An informal gathering to connect Moodlers prior to the Pre-Conference Day
Registration is in the conference foyer
This session is aimed at users (or intending users) of Moodle in business. This might be commercial organisations, private education providers, not-for profit or public sector departments. We will examine the best ways to use Moodle outside of a purely academic setting, and explore how a Moodle site, it's management, course design and reporting have very different requirements from schools or universities. The session will also look at social-networking and understand what ideas we can take from Facebook, Linkedin, Google and others to integrate within our organisations 'learning space'. The session will be interactive, and encourage collaboration and sharing of knowledge within the group.
Learn about best practices for developing Moodle code from custom plugins to submitting bug fixes for core Moodle code. Topics covered will include:
Learn To Use BigBlueButton for Online Canada Moot Delegates: Monday, February 4@ 9:00 am and/or 5:00 pm PST (Hostedby Fred Dixon, BigBlueButton Developer) http://canadamoot2013.bigbluebutton.org/ password: moodle2013 dial 613-366-1985 (toll free:1-866-964-7085) and enter conference ID: 87412 Before attending one of these three sessions, take a moment now and watch the student's (or the presenter's) overview video (3.5 minutes), at: http://bigbluebutton.org/videos Any questions or problems about BigBlueButton contact Fred Dixon:http://canadamoot13.sched.org/speaker/freddixon#.UQbjS780V8E
We use: http://timeanddate.com to convert time zones
Designed to be of interest to Moodle site administrators, Martin will address technical questions about Moodle, and Moodle development.
Learn about the functionality changes in Moodle 2 and how it can improve the learning experience for your audience. This preconference session will cover completion tracking, conditional activities, mobile features, advanced grading rubrics, repositories, changes to the assignment module, and other functionality improvements found in Moodle 2. The format will be in the “Chad and Ben” talkshow format, where a casual tone will guide a conversation about the features, investigation when, where, why and how you can make use of the expanding Moodle 2 feature set.
Formal welcome from BCcampus, Athabasca Univeristy and Open2Know (Moodle Partner)
A way to see the sites of Vancouver and run at the same time! Larry Doan - A neighbour of Frances Long's is leading a running group each day of the conference. Please send running time and distance to canadamoot@knowplace.ca and your running time and distance and it will be forwarded to Larry Doan.
Running group will be paced at the slowest speed.
Registration is in the conference foyer
The First Nations Pedagogy project is conceived as a learning community for educators, elders, curriculum developers, educational leaders, and students to share resources, discuss practices, and support one another in creating the best possible educational experiences for our aboriginal learners. While the basic framework is in place, a key component requiring further thinking and development is a “Learning Centre”, a Moodle site to co-create, share, and implement learning activities that may be utilized by teachers and other educational leaders who work with aboriginal students. During this session we invite you to participate in the design of this Learning Centre.
We will look at how Moodle is used within numerous organisations around Australia (Health sector, Public Broadcasting and Pest Management) and solutions used to overcome common issues such as student engagement, uploading and management of user access, training and the ongoing use of "business rules" when developing new courses, use of Moodle modules as well as reporting on user participation and completion within courses.
We would like to present how a small team provides technical support, software development and instructor training for the central Moodle at the University of Alberta with about 40,000 users. Topics include:
Are you a high school classroom or DL teacher, or an administrator responsible for classroom or online high school math courses looking for software to meet the needs of all your learners: for individualized instruction, for review, for gifted students working ahead or for those who are struggling and need a self-paced model?
We have 7 senior math courses that are entirely online, require no textbooks, are highly graphical and interactive, and have audio video solutions to all practise questions at the end of each lesson. They can be used online or in the traditional classroom. We currently have licensing agreements with over 45 school districts.
The BC Learning Network has signed a five year agreement with Content Connections for all seven senior (Gr 10-12) Math courses that meet Western Protocol standards
DL and classroom teacher, Brad McArthur, will give you an in-depth demo of the curriculum, learning strategies, and key features such as interactive assessment and feedback using the multi-media, interactive, user-friendly courseware that is accessible through Moodle, Blackboard or HTML.
Moodle has established itself as a powerful LMS, providing a plethora of functionalities dedicated to enhancing the learning experience. However, its full academic potential has not yet been fully tapped, as its focus has been mainly on course management. In an academic context, however, there is a need for integrating course management within curriculum management. Past attempts at this have been ungainly, relying on impractical core changes. With Panorama 1.0, a Moodle plugin designed as a curriculum manager, users and administrators are given an overview of all courses, competencies, certificates, programs and diplomas, be this in a private business context or an educational institution.
