Moodle as an effective LMS

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Moodle as an effective LMS

• Stijn Dekeyser
• Penny de Byl
• Michael de Raadt

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What is Moodle

• Modular Object-Orientated Dynamic Learning
  Environment
• The Moodle company is based in Perth, Western
  Australia
• Open Source under GNU Public Licence.
• includes a constructivist and social
  constructionist approach to education,
  emphasising that learners (and not just teachers)
  can contribute to the educational experience in
  many ways
• Moodle runs without modification on Unix, Linux,
  FreeBSD, Windows, Mac OS X, NetWare and any other
  systems that support PHP, including most webhost
  providers.
• Data is stored in a single database MySQL and
  PostgreSQL. Future plans target Oracle and
  Microsoft SQL Server

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Features

• Site Management
• User Management
• Course Management
• Assignment Module
• Chat Module
• Quiz Modules
• Forum Module
• Resources (webpages, documents etc..)
• Activites (assignment submission, wikis,
  discussion board, journals, blogs etc..)
• Many other custom modules created by Moodle users.

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Case for Moodle

• High Availability
• The LMS must be robust enough to serve the
  diverse needs of thousands of learners,
  administrators, content builders and instructors
  simultaneously.
• Moodle presents a high-availability web-based
  interface, allowing learners, tutors, and
  administrators routinely to log in and carry out
  their daily tasks.
• Scalability
• The infrastructure should be able to expand or
  scale to meet future growth, both in terms of the
  volume of instruction and the size of the student
  body.
• The largest Moodle installation is at Open
  Polytechnic New Zealand with 45,000 students
  and 6,500 courses.
• Usability
• To support a host of automated and personalized
  services, such as self-paced and role-specific
  learning, the access, delivery and presentation
  of material must be easy-to-use and highly
  intuitive.
• Moodles interface is simple and powerful.

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Case for Moodle

• Interoperability
• To support content from different sources and
  multiple vendors' hardware/software solutions,
  the LMS should exchange data using open industry
  standards for Web deployments.
• Moodle supports LDAP authentication
• Moodle supports import and export of SCORM/IMS
  Content Packaging standards.
• Quizes can be exported in IMS QTI 2 format.
• Courses and forums can have RSS feeds.
• Stability
• The LMS infrastructure can reliably and
  effectively manage a large enterprise
  implementation running 24x7.
• Security
• As with any outward-facing collaborative
  solution, the LMS can selectively limit and
  control access to online content, resources and
  back-end functions, both internally and
  externally, for its diverse user community.
• Moodle's current system of roles includes
  administrators, teachers, teachers without
  editing privileges (sometimes called teaching
  assistants), students, and guests.

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Administration Experience

• Richard Young

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Questions