ELIS – Managing Enterprise Level Learning Programs with Moodle
- 1. ELIS – Managing Enterprise Level Learning Programs with Moodle - Mike Churchward
- 2. Introduction Remote Learner is a Moodle service provider Our focus is on simplifying the administration and maintenance of learning programs in Moodle Our clients are large, enterprise-level organizations that manage thousands of users and hundreds of courses
- 3. The Needs Our clients wanted to be able to automate large manual processes in Moodle Our support requests frequently involved our techs helping to carry out large manual tasks Wanted to be able to manage courses and users in groupings not provided by Moodle
- 4. Defining The Needs Interviewed multiple clients Clients selected on previous requests and common themes Categorization of support application requests Gathered all data into a requirements specification
- 5. Key Requirements Automate large processes – user creation and management, enrolment, etc. Automate and track learning progression Communicate to users and stakeholders in multiple grouping categorizations
- 6. The Concepts Organized into six essential structures: Course Description Class Instance Program Track Learning Objective User Set All managed outside of Moodle
- 7. The Concepts - Programs
- 8. The Concepts – Usersets
- 9. Course Descriptions Define the meta-data, credits, duration, and learning objectives for a course of study
- 10. Class Instances Instances of course descriptions and are connected to Moodle courses
- 11. Class Enrolment Data User's completion, grade, credits and learning objective status
- 12. Learning Program Group of course descriptions to track specific learning goals (e.g. Certificate program)
- 13. Track Instance of a program; a set of class instances with real data
- 14. Learning Objective Define goals achieved by successful activities in a course
- 15. User Sets Hierarchical groupings of users mapping an organizational structure
- 16. The Build - Reasons A series of Moodle add-ons, using Moodle API's We have Moodle expertise in-house Moodle is central to our learning systems Moodle occasionally “adopts” ELIS functionality Open source provides community involvement
- 17. The Build - Problems Occasionally Moodle changes API's and data structures that don't directly affect users ELIS development can lag behind Moodle releases Management of separate application with multiple version releases
- 18. Management and Distribution Processes very similar to Moodle HQ Git-based repositories – internal and community (mostly) automated merge and release process Unit tests, user tests and Selenium-based automated testing Agile/Scrum development methodologies and processes
- 19. Follow-up Feedback Anchor clients Partners Tracker Market research
- 20. ELIS Generations – Gen One Learning programs and reports Manual processes and interfaces External report engine (Jasper) Managed with block plug-in Minimal core changes
- 21. ELIS Generations – Gen Two Identified problems: setup complexity, effort to integrate large enterprise data sets, difficulty configuring report engine More automation around user sets – profile data based automation Integration point improvements Better UI integration with Moodle New reporting engine
- 22. ELIS Generations – Gen Three Reduce complexity / more automation Moodle 2 based – local plug-ins Results engine automation More data integration options with plug-in system Better, configurable reports
- 23. ELIS Generations – Future Adaptive learning features Better links to Moodle outcomes Dashboards with My Moodle More on-demand reporting Better, configurable reports Automated session start and archive More community involvement
- 24. ELIS Information Community site: http://rlcommunity.remote-learner.net/ Repository location: https://github.com/remotelearner Download: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=4894
- 25. Questions?
Editor's Notes
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