This document discusses enhancements to a university's Moodle homepage and course pages to improve the student experience and retention. It proposes displaying forum posts and course information on the homepage, upgrading from Moodle 1.x to 2.x, focusing courses onto single web pages with all relevant information, and adding features like self-enrollment between years and easy access to tutor contact details. Screenshots demonstrate examples of the current and proposed updated student and staff views.

1. Enhancing the My home page to
display forum postings and more
Andy Syson, Coventry University, UK
a.syson@coventry.ac.uk

2. Background
• New Vice-chancellor
• Target - an enhanced student experience and higher
student retention figures
– New Library
• Eco friendly
– New course focused approach
• Upgrade from Moodle 1.x to 2.x

3. Lanchester Library
Student retention - the story

4. Lanchester Library
Student retention - the truth

5. Course focused
•?

6. Moodle Hub v1.9

7. Senior management proposal
• Abandon individual module webs
• Have one big course web

8. View from my office window

9. View from my office window

10. View from my office window

11. One wish

12. Solutions
• My home -> My course
– Course Directors feel they have ownership
Course focused block
– Brings together all information in one compact block
• Teacher links block
– Self enrolment in to next year’s module
• e-Module boxes
– For external examiners prior to visit

13. • Play video

14. Demo
• Login to Coventry Moodle
• Login to Local Moodle

15. Student view
• Show ‘Move to’
– Only for none Universe modules
• Moodle assignments
– Roll over to view details – also in calendar
• Your tutors
– All tutors plus contact information
• Student profile
– Additional profile fields

16. Staff view
• Show ‘Move to’
– For all modules
• Edit office hours
– Easy to update
• Course web
– Edit summary text – post to the news forum
• Module web
– Teacher links & e-Module boxes

17. Jenkins - a sorry tale

18. Jenkins - before

19. Jenkins - after

20. Thank you