Moodle Day 2010

[ Wednesday 23 June 2010 ]

e-Learning team

Learning & Teaching Enhancement Office

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1. To provide an opportunity for staff across the university to discuss the use of Moodle in learning, teaching and administration

2. Showcase a number of different practitioner approaches as a means of disseminating good practice

3. Provide the opportunity for staff to take the ideas discussed and explore how to embed these in their practice

4. Outline the Moodle service for the forthcoming academic year

e-Learning team

Learning & Teaching Enhancement Office

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Aims

10.15 - 11.00 Welcome, Introductions & Moodle update

11.15 - 12.30 Short Presentations

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 15.00 Breakout sessions

e-Learning team

Learning & Teaching Enhancement Office

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Schedule

Developing Skills [BUCS Training Rooms, 2 South]- First steps with Moodle – designing your Moodle course- Hands on sessions with more advanced features

Learning & Context [6W 1.2]- Communicating with students: from public forums to

private txts- Blending the physical and virtual learning spaces

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Afternoon sessions

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Other information

• For tweets and blog posts: #eatbathmd10

• Presentations and recordings available at: http://go.bath.ac.uk/eatbathmd10

• Evaluation Form

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Learning & Teaching Enhancement Office

A brief history

Moodle introduced as the institutional VLE at the beginning of the 2006/2007 academic year

Users authenticated via LDAP- 13,000+ active users- 4,000+ Moodle courses

Integrations- Moodle-SAMIS - Panopto- Edutxt - Second Life on development server

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• Improving service performance

• Improving communication with users

• Moodle Development Plan 2010[ http://go.bath.ac.uk/moodledevplan2010 ]

• Other initiatives and projects

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Learning & Teaching Enhancement Office

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What we’ve been doing [2009/10]

• Developing SOOT

• Integration with Turnitin

• Single Sign On

• Development of Moodle Archiving & Backup policy [ includes two housekeeping related projects ]

• Academic Restructuring related modifications

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What we’ve been delivering [2009/10]

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Learning & Teaching Enhancement Office

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delayed to August 2010

ongoing

on moodle-test server

ongoing

[ http://go.bath.ac.uk/wi6m ]

scheduled for 29 June; includes 1.1 Single Sign On

ongoing

2.0

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Learning & Teaching Enhancement Office

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Where we’re going

[ slide presented at MoodleMoot UK 2010 ]

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Learning & Teaching Enhancement Office

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Moodle Assignment Activity

Vic JenkinsLearning Technologist

• Early adopters• Local challenges and good practice• Understanding of stakeholder needs• Varying processes

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Learning & Teaching Enhancement Office

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Moodle Assignment Activity

Before… Then… Now… Next…

‘How is the Assignment Activity being used?’

• Case studies• Working paper in Opus: “Factors to consider for the

effective use of the Moodle assignment activity”• How To guides• More comprehensive Moodle FAQs

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Learning & Teaching Enhancement Office

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Before… Then… Now… Next…

Moodle Assignment Activity

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Moodle Assignment Activity

Before… Then… Now… Next…

Moving forwards…

• Report in Opus: “What functionality do staff and students want from an online submission system?”

• More FAQs• How To guides

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Learning & Teaching Enhancement Office

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Moodle Assignment Activity

Before… Then… Now… Next…

• Moodle Development Plan 2011• Potential SAMIS Integration• Moodle 2.0 • Mahara e-Portfolios

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Moodle Assignment Activity

Before… Then… Now… Next…

Moodle activity

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James Barrett    

Educational Software and Systems Developer

LTEO

Moodle usage:   • Increasing Load• Escalating Importance • More Demanding Features

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Moodle Database Activity

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Moodle Database Activity

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Moodle usage through the day

Total Moodle usage

Total Moodle usage

Moodle usage:   • More users• Escalating importance • More Demanding Features

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