Top 5 Moodle Plugins for Productivity

Editor's Notes

• #3: We have Ben Young, who is our resident Moodle, and Plugins expert. You may have seen a previous presentation of Ben’s, he has presented at a number of conferences, tradeshows and events across North America. Despite his busy schedule, he frequently delivers webinars for Lambda Solutions, and we are lucky to have him here today. My name is Nimritta, I’m a Marketing Coordinator here at Lambda. I’m also a Moodle user myself, I used Moodle during university, and at a previous company. I’ll be here to moderate the webinar, and answer any questions you all have.
• #4: Let’s go through some housekeeping items. We tested the audio earlier, but if you experience issues with the sound, just let us know in the chat box. This is an interactive webinar, so we do have some poll questions throughout the presentation, we’d love if you would participate. We will have a question and answer period at the end of the webinar, so ask your questions as they come, and we will go through them at the end. There will be a post-webinar survey at the end, where you can provide your feedback!
• #6: A little bit about Lambda Solutions: We are LMS experts and a complete solutions provider – we offer everything from the technology, to training and services. Beyond just the technology, our solutions help you see when, and how, eLearning is achieving goals. We’ve developed a reporting and analytics solution to provide deeper insight into your learners, and learning programs. We have 12 years of experience, over 600 customer implementations, and 1 million active user accounts across most industry sectors.
• #7: We work with some amazing industry leading clients such as TOMS Shoes, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and Kodak Alaris to improve their training programs, enhance performance, and reduce the cost of their learning and training management. One of our Moodle clients we like to highlight is Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. With the custom Moodle reports we build for them, they were able to save weeks of time, and significant costs. 
• #10: Why is productivity so important? There’s no shortage of answers here, but the one that is going to be most relevant for you is Return on Investment, or ROI. Productivity proves ROI – higher productivity means you are getting an outcome from the income you’re spending on learning programs. A recent IBM study showed every dollar invested in online training results in $30 in productivity – this is mainly due to the fact that employees are able to resume their work faster and apply their skills immediately. Companies that use eLearning technology achieve an 18% boost in employee engagement
• #13: Teachers can see all the assignments and manual quiz questions that have been submitted, and still need to be graded. The block is configured to work with groups – meaning teachers will only see the assignments submitted by students if they are both members of the same group.
• #14: Allows administrators to easily evaluate whether students have attended their courses. This plugin can be used to take attendance, and track attendance. There’s also a reporting function within the plugin that allows you to filter and create reports based on a set criteria – these reports are exportable. There are default attendance statuses set, such as Present, Late, Absent, and Excused – but they are all customizable. If you go into your settings, you can add new statuses, change old ones, delete ones that are irrelevant, etc. You can also add comments next to each students status (eg. Home sick), and there’s even a grading option in the plugin, If you’d like to grade students based on their attendance.
• #15: The Progress Bar is a time-management tool for students which visually shows student progress in any course activity and resource. Teachers have access to an overview page where they can see the progress of all students.
• #16: Allows timed release of content and emails users reminders to complete their course activities Emails are sent in specified periods of time after starting an event – this could be enrolment in a course, or completing an earlier activity. If the user has already completed the activity, the email is ont sent.
• #17: Toggle Preview is an editor plugin that shows a preview of the filtered editor content When you press the button, content is passed through the filters that you’ve enabled, and the results are displayed over the editor content window. Styles allows administrators to provide custom CSS classes, which can later be applied by users to block and inline text in Atto HTML+ provides a version of the HTML plugin with both syntax highlighting and code beautification. It also provides indentation support. Full Screen adds a button to the toolbar which will expand the Atto editing window to fill the entire browser window – All other parts of the page remain hidden
• #18: Before we get into the bonus plugin, we have one more poll question for you.
• #19: This is part of a Lambda Solutions Time Spent Learning Plugin Set. The Course Time Tracker Block provides learners with a visualization of how much time has been accumulated into the course, along with options to display required minimum time and maximum time via a course block setting.
• #20: If you haven’t heard about our reporting and analytics solution and you would like more details, you can visit www.zoola.io. We have some great resources and information there for you. You can also see if you’re eligible for a free trial!