Moodle Moots provide a space to connect Moodlers from Canada and beyond. This is a social sharing session to see how others are using Moodle. Presenters are given up to 5 minutes to show ANYTHING in Moodle they are proud of. You are invited to participate and say: What it is you want to share? Why you did it? How it works. No PowerPoint allowed! At the end, the crowd will vote for their favorite Moodle demo, and the winner will receive a prize sponsored by Lambda Solutions.
Please note: This session time includes the break.
Hosted on FreeMoodle.org, the Beauty Course incorporates a number of design elements into a unique open-access course that unpacks the notion of "beauty." It uses the phi ratio as a vehicle
for math, science, art, health and language arts outcomes for Gr. 6-8. These design elements include: activities for multiple intelligences; multiple (i.e. non-sequential) access points (logical, creative, social/reflective…); downloable manipulatives for geometry components; scaffolding for "comprehensive" (inc. critical) thinking; and creative expression, all in the context of measurable, performance-based assessment.
Moodle is more than content delivery; it is an effective tool to build cognitive learning processes. But how do teachers use this tool to create authentic learning opportunities and encourage student metacognition to ultimately build these processes? This presentation will focus on theory and practice in an attempt to answer that question. It will discuss the research behind higher order thinking and will show examples of how to engage students in the metacognitive processes of understanding themselves as learners through the use of Moodle. Examples will be drawn from secondary Social Studies, Mathematics and Science courses.
We will present the hardware equipment we have in place to ensure the best performance and a high level of safety (redundancy, backup and disaster recovery).
We will show the monitoring solutions we use and we will present the main problems we had to solve and optimizations that we have done.
Caring for First Nations Children’s Society is moving its traditional face-to-face instructional programs for BC Child Welfare social workers in Indigenous communities to a blended learning model using Moodle and Mahara. Inter-connecting worlds refer to practical training based on BC ministry policies, competencies and legislation in relation to Aboriginal practice standards and Indigenous ways of knowing, as well as the blending of face-to-face instruction and its relation to online learning. We ask ourselves, how do we honor these inter-connecting worlds that promote diversity, creativity, inspiration and knowing as practicing Child Welfare social workers? We will discuss how these considerations shaped our curriculum building, engagement and delivery methods within Moodle and Mahara.
The session will explore the use of Moodle as a distance language teaching tool for an asynchronous language course in rural Nicaragua. The pilot project will test the platform’s functionality and I hope to share my experiences from start to finish, aware of the largely inequitable dynamics within and between the dominant (English speaking culture) and the Nicaraguan end-user particpants. The project will also try to identify technology-enhanced strategies for student success. The session will be organized around the following questions: Is this kind of language instruction feasible? What’s at stake? What are the resulting challenges? Is technology a tool for hope or a reinforcement of the status quo? Do even the best of us have assumptions about student success and solidarity?
This presentation will demonstrate best practices for using BigBlueButton for delivering live on-line classes to remote students from within Moodle. BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system for distance education. It compliments Moodle by providing a synchronous on-line learning environment (one-to-one, small group collaboration, and one-to-many). The presentation will cover the setup and integration of BigBlueButton within Moodle (it’s easy with the Moodle plug-in), how to create BigBlueButton rooms from within a course, best practices for delivery of on-line courses to remote students, and how to manage the recordings after the class is over. Both presenters have worked on the BigBlueButton open source project for years and are the co-authors of the BigBlueButtonBN Moodle integration.
Grab lunch in the conference foyer and join a table in the ballroom to discuss various Open Education topics, or start your own discussion at the table.
Panel Discussion: Open Education
Join panel members:
As they provide their own insights and perspectives to the following questions provided for roundtable discussion over lunch:
During the panel discussion each panel member will introduce themselves and provide commentary on Open Education trends. Moderators will pose roundtable questions for panel member consideration, and then crowd-source the same questions with the audience, fostering panel to panel and audience to panel, and audience to audience interaction.
The panel will close with summary statements from each panel member.
