Moodle

[wagster]

Dear All,

I'd be very interested to get a picture of how many institutions in
Ireland are using Moodle.

Does anyone have a ballpark figure on what percentage of schools have
deployed it?

Are you using it? How do you use it? Are you tracking grades on it?
Have you deployed it but don't really use it?

I think there's some great things I could do developing e-learning
products specifically for Moodle, but if no one is using it I won't
bother!

Thx.

[Janice Conway]

Hey James,

I'm currently using Moodle as the school I'm teaching in is well
equiped with ICT access for students and staff with Moodle set up to
use...I upload each powerpoint presentation for every chapter along
side hot potato quizzes and other videos etc that I find online...

I'm not sure what the ball park figure is for schools using it around
Ireland but it is definately something worth looking into....

Regards
Janice

[Fergal O'Neill]

Hi!

I have just completed one academic year using it in my Senior Maths and Chemistry classes and with my Junior Cert class. It doesn't teach; it enhances my teaching. It also enhances the learning experience for those who are willing to last beyond the novelty phase. I do find however that the Junior students are more prone to use it on a more frequent basis than the senior students.

Primarily I use it for the same reasons as Janice above, but also use it as a vehicle for transmitting material and help to individual students. If a student approaches me and asks me to do a question that could take up a considerable amount of class time, I make a note of it and place the solution on the Moodle so that they can retrieve it later that evening. This is the most time consuming aspect of the process as the solution must be unique to that individual and must be personal in effect.

For Junior Cert students I use it for extra A/V material that complements the Science syllabus whereas for the Leaving Cert students, I primarily use if for uploading end of chapter tests and their solutions so that the students can review their progress by themselves and approach me only of they need clarification. I feel this approach promotes self motivated learning and reviewing and in one sense remove the over dependance on the teacher for reviewing. You will never get 100% of students using it so the personal approach works best with the seniors.

The spin off of all of this?????? A much greater amount of class time dedicated to progress with the syllabus and much less time spent with reviewing. 

Fergal O'Neill
Naas

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[David Kearney]

Here is a list of registered moodle sites - it includes many schools. There
may well be other non-registered sites.
http://moodle.org/sites/index.php?country=IE

A google search by 'scoil moodle ie' also threw up some interesting results.

Hth,
David

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[Geraldine Raftery]

Hi David,
I work in VEC sector and had used a NING site but found that not many tutors
used it. I have an interest in Moodle basically for resources but I think
it would need to be accessible to all members who are on this list, for
example, or all secondary schools or whatever...
It's a great way of storing and retrieving materials but we need to keep
costs down and I honestly don't see a need for individual schools to have
such a set-up.
Keep me informed,
Thanks, Geraldine

[wagster]

Thanks very much all.

Fergal - sounds like you've figured out how to get some real value out
of it. As you say, software can never teach, but it can help a lot.

Interesting link David - I notice that less than half of the Irish
insitututions on it are traditional schools. A lot of businesses seem
to be using it for training.

James

On Jul 18, 8:36 pm, "David Kearney" <dkbarberst...@eircom.net> wrote:
> Here is a list of registered moodle sites - it includes many schools. There

> may well be other non-registered sites.http://moodle.org/sites/index.php?country=IE

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[st...@naascbs.ie]

Have it on school web site (www.naascbs.ie)but need simple lesson plans to get
staff to use it.
Peter

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[Fergal O'Neill]

I honestly think if teachers are given an insight into how it can work for them, they would be very quick to embrace it. A short 20-30 min demo from a school teacher who is already using it should do the trick. Yes Peter a single sheet with simple instructions on how to login and upload and assign an enrolment code should be circulated to all staff in August coming. That's what I plan to do.

Fergal O'Neill
Naas

Email: fergal...@gmail.com

[Elizabeth Oldham]

I believe Trinity is changing to Moodle (from WebCT) NEXT year -
2011-2012, not the one we're starting soon.

Elizabeth.
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[Tony Sweeney]

Hi James,
Took a look at David's link and a number of the colleges I'm aware of using it, including our own don't appear. Found it a most useful platform, but we're definitely not tapping into it's full potential yet. We've had Moodle running since last October, and support it with our own parallel repository drive so as to make it easier to manage and link to larger sized files,
Tony
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[M Morrin]

Hi,

We are a primary school in Limerick city have participated in the Dissolving
Boundaries Project (run by NUI Maynooth and University of Ulster) for the
past five years and our fourth class have used Moodle for collaborative work
with our partner school in Northern Ireland. About two years ago, with
limited knowledge and training, we decided to set up our own VLE and have
begun to explore a few of its possibilities. The interface is bland and not
very child friendly although that has not really deterrred the children.

