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Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 22:26:10 +0100
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Subject: Re: [CESI List] Is Moodle worth the trouble?
From: Bije Barrett <bijebarr...@gmail.com>
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I'm new to the community. I've been receiving your e-.mails for about 2
weeks now and I've been picking up a great deal of knowledge. I'm a teacher
in a secondary school with a daily rising passion to deliver the junior
cert programme  and leaving cert programme in a virtual school
environment.  I have very little experience of using moodle ( I have
uploaded a word document course to my TY students only) but it would appear
to me that it is the tool that could deliver a state run virtual schooling
programme (South Carolina and Utah style). What really attracts me to
moodle is its tracking of student participation and the recorded
assessments of online tests
For the last year I've been using an e-learning package called Articulate
to convert the leaving cert biology course into an  interactive learning
programme. In my humble opinion, the government drive to deliver
 technology to education has been teacher centered. It is time to focus on
a student centered approach.
I know there are many e-learning packages out there but I have found
Articulate  to be very user friendly. It can deliver voice over lessons
with pictures and diagrams  on topics. Engage students with frequently
asked questions from past paper on topics, with speed and ease. Engage
students in learning diagrams and deliver instant feedback with online
tests, which are not just word based. It can also offer easy revision with
a flash card facility, which is also brilliant in delivering definitions
many students need on topics. So it is quite a good package.

Having made the interactive lessons and published them in flash, I now
would like to upload them to Moodle for next year. I intend to download the
moodle package to a web site. It would appear that Moodle 2 is the
package I should download? Do any of you experts out there see a problem in
uploading flash delivered lessons to moodle?

Other questions I have are


If I upload this interactive biology course on moodle, can my moodle
site be made available to a number of schools, where the teachers in those
schools can administer and track their own students participation in it,
without they having to upload the course themselves, on their own moodle
site.


In moodle if you input questions for an on line assessment, can it have a
large data base of questions and only a small number be tested each time.
e.g. 100 questions but only 25 each time and can they be different each
time. If yes, can the selection be predetermined or is it at random.
Is there courses, on how to use Moodle, I can attend over the summer?



  On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:38 AM, P=E1draig =D3 Dubhaigh <
padraigodubha...@gmail.com> wrote:

> At the risk of infuriating Moodle diehards and drawing all kinds of wrath
> upon myself, I ask a simple question "Is Moodle worth the trouble?"
>
> From this & other Discussion Groups, I notice many posts about Moodle,
> from problems with Blocks to problems with V 2.0 and it has me wondering =
if
> admin & maintenance is an issue.
>
> I don't regularly use Moodle, my school doesn't have a VLE (other than
> Google Apps, which is different....) and I'd like to be convinced that it
> IS worth it. There are many members of this CESI-List who are Moodle
> fanatics (Hi Clare ;-) ) but it would be great to hear from new users who
> are enjoying the benefits and who unreservedly recommend it
>
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<div>I&#39;m new to the community. I&#39;ve been receiving your e-.mails fo=
r about 2 weeks now and I&#39;ve been picking up a great deal of knowledge.=
 I&#39;m a teacher in a secondary school with a daily rising passion to del=
iver the junior cert programme=A0 and leaving cert programme in a virtual s=
chool environment.=A0=A0I have very little experience of using moodle=A0( I=
 have uploaded a word document course to my TY students only)=A0but=A0it wo=
uld appear to me that it is the tool that could deliver a state run virtual=
 schooling programme (South Carolina and Utah style).=A0What really attract=
s me to moodle is its tracking of student participation and the recorded as=
sessments of online tests</div>

<div>For the last year I&#39;ve been using an e-learning package called Art=
iculate to convert the leaving cert biology course into an =A0interactive l=
earning programme. In my humble opinion, the government drive to deliver =
=A0technology to education has been teacher centered. It is time=A0to focus=
 on a student centered approach. </div>
<div>I know there are many e-learning packages out there but I have found A=
rticulate=A0 to be very user friendly. It can deliver voice over lessons wi=
th pictures and diagrams=A0 on topics. Engage students with frequently aske=
d questions from past paper on topics,=A0with speed and ease. Engage studen=
ts in learning diagrams and deliver instant feedback with online tests, whi=
ch are not just word based. It can also offer easy revision with a flash ca=
rd facility, which is also brilliant in delivering definitions many student=
s need on topics. So it is quite a good package. </div>
<div>=A0</div><div>Having made the interactive lessons and published them i=
n flash,=A0I now would like to upload them to Moodle for next year. I inten=
d to download the moodle package to a web site. It would appear that Moodle=
 2 is the package=A0I should download? Do any of you experts out there see =
a problem in uploading flash delivered lessons=A0to moodle?</div>
<div>=A0</div><div>Other=A0questions I have=A0are </div><div>=A0</div><div>=
=A0</div><div>If=A0I upload=A0this interactive biology course=A0on moodle, =
can=A0my moodle site=A0be made available to a number of schools, where the =
teachers in those schools can administer and track their own students parti=
cipation in it, without they having to upload the course themselves, on the=
ir own moodle site.=A0<br>
<br><br> In moodle if you input questions for an on line assessment, can it=
 have a large data base of questions and only a small number be tested each=
 time. e.g. 100 questions but only 25 each time and can they be different e=
ach time. If yes, can the selection be predetermined or is it at random.<br=
>
</div><div>Is there=A0courses, on how to use Moodle, I can attend over the =
summer?<br></div><div>=A0=A0</div><div>=A0</div><div>=A0</div><div>
=A0=A0On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:38 AM, P=E1draig =D3 Dubhaigh <span dir=3D=
"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:padraigodubha...@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">p=
adraigodubha...@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br></div><div class=3D"gmai=
l_quote"><blockquote style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;bor=
der-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:sol=
id" class=3D"gmail_quote">

At the risk of=A0infuriating=A0Moodle diehards and drawing all kinds of wra=
th upon myself, I ask a simple question &quot;Is Moodle worth the trouble?&=
quot;<div><br></div><div>From this &amp; other Discussion Groups, I notice =
many posts about Moodle, from problems with Blocks to problems with V 2.0 a=
nd it has me wondering if admin &amp; maintenance is an issue.=A0</div>


<div><br></div><div>I don&#39;t regularly use Moodle, my school doesn&#39;t=
 have a VLE (other than Google Apps, which is different....) and I&#39;d li=
ke to be convinced that it IS worth it. There are many members of this CESI=
-List who are Moodle fanatics (Hi Clare ;-) ) but it would be great to hear=
 from new users who are enjoying the benefits and who unreservedly recommen=
d it=A0</div>

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