Simplify Moodle
- 1. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Simplify Moodle Ralf Hilgenstock – eLeDia – eLearning im Dialog – Berlin | Bonn
- 3. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Simplify Moodle Simplification is about reducing complexity Where comes complexity from?
- 4. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Why is Moodle so complex? Is Moodle really complex? Is the design of a learning process simple? Is your Moodle system configured individually for your needs? And what does this mean?
- 5. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Could Moodle be as simply as Facebook? What does Facebook? ● Search for friends, confirm friendships ● Publish status information, read – answer to them ● Confirm 'like' ● Invite for events Did this cover your needs for your LMS?
- 6. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Did you try ever this on Facebook? ● Create fully seperated groups? ● Uploaded files for a group ● Create quiz questions ● Grade students ● Publish grades individually only ● Delete advertising ● Create common texts
- 7. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Facebook - Thesis ● 80 % of students and 95% of teachers never tried ● to publish files in a structured way on facebook ● to create private groups und protect them against public access ● to read and understand user policy, data protection policy, copyright policy. If you try this, it will be (very) complex or impossible.
- 8. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Moodle will not be fully simple. Never. Why? ● The process of learning und teaching is not simple ● What is my learning content, syllabus? ● What is the context where I'm teaching (situation, learner group, institutional context, learning pre-experience, size of group)? ● How will I teach my topics? ● Which are my learning process steps? ● What should be teached onsite, what online? Most eLearning is integrated in a blended learning scenario. ● Did I need options for invention during learning process? Did I need alternative pathways? ● Which types of feedback I would like to use? Assignments? Quizzes? Process consultation? Do you have a clear process and design script before you start to setup your online course?
- 9. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. A Learning Management System offers … every single teacher and the colleagues teaching the same topics or across the topics the required tools for not yet defined learning scenarios
- 10. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. A Learning Management System offers … every single teacher and the colleagues teaching the same topics or across the topics the required tools for not yet defined learning scenarios
- 11. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Simplicity is possible ... … if it well defined, ● whats really needed ● what is not required ● what typical learning scenarios are that should be supported by default.
- 12. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. A Learning Management System offers Knows what s/he need Have defined common requirements Have defined common requirements Are well defined Are defined … every single teacher and the colleagues teaching the same topics or across the topics the required tools for not yet defined learning scenarios
- 13. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Coming back to Moodle: Learning Institutions needs ● an individual configuration based on the institutional requirements, process and concepts That means: ● The learning institution needs (an) use case(s) and ● process definition(s)
- 14. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Are there Alternatives? Yes ! ● The LMS knows intuitively what a teacher likes to do. An illusion nobody really wants. or ● There are only three features: ● File upload ● Create assignments ● Grade Is this enough? ● What teachers ask: 'I need links to URLs', ' Can I use Comic sans as font in primary school?', 'Can we reuse the course next year and delete all user data?
- 15. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Modularity of Moodle … is the fundamental start for individual configurations Activities, Blocks, Filter, Quiz question types, Repositories, Course formats, Editor, User registration, Course enrollements, Default settings, Advanced features settings, Roles and Permissions
- 16. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. User registration - Authentification Disable self registration as user. Use external systems if available.
- 17. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Start Page after Login Define MyMoodle as start page after login Should user change settings or do you want to use it for general announcements?
- 18. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Course Enrollment Activate methods that should be used. No more.
- 19. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Course Format | Course Settings Define Defaults
- 20. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Use Default Settings for Activities
- 21. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Use Default Settings for Activities
- 22. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Use Default Settings for Activities
- 23. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Blocks in new Courses : Reduce to the Minimum Do you use communication extensively? Do you announce any news during the course? Do you have course related events? Do you change course elements during course? Delete one block on the right side for each 'no' in your answers.
- 24. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Admin, define a minimum of blocks in new courses in config.php // $CFG->defaultblocks_override = 'participants,activity_modules,search_forums,course_list: news_items,calendar_upcoming,recent_activity'; // // These variables define the specific settings for defined course formats. // They override any settings defined in the formats own config file. // $CFG->defaultblocks_site = 'site_main_menu,course_list:course_summary,calendar_month '; // $CFG->defaultblocks_social = 'participants,search_forums,calendar_month,calendar_upcom ing,social_activities,recent_activity,course_list'; // $CFG->defaultblocks_topics = 'participants,activity_modules,search_forums,course_list: news_items,calendar_upcoming,recent_activity';
- 25. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Blocks – an endless list Ask an experienced user what the features for any block are?
- 27. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Roles: Are you working with the default Roles? Why?
- 33. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Switch between roles You can see the course view with they eyes of an other person in their role.
- 34. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Switch between roles Define which role can switch to an other role. Is it really required as teacher?
- 35. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Question types Reduce number of question types Think about question behaviour settings Redefine order of questions types for selection
- 36. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Question Types Reduce number of question types Reorder the question types. Mostly used on top.
- 38. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Repositories Which repository types are required? Which role should get access to which repository? Did you ever switch between different views?
- 39. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Some very helpfull Filters Filters are disabled by default in Moodle systems
- 43. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Moodle 2.5 - some Highlights Drag and drop for text from word processor to course page - also for URL addresses
- 44. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Moodle 2.5 – some Highlights Quiz settings form
- 45. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Moodle 2.5 some Highlights Create quiz questions in a much simplier form
- 47. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. What's missing? ● Lets discuss, what should be simplified in future?
- 48. The experts for technology, pedagogic and organisation. Contact ● eLeDia eLearning im Dialog Ralf Hilgenstock German Moodle Partner phone: 0049 30 5056 1070 mail: info@eledia.de www.eledia.de www.moodle.de ● My Blog: http://dialoge.info