Steps taken to evaluate Moodle

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For the past several months we have developed dummy test sites within Moodle to trial the functions and the appropriateness for our course context. We appreciate with any new platforms there will be teething problems however, we feel by taking the time to modify requirements to meet student engagement needs will be paramount.

Having the dummy sites has proven to be invaluable and allowed us to implement several changes and inclusions into this learning platform such as:

  • Course content broken down into Modules with all study guides, readings and assessments in the one location
  • Discussion board/forums
  • Ability for students to upload their assessment via turnitin and for educators to mark directly
  • Upload pre-recorded webinars
  • Quizzes to test current knowledge
  • Discussions with our Instructional Designer on how we can make the landing page and banners more engaging by including course branding
  • Ensuring that Moodle (Learning Management System) can talk directly with Wisenet (Student Management System)
  • Developing education video's for students to learn how to navigate Moodle
  • Providing trouble shooting training for our Administration Officers to assist students who may be having issues using or navigating Moodle
Basically, Moodle has allowed us to have a one stop shop for our students. Previously we have been sending a USB of course content to students, using Yammer for a discussion board and GoToWebinar for pre-recorded and recorded education sessions and student engagement and students submitting their assessments to an course email address without using turnitin.

We will be going live with Moodle for our first Cohort in February 2019 and will have several months to iron out any issues before the next Cohort commences. 

Overall all our current testing and evaluation of Moodle has been showing great results and all of the Educators and Administration Officers are excited to be moving with the technology times!

Comments

  1. Scot29 November 2018 at 15:17

    Sounds like you are progressing well Marina.
    Let me know if you want to have a look at more Moodle examples or need some help with your functionality.

    Best,

    Scot.

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