Moodle Moot 2012: Just 2 - look what she can do!Daniel Mackley
Following on from my presentation at Moodle Moot 2011 ’And nine months later we had Moodle…’ I took the opportunity to share with Moodle community our (York St John University) migration to Moodle 2.
The presentation covered how we built upon the successful strategy we previously implemented when moving to Moodle. I was also be able to share with the audience how we customised Moodle to support our institutional requirements and needs.
This presentation will describe a research project currently being undertaken between Connecticut Community Colleges’ College of Technology (USA) and the Institute of Technology Sligo (Ireland), that has integrated Moodle with the Khan Academy. this project is building an open learning environment which will allow teachers to assemble new courses from Khan Academy and other open learning materials by defining learning paths and through the materials and practice questions, and making these learning paths available within Moodle courses that students will be able to enrol in on a self-study basis.
Presented by Brian Mulligan and Michael Mino at Moodlemoot Dublin 2013
Moodle Moot 2012: Just 2 - look what she can do!Daniel Mackley
Following on from my presentation at Moodle Moot 2011 ’And nine months later we had Moodle…’ I took the opportunity to share with Moodle community our (York St John University) migration to Moodle 2.
The presentation covered how we built upon the successful strategy we previously implemented when moving to Moodle. I was also be able to share with the audience how we customised Moodle to support our institutional requirements and needs.
This presentation will describe a research project currently being undertaken between Connecticut Community Colleges’ College of Technology (USA) and the Institute of Technology Sligo (Ireland), that has integrated Moodle with the Khan Academy. this project is building an open learning environment which will allow teachers to assemble new courses from Khan Academy and other open learning materials by defining learning paths and through the materials and practice questions, and making these learning paths available within Moodle courses that students will be able to enrol in on a self-study basis.
Presented by Brian Mulligan and Michael Mino at Moodlemoot Dublin 2013
Presentation at Australian Moodle Moot in Sydney. July 2011.
Though designed initially as a tool to facilitate online or elearning, one of Moodle’s greatest strengths is that it mirrors actual classroom practice. It allows teachers to easily build course content as they go, and tailor it to the specific needs of a group of learners. And it is simple to add and edit content. There has been a downside to this – the now legendary toilet paper scroll appearance of many Moodle courses. Enter the Book module. It is not the only way of combating the endless scroll that a Moodle course can become, but it provides the opportunity of creating impressive looking content with built-in navigation. Often a teacher will get a web or instructional designer to design the Book module for them. Great – except that this runs the risk of negating another of Moodle’s strengths – that teachers are easily able to edit content on the fly. Editing the Book module adds a layer of complexity that may result in a teacher not being able to do this alone, and once again becoming dependent on others to manage their content. And does the endless scroll actually matter? Is it more important that teachers maintain their independence in maintaining their content and have slightly less impressive looking courses?
Lewis Carr will teach you how to create and automate your end of year rollover strategy and procedures using core Moodle and a few simple CSV files.
This presentation will teach you the secret tricks of the trade to archive your current courses, retain student work and create your new courses for the start of term. Save yourselves hours of administration time every summer and reduce the need to keep separate server instances each year.
BETT 2015: Moodle and Microsoft, Better TogetherDoug Mahugh
Jason Cole, CEO of Moodle partner Remote-Learner, and Doug Mahugh, Senior Technical Evangelist at Microsoft Open Technologies, announce the release of open source Office 365 plugins for Moodle, the popular learning management system (LMS).
During this short presentation, I will be sharing with the community the process of moving to Moodle 2 including the time plan, road map, problems faced, alternatives we found, enhancement we did on our Moodle 2 version, transition period, training faculty, piloting period, course migration, features missing, integrations with 3rd party applications and all obstacles we faced during the move to Moodle 2 and finally our success story. I want to share these issues to encourage others who are planning to move to Moodle 2 but still reluctant, to go for it on top of all these obstacles. Also to help them avoid the problems we faced.
Presented by Wissam Nahas at Moodlemoot Dublin 2013 - http://moodlemoot.ie
If you haven’t heard, Moodle 3.0 was released on November 16th! Development of the latest version has been influenced by feedback from the Moodle community, to ensure user suggestions for improvement are implemented. Moodle 3.0 offers an improved Moodle experience, as it comes equipped with exciting new enhancements to maximize user experience and ensure learners remain engaged through course and learning outcomes. Every release will undoubtedly bring up questions; Join us on December 3rd so we can answer them for you!