University of Alberta went from a pilot project of 13 courses in January 2011 to running all centrally supported courses (3600+) in Moodle in September 2012. Our central Moodle instance has seen more than 500,000 page loads and 24,000 unique visitors per day. This is a technical discussion of the challenges involved with providing this solution in large enterprise environment. We will discuss the architecture decisions, processes required to support this project, major incidents, resolutions and workarounds that were encountered during the first year and a half of the life of this project.
Funded through BCcampus, these open access, web-based case studies profile higher ed instructors across disciplines who use educational technologies in effective and innovative ways. Learning activities within Moodle are the primary focus. The case studies include videotaped interviews, best practice guidelines and tips from faculty, biographies, transcripts, and accompanying sample learning materials.
The goal of the case studies is to help other instructors adapt, conceptualize and apply strategies and best practices in their own courses and contexts. We will highlight site uses and potentialities, and profile particularly engaging Moodle activities in an open discussion atmosphere.
We have a very high degree of customization across the board in our asynchronous Moodle LMS. These include automatic bi-weekly grade reporting, inactivity notifications, final report card processing, automatic course-specific SMS messages to students that feed off of our Moodle calendar app, and much, much more. All of these adaptations were developed in division by our programmers and integrated to assist our teachers in their day-to-day Moodle responsibilities, as well as improve the communication between home and school. These enhancements have created a better learning experience for our online students.
The mission of the Rachel Flood Education Program is to provide a regional, national, and international centre of excellence in education, clinical skill development, and research in ostomy and wound management. It will enable health-care professionals to provide best practice for the enhancement of quality care outcomes for people and families across the continuum of care. With Moodle at its foundation, this innovative program will provide advanced education and practical training for health-care professionals in leading approaches to caring for people with ostomies. Course delivery will use the latest educational methods, including technology-enhanced learning methods.
Monica Mao, bravely took on the administration and development of Moodle use at the English Language Centres of Vancouver non-profit organization MOSAIC, an immigrant serving agency. With Patricia Fahrni, online learning developer, Moodle use has developed to serve a number of 300 (current 220 clients and past around 100 clients)MOSAIC clients and staff over two years. The presentation discusses the hair-raising lows and gratifying highs of the fairly informal development of Moodle use at a non-profit organization.
Neil Squire Society provides services online for people with disabilities. We have radically changed the look of Moodle to make it more accessible and usable. Navigation Block? Gone. Front Page? Who needs it! Sections? We’ll use pictures, thanks. File picker? Shredded from existence. On top of this naked UI, we created a screen reader, templates for online answers, and a badge-based navigation system. Core mods, theme mods, and plugins, oh my! It’s documented and the code is available, so you can do the same.
Since opening the University of Lethbridge (U of L) invigilated Test Centre in Fall 2000 the utilization of this facility has continued to increase; currently facilitating over 20,000 exams being written each semester. Instructors schedule tests outside of regular class time allowing students greater flexibility in completing examinations. Participants will learn how this unique facility is managed collaboratively between Faculty, Moodle support, and IT. This session will also explore years of research on student perceptions that have allowed the U of L to continually adapt the facility to better meet the testing needs of today’s students and instructors.
Through a program funded by Consortium national de formation en santé, Collège Éducacentre College has developed a series of 13 modules targeting health professionals who wish to improve their French language skills.
Our presentation will explain the consultative and creative processes involved in establishing this unique online Community using MOODLE 2.0. Presentation -French or English
Running open source software opens up many opportunities to build a community of users to participate in developing solutions to meet their own needs. Such collaboration can be a great experience but can also raise a number of hardships. One of the most daunting of these hardships is maintaining the stability, reliability, and upgradability of your production system, while keeping collaborators engaged. In this presentation we will discuss the University of Alberta’s method for managing customizations to Moodle, integration of plugins from the campus developer community, and our process for deploying the application to testing and production servers.
Career Portfolio Manitoba is an employability eportfolio using Mahara for adults in transition, including the unemployed, immigrants and mature workers. It is funded by Workplace Education Manitoba and WPLAR, non-profits working to promote Essential Skills and the recognition of learning in the workplace.
Learners reflect on their lifewide experience to discover and assert Essential Skills for their target occupations. They learn how to present professional pages backed by authentic evidence in multiple media for employers.
This presentation will show how Mahara is integrated with Moodle for some activities and Web 2.0 applications such as YouTube and Linked In.
An opportunity to ask questions of Moodlers! Beginners, intermediate and advanced questions... all welcome! With access to wine and nibblies of course! Leave your questions at the registration desk when you sign in.
