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Mooving to Moodle

Mooving to Moodle. Amy Brown and Deana St. Peter Guilford Technical Community College. What LMS is your school using?. Blackboard WebCT Educator Moodle Other/Not Applicable. Is your school considering Moodle?. Yes No Maybe. What is the main thing your school likes about Blackboard?.

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Mooving to Moodle

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  1. Mooving to Moodle Amy Brown and Deana St. Peter Guilford Technical Community College

  2. What LMS is your school using? • Blackboard • WebCT • Educator • Moodle • Other/Not Applicable

  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

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  9. Blackboard

  10. Facebook

  11. Moodle

  12. 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

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

  14. 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

  15. 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) • 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

  16. 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, etc.

  17. 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 • Easier to navigate

  18. Blackboard List of Students

  19. Moodle List of Students

  20. Blackboard Course Homepage

  21. Moodle Course Homepage

  22. Blackboard Discussion Boards

  23. Moodle Forums

  24. Blackboard Glossary

  25. Moodle Glossary

  26. Moodle Glossary with Student Contributions

  27. Blackboard Course Statistics

  28. Moodle Activity Reports

  29. Another Moodle Activity Report

  30. Blackboard as an Administrator

  31. Moodle as an Administrator

  32. 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!

  33. 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.

  34. 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

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

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

  37. Teaching with Moodle

  38. Moodle Resources

  39. Moodle Activities

  40. Learning from Mistakes • Moodle 1.8 gradebook • Adaptive mode in quizzes • Question “names” • CamelCase in wikis • Typos in “News Forum” and “Mail now” • Can’t “block” students

  41. Moodle as a Student

  42. Moodle as a Student

  43. 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

  44. 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.

  45. Moodle sites at GTCC – EPT 210

  46. Moodle sites at GTCC – FIP 136

  47. Moodle sites at GTCC – CIS 110

  48. Moodle sites at GTCC – REL 110

  49. Innovative Instruction • Wikis • Blogs • Responsibility for their own learning

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