As a staff we find it a valuable way of storing and sharing and having easy
access to resources e.g. school plans and policies, lists of resources etc.
Agenda for staff meetings are now created online.
In the past year, teachers have uploaded their monthly reports - This has
turned out to be a new and efficient communication channell between
resource, learning support and class teachers and also saves time (printing,
photocopying, filing), ink and paper. We have also added a technical support
section where teachers seek and give help with ICT probs.

Pupils from second class to sixth class have used forums to discuss
favourite books and enter writing and poetry competitions.

I would love to make the site more attractive and inviting to the children
and to develop its potential as a tool of collaboration ( we have just
started to use wikis). I have just completed an online NCTE course -
Developing E-Learning in your School. I was really impressed with how Moodle
was used to present this course in a very engaging and attractive manner. I
believe Moodle has great potential but my colleagues and I need training to
exploit this.

By the way, I would be interested in attending inservice courses in Moodle
but haven't come across any recently.

Marion.

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[Pádraig Ó Dubhaigh]

Great to see such interest in using Moodle!
Can anyone point me to simple "Dummys Guide" to installing & setting up Moodle for a school?

Thanks
Pádraig

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On 22 Jul 2010 13:22, "M Morrin" <ma...@iol.ie> wrote:

Hi,

We are a primary school in Limerick city have participated in the Dissolving Boundaries Project (run by NUI Maynooth and University of Ulster) for the past five years and our fourth class have used Moodle for collaborative work with our partner school in Northern Ireland. About two years ago, with limited knowledge and training, we decided to set up our own VLE and have begun to explore a few of its possibilities. The interface is bland and not very child friendly although that has not really deterrred the children.

As a staff we find it a valuable way of storing and sharing and having easy access  to resources e.g. school plans and policies, lists of resources etc. Agenda for staff meetings are now created online.
In the past year, teachers have uploaded their monthly reports - This has turned out to be a new and  efficient communication channell between resource, learning support and class teachers and also saves time (printing, photocopying, filing), ink and paper. We have also added a technical support section where teachers seek and give help with ICT probs.

Pupils from second class to sixth class have used forums to discuss favourite books and enter writing and poetry competitions.

I would love to make the site more attractive and inviting to the children and to develop its potential as a tool of collaboration ( we have just started to use wikis). I have just completed an online NCTE course - Developing E-Learning in your School. I was really impressed with how Moodle was used to present this course in a very engaging and attractive manner. I believe Moodle has great potential but my colleagues and I need training to exploit this.

By the way, I would be interested in attending inservice courses in Moodle but haven't come across any recently.

Marion.








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> Dear All,
>
> I'd be very interested to get a picture of how many institutions in

> Ireland are...

[Geraldine Raftery]

As far as I can see, it needs to be hosted on specific type of server, am I correct in this?

 

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Great to see such interest in using Moodle!

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[David Dalton]

Moodle can be hosted on a variety of servers from Windows to Linux.  It can even be run on an ordinary Windows XP Pc provided Microsoft IIS is installed.

 

If you are thinking of using Moodle for serious school work, the best way to do this is to have a server in school. This eliminated ALL bandwidth issues and allows you to back up the data on the server on a regular basis.

 

Remember that Moodle are shortly going to release Moodle 2.0.  This will have a raft of new facilities and a much improved interface.

 

 

David Dalton

Managing Director,

IT Systems Ltd,

Registered in Ireland. No. 253823. 

Beal Boru, Killaloe, Co. Clare, Ireland

 

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[Raymond O'Brien]

Hi Pádraig,

You can download moodle from moodle.org in a few different forms.

1. You can download the moodle source files and build it using your own webserver - hosted or local.

2.  You can download moodle in a package - This has everything you need, the moodle source code along with everything to run a web server (PHP, MySql, Apache).  This one i would recommend to run moodle internally from a PC, etc if you are looking to set one up quickly and evaluate it.  In college i did this when i was playing with sloodle - Second life and Moodle.

Personally i prefer to build moodle using a custom web server with Linux and the like - you can customise everything to exactly what you want, however it takes a little extra how and patience!

The nice thing about having a company like Blacknight host your moodle is, with one click you can install moodle and its up and running - All that needs to be done then is setup your users and courses - you can also integrate this into your school facilities management system to do all this for you.

Hope this helps.

Ray

[M Morrin]

I'd love that too. When we were starting off, we twisted the arm of a willing second level teacher who did all the work for us.