Update: Let's meet at 6:00 in the front lobby of the hotel, to give us time to get there. We may have 2 tables (about 14-16 people) - the more the merrier! - TK
I've reserved a table for 8 at 6:30 pm Wed Feb 13 @ Nuba, 207 West Hastings Street. It will be for the adventurous among the delegates since it's a bit of a walk and it's middle eastern food - it's a quintessential Vancouver experience though - great food, veggie and meat dishes, full bar, cool walk through Gastown to get there, etc.
Join Lawrence as he walks you across the street and down a block or two to the Raincity Grill - the definitive West Coast experience. This restaurant near the beach in the West End helped define Pacific Northwest cuisine. 1193 Denman Street. Room for 10! Reservations are set for 6:45pm.
Join Toni and take a rambling walk along busy Denman and Pacific Streets, along the seawall and then through the wilds of Stanley Park to get to the Teahouse in Stanley Park. Chef Annabelle Leslie was the deserving recipient of the City of Vancouver's 2011 Mayor's Arts Award for the Culinary Arts.
Join Nick Smith as he takes you on a tour of various pubs and eateries in the Gastown area: We will catch one bus to Waterfront Station, then will visit three pubs in Gastown. We can get appetizers at the first and dinner at the second, then more beer at the third. The pubs are only 2-3 blocks apart. This will be a chance to taste some outstanding BC craft beers. We can catch a bus back or grab cabs. This will be limited to 15 attendees and should last 3-4 hours. View the choices: Steamworks Brewing // Six Acres Pub and Restaurant // Alibi Room
Join Frank Leffelaar and Shevy Levy of Lambda Solutions (Moodle Partner) toJudge’s Indian Cuisine for some wholesome Indian food that meets everyone’s budget. Here is a taste of their menu. It is a six block walk away on 1188 Davie Street. If it’s a nice evening we can walk there or back along the beach. We have reserved 15 seats that need to be confirmed so if you like what you see, book your spot on this schedule by Tuesday end of day.
Join Françoise on a bilingual walk to one of her favorite sushi restaurant « Kamei Royale» in downtown Vancouver. She has reserved a Tatami room for 10 . A 15 minutes «aperitive» walk will take you along Robson street to Burrard, depending on the weather and our energy level, we will take an alternate «digestive» route to come back to the hotel.
Francoise
A way to see the sites of Vancouver and run at the same time! Larry Doan - A neighbour of Frances Long's is leading a running group each day of the conference. Please send running time and distance to canadamoot@knowplace.ca and your running time and distance and it will be forwarded to Larry Doan.
Running group will be paced at the slowest speed.
There are many different ways to look at quality in e-learning. In this presentation the emphasis is on the design of instruction influenced by the affordances of technology, and in particular the affordances of learning management systems such as Moodle. The session will also look at the relationship between web 2.0 tools and LMS, and how these can be integrated to provide quality learning that meets the needs of 21st century learners.
In 2012 Athabasca University converted a first year calculus course from a print-based (PDF documents generated from LaTeX) to an online format (MathML) in the process configuring the content so that it was accessible to people with disabilities. The process of creating this content was informed by a set of accessibility guidelines developed in-house and based on the W3C’s WCAG guidelines and the POUR set of principles. This talk will outline the accessibility guidelines, discuss how they were applied in this project and detail the process involved in converting an inaccessible format into accessible online content.
The Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools CyberSchool runs on Moodle in a Microsoft Windows and SQL Server environment. This technical presentation will start by discussing configuring Moodle in a high availability Microsoft environment. It will then move into a detailed look at automation tools developed using SQL Server code (T-SQL) as the base and minimal PHP source code modifications. Custom applications such as automated attendance tools and fully automated report cards will be shown. This session will look at the code (T-SQL and PHP) and the database architectural elements used.
Digital plagiarism became one of the major problems in information century. The presentation is aimed on engaging the participants into discussion on community driven plagiarism detection project for Canadian institutions. With Moodle community support such a service would help to improve the integrity and quality of education. The presenter would like to share the possible architecture for such a service and discuss it with the community and commercial Moodle providers.
The use of K-12 online learning is growing, more in British Columbia than elsewhere in Canada. However, to date most teacher education programs have not provided the necessary training for pre-service/in-service teachers to give them the skills to effectively design and deliver online courses. This reality has meant that the burden has fallen upon K-12 distributed learning programs themselves.
