Our Moodle Journey:

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Our Moodle Journey Selection,
Implementation and Training Presenters Linda
Elvin, Marty Kahn, Kevin Metcalf and April
Qian De Anza College
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De Anza College

• One of 109 colleges in the California Community
  College System
• Average 25,0000 students
• First offered distance learning courses in 1974.

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CMS Selection

• Why?
• How?
• Outcome

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CMS Selection Why

• Supporting two CMS
• CMSs releasing new versions
• CVC free hosting ending
• Only 50 courses using CMS

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CMS Selection How

• Establish Committee
• Shared Governance
• 2 deans, 7 faculty, 3 staff
• Identified CMS to evaluate
• -- Angel Learning -- Moodle
• -- ETUDES NG -- WebCT v. 6
• Secured Sandboxes
• Establish Criteria
• Scheduled Demonstrations

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CMS Selection Outcome(After Six Months)

• Deal Breakers
• Not able to host locally
• Rated low for conforming to Section 508
• No administrative access
• Not cross platform
• Moodle Pluses
• Easy for faculty and students to use
• Built on LAMP Architecture
• No license fees
• SFSU Moodle consortium
• Ability to easily host locally

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Technical Issues / Solutions

• Assumptions
• Startup phase
• Current installation
• Future Plans
• Minimum Specifications
• Lessons Learned

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Assumptions IS

• Information Systems Prioritization
• 1. Security / Legal
• 2. Reliability (update, data integrity, etc)
• 3. Upgradeability/Scalability
• 4. Ease of use
• 5. Robustness (features)

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Assumptions Users

• User prioritization
• 1. Students
• 2. Faculty
• 3. Staff
• System Administration /
• Programmers
• 5. Other

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Startup Phase

• Problem statement
• Resources Required
• Initial Setup / Cost

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Current System
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Current installation

• Problem statement
• Resources Required
• Current setup / Cost

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Future Plans
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Future Plans

• ID Management (authentication)
• Faculty course requests
• ERP integration

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Minimum Specs

• 2 GHz box
• 1 GB RAM
• 2 HD (RAID 1)
• Widows/Linux/Mac OS?

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Lessons Learned

• Policies/Procedures Documentation
• Communications plan
• Security post 9/11
• Customization Complex
• Support Requests Gold Mine

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Distance Learning Survey
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Distance Learning Survey
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DL Course Enrolment
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Catalyst Faculty Training

• Streamlined previous online training courses
• Provide hands-on workshops
• One-on-one support
• Just-in-time tutorials
• Plans for new online training

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Top 10 Questions

• Faculty Questions
• Where is my course
• What's my password
• How do I add/drop students
• How do I use discussion forum/assignment
• How do I set the ?! grade book

• Student Questions
• Login issues
• Video issues
• Change personal info
• Technical problem during exams
• Access to course or content (usually not part of
  Catalyst)

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• Thanks and questions