Presentation at MoodleMoot AU 2015 at Monash University Melbourne in July. The presentation demonstrated a holistic support model for Moodle both for staff and students, using Moodle as the platform

1. Staff eLE: creating a holistic VLE
support site for staff in Moodle
Associate Professor Michael Sankey
and
Tim van Drimmelen
Learning Environments and Media

2. Enrolled students USQ
• All students 28,100+
• On-campus 7,600
• External/online 20,500 (73%)
• International 6,000 (1,100 ONC)
The vast majority of USQ students access information services
online
Most Students and Staff know what they’re getting themselves
in for when they come to USQ 

3. The context – our VLE
USQStudyDesk
Student facing
USQStaffDesk
Staff training and
playground
USQOpenDesk
OERs and
Community
based courses
Repository
Equella – LOR and other collections
ePortfolio
USQ Website and Portal

4. Get official support and training
Categories and governance
• 4 categories for tools
• Learning and Teaching Systems Advisory Group
• ICT Services committee
• Academic Division L&T Committee
• Education Management Committee
Core
e.g. Moodle
Supported
e.g. Turnitin
Emerging
Experimental
Allowed
Publishers

5. For Staff
For Student
Aligned support and training
Context PedagogyTraining

6. Standardised look and feel

8. Context

9. Staff eLE

12. Electronic Assignment Submission
• What is it?
• Why would I use it?
• Discussion forum
• How do I use it?
• Support and training
• Technology tips
• System requirements
• Setup details
• Useful resources
• General Moodle resources

13. Training

15. USQStaffDesk

16. Pedagogy

20. Staff eLE

21. Staff eLE editor
• Built by the USQ Multimedia team
• HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Resources are housed in our repository
(Equella)
• Mobile responsive
• Easy to use, requires little training
Allows the user to create beautifully custom made
Mobile responsive Moodle Pages.

22. Staff eLE editor

23. Editing the content pages
Creates circular buttons
Creates text box
Creates text box with image/video
Creates a splash image/video
Creates a video row
Bulletpoints
Bullet numbers
Anchor points

28. Wins and Gotcha’s
Wins Gotcha’s
Creation of a Moodle Page editor Moodle upgrades can cause minor
issues
Easy to update/maintain content,
no formatting needed
No breadcrumbing navigation
Beautifully displayed content No search functionality
Navigation bar

29. Conclusion
• USQ is not allowing staff facing content on its
public website.
• OK, that’s fare enough.
• Is Moodle a website?
• No
• But it’s a great training place
• And if we want to keep it all together there is
a way to do it
• You just have to think a bit differently about
how you manage the space.