Watch the webinar to learn
- The new features, updates, and improvements in Moodle 3.0
- How Moodle 3.0 will simplify the learning process, making it more efficient for both students and admin
Timeline: Our Moodle-Integrated Social NetworkAlex Walker
This presentation covers Timeline, our in-house social network that integrates with Moodle, our online learning platform. It offers a Facebook-style "all your updates in once place" service to our staff and students.
A trip down Moodle lane - 10 years of Moodle at NMITDavid Sturrock
A presentation at the MoodleMoot NZ 2014, Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson. NMIT has been using Moodle since 2004 and this presentation covers the highlights, including adoption strategies, collaborative projects and using a selection of non-standard plugins.
6 Ways to Deliver corporate eLearning with moodleLambda Solutions
Watch the webinar here: http://hubs.ly/y0FdCZ0
There is a reason why Moodle, the world’s leading open source learning management system, is used by 73 million users worldwide—because it is open source and provides organizations with a feature-rich solution to ensure their learning needs are met and exceeded. Due to this, Moodle is becoming a leading choice for corporate elearning.
Moodle is used by countless organizations in healthcare, enterprise and even non-profit arenas to ensure employees are provided with learning opportunities to meet their performance goals. In this webinar we will show you 6 different ways to use Moodle for your corporate eLearning needs!
- Watch the webinar to learn more about:
- Delivering and managing compliance training in Moodle
- Organizing and managing competency based training in Moodle
- Managing learning for product and service launches in Moodle
- Utilizing communities of practice in Moodle for social learning opportunities
- eLearning course development in Moodle
- Using Moodle for the hiring and interview process
Presentation at Australian Moodle Moot in Sydney. July 2011.
Though designed initially as a tool to facilitate online or elearning, one of Moodle’s greatest strengths is that it mirrors actual classroom practice. It allows teachers to easily build course content as they go, and tailor it to the specific needs of a group of learners. And it is simple to add and edit content. There has been a downside to this – the now legendary toilet paper scroll appearance of many Moodle courses. Enter the Book module. It is not the only way of combating the endless scroll that a Moodle course can become, but it provides the opportunity of creating impressive looking content with built-in navigation. Often a teacher will get a web or instructional designer to design the Book module for them. Great – except that this runs the risk of negating another of Moodle’s strengths – that teachers are easily able to edit content on the fly. Editing the Book module adds a layer of complexity that may result in a teacher not being able to do this alone, and once again becoming dependent on others to manage their content. And does the endless scroll actually matter? Is it more important that teachers maintain their independence in maintaining their content and have slightly less impressive looking courses?
Lewis Carr will teach you how to create and automate your end of year rollover strategy and procedures using core Moodle and a few simple CSV files.
This presentation will teach you the secret tricks of the trade to archive your current courses, retain student work and create your new courses for the start of term. Save yourselves hours of administration time every summer and reduce the need to keep separate server instances each year.
BETT 2015: Moodle and Microsoft, Better TogetherDoug Mahugh
Jason Cole, CEO of Moodle partner Remote-Learner, and Doug Mahugh, Senior Technical Evangelist at Microsoft Open Technologies, announce the release of open source Office 365 plugins for Moodle, the popular learning management system (LMS).
During this short presentation, I will be sharing with the community the process of moving to Moodle 2 including the time plan, road map, problems faced, alternatives we found, enhancement we did on our Moodle 2 version, transition period, training faculty, piloting period, course migration, features missing, integrations with 3rd party applications and all obstacles we faced during the move to Moodle 2 and finally our success story. I want to share these issues to encourage others who are planning to move to Moodle 2 but still reluctant, to go for it on top of all these obstacles. Also to help them avoid the problems we faced.
Presented by Wissam Nahas at Moodlemoot Dublin 2013 - http://moodlemoot.ie
If you haven’t heard, Moodle 3.0 was released on November 16th! Development of the latest version has been influenced by feedback from the Moodle community, to ensure user suggestions for improvement are implemented. Moodle 3.0 offers an improved Moodle experience, as it comes equipped with exciting new enhancements to maximize user experience and ensure learners remain engaged through course and learning outcomes. Every release will undoubtedly bring up questions; Join us on December 3rd so we can answer them for you!
