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Project THNK

Building a Collaboration tool for the Amsterdam School of Leadership, THNK,

using Moodle

Bas Brands

Moodle developer

BrightAlley NL

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Team Networks

This is my team..

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THNK: The Amsterdam school of creative leadership

THNK provides a 18-month, part-time, post-graduate program for a carefully selected group of international top talent

This is the client…

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THNK wants online collaboration

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And offline collaboration

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THNK needs a tool that can do this..

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And we accepted the challenge

Photo Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/25031095@N05/3369479426/">rwkvisual</a>

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Why use Moodle as a Toolbox?

Our experience

Well documented and open source

Can be customized

Feature-rich

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Doubts we had

Can it do all they want?

Shouldn’t we build from scratch?

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Project setup

* Scope

* Technical design

* Functional design

* Graphic design

* Print and put on wall

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jakecaptive/49915119

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What was needed?

Theme

blocks

Mission statement block

Search

Stream

Grouping

Formats

Hacked collapsed topics

ModulesFile sharingTodos

PagesCommunity page

AuthLinkedIn authenticationCustom course format

Hacks….

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My problems

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The consultant’s problems

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Community pages

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LinkedIn Auth

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Group collaboration pages

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Custom Styled Wikis

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Plugins that were never used

Custom searchStream

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Lessons learnt

Do less (use dummy functionality)

Show progress

Share plugins / blocks when you can

Use consistent user interface designs

Never hack!

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Was Moodle the right tool?

YES

The flexibility allowed us to build all we wanted

Code will be re-used for 2nd version

NO

Client did not always like the “Moodle way” of user interaction

There was too much to customize