customizing moodle - balancing the value equation
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presentation by Alan Arnold and Mark Drechsler at the Canberra Moodleposium meeting, October 7-8, 2010TRANSCRIPT
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Customising Moodle –Customising Moodle –Balancing the Value EquationBalancing the Value Equation
Alan Arnold, University of Canberra<[email protected]>
Mark Drechsler, NetSpot Pty. Ltd.<[email protected]>
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Achieving the right balance between enabling innovation and managing the costs and risks
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University of Canberra
STRATEGY 3 Perform in the top third of universities on standard educational measures
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Moved to Moodle 1st Semester 2009 after brief 2008 pilot
• WebCT 1997-2008• 820 staff with teacher role, 13,000+
students• 1,220 teaching sites (courses) in 2009
650 in 2010 to date and a new Winter Term!
• 127 Community & Group sites • Since Sep 2008: 40k Moodle users, 156k
enrolments, 151k forum posts, 113k resources, 419k quiz questions in 4300 sites
• Externally hosted Moodle 1.9, 2.5 FTE support in-house, frugal development budget moodleposium Canberra 7-8 Oct., 2010
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Expectations are high and rising!
2.0 is coming
2.0 is coming
2.0 is coming
2.0 is coming
2.0 is coming
2.0 is coming
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The challenge
• to manage a robust production 24x7 Moodle environment that needs to continually evolve to meet the changing needs of the 14,000 users that it supports
• to manage risk while at the same time introducing new capability and delight
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Nwiki or OUWiki or
MediaWiki or ??
Moodle Blog or WordPress or
Mahara or MS Live or
CQU BIM or ??
Choices!
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UC’s Moodle Customisations
• Dialogue module• OUWiki• Minh-Tam’s myMoodle• YUI Course Menu• Lightbox Gallery• WebDAV• Certificate Module• Usage Monitor Block• CQU BIM Module• Poll Block
• Assignments: download all as zip• Essay question type
enhancements• Messaging: privacy enhancements• Group Select Module• Unit Outlines Block• Microsoft Live Services• Mahara Assignment Type• USQ Simple Clock
• … and dozens of other small patches & fixes
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Key strategies
• Work closely with our hosting partner NetSpot • Use a plugin review framework to evaluate non-
core extensions• Implement robust change management
processes that are regular (monthly), agile and responsive
• Communicate: Watch and listen for issues and opportunities (Moodle.org tracker & forum RSS, Moodle Matters @UC, Yammer@UC, RT Helpdesk)
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Governance
I really like the look of Plugin X
– gimme!
I really like the look of Plugin X
– gimme!
Decide if the change is worth
investigating
Decide if the change is worth
investigating Have a Plugin review done
Have a Plugin review done
Make decision of benefit against
cost
Make decision of benefit against
cost
Follow formal implementation
process
Follow formal implementation
process
Change done!
Change done!
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1. GradConnect: Alumni access
• Need: continued Moodle access for a group of Faculty of Education alumni to support an ongoing communityof current and past students. Modest strategic funding to deliver
• Problem: student accounts are made inactive on graduation in UC’s identity management systems BUT alumni do have Microsoft Live@edu UC email accounts “for life”
• MS releases open source code: Live Services plugin for Moodle • NetSpot reviewed the plugin and resolved some issues• UC graduates now have uninterrupted Moodle access through
their MS Live credentials• Now possible to have other alumni communities AND access to
other Live services eg blog, 25GB (!!) SkyDrive
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2. Callista-Moodle integration
• Simple, 3-step forms created by NetSpot with assistance with UC ICTS
• Create courses for semester-based teaching units or program/degree cohorts, based on a standard template
• Courses will automatically be populated (and depopulated) with the right cohorts from Callista at dates chosen by the teacher
This approach was chosen over automatic creation of courses for all units offered, to create a sense of ownership by teaching staff. Very successful: 97+% of all units now have sites
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Callista-Moodle integration
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DIY course-site creation in 3 simple steps
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Plugin Reviews
Formal Upgrade Processes
Source Code Management
Issue Management
Supporting Processes
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The Plugin Review Process
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Plugin reviews
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More options for
integrationWeb Services, Repositories, Portfolios
Less code in modulesMore secure, standard, maintainable
Taking the leap to 2.0
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Then it happened…
September 23, 2010:
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So, how did we go?
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UC’s Moodle Customisations
• Dialogue module• OUWiki• Minh-Tam’s myMoodle• YUI Course Menu• Lightbox Gallery• WebDAV• Certificate Module• Usage Monitor Block• CQU BIM Module• Poll Block
• Assignments: download all as zip• Essay question type
enhancements• Messaging: privacy enhancements• Group Select Module• Unit Outlines Block• Microsoft Live Services• Mahara Assignment Type• USQ Simple Clock • Dozens of other small patches
& fixes
Now core in Moodle 2.0
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UC’s Moodle Customisations
• Dialogue module• OUWiki• Minh-Tam’s myMoodle• YUI Course Menu• Lightbox Gallery• WebDAV• Certificate Module• Usage Monitor Block• CQU BIM Module• Poll Block
• Assignments: download all as zip• Essay question type
enhancements• Messaging: privacy enhancements• Group Select Module• Unit Outlines Block• Microsoft Live Services• Mahara Assignment Type• USQ Simple Clock • Dozens of other small patches
& fixes
Currently beingupdated
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UC’s Moodle Customisations
• Dialogue module• OUWiki• Minh-Tam’s myMoodle• YUI Course Menu• Lightbox Gallery• WebDAV• Certificate Module• Usage Monitor Block• CQU BIM Module• Poll Block
• Assignments: download all as zip• Essay question type
enhancements• Messaging: privacy enhancements• Group Select Module• Unit Outlines Block• Microsoft Live Services• Mahara Assignment Type• USQ Simple Clock • Dozens of other small patches
& fixes
Now obsolete?
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For example…
Goodbye YUI Course Menu…
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For example…
…hello 2.0 Navigation Block
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The next big challenge
We know we can now connect to…
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The next big challenge
We know we can now connect to…
…but should we?moodleposium Canberra 7-8 Oct., 2010
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The next big challenge
We know we can now connect to…
…but should we?moodleposium Canberra 7-8 Oct., 2010
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A good looking road ahead
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