Sharing with Moodle – Quality not quantity - Caitlyn Duggan at Moodlemoot AU 2014

1. 2 July 2014
Sharing with Moodle – Quality not quantity
Caitlyn Duggan

2. Western Sydney Institute
8 locations
Project: @WSI Business to
reduce duplication of effort
and improve the quality of
online courses
•Challenges
•Solutions
•Successes
•Reflections

3. BSBITU304 Produce Spreadsheets…
10 different versions
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About the project

4. Strong sponsorship – the push factor!
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5. Outcomes
• Twenty units available to be shared
across the Institute
• A consistent approach to course
development and a template
• A quality assurance process and
checklist – now in use across the
Institute
• A process for allocating enrolment
keys and group names
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6. Teacher:
“Lead developer”
Teacher:
“Reviewer”
Completed
checklist

7. Challenge:
Quality assurance

8. Challenge:
Quality assurance

9. Yes – you can do
that with Moodle…
Can we share
across
locations?
Can we get students
in automatically? Can we store validation
and improvement info?
Can we
communicate just to
the facilitators on the
course?

10. Challenge: Group management
Who is going to create
the groups?
How are groups and
keys named?
Enrolment officer employed
Agreed naming convention
2 days+ per
week

11. Group management

12. Challenge: Access and permissions
How do we distinguish
reviewers from non-
editing teachers?
Previewer role with
permission:
“Participate without
enrolment”

13. Challenge: Many facilitators
Once a unit is available,
how do prospective
teachers get to “have a
look”?
Developed a specialised
enrolment method “preview
for teachers”
Applied to all units

14. Challenge: Continuous improvement
What if a facilitator finds
a problem?
A hidden section in each unit
for facilitators

15. Solution: Hidden sections

16. Hide the hidden facilitators section using course settings
Allow non-editing teachers to view hidden sections

17. How to communicate
to teachers in eight
locations including
many part-time
teachers?
• Project updates
• Procedures for
getting group access
Use Moodle as a project
collaboration space
Challenge: Continuous improvement

18. Solution: Project collaboration site

19. Challenge: Capability development for facilitators

20. Successes

21. Reflections
• Communication is the key
• Document everything
• Test everything
• Don’t expect everything to be perfect the first
time
• Resource the project

22. What’s next?
Developing a
facilitator guide for
new Business
Services teachers

23. What’s next?
Other Business Lines
looking at how to
reduce duplication
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24. What’s next?
Template being
refined and used for
our mix+match
project
Smart and skilled