.3 Moodle 3.2 Moodle 3.1 Moodle 3.0 or lower Don’t know Not using Moodle
- 24. # Poll Question #3 Do you like the new design direction taken by Moodle in comparison to the legacy theme? Yes, love it I like it but feel it could be improved Neutral I dislike it and prefer the legacy theme Strongly dislike it
- 25. # New Community Themes Based on Boost
- 27. Moove Theme Demo of the Moove Theme
- 28. Moove Theme
- 29. Moove Theme
- 30. Moove Theme
- 31. Moove Theme
- 32. Moove Theme
- 33. Moove Theme
- 34. Moove Theme
- 35. Moove Theme
- 36. Moove Theme
- 37. Essential Theme Demo of the Essential Theme
- 38. Essential Theme
- 39. Essential Theme
- 40. Essential Theme
- 41. Essential Theme
- 42. Essential Theme
- 43. Essential Theme
- 44. Essential Theme
- 45. Essential Theme
- 46. # Poll Question #4 From the review of the Moove theme and the Essentials theme which do you like more? Moove – hands down Preferred Moove theme but also liked Essentials I actually liked the Boost theme (first shown) Essentials theme – without a doubt Essentials theme but I also liked Moove
- 47. Configurable Theme New Course Overview Block
- 48. Course Overview Block • Quick access to upcoming assignments and activities • Overview of course progress • Sorts courses using a timeline approach
- 52. # User Tours
- 53. User Tours User tours provide learners a guided tour of the different features of a Moodle site. • Automated Tours • For any role • Library of tours https://moodle.net/mod/data/view.php?id=17
- 54. User Tour
- 55. User Tour
- 56. # Poll Question #5 How important is the theme to your organization when considering an LMS Highly important it must capture the brand and have a intuitive layout Some what important as long as it captures the brand Not that important
- 57. # Poll Question #6 How important is the usability and user experience when selecting an LMS? Highly important, the site must be easy to use and navigate Some what important, our users are tech savvy and will figure things out Neutral
- 58. # Poll Question #7 Does your current LMS meet your theme branding and usability expectations? Yes, my expectations and needs are being fully met Some what, my theme and usability expectations are being partially met Neutral No, my theme and user experience is far from meeting my expectations
- 60. Recognizing the difference between theme and content Theme Content • Controls the overall colors • Controls the overall layout • Styles HTML Tags such as H1, H2, H3, P • Dependent on the Moodle Framework • Is independent of the theme • Offers some degree of control over layout within the content area • Content is usually static
- 66. Assign Training to Groups • Use rules to group users • Assign groups to learning Summary
- 67. Summary The new Moodle experience • Shift from blocks on the left and right sides • Improved “flat” navigation • Improved messaging and notifications • Improved course overview block • User Tours
- 68. Assign Training to Groups • Use rules to group users • Assign groups to learning
- 70. Lambda Solutions Totara & Moodle are 80% more cost effective Managed cloud hosting reduces your IT operating costs by more than 40% Over 12 years of experience and 600 customer implementations
- 71. Healthcare & Education Clients
- 72. Corporate & Technology Clients
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- 74. Follow Up • Recording & slides to follow • Resources • Post-webinar satisfaction survey
- 75. Your TOLL FREE +1.877.700.1118 EMAIL SALES@LAMBDASOLUTIONS.NET WWW.LAMBDASOLUTIONS.NET Contact Us
Editor's Notes
- Overview of the legacy theme The new Moodle 3.2 Boost theme (menu, user menu, message and notifications) New community themes based on Boost New course overview block New User Tours Tips and Tricks (theme vs content, responsive design, frameworks
- Lets look take a look at the past and present to understand the future better. We will be able to use this prospective to compare and understand what is new.
- The course overview block up until Moodle 3.1 displays to a learning only the courses he/she is enrolled in and does not take into account the state such as past, present and feature.
- There are many great community plugins and theme’s for Moodle and we would like to highlight two community themes based on the Boost theme that bring to Moodle users a great experience. Moove – maintained by Willian Mano Araújo, is a modern theme that focuses on being simple and places the emphasize on content by hiding blocks until they are needed. This allows for maximizing the space available for your learning content. Like Fordson the Moove theme offers a configurable homepage. https://moodle.org/plugins/theme_moove Essential – maintained by Gareth J Barnard, is a clean and customizable theme. Essential is tested and tried by thousands of users, and ranks number one by site usage for all available third party themes https://moodle.org/plugins/theme_essential
- The new course overview block provides users quick access and visibility of upcoming assignments and activities. For instructors this works with the flipped approach of showing upcoming assignments to grade. The block has been organized to show a user the courses that have been completed, are currently being worked on (in progress), and future courses based on upcoming enrollment dates.
