Thoughts on Moodle?
EDTECH Editor-Jones
Hi,
I am exploring the idea of moving to Moodle as our LMS. If you have had
experience running Moodle at a district or university level, I would appreciate
a chance to talk with you off-list about Moodle, configuration, tech support,
reliability, modules, etc. If anyone would like to showcase their
institution's Moodle site, please let me know
as well.
Thanks!
-Alix
Alix E. Peshette
Coordinator for Instructional Technology
Placer County Office of Education
360 Nevada St.
Auburn, CA. 95603 USA
530-745-1495
apes...@placercoe.k12.ca.us
http://www.linkedin.com/in/alixpeshette
http://alixpeshette.edublogs.org/ <http://alixpeshette.edublogs.org/>
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EDTECH Editor-Jones
> I would appreciate a chance to talk with you off-list about Moodle,
> configuration, tech support, reliability, modules, etc.
(sniff, sniff:-) But why not on-list? Some of us would value the chance
to lurk on a non-sugar-coated talk about such software.
Regards,
.
Randy
--
Fast fact: Since 1984 the state of California has built 21 new prisons --
and 1 new college.
EDTECH Editor-Jones
Over the last year we have migrated from Blackboard (hosted on our campus) to
Moodle (also hosted on our campus). The short version of the story is that
* we have found Moodle to be just as reliable or more so than our Blackboard
installation was,
* faculty are using Moodle in more active ways than they were using
Blackboard,
* students preferred Moodle over Blackboard 2-3 to 1 when surveyed about
different features/functions of the LMS,
* the open architecture of Moodle has allowed us to augment our LMS with
add-on modules from the Moodle community,
* we are beginning to take advantage of Moodle's open architecture to
customize the LMS and integrate it with our other learning resources and
applications,
* we can allocate the licensing costs we would have spent on Blackboard to
other instructional technology projects,
* our back-end support costs (server administration, etc) is equal to or
less than what support we needed to provide to maintain Blackboard,
* our user support needs are probably a little less than they were for
Blackboard as Moodle is a very user-friendly system,
* we have more control over our upgrade strategy and pathway.
You can finds slides from a presentation on our migration from Blackboard to
Moodle, including the data on student preferences and faculty
uses/requirements, at:
http://www.slideshare.net/keith.landa/migrating-to-moodle-faculty-student-and-technology-perspectives
keith landa, director
teaching, learning, and technology center
purchase college suny
> From: Randy Edwards <redw...@golgotha.net<mailto:redw...@golgotha.net>
>> I would appreciate a chance to talk with you off-list about Moodle,
>> configuration, tech support, reliability, modules, etc.
>
> (sniff, sniff:-) But why not on-list? Some of us would value the
> chance to lurk on a non-sugar-coated talk about such software.
>
> Regards,
> .
> Randy
---
EDTECH Editor-Jones
I would HIGHLY encourage you to check out the free LMS - www.edu20.org.
We've been using it for two years and we love it...
Matt Henchen
> From: "Peshette, Alix" <apes...@placercoe.k12.ca.us>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am exploring the idea of moving to Moodle as our LMS. If you have had
> experience running Moodle at a district or university level, I would
> appreciate a chance to talk with you off-list about Moodle, configuration,
> tech support, reliability, modules, etc. If anyone would like to showcase
> their institution's Moodle site, please let me know
> as well.
>
>
> Thanks!
> -Alix
>
>
> Alix E. Peshette
> Coordinator for Instructional Technology
> Placer County Office of Education
> 360 Nevada St.
> Auburn, CA. 95603 USA
> 530-745-1495
> apes...@placercoe.k12.ca.us
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/alixpeshette
> http://alixpeshette.edublogs.org/ <http://alixpeshette.edublogs.org/>
> http://del.icio.us/artfully
> Google Certified Teacher
>
> "Technology - opening minds with a new set of keys"
--
Matt Henchen