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mooving to moodle

What LMS is your school using?. BlackboardWebCTEducatorMoodleOther/Not Applicable. Is your school considering Moodle?. YesNoMaybe. What is the main thing your school likes about Blackboard?. It's familiarMenu/folder organizationLook and feelGradebookWe don't use Blackboard. What's the main thing your school does NOT like about Blackboard?.

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    1. Mooving to Moodle Amy Brown and Deana St. Peter Guilford Technical Community College February 18, 2008 Note extra “o” added to “moving” ?Note extra “o” added to “moving” ?

    3. Is your school considering Moodle? Yes No Maybe

    4. What is the main thing your school likes about Blackboard? It’s familiar Menu/folder organization Look and feel Gradebook We don’t use Blackboard

    5. What’s the main thing your school does NOT like about Blackboard? Price Menu/folder organization Look and feel Gradebook Limited options We don’t use Blackboard

    6. GTCC backstory Over 10 years on Blackboard Part of NCLC Blackboard consortium Experienced some customer service issues with Blackboard and ASP hosting

    7. GTCC - Moodle System Office was pushing Moodle as a solution RFP for second wave of NCMUG project Distance Learning and five faculty attended Moodle training summer 2007

    10. Facebook

    11. Moodle

    13. Blackboard vs. Moodle Annual license fee vs. Open source Folders vs. Blocks Content management system vs. Dynamic learning environment Faculty/Publisher-created content vs. “Everyone-created” content

    14. Move to Moodle Training (summer 2007) Pilot with faculty and students (fall 2007) Migration (spring 2008-fall 2008) Final Blackboard semester (spring 2009)

    15. GTCC number of sites Fall 2007 semester Blackboard – over 800 Moodle – over 15 Spring 2008 semester Blackboard – over 800 Moodle – over 50 Fall 2008 semester Moodle – over 800 Blackboard – between 50-75

    16. GTCC faculty Blackboard is limiting Setting up assignments in BB is more time consuming—multiple steps Students can’t contribute to course content (like glossaries and wikis) Blackboard can get bulky—go to this folder, open this sub-folder, download this file Moodle is more dynamic—students create profiles with pictures, I can see all of their activity in one place, it’s easier for me to respond to them

    17. GTCC faculty Reaction to Moodle training “Wow! Look at all the cool toys!” Different types of assignments allow for different student interaction and different student-teacher interaction News forum, internal messaging, collaborative activities, etc.

    18. GTCC faculty Selling features of Moodle Profiles—I can “see” my students next to all of their work Activity reports—show posts, blogs, submitted assignments, etc. all in one place Navigation—all on one page, edit button allows for toggling back and forth

    19. Blackboard List of Students

    20. Moodle List of Students

    21. Blackboard Course Homepage

    22. Moodle Course Homepage

    23. Blackboard Discussion Boards

    24. Moodle Forums

    25. Blackboard Glossary

    26. Moodle Glossary

    27. Moodle Glossary with Student Contributions

    28. Blackboard Course Statistics

    29. Moodle Activity Reports

    30. Another Moodle Activity Report

    31. Blackboard as an Administrator

    32. Moodle as an Administrator

    33. Blackboard vs. Moodle Admin. Logging in as a someone else Search and add students to course Settings for self-creation of accounts Self-enroll process Enrollment file (user/course vs. user/course/group) Groups keep sections separate!

    34. Pros for switching to Moodle Open source – better long-term financial investment for GTCC Flexibility and options More learning centered than Blackboard Faculty already online savvy, but switch gives us a chance to redefine what we do

    35. Cons for switching to Moodle Migration of content Retrain faculty Running/Paying for 2 Learning Management System for migration Resistance to change Lacking a true equation editor Publishers are new to Moodle

    36. What is your top concern about moving to Moodle? Migration of content Retraining faculty Publisher content Reaction of faculty Other

    37. Do you think Moodle could work at your school? True False

    38. Teaching with Moodle

    39. Moodle Resources

    40. Books

    41. Moodle Activities

    42. Choice Activities

    43. Learning from Mistakes Moodle 1.8 gradebook Adaptive mode in quizzes Question “names” CamelCase in wikis Typos in “News Forum” and “Mail now” No “block” feature

    44. Moodle as a Student

    45. Moodle as a Student

    46. GTCC decision Moodle server with Remote Learner – Level 4 Use Blackboard through June 2009 On-going training both face-to-face and online Aim for 95% of courses to be on Moodle by fall 2008

    47. Team-teaching with Moodle Advantages: Teachers can co-develop and share assignments without having to share students or a grade book. Students are put in separate groups and have access to their group only. We don’t have to create separate forums, for example.

    48. Moodle sites at GTCC – EPT 210

    49. Moodle sites at GTCC – FIP 136

    50. Moodle sites at GTCC – CIS 110

    51. Moodle sites at GTCC – REL 110

    52. Innovative Instruction Wikis Blogs Responsibility for their own learning

    53. Administrating Moodle Blackboard head Tools are present, less “sophistication” Course copy process – more options Enrollment file (users/courses vs. users/courses/groups)

    54. Moodle lessons from others Challenges: Like learning to drive a new car Using the grade book and creating tests More features in Moodle

    55. Future of Moodle at GTCC Five instances Curriculum Business and Industry / Continuning Education Internal Training Testing Public

    56. Customizations iTunes U authentication part of login process 10% report - # of hits, not actions Attendance form Streamline enrollment

    57. Information Amy Brown, Distance Learning albrown@gtcc.edu Deana St. Peter, English djstpeter@gtcc.edu

    58. What does the “D” stand for in Moodle? Domino Dynamic Devil

    59. Students are telling us that they like Moodle better than Blackboard because _______________________. It’s easier to use. They can create content as well as faculty. Profiles make it easier to interact. All of the above

    60. The group feature in Moodle allows you to keep the sections separate yet see the same content. Yes No

    61. This was a good presentation. Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree

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