The document discusses the benefits of Moodle for students, teachers, and parents. For students, Moodle caters to different learning styles, provides opportunities for extension and revision, and appeals to digital natives. For teachers, Moodle provides tools to embed ICT across the curriculum, reduces workload over time, and places responsibility on students and parents. For parents, Moodle supports home-school links and provides a secure environment for information and communication. The document advises teachers to start small by choosing one topic to develop in Moodle rather than putting everything online at once.

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2. Moodle – Student Benefits
Caters for varied learning styles.
Provides opportunity for extension.
Provides opportunity for revision.
Moodle appeals to the Digital Native.
Children/young people involved in social
networking; collaboration and communication.
Gives learners a sense of ‘ownership’… their class
Moodle, their content, their personalized space.
Offers flexibility and 24/7 access.
Adapted from: www.cleo.net.uk

3. Moodle– Teacher Benefits
 Provides a vehicle for embedding ICT across the
curriculum.
 Reduction in workload (long term)
 Responsibility is on student/parent
 Features and functionality provide tools for
teaching.
 Motivation
 WON’T teach the from: www.cleo.net.uk
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4. Moodle – Parent Benefits
 Supports home/school links
 Gateway for information and communication
 Secure Environment
Adapted from: www.cleo.net.uk

5. Moodle - What now?
Building courses DOES take time
Think of something you already teach that could be
enriched by using Moodle
Choose one area/topic/issue to start
Don’t necessarily put everything online in the topic: have
some offline work too where appropriate
Adapted from: www.cleo.net.uk

6. Deployment The Rollout Plan
Interactivity and Collaboration
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3
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Complexity
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