Started testing Moodle as an LMS for the School. Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. Moodle has a large and diverse user community with over 50,000 users, speaking 60 languages in 120 countries.
We ran a short induction session for non-techie academics on Monday, and within 10 minutes they were posting messages, engaging in online chat, and navigating some of the sample courses...amazing!
The hope is that some teaching staff will choose to use Moodle on a trial basis for the new semester, and we will monitor progress and survey students and teachers to see if they would prefer to switch from our current LMS to the new system.
So far looks good - easy to install, manage, and create courses.
To have a look at our prototype Moodle go to SHTM Online.
1 comment:
Hi Paul
I tried logging in to the student moodle tutorial as a guest, but it wouldn't let me in - lept asking for a log in beginning with 'a'. I'll try again when you've had a chance to check it out.
Penny
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