- The course overview is displayed on a student's dashboard and displays two tabs: Timeline and Courses. The Timeline tab can be sorted by dates or by courses. When sorted by dates, sections for Recently overdue (if applicable), Today, Next 7 days, and Next 30 days display. Students can click to go directly to a required item - for example, 'Add submission' to submit an assignment. When an activity such as an assignment is submitted, it is no longer displayed. For items not yet open, greyed out links are shown. This screenshot shows the timeline sorted by dates:
- Switching to the Courses view, the student then sees activities filtered by course, with a percentage completion icon. This percentage shows how many of the activities with activity completion settings have been completed so far. This screenshot shows the timeline sorted by courses:
- If the student clicks the Courses tab instead of the Timeline tab, she can then view current, future or past courses. This screenshot shows current (in progress) courses: For courses to appear in the 'Past' section, the course end date must be in the past or the course must be completed. For courses to appear in the 'In Progress' section, they must be not yet completed and the current date must be after the course start date. The current date must be before the end date, or there is no end date. For courses to appear in the 'Future' section, the student must be enrolled in them even though the course start date is in the future.
- User tours provide learners a guided tour of the different features of a Moodle site. Automated Tours – it is possible to setup a tour to appear based on rules such as on first login, when entering a course, or viewing the grade book For any role – the tours can be setup for any role; however, it is most commonly used for instructors and learners Library of tours – a library of tours can be used as templates to get up and running quicker
- A welcome tour for a learner upon entering a course for the first time.
- The tour continues to highlight features in the course such as the Search Forums block.
- A theme can control the overall colors applied to a site and layout. The theme CSS usually targets HTML tags such as H1, H2, H3, P and utilizes the Moodle framework to generate the overall structure and layout of pages. Content is added within a Moodle site either on the front page or courses and if designed well works in combination with the theme to achieve a look and better use experience. An easy way to check if something is content based or theme based is to switch the theme and see if the page still appears the same, displays the same content and images. Think of it like clothing, a person can switch his or her clothing to get a different look, dress in a different color but when it comes down to it they still have arms, legs, etc. That is much like themes. Theme Controls the overall colors Controls the overall layout Styles HTML Tags such as H1, H2, H3, P Depends on the Moodle Framework Content Is independent of the theme Offers some degree of control over layout within the content area Content is usually static
- Look for how the theme handles this. Build content so that it works with responsive design by using well formed HTML and when using images use the class="img-responsive” tag, this should be automatic when adding an image with the Moodle text editor. When using tables realize that there might be a need to horizontally scroll, to best handle this your theme should apply the CSS style of “overflow-x:auto”. This can also be done directly in the table by switching the text editor to HTML mode and adding the style="overflow-x:auto;” CSS style to the table tag directly.
- Working with existing frameworks? Bootstrap, Font Awesome? What are these Frameworks? Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web
- Font Awesome gives you scalable vector icons that can instantly be customized — size, color, drop shadow, and anything that can be done with the power of CSS.
- Moodle 3.3 also now has stronger font awesome integration.
- The premier open-source LMS solution for reducing the cost and raising the impact of your online learning and training is Moodle, With 85 million users across the globe, Moodle is the most-widely used learning management system by organizations of all types. Moodle is a user-friendly, highly-configurable, and a feature rich LMS that enables organizations to achieve their learning goals. Moodle provides the system for organizations to build or upload content, assess learning, collaborate with others, and manage user accounts. Because of Moodle’s large community of followers and its rich features, it is one of the LMS’s Lambda uses for our clients. To help extend the reporting of Moodle, Lambda has developed a reporting and analytics platform called Zoola which complements the reporting capabilities of Moodle.
- If you require a little bit more, if you’re not in education - there is Totara - which extends off of Moodle, Totara provides the functionalities of user management and organizational structure. This allows for learners to be marked with metadata such as a position and then sent down a path of learning. Because of manager and learner relationships that can be set, Totara also offers the ability to for managers to track and follow a learner's process easily.
- What does Lambda do? We specialize in cloud-based hosting of the learning management systems Moodle and Totara. With these two LMS, clients benefit from powerful, flexible and open source solutions that are feature rich with mobile and social applications. Totara and Moodle are 80% more cost effective and match leading competitors feature for feature. Our agile service team implements scalable deployments to reduce your IT operational costs by more than 40%. Lambda’s cloud hosting is unparalleled for security and reliability with our 99.99% uptime commitment Your set-up time to use your LMS is days, not weeks, with 12 years of experience and over 600 customer implementations. Our highly responsive customer HelpDesk saves you time and money. Our Moodle experts provide support, training, integration and custom development..
- Well-known organizations like Google, Safeway and Four Seasons use open source learning management. Here are just a few of the companies that use our technology. One company that we’d like to highlight is Rutgers University. Rutgers uses a Lambda hosted instance of Moodle to deliver learning for their Biomedical and Health Services programs. Three things that Rutgers were looking for in an LMS were flexibility, cost savings, and speed and reliability. Using Moodle Rutgers was able to benefit from full control of their Moodle site, with ability to build in features and functionalities that were unique to their student needs. Rutgers also experienced both time and cost savings, compared to what they invested in their previous hosting provider
- Here is some of the corporate clients Lambda has worked with.