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Innovate Design, assessment and practice using Moodle 2.5 - Gideon Williams
1. Innovative Design, Assessment and
Practice using Moodle 2.5/2.6
Gideon Williams, Director of eLearning
Perins School, @gideonwilliams
2. A Brief History…
Small Rural Secondary
Alresford, Hampshire
11-16 school
1,100 students
72 teaching staff
3. Setting the Scene
• All teaching staff with laptop (3yr cycle)
• Digital projectors in every room
• All users with school/home email access
• Moodle (VLE) since 2004
• Mahara eportfolios since 2007
• 1:1 notebooks for students since 2008 (98% uptake)
• Managed site wide wireless network
• OneDrive on notebooks
• Flexible broadband filtering (100Mb)
• Led by a Headteacher willing to take risks
4. Setting the Scene
• Moodle is internally hosted at Perins
• Externally supported by WebAnywhere
• Full time elearning support officer
• 5 “administrators”
– Head of eLearning
– Assistant headteacher (Teaching and learning)
– eLearning support Officer
– ITServices manager
– WebAnywhere
• All staff are course creators
• Moodle is part of staff CPD and Department targets
66. Next Steps: Assessment
• Developing Mahara ePortfolio evidence for all
KS3 units of work
• Linking SIMS MIS to Moodle and Assessment
• Creating the Gradebook for Core subjects
• 4 core features
– Consistency across Department
– End of unit Assessment
– Mahara ePortfolio results
– Teachers markbook to Offline gradebook
