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The Move to Moodle2

Moodle4U to Moodle2

We are there! – but we need a bit of help for students

Pdf at present, but plan for this to become presented via Xerte . . . but that is for the summer!

Students are using it

Saturday at 2.15 pm!

We’re here – but why? . . . and how?

Moodle2 has things we felt worth having . . .• Completion tracking• File Picker• Docking (currently switched off, going on over autumn half term)

• Improved wiki• Comments block . . . thinking about this one!

. . . from June 2012 Moodle 1.9 is not being supported

We are using 2.2.3

So to the how – a bit of history• Moved to Moodle in 2006 (from Teknical’s Virtual

Campus)

• Moodle4U was 1.9.7 – regular upgrades, generally without staff knowledge, although timed to coincide with INSET where necessary – decision not to upgrade from this until Moodle2

• Host ourselves• ‘Out of the box’ – add in Books, Games (with

glossaries) and Questionnaires• Generally staff found Moodle to be a ‘breath of

fresh air’, but use it mainly for static materials

Move to Moodle2?• Meetings with IT Support and Manager – autumn

2010• ILT Facilitators’ Meeting• Proposal to Senior Management Group• Decided to move half term summer term• Kept an eye on discussions on Moodle.org forums and

JISC mail• Decided not to move half term summer term 2011 –

plan for half term summer term 2012• Linda took part in ‘Introducing Moodle 2.0’ – online

course with Jim Judges, ULCC – Feb/Mar 2011

Move to Moodle2 (cont)• Chris Shearing build moodle2test end Nov 2011 (internal only)

• Linda developed moodle2test ready for INSET• INSET – familiarisation - mid-Jan 2012• Linda to South Devon College end Jan 2012• Linda and Manager to London (Moodle 2: Making the Leap)

end Feb 2012• Grateful for help/ideas/info/support through VLE and e-

Learning forums• Chris prepared external visibility for moodle2 end Apr –

Moodle4U would remain ‘indefinitely’ (Staff told at least until end Dec 2012)

• Chris built fresh install moodle2 (2.2.3)• Course transfer – staff and students cohorts and editing rights

Timeline

How long?

• 273 courses (of 401 courses in Moodle4U) – rationalised categories

• 6 days – 2 members of staff • 1 member of staff working on ‘refinements’

for 4 days

Some of the issues we encountered

• Labels, where pasted from WORD• Glossaries – export/import - images• Moodle Books – links within Moodle + images

(legacy files)• Wikis

The Spreadsheet!

INSET and beyond

• INSET with departments now• ILT Working Party overview yesterday –

IT ‘specialist’ from each department• A2/IB year 2 teaching on going during this half

term• Questionnaire for staff/student feedback next

week – minor modifcations for Sept 2012

Thank you for listening!

Linda HarrisonVLE Officer, The Sixth Form College Colchester

linda.harrison@colchsfc.ac.uk