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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

vrijdag 14 april 2023

Team Networks

This is my team..


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…


THNK wants online collaboration


And offline collaboration


THNK needs a tool that can do this..


And we accepted the challenge

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


Why use Moodle as a Toolbox?

Our experience

Well documented and open source

Can be customized

Feature-rich


Doubts we had

Can it do all they want?

Shouldn’t we build from scratch?


Project setup

* Scope

* Technical design

* Functional design

* Graphic design

* Print and put on wall

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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….


My problems


The consultant’s problems


Community pages


LinkedIn Auth


Group collaboration pages


Custom Styled Wikis


Plugins that were never used

Custom searchStream


Lessons learnt

Do less (use dummy functionality)

Show progress

Share plugins / blocks when you can

Use consistent user interface designs

Never hack!


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

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