 

Marion

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Hi,

You can access server from home using sortware called Hamachi.

Ted

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We are a Junior Primary School (JI -  2^nd class). As we will all have IAWB this year, I have set up Wikis for class level planning & storage of WB material. We are just waiting to set up email accounts for all staff off of our website to access them.  We have a server at school that we have used for this to date but we have no access from home, whatever the gov think, all of my planning & lesson making happens at home!!

I like the suggestion of using it for showcasing poetry / story’s / art etc at each level. I have only had my IAWB for 1 school year but my 2^nd class have already made movies of Irish legends using movie maker and become avid tweeters – they are still using twitter over the hols so I know what they are up to, and tried out Skype. Wireless keyboards & mouse are fab for this around the class.

We won’t have call for our kids to interact from home – but def to interact across class levels at school. Horses for courses!

 

Eimear

[Pádraig Ó Dubhaigh]

Ah, perfect Ray, thanks!
I didn't realise Blacknight did a one-click Moodle install.

Pádraig

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On 22 Jul 2010 16:35, "Raymond O&apos;Brien" <ray.o...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Pádraig,

You can download moodle from moodle.org in a few different forms.

1. You can download the moodle source files and build it using your own webserver - hosted or local.

2.  You can download moodle in a package - This has everything you need, the moodle source code along with everything to run a web server (PHP, MySql, Apache).  This one i would recommend to run moodle internally from a PC, etc if you are looking to set one up quickly and evaluate it.  In college i did this when i was playing with sloodle - Second life and Moodle.

Personally i prefer to build moodle using a custom web server with Linux and the like - you can customise everything to exactly what you want, however it takes a little extra how and patience!

The nice thing about having a company like Blacknight host your moodle is, with one click you can install moodle and its up and running - All that needs to be done then is setup your users and courses - you can also integrate this into your school facilities management system to do all this for you.

Hope this helps.

Ray

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Careful with blacknight all.  They're a fantastic company re tech support etc but they don't do automatic installations of Moodle anymore.  

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[Edward Kelly]

Hi Ray and all,

1. Ray, I'd love to hear your comment about Sloodle - I looked into it some time ago but found it quite chunky! I know Second Life is not for primary or secondary school kids but could you see Sloodle incorporated into adult education?

2. The following abstract was emailed to me earlier in the seek - comments about technology never replacing teachers prompted me to post it here - food for thought.

The reference is:
 
Means, B.; Toyama, Y.; Murphy, R.; Bakia, M.; Jones, K. (2009), Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies <http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf> ,
 
Available at  http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf, 

It’s a substantial and influential report based on a meta-analysis of research literature from over 1000 studies between 1996 to July 2008. 
 
The abstract is below:
 
A systematic search of the research literature from 1996 through July 2008 identified more than a thousand empirical studies of online learning. Analysts screened these studies to find those that (a) contrasted an online to a face-to-face condition, (b) measured student learning outcomes, (c) used a rigorous research design, and (d) provided adequate information to calculate an effect size. As a result of this screening, 51 independent effects were identified that could be subjected to meta-analysis. The meta-analysis found that, on average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction. The difference between student outcomes for online and face-to-face classes -- measured as the difference between treatment and control means, divided by the pooled standard deviation -- was larger in those studies contrasting conditions that blended elements of online and face-to-face instruction with conditions taught entirely face-to-face. Analysts noted that these blended conditions often included additional learning time and instructional elements not received by students in control conditions. This finding suggests that the positive effects associated with blended learning should not be attributed to the media, per se. An unexpected finding was the small number of rigorous published studies contrasting online and face-to-face learning conditions for K-12 students. In light of this small corpus, caution is required in generalizing to the K-12 population because the results are derived for the most part from studies in other settings (e.g., medical training, higher education).

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Eamon

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[Brian Henry]

> If you are thinking of using Moodle for serious school work, the best way
> to do this is to have a server in school. This eliminated ALL bandwidth
> issues and allows you to back up the data on the server on a regular basis.

I have to disagree with this. Bandwidth issues on a primarily text-
based sites are insignificant. And doesn't your company recommend the
use of a proxy in schools? I don't think that's a consideration at
all.

The extra expense of purchasing a server, or if the school already has
a server with the spare capacity then the expense of configuring IIS
alone, is way beyond the €40/year cost for shared hosting with the
main providers. I assume most schools who would be considering a VLE
would already have a website, so there'll generally be no additional
cost, in that regard.

