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Al-Quds University. Do You Moodle?. Al-Quds University’s experience in E-learning. Rashid Jayousi, PhD Computer Science Dept. rjayousi@science.alquds.edu. Presentation Overview. IT service at Al-Quds University Overview about Moodle Al-Quds University’s experience.
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Al-Quds University Do You Moodle? Al-Quds University’s experience in E-learning Rashid Jayousi, PhD Computer Science Dept. rjayousi@science.alquds.edu
Presentation Overview • IT service at Al-Quds University • Overview about Moodle • Al-Quds University’s experience
The Said Khoury Information Technology Center of Excellence (SKITCI)
SKITCI Mission • Operates at local and national levels to provide high quality and effective training for students as well as practitioners in the field of information technology.
Curriculum Development & Production of Training Material • SKITCE is recognized for its high quality and tailor-made training packages. • Develop packages to meet changing needs. • Prepare quality training packages for the new training areas identified in the Operational Plan. • Prepare and design tailor-made training packages for national specialist training institutions. • Upgrade staff skills in designing materials that incorporate new teaching technology
What is Moodle? • software package for producing internet-based courses and web sites • ongoing development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education • provided freely as Open Source software Reference: http://moodle.org
Features Overall Design • Suitable for 100% online classes • Simple, lightweight, efficient, compatible, and secure • Course listing shows descriptions for every course on the server, including accessibility to guests. • Courses can be categorized and searched • One Moodle site can support thousands of courses • embedded WYSIWYG HTML editor Reference: http://moodle.org
Features Site and User Management • Flexibility to change / customize the site’s design • Multilingual- currently 43 languages including Arabic • Three types of users • Admin: overall system management (i.e. create courses, upgrade users) • Teacher: assigned courses management • Student: Enrollment in courses Reference: http://moodle.org
Features Course management • A full teacher has full control over all settings for a course, including restricting other teachers • Choice of course formats (week, topic, discussion focused) • Flexible array of course activities (Forums, Journals, Quizzes, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments, Chats, Workshops ) • Track of recent changes to the course • All grades for Forums, Journals, Quizzes and Assignments can be viewed on one page (and downloaded as a spreadsheet file) Reference: http://moodle.org
Al-Quds experience • Al-Quds University has decided to embrace the concept of electronic learning in the summer of 2004 • Claroline, a Learning/Content management system was used during Summer 2004 (http://www.claroline.net) • Due to functionality and security limitation of Claroline, Moodle was adopted as the official E-learning system (http://moodle.org)
Moodle at Al-Quds University URL: http://eclass.alquds.edu