Moodle at Fort Lewis College

Matthew McGlamery

Director, Information Technology

CHECO April 7, 2008

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Topics

• A Few Statistics, a note on Stability• Moodle Training and Support at FLC• Changes to our Moodle Home Page• Examples of Courses and Uses• Moodle 1.9 First Thoughts• Challenges, Successes, Opportunities• Wrap Up

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• Course Mgmt SURVEY– Moodle– WebCT– Blackboard– SAKAI– Other– None

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Modular Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment

• www.moodle.org• K12 – Higher Ed – Private• Anyone who uses moodle is a moodler• Been moodling around• Moodle is all muddled up

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• Open Source• LAMP

– Web, PHP, SQL

• FLC = Windows, PHP, IIS, MYSql• Account Creation• LDAP• CAS • UPortal Channel

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• Moodle Stats Fall 07‐08 Winter 07‐08• Number of courses: 998 937• Number of courses that have been updated since beginning

of semester: 182 174• Highest number logins in a day:

6300 10239(2/3)• Highest number of unique logins in a day:

1400+ 1587(1/20)• Number of Faculty/Staff that have logged in to Moodle this

semester: 89 77• Number of Students that have logged in Moodle this

semester: 1989 1938

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Statistics - Monthly

• AWstats

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Statistics – Robots/Spiders

• 19 different robots

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Stability – System Downtime

• This is public• Other hiccups• Slower at high

volume use

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Training – Audience

• All courses have Moodle shells• All Faculty have access from Day 1• Can be difficult to ID who is doing what• Great potential to develop training

schedules & delivery for higher “touch”

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Training – 4 “Legs” To The Table

• Strong learning objectives & outcomes• Assessment tied to objectives, measure• Logical course layout, design, usability• Strong communication with students

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Training – Topics

• How to access courses, change settings• Resources for one-way-out, e.g. syllabus• Interactivity for assessment, communicat’n• Course management for Gradebook• Course mgt. for backup, import, restore• New media files for adult learning styles

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Training – Self-Service Support

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Training – Online Tutorials

• Click below for a web-based tutorial on• How To Add A Syllabus

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Home Page Before / After

• Busy• Calendar

not used to potential

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Home Page Before / After

• Long scroll for courses

• 3 pages to print

• Online users not helpful

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Home Page Before / After

• Uses Site News

• Links to Help files

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Home Page Before / After

• After login, use My Courses

• Prints in one page

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Some Courses – Psyc Testing

• Points to Faculty web page for more info.

• Uses File Directory• Points to publisher’s

website for more info.• Uses Quizzes

extensively

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Some Courses – Music Conducting

• Upload video for visual aid

• Note the format and file sizes

• 6 min. clips• Used Display a

Directory tool

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Some Courses – Computer Science

• Graded Assignment for Moodle Familiarization and Course Policies

• Students upload files• Holds Students

Accountable

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Moodle 1.9 – Preliminary Testing

• Hooray! Gradebook!– Looks much more user-friendly– To be used as the focal point for marketing and

program development to build Faculty buy-in

• Uh-Oh: Text Editor is glitchy– No dialogue box displays for Insert Web Link,

change font color, or Insert Image

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Challenges

• Growing Pains with Support Team– Roles, Expectations, Communication Styles

• Integration with SCT Banner Systems– Repeated sync failure taxed Faculty patience

• No protocol for Who uses Moodle & How– Difficult to ID levels of Faculty engagement

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Successes

• Import Test Bank CD files into Questions– Overcame WebCT/Blackboard format types

• Streamlined Manual Remove Students– Tightened up workflow processes for improved

Customer Service

• Improved Call Center actions for Moodle– Reduced most response times to one-hour,

same day for improved Customer Service

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Opportunities

• Regularly scheduled Moodle training throughout the semester to build

• Faculty Focus Groups will acknowledge stakeholders and build strong foundations

• Integration with UPortal • Integration with Banner - Grades

Thank You

Matthew McGlamery

Director, Information Technology

Fort Lewis College

Durango, Colorado