Using external hosting also allows students to access Moodle from
home, whereas the default settings for the NCTE firewall block
incoming connections (to the best of my knowledge). Any decent hosting
provider will perform regular backups and there's nothing in that
setup preventing a school from performing additional ones themselves.


> M Morrin:

> I would love to make the site more attractive and inviting to the children
> and to develop its potential as a tool of collaboration ( we have just
> started to use wikis).

I think if money is to be put into Moodle, getting a graphic designer
to make its style child-friendly and consistent with the school's
homepage would be money well spent. The Google Apps Single Sign On
(SSO) module should also be installed for schools already providing
students with individual PC/email accounts. And training, of course.

Unfortunately, I'm not working in any schools that are using VLEs but
I'm certainly going to encourage their use this year.


Brian.

On Jul 22, 4:31 pm, "David Dalton" <david.dal...@itsystems.ie> wrote:
> Moodle can be hosted on a variety of servers from Windows to Linux.  It can even be run on an ordinary Windows XP Pc provided Microsoft IIS is installed.
>
> If you are thinking of using Moodle for serious school work, the best way to do this is to have a server in school. This eliminated ALL bandwidth issues and allows you to back up the data on the server on a regular basis.
>
> Remember that Moodle are shortly going to release Moodle 2.0.  This will have a raft of new facilities and a much improved interface.
>
> David Dalton
>
> Managing Director,
>
> IT Systems Ltd,
>
> Registered in Ireland. No. 253823.  
>
> Beal Boru, Killaloe, Co. Clare, Ireland
>
> (    + 087 2546 338   (Mob)
>
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>
> As far as I can see, it needs to be hosted on specific type of server, am I correct in this?
>
> From: cesi...@googlegroups.com [mailto:cesi...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Pádraig Ó Dubhaigh
> Sent: 22 July 2010 14:44
> To: cesi...@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: [CESI List] Moodle
>
> Great to see such interest in using Moodle!
> Can anyone point me to simple "Dummys Guide" to installing & setting up Moodle for a school?
>
> Thanks
> Pádraig
>
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> Sent from mobile.
>

>         On 22 Jul 2010 13:22, "M Morrin" <m...@iol.ie> wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         We are a primary school in Limerick city have participated in the Dissolving Boundaries Project (run by NUI Maynooth and University of Ulster) for the past five years and our fourth class have used Moodle for collaborative work with our partner school in Northern Ireland. About two years ago, with limited knowledge and training, we decided to set up our own VLE and have begun to explore a few of its possibilities. The interface is bland and not very child friendly although that has not really deterrred the children.
>
>         As a staff we find it a valuable way of storing and sharing and having easy access  to resources e.g. school plans and policies, lists of resources etc. Agenda for staff meetings are now created online.
>         In the past year, teachers have uploaded their monthly reports - This has turned out to be a new and  efficient communication channell between resource, learning support and class teachers and also saves time (printing, photocopying, filing), ink and paper. We have also added a technical support section where teachers seek and give help with ICT probs.
>
>         Pupils from second class to sixth class have used forums to discuss favourite books and enter writing and poetry competitions.
>
>         I would love to make the site more attractive and inviting to the children and to develop its potential as a tool of collaboration ( we have just started to use wikis). I have just completed an online NCTE course - Developing E-Learning in your School. I was really impressed with how Moodle was used to present this course in a very engaging and attractive manner. I believe Moodle has great potential but my colleagues and I need training to exploit this.
>
>         By the way, I would be interested in attending inservice courses in Moodle but haven't come across any recently.
>
>         Marion.
>
>
>
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[Raymond O'Brien]

Ah thats disappointing!

I can't see why they would remove it!

Most web hosting companies do these one click installs.

If not, the moodle install guides are very easy to follow.

Even by doing it the hard way you can have a moodle system up

in less than an hour.

[Raymond O'Brien]

Just to update - other hosting companies have the one click install

Godaddy for example which is like the cheap of cheap when it comes to hosting have what you need.

http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/web-hosting.aspx?ci=8971

Like i said, they are cheap but their support isn't the greatest.  

[Pádraig Ó Dubhaigh]

Re. Blacknight, I got this message from Support Dept

"Moodle is not available through the Application Vault as it does not work correctly when installed through the Application Vault."

Pity :-(
It would've been a very simple solution to installing Moodle, leaving more time to get on with setting up user a/c's, uploading content etc.
Although, it seems from previous posts that it's a fairly straightforward install anyhow
Thanks again for the advice on this.

