Understanding Moodle

What is it? What can it do?

9:15 - 9:45 ContextTeacher Centric Site (collaboration)

AISI HubPD Center

Student Centric Site (eCommunity)Full Courses – PAVEF2F Course EnhancementShared activities

What’s all Going On?

What does it take to run Moodle?

Hardware

Software

People

Can be started with little, but should have a plan to scale with wide spread adoption.

We keep our servers in VM environments OS: moved to Windows for CO Support

We had the expertise to support Windows Still use Apache and MySQL

Hardware: Lots of RAM and good drives in RAID Can be run on basic servers ( oodle recommends 50MBs per user)

Hardware is light

Software is Open Source OS: anything Web server: Apache Scripting: PHP Database: MySQL or PostgreSQL LMS: Moodle!

But must integrate Authenticates against our

Active Directory Structure Protected by our Tivoli System

Manager

People are key

Technical Server Setup and Support

Administration Site monitoring, navigation and consistency

Education Coordinators Learning community builders, people trainers

All the people … Provide the content, make the connections,

create the buzz.

We support two hubsTeacher centered

and Student centered

Teacher Centered

AISI Support PD Coordination

Tools: File sharing – Drop

Boxes Discussion areas – Forums Collaborative documents – Wikis Meeting scheduling – Calendars Personal connection – Blog/Chat

Student Centered

Full Course – PAVE F2F Enhancement Shared Learning - TML

Tools: Vocabulary – Glossary/games Shared Experience – Bookmarking/Forums Collaborative documents – Wikis / database Assignment collection – Drop Box Review and Assess – Self Check / Quiz