This fast-paced session will demonstrate three Respondus applications that integrate with Moodle. Respondus 4.0 enables instructors to create and manage exams that can be published directly to Moodle courses. Respondus LockDown Browser reduces cheating during tests taken in Moodle by preventing students from printing, copying, visiting other URLs, or accessing other applications during the exam. StudyMate engages students with course materials through the use of learning activities, self-assessments and games -- all accessible within Moodle or on a mobile device. Learn how to take quizzing to the next level in this information-packed session!
As the use of Moodle in Canada rapidly grows, so is our desire to share courses, materials and effective practice to avoid ‘recreating the wheel’. Moodle Users in Alberta are collaborating, using a Moodle Hub, to allow teachers to provide rich resources on-line to learners. Sharing can happen at any point – it does not have to be perfect. The process of sharing and tweaking is so important - one teacher starts a project/course/resource with the time they have, then another teacher adds their time and viewpoint into it. The accumulation of efforts works to improve teacher practice and ultimately, student learning. Professional discussions in the group have evolved beyond open sharing to a learning community for online education. Come and join the discussions!
Moodle is a very powerful tool when looking to assess and track participants both online and offline. Core moodle activities and modules will be discussed to implement an assessment regime that is simple to manage, and yet powerful enough to get meaning full data out of.
Four teachers, over a hundred students, and three rural school districts join together to move from despair to hope to action. Our mission: to make the world a better place --- together. Connected through Online Dystopic Literature Circles, students in three districts examine what’s wrong with the world, vision and learn how to make a difference through online cross-curricular learning experiences, and take action in their own communities and in the world. We’ll share the process of our journey, results in student achievement and engagement, and demonstrations of student learning. And together, we’ll make the world a better place.
Mobile is the new reality in the world of online learning. With a focus on user experience (UX), Paul will share his design insights and techniques on how to leverage Moodle to better support anytime, anywhere learning on an ever-expanding range of mobile devices.
Drawing from his own experiences in creating and designing mobile blended learning materials on a variety of platforms, Paul will present his preferred mobile design approaches and field-tested techniques. Topics will include the fundamentals of mobile learning UX, the on-going evolution of the “mobile first” design viewpoint, and the increased importance of design for emotion. Paul will also explore what open source responsive HTML frameworks, such as Twitter Bootstrap, can offer to Moodle.
A visual outline of this presentation is available at http://www.mindmeister.com/233818108/moodlemoot-2013-canada-mobile-learning-ux
Rocky View Schools is transforming into a 21st Century learning organization focused on the creation of blended learning environments. This presentation will discuss how ubiquitous personalized online access has resulted in improved performance measures at Rocky View Schools as well as the leadership practices that have guided this journey. The critical components necessary for sustained improvements in teaching/learning practice will be discussed: Organizational alignment, Leadership, Infrastructure, Open Source Learning Tools, Professional learning and the creation of Universal Learning Environments.
FreeMoodle.org was started in mid-2011 and provides completely free Moodle hosting for individuals and organisations, provided that the courses are open and free to others. With it's roots in the open knowledge movement, FreeMoodle.org represents an OER project (Open Educational Resources) similar to initiatives such as Wikieducator and Wikiversity. FreeMoodle.org is however unique in being Moodle based, bringing with it the pedagogically sound principles of Moodle, and supported is and managed by an official Moodle Partner (HRDNZ). FreeMoodle.org is fundamentally unique in that it provides a free central Moodle-based destination for learners – whoever and wherever they are.
This presentation will take you through what LearnNowBC has implemented to support single sign- on and, email and more from custom application to open source Moodle.
This session provides an overview of course development support available to faculty at RRU, including a review of the support strategy we developed for our recent transition to Moodle 2. We'll take a look at the various resources we provide for faculty:
We’ll also take a look at some customizations we’ve made to support faculty in teaching and grading. We have custom ‘team assignment’ functionality, a ‘course compile to pdf’ plugin, an ‘upload zip response files’ plugin and a ‘grade approval’ process. We manage our student enrollment via a custom middleware solution between Moodle and our student system and also auto create course shells from the student system.
All of this requires the efforts of several units at Royal Roads including the Centre for Teaching and Educational Technologies, IT Services and our program areas. Join us to learn how this partnership between units results in a quality educational experience for our faculty and students.