Watch the webinar to learn
- The new features, updates, and improvements in Moodle 3.0
- How Moodle 3.0 will simplify the learning process, making it more efficient for both students and admin
Timeline: Our Moodle-Integrated Social NetworkAlex Walker
This presentation covers Timeline, our in-house social network that integrates with Moodle, our online learning platform. It offers a Facebook-style "all your updates in once place" service to our staff and students.
A trip down Moodle lane - 10 years of Moodle at NMITDavid Sturrock
A presentation at the MoodleMoot NZ 2014, Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson. NMIT has been using Moodle since 2004 and this presentation covers the highlights, including adoption strategies, collaborative projects and using a selection of non-standard plugins.
6 Ways to Deliver corporate eLearning with moodleLambda Solutions
Watch the webinar here: http://hubs.ly/y0FdCZ0
There is a reason why Moodle, the world’s leading open source learning management system, is used by 73 million users worldwide—because it is open source and provides organizations with a feature-rich solution to ensure their learning needs are met and exceeded. Due to this, Moodle is becoming a leading choice for corporate elearning.
Moodle is used by countless organizations in healthcare, enterprise and even non-profit arenas to ensure employees are provided with learning opportunities to meet their performance goals. In this webinar we will show you 6 different ways to use Moodle for your corporate eLearning needs!
- Watch the webinar to learn more about:
- Delivering and managing compliance training in Moodle
- Organizing and managing competency based training in Moodle
- Managing learning for product and service launches in Moodle
- Utilizing communities of practice in Moodle for social learning opportunities
- eLearning course development in Moodle
- Using Moodle for the hiring and interview process
This paper / presentation outlines a the practical solution, pitfalls and problems encountered over a two month period during the migration to a Moodle 2.3 server for the looming deadline that is the start of the academic year in September 2012.
Presented by Kyle Goslin and Daniel McSweeney at http://moodlemoot.ie
Designing Active Learning in Moodle – a preview of the Learning Designer tools Eileen Kennedy, D. N. Dimakopoulos, Diana Laurillard
Presented at Moodlemoot Edinburgh 2014
www.moodlemoot.ie
Broadening the scope of a Maths module for student Technology teachers Sue Milne, Sarah Honeychurch, Niall Barr
Presented at Moodlemoot Edinburgh 2014
www.moodlemoot.ie
A proposal for integrating Serious Games made with Unity3D into Moodle courses Frank Poschner, Dieter Wloka
Presented at Moodlemoot Edinburgh 2014
www.moodlemoot.ie
The Moodle Gradebook as a tool inducing regular revisions in students' learning process Piotr Jaworski
Presented at Moodlemoot Edinburgh 2014
www.moodlemoot.ie
Using the Moodle Quiz for Formative and Summative Assessment: Safe Exam Browser and Laptops for Assessments Projects Mike Wilson
Presented at Moodlemoot Edinburgh 2014
www.moodlemoot.ie
Many a Mickle Makes a Muckle: A multitude of Moodle mods to enhance the student learning experience Roger Emery, Daran Price
Presented at Moodlemoot Edinburgh 2014 www.moodlemoot.ie
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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3. SOME BACKGROUND
• Commenced VLE usage with Web CT in 2003.
• That was a mistake.
• Began using Moodle 1.3 in 2004.
• Used on one distance education course.
• Small number of staff
• Began promoting for use on all courses
IRELAND & UK MOODLEMOOT 2012
4. TYPICAL GROWTH AND
CHANGE
• Initially all student accounts created via CSV.
• Staff accounts created on request.
• Courses created on request.
• This was fine while numbers using moodle were low.
IRELAND & UK MOODLEMOOT 2012
5. THE CRUNCH
• By 2007 almost 55% of academic in the institution were
using moodle.
• Managing over 1000 students.
• Hundreds of module requests at the start of each
semester.
• Trying to convince IT services to integrate ‘novelty system’
with core IT functions.
• Managing my teaching load.
IRELAND & UK MOODLEMOOT 2012
6. “THE POPULARITY OF THE VLE WENT FROM
CULT TO MAINSTREAM OVERNIGHT AND WE
WERE NOT READY”
“STAFF (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT) WERE
UNAWARE OF THE PRESSURES OF KEEPING
THE VLE RUNNING AND EVERYONE HAPPY”
“WE ARE TRAPPED IN A LOOP. WE KNOW
WHAT WE NEED TO DO BUT DON’T HAVE
THE TIME TO STOP AND DO IT!”
IRELAND & UK MOODLEMOOT 2012
7. THINGS CAN ONLY GET
BETTER?
