Since discovering the joys of Moodle around 15 years ago, Chad has evaluated hundreds, probably thousands of Moodle sites, in a range of sectors, demographics and geographies - just a few sites were excellent, most were mediocre and some were plain terrible. Based on his wealth of experience, Chad wants to share with you Moodle’s Secret Sauce: 5 key ingredients to help improve your Moodle site. And the result: better online learning, job performance and business outcomes. Which ingredients are in the Secret Sauce recipe? Here's 5 key ingredients covered in this presentation. 1. Learner experience 2. Course design 3. Assessment 4. Reporting 5. Web responsiveness

1. Moodle: Secret sauce
Chad Outten

2. Secret love affair

3. Day 1

5. 1. Experience
2. Design
3. Assessment
4. Reporting
5. Mobile
Secret sauce

6. 1. Experience

7. The learner is the customer

8. “The journey of a thousand miles,
starts with a single step”.

10. Self-registration

14. Guest access

16. Force users to login

17. Auto-focus login page form

18. Allow login via email

19. Remember username

20. Authentication

22. Default home page for users

25. 2. Design

26. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”.

27. Course layout

31. File size upload

32. Columns

33. Blocks

34. Repository plugins

38. Forum

39. 3. Assessment

42. Completion tracking

44. Restrict access

48. Feedback

50. Badges

56. 4. Reporting

57. Activity completion
Activity completion report

59. Course completion report

60. Course completion status block

63. 5. Mobile

64. By 2019, 80% of internet use will be mobile
80% internet use - mobile by 2019

65. Mobile share of global internet use

66. Device detection

67. Theme selector

69. Web services for mobile devices
Web services for mobile

70. Message outputs

72. Multimedia

74. Streamline user workflow
Minimise clicks & scrolls
Minimise text & maximise multimedia
Display essential information at top
Chunk learning
Ensure consistency
Recipe

75. Enable / configure file repositories
Use forum
Enable access via tablet & mobile
Enable / configure activity & course completion reporting
Gather feedback
Issue badges
Recipe

76. “Give me a platform strong enough, a level long enough,
and I’ll move the world”.

77. thank you
obrigado
gracias
merci
danke
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78. References
https://www.zenithmedia.com/mobile-forecasts-75-internet-use-will-mobile-2017/
https://www.zenithmedia.com/smartphone-penetration-reach-66-2018/
https://qz.com/1116469/we-now-spend-70-of-time-online-on-our-phones
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