Pádraig
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On 23 Jul 2010 12:43, "Raymond O&apos;Brien" <ray.o...@gmail.com> wrote:

Just to update - other hosting companies have the one click install

Godaddy for example which is like the cheap of cheap when it comes to hosting have what you need.

http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/web-hosting.aspx?ci=8971

Like i said, they are cheap but their support isn't the greatest.  

On 22 Jul 2010, at 22:44, Jimredmond wrote:

> Careful with blacknight all.  They're a fantastic ...

[Jimredmond]

Yeah not sure why they removed it but it was about a year ago.  They still have installers for wordpress etc so it

Seemed quite odd. 

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[Jimredmond]

I actually found it really easy to install moodle manually on blacknight so if I can do it.........!

Blackrock ed centre had a really good one day introduction to moodle for admins about 2 years ago.  Could be worth looking into again? 

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[Daynuv]

On 23 July, 10:08, Edward Kelly <educatingea...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ray and all,
> 1. Ray, I'd love to hear your comment about Sloodle

Hi Edward,

you might be interested in taking a look at the interesting portfolio
of projects University of Ulster have undertaken integrating Sloodle
and Second Life -

http://sgvwtv.ulster.ac.uk/categories/8/Second-Life

Each of these uses Sloodle on the back-end, for instance in the
"Washing Machine Simulator" the functionality and interaction is
recorded and tracked in Sloodle. The Sloodle tracker records the
avatar/student and six different tasks which record the interaction
with the washing machine simulator in Second Life, the level of
completion is included as well as the date and time. Similarly for the
project simulating the "Fetch, Execute and Decode cycle of a CPU".

We're planning to make extensive use of Sloodle ourselves in the
coming year for similar educational simulations.


Regards,
-James.
Daynuv.com

[Raymond O'Brien]

Hi Edward,

Il have to dig out the research i did on it.  It was a few years ago now.

The reason i started looking into sloodle was because it offered a game like environment in an educational context

and i felt it would be suitable for some candidates as they would learn better in this type of environment.  It also offered

a very interesting collaborative environment to allow candidates to work together - locally and remotely

I remember moving away from it because it added a hinderance of too much "fudge".

It looks amasing and offers some very interesting ways of delivering material and

recording activity in the moodle backend however its a very slow paradigm compared to traditional learning.

Personally i would prefer a structured course in moodle itself and use interactive flash animations

or quicktime VR animations if something needs to demonstrated in 3D.

I cannot imagine it being used while sitting in a classroom - distance learning and collaboration maybe.

Actually i was always fond of the idea; mixing and integrating the sloodle classroom with the real world

classroom - mixing distance learners with students in the classroom so they could learn and work together.

Boy do i miss college!!

[Edward Kelly]

Hi James,

Thanks for your email on Sloodle and the link to the videos.

If you wouldn't mind, I'd love to hear more in the future about your plans to use Sloodle .

 

Regards

Eamon

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[Adrienne Webb]

Hi Pádraig

I attended a workshop on Moodle and the following book was recommended:  Using Moodle:  Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management by Jason Cole, O'Reilly Community Press.    When I went to the website I found that there was a second edition, 2007, by Jason Cole and Helen Foster.  I've ordered that myself just now based on the recommendation.

Cheers
Adrienne

2010/7/22 Pádraig Ó Dubhaigh <padraigo...@gmail.com>

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[Cormac]

We are using Moodle in our school for the past few years.

Originally had it on our own server in school but have moved to an
external hosting provider - www.spiralhosting.com

Some teachers make great use of it.

www.geralds.tel

On Jul 24, 6:08 am, Jimredmond <jimredm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah not sure why they removed it but it was about a year ago.  They  
> still have installers for wordpress etc so it
> Seemed quite odd.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>

> On 23 Jul 2010, at 13:19, Raymond O'Brien <ray.obr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Ah thats disappointing!
>
> > I can't see why they would remove it!
>
> > Most web hosting companies do these one click installs.
> > If not, the moodle install guides are very easy to follow.
> > Even by doing it the hard way you can have a moodle system up
> > in less than an hour.
>
> > On 22 Jul 2010, at 22:44, Jimredmond wrote:
>
> >> Careful with blacknight all.  They're a fantastic company re tech  
> >> support etc but they don't do automatic installations of Moodle  
> >> anymore.
>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
>

> >> On 22 Jul 2010, at 23:22, Pádraig Ó Dubhaigh <padraigodubha...@gmail.c

> >> om> wrote:
>
> >>> Ah, perfect Ray, thanks!
> >>> I didn't realise Blacknight did a one-click Moodle install.
>
> >>> Pádraig
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