In 2012, Kwantlen Polytechnic University moved from an internally hosted Moodle environment to the BCcampus Collaborative Educational Service for Moodle, bringing with them close to 900 course sections. The reasons for the move, the challenges, and the lessons still being learned, will be discussed from the perspectives of three system partners: the Kwantlen Moodle team; the BCcampus team (management and infrastructure support), and the Lambda Solutions team (application support).
This session looks at three of the most popular teaching and learning systems at all levels that used to support formal education. However, increasingly LMS, E-portfolio and Social networks each offer similar tools and redundancy can be expensive and confusing. This study examines a theoretical model developed by the authors which shows the strengths and uses of individualized, group, network and sets of learners and the tools that often work most effectively to support learning in each aggregation. The session concludes with a brief demonstration of the ELGG system developed at Athabasca.
Grab lunch in the conference foyer and join a table in the ballroom to discuss various Future Trends topics, or start your own discussion at the table.
At the 2011 Canada MoodleMoot held in Edmonton a closing plenary session involved crowdsourcing Future of eLearning trends from participants. Trends were developed into a poster around broad themes of global, students, pedagogies, teachers, technology, and credentials. View the PDF HERE
The 2013 MoodleMoot will revisit the theme of Future Trends. A panel of future thinkers representing K-12, post-secondary and corporate learning will put forward their future trends.
In their statements on future trends panel members will identify at least three trends:
Using roving microphones and moderators the audience will be invited to interact with the panel, ask questions, comment on trends crowdsourced at the 2011 ModdleMoot, and put forward their own future trends.
Format:
1. Opening introductions – Paul Stacey, chair.
2. Panel introduction – each panel member introduces themselves and provides statement on at least 3 future trends (3-5 minutes/panel member max)
3. Moderators will pose key questions for panel member consideration, and then pose same questions to audience.
4. Panel to panel and audience to panel, and audience to audience interaction will be nurtured.
5. A summary statement will be invited from each panel member, and chair will close.
Scroll of what? Not at Abbotsford Virtual School! Todd, Glenda and Michelle will share their experience with designing courses that are visually appealing, focus on Project Based Learning, and empower students to be self-sufficient learners.
For three years RV Schools have been on a journey to introduce teachers and students to an online environment (Moodle) that support learning in our district. Originally implemented to provide students in remote schools with access to courses not offered at their school, it was expanded to be an expectation that all teachers have an online presence for their students. This aligns with our district’s 3 YP and learning model.
We’ll explain how we created a flexible support system that includes instructional design, technical support and training for teachers and administrators. Moodle is now being used extensively throughout our district.
Moodle 2.1 introduced the ability to set different themes to be used when different devices are detected. Moodle 2.2 now has a standard theme as part of the core which was designed for smartphone and tablet browsers screens. The first half of this session will cover what features work – and what features don’t – when accessing Moodle page from a mobile device. The second half will work with the audience in building a resource regarding when m-Learning is appropriate and effective with Moodle.
Course management systems such as Moodle afford tremendous convenience within blended learning contexts. However, more importantly, Moodle affords instructors ways to develop deeper insights into how students are doing their course work outside of class. Using Moodle log data and reports in conjunction with other Moodle tools makes it possible to better analyze and guide the process of student work, not just the product. In turn, this makes it possible to provide students with formative assessment on the process of their work. This presentation will report on uses of Moodle to analyze and guide the process of student work.
The University of Lethbridge implemented the use of the WebCT in September 1999. In June 2010 the U of L LMS Transition Steering Committee selected Moodle 2.x as our new LMS. In less than 12 months we transitioned over 2000 courses and completely converted from Blackboard to Moodle 2.0. We’ve gone from running a 2.0 pre-release version with live courses to a fully load balanced system with custom blocks and plugins. In this session we’ll share the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of moving to Moodle and some lessons learned in the last 2 years as a Moodle School.
In this session, we will focus on the choices we made for Montreal University: 2 updates each year to keep pace with the community.
Thus, since January 2011 we have installed versions 2.0, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.1.2 and 2.2.1 and we are preparing to migrate to 2.3.2 for February 2013 We will present all the steps of an update including the quality assurance procedures that we have implemented.
