Unlike Valentine’s Day in primary school, Moodle 3.4 leaves no one behind. With new features improving the usability for all - learner, users and administrators, you can easily start tackling the challenges of engagement and efficiency. You asked for expert advice on how these new features can help your organization improve. So, we’ve invited our resident LMS expert, Ben Young, to guide you through the best of Moodle 3.4. You can expect demos and a focus on features from this webinar.

1. ACCELERATE LEARNING PERFORMANCE
Moodle 3.4
A Love Tale of Engagement,
Time Saving Heroes, and
Magical Usability

2. Housekeeping
• Sound and Audio
• Poll Questions
• Q&A at the End
• Presentation Recording and Slides
• Post-Webinar Survey

3. Today’s Speakers
Ben Young, Lambda
Director of Learning Solutions

4. Improved User Experience
● Navigation
● Easier Editing
● Blockless
Increase Engagement and Productivity
● New Course Overview Block
● User-Friendly Messaging
Time Savings
● Linked accounts
● Calenard Improvements
Agenda

5. #
Poll Question
What is your experience level with Moodle?
❑ What is a Moodle, is it kind of like a dog?
❑ I’ve used Moodle before but would consider
myself a beginner.
❑ I’ve used Moodle before and feel comfortable at
the helm
❑ Expert level / Master of the Moodle worlds

6. #
Moodle Overview

7. #
Improved User Experience
● Why is User Experience Important?
● What are some ways Moodle’s new features
address these deterrents?

8. #
Poll Question
Rate the importance of user experience for your
organization(1 - unimportant, 5 - very important)
What areas within “user experience” do you want to
improve first?
❑ Productivity
❑ User engagement
❑ Reporting on measures that affect user experience
❑ I don’t know

9. #
Boost
● Navigation
● Administration Tabs
● Blockless
● Easier Editing

10. #
Easier Activity Navigation
● Previous and Next Activity Links

11. #
Boost Demo
● Navigation
○ Flat Navigation
○ Admin pages (tabs)
● Blockless
○ Zoola updated for 3.4
● Easier Editing in a course
● Activity navigation - Next/Back

12. #
Poll Question
Rate your current state of user engagement (1 - very little, 5
-outstanding!)
Have you started implementing strategies to increase user
engagement?
❑ Yes
❑ No
❑ I don’t know

13. #
Increase Engagement and
Productivity
● Why is engagement and productivity
Important?
● What are some ways Moodle’s new
features improve engagement and
productivity?

14. #
New Course Overview Block
● Student View: Past, Present, Future
● Instructor View: Assignment Grading

15. #
User-Friendly
Messaging
● User-to-User Messaging
● Notifications

16. #
Demo New Course
Overview Block
● Student View: Past, Present, Future
● Instructor View (grading)
● User-Friendly Messaging

17. #
Poll Question
What are some common challenges when using your LMS?
❑ Data Entry
❑ Pulling Data from my LMS
❑ Skills set required to use my LMS
❑ Creating reports with my LMS
❑ Time it takes to learn my LMS

18. #
Time Savings
● How can Time Savings be achieved with
Moodle 3.4?
● What are some ways Moodle’s new
features address these deterrents?

19. #
Linked Accounts
● Stronger integration with Google G-Suite
and Microsoft Office
● Assignments

20. #
Calendar Improvements
● Better Calendar Management
● Drag-and-Drop Events

21. #
Demo Linked Accounts
● Google sign-in
● Assignment submission
Calendar
- Category events
- Drag and drop

22. Assign Training to Groups
• Use rules to group users
• Assign groups to learning
✓
Summary

23. #
Improved
User Experience
● Navigation
● Blockless
● Editing

24. #
Increase Engagement
and Productivity
● New Course Overview Block
● User-Friendly Messaging

25. #
Time Savings
● Linked Accounts
● Calendar Improvements

26. #
Q&A

27. Follow Up
• Recording & slides to follow
• Resources
• Post-webinar satisfaction survey

28. Upcoming Webinar and Master Class
Master Class:
Embed and Breakfast: Displaying Data for the People
February 22, 2018
10 am PST
https://go.lambdasolutions.net/embed-display-data-zoola-lambda-lms
Webinar:
How to Make Compliance Programs Simple Yet Effective
February 28, 2018
9 am PST
https://go.lambdasolutions.net/compliance-competency-program-effective-la
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Ben Young, Lambda
Director of Learning Solutions