• 2008 we integrated with LDAP for automatic student
account creation.
• Made a significant difference.
• Examined integration with ‘Banner’ based on
experiences of other colleges.
• We ran into a classic problem.
IRELAND & UK MOODLEMOOT 2012
8. THE MISMATCH
• Mismatches between real world and IT representation
• Students enrolled in courses before IT system updated
• Students locked out of courses for admin reasons but
attending class
• Staff assigned modules before IT system is updated
• Common modules a problem.
IRELAND & UK MOODLEMOOT 2012
9. COURSE REQUESTS
• One of biggest issues is handling course requests.
• In absence of system requests were originally accepted
via email.
• Typical semester – January 2006 (two week period)
• 212 unique module requests via email in January
• Almost 30% required a clarification email response which
in return would result in responses from staff.
• 280+ responses emails sent by admin
• Module enrolment key
• Other module details
IRELAND & UK MOODLEMOOT 2012
10. MANUAL WORKFLOW
OPTIMUM EXPERIENCE
1. Read request email (30 seconds)
2. Log into moodle and go to create new course screen (30 seconds)
3. Enter new course details (30 seconds)
4. Assign lecturer to course (30 seconds)
5. Create email for user with course details and send (30 seconds)
3 minutes and 30 seconds for a manual request from start to finish
Multiply this by 300 requests per semester!
IRELAND & UK MOODLEMOOT 2012
11. MANUAL WORKFLOW
NIGHTMARE EXPERIENCE
1. Read request email (30 seconds)
2. Respond to request asking for clarification (60 seconds)
3. Read clarification (30 seconds)
4. Log into moodle and go to create new course screen (30 seconds)
5. Enter new course details (30 seconds)
6. Realise that course already exists (10 seconds or grinding teeth)
7. Send email asking for next action (90 seconds)
8. Read clarification (30 seconds)
9. Send mail to module owner that another lecturer is now delivering
module (30 seconds)
10. Read handover email (30 seconds)
11. Assign new lecturer to existing course (30 seconds)
12. Create email for user with course details and send (30 seconds)
• Almost 7 minutes (on a very good day) for one request
IRELAND & UK MOODLEMOOT 2012
12. HOW DID I GET HERE?
IRELAND & UK MOODLEMOOT 2012
13. COURSE REQUESTS – NEXT STEP
– FORM BASED REQUESTS
• Used google form to gather data
• Structured requests
• Separate from email account
• Easier to manage and share
• Did not eliminate the process of manually creating
courses for staff or sending response mails.
• Helped reduce ‘fuzzy’ requests!
IRELAND & UK MOODLEMOOT 2012
14. THE MOODLE COURSE
REQUEST FEATURE - CORE
• We examined the internal moodle request form
• Shortname
• Fullname
• Other details
• Several problems
• ‘Fuzzy’. It allows users too much freedom in the
structuring of their request data
• Does not allow for confirmation mail customization etc.
• Lacks communication and management facilities for
request management.
IRELAND & UK MOODLEMOOT 2012
15. OUR REQUIREMENTS FOR A
SOLUTION
• Part of moodle – we wanted to avoid ‘another IT system’ for
academics. Had to be a block or module.
• Structured data for requests
• Automated course creation on course approval – “click a button”
• Automated communication emails sent to requestor and admin
• Highly customisable – request process and communications
• Easy to use
• Sharable with community – not just for our needs
IRELAND & UK MOODLEMOOT 2012
16. OUR IMPLEMENTATION
• Created Course Manager block
• Can be added anywhere on site.
• Available on github now for download and testing.
• Recommend for production sites!
DEMO
IRELAND & UK MOODLEMOOT 2012
17. THE ADVANTAGES
• Request form easy to find for academics
• Requests can be structured to suit needs
• All information gathered in one place
• Can approve courses in seconds
• Course automatically created on approval
• Emails automatically sent when courses created
• History of requests
• Easy to use
• Easy to configure
• Massive time saver. A process that took almost 4 minutes
per request has been replaced by one that takes under 30
seconds per request.
IRELAND & UK MOODLEMOOT 2012
18. NEXT STEPS
• Moodle 2 release
• Reporting
• Allow user to choose catalog location at request time
• Invoke backup and resets for existing courses during
handoff
• Allow users to be assigned to a course approved (divide
up workload among multiple admins)
IRELAND & UK MOODLEMOOT 2012