2:15 - 2:35 pm Moodle workshop for teaching EFL
This paper generalizes the teaching experiences in the use of the MOODLE (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) workshop for an integrating practice of the communicative English students’ skills that studies English V which comprehends the use of different presentations techniques applied for the presentations of the students’ informatics applications and software development carried out by them at the university in correspondence with the academic and social contexts that can contribute to their professional training as future informatics engineers where the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) constitutes a means of learning in a blended learning process at the University of Informatics Sciences, (UCI).
2:40 - 3:00 pm Moodle: Integrating external application with web services
When the University of the West Indies Open Campus implemented Moodle 2.0 in September 2011, there was a requirement for Moodle to be tightly integrated with the student mangement system. This would rquire functionality to allow for single sign on with the Open Campus's custom Student Management system as well as the ability
to move profile information from one application to another. This presentation will show how this was achieved by building custom authentication, enrolment and local plugins and web services to allow Moodle to consume data from the Student Management System.
Moodle 2 is full of many features for teachers to take advantage of, and utilize to make teaching and learning experience more gratifying. However, there is just not enough time to for teachers to learn all the features and utilize them appropriately based on the subject matter. This presentation will discuss the steps for teachers to migrate from 1.9 to 2 and migrate fast but be completely familiar with all the new features, unexpected problems, how to handle challenges in Moodle 2, and still create effective online courses. Several do’s and don’ts will be discussed to show the quality of courses and student’s feedback.
Art and Design students meet in one room to discuss the inner workings of the human body—the etymology of the words to describe it, its physiological processes, its complex communication systems, the conditions that befall it, and what the heck that has to do with their art and design practice. They render designs, installations and illustrations that invite in a wide audience and broaden meaning analogy toward a rich understanding of the body and the application of concepts to other fields. Their conceptual use of a gallery space educates viewers not only about the workings of the body but inside the experience of a condition or illness—thus toward a position of deeper empathy. So can Moodle be that special gallery space?
This session will cover best practices for instruction and instructional design using Moodle in concert with face-to-face classes. The presenter will explain the strengths of each environment and how these arenas can be used synergistically to achieve aims not possible independently in either mode. The focus will be on secondary humanities courses, but the practices can be applied across disciplines and educational levels.
This presentation focuses on the upgrade from Moodle 1.9.8 to 2.1 that took place at École Polytechnique de Montréal during the summer of 2012. We plan on discussing the steps used in our migration process, the pros and the cons of upgrading to a later version, the right time to do it (if there is such a time...), the level of support and training offered to faculty and students, the preoccupations addressed during the upgrade and the lessons we learned for the next time. And all that in 15 minutes!
The MCCC is a way for you to demonstrate your skills in using Moodle as a teacher. The assessment contains a course/project, a short narrative document, and an online exam. You will be assigned an MCCC-certified mentor-assessor to help guide you through the process. When you pass the certification you are given a code that lets you (or anyone else you give it to) download your personalised certificate as a PDF from the MCCC site.
This presentation will explain the MCCC scheme, discuss how best to approach it for a successful outcome, and enable questions and answers with the audience.
Given the resource and logistical challenges of having health professional students interact with patients of underserved populations, the virtual patient format was chosen to enhance opportunities for teaching and learning in this important clinical area. Students in all UBC Health Professional programs across all distributed sites will use the virtual cases to better identify, explore and address the social determinants of health and the impact on the well-being of patients, families and communities.
Social Networks are more and more part of our daily life. Students use them to share information and contact friends. Facebook is the biggest social network to date, with 1 billion users (October 2012). Thinking of this, we decided to make a pilot in integrating a Moodle course into Facebook by using a closed group. Facebook offers many features so that teachers can share content to the students and also get in contact with them. This presentation will show how the pilot was done and also the results obtained through a survey with the participating students.
Join Moodlers from across the Country for an evening of talking, sharing and strengthening our Moodling community. Bring your spouse or special friend... after all it is Valentines Day!!!
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A way to see the sites of Vancouver and run at the same time! Larry Doan - A neighbour of Frances Long's is leading a running group each day of the conference. Please send running time and distance to canadamoot@knowplace.ca and your running time and distance and it will be forwarded to Larry Doan.
Running group will be paced at the slowest speed.
On entry to the university, there are students with a large heterogeneity in the levels of technological and information skills. The CERTITUDE project proposes to measure skills for these two areas.
The project is innovative in many ways. It is based on an assessment that several complementary dimensions, based on the profile of skills developed by Magellan and REPTIC, with significant production. For this aspect, the project focuses on issues based on a formal context augmented by multimedia, simulations, in situ production in Word and Excel tools and finally treasure hunts.
Methodology, tools and new Moodle question types developed under this project will be presented.
In 2012, Athabasca University began the move to Moodle 2.2 with two types of pilot projects. This session describes some of the challenges that emerged during the design pilot and first offering of a new graduate course that was developed in Moodle 2.2. We offer a retrospective view of both the design process and the product that was finally produced. Issues related to technical support and server access, functionality of modules to implement learning activities, the collaborative methodology used for development, and the impact of multiple stakeholders will be reviewed. Lessons learned will be offered.
One of the greatest advantages of using MOODLE to support course delivery is the ability to provide consistent and repeatable learning outcomes. By leveraging MOODLE and a content management system created by Red River College, Vancouver Community College has created programs that provide students, high school teachers, adjunct faculty, and faculty with a platform to augment learning success. Join us to learn about our journey from program inception to a province wide initiative.
Totara is a custom distribution of Moodle designed for the corporate sector. Totara partners have created customized training and development sites for McDonald's, Nikon, BP, Tesco and Nike. Learn how Totara builds on Moodle, and offers additional features including individual learning plans, competency management and learning paths.
Learn about best practices for developing Moodle code from custom plugins to submitting bug fixes for core Moodle code. Topics covered will include:
In a standard semester, the University of Alberta has more than 3500 course sections in moodle serving more than 130,000 enrollment seats. With complex variations in enrollment requirements and large numbers of fluid enrollments, structured automation is the only way to efficiently manage this information.
Our team has developed moodle plugins and supporting middleware for self serve course creation, enrollment management and content migration. These webservice plugins make use of built-in moodle libraries for the backup/restore of content, cohorts for enrollments, and categories the institutional hierarchy. We would like to share in detail how our processes are managed, and discuss how other institutions are implementing similar processes.
Moodle is ten years old today. Moodle 1.0 was released ten years ago today on august 20th 2002. Our group main interest is teaching strategies and new technologies, for transforming learning through
technology, so we took an online course of tools design of evaluation for virtual learning environment VLE. We like to share with you our experience with this course. We worked with the design of examples of evaluation tools using Moodle, following tutorials for each one, for elaboration of Rubrics, Miniquest, Webquest and e-portafolio Mahara, using Web sites RubiStar, EvalCOMIX, phpwebquest, and e-portafolio Mahara.
Although Moodle is traditionally used to connect dispersed learners, it can also support dispersed project teams and stakeholder groups by providing a common space for discussion, resource sharing, check-ins, and decision making. This presentation will help broaden your understanding of what Moodle can do and help you to incorporate Moodle into projects in non-traditional ways. You don’t have to be an expert; you just have to be creative! Participants will learn how Moodle is being used beyond “education” through case examples from the career development and social services sector, and will learn how to introduce Moodle as a collaboration tool.
At the University of Alberta, we have over 40,000 users accessing the centrally supported learning management system (LMS). Our University has recently finished transitioning from Blackboard Vista to Moodle. In the transition process we have identified the need to replace the distributed administration model that Blackboard Vista provided. Our solution has evolved into one that provides a hierarchical administrative plug-in based on course categories. This gives faculty and/or departmental administrators the ability to customize settings, plug-ins and blocks at their respective category level.
This presentation focuses on the challenges in online higher education e.g. postgraduate courses in accounting and finance. There are a variety of constraints that affect the way blended courses are developed, which can compromise their quality. The solutions to the following challenges will be discussed with a demonstration of a couple of postgraduate subjects designed in Moodle 2.2.5:
Developed in-house, “Evaldens” is the name of the module used to handle teacher evaluations at École Polytechnique. The “Evaldens” module is wholly integrated into the Moodle platform, allowing course evaluations to be completed almost entirely online. During our presentation, we will cover the following main topics: how the module was developed while taking into account the existing paper based procedure, how the module was implemented and subsequently tested; what impact the new system had on students, teaching staff and advisors; and the pros and the cons of an online system. We will also discuss the recent upgrade of the “Evaldens” module, as well as our next steps in the deployment process.
The Business of Social in Learning - And What the Future Holds
(How Social can change the learning landscape)
The world has become so connected, digitally and socially, in the past five years we can now safely claim communications to have transcended simple confines of Web, Mobile, Internet, and all other traditional forms: in the current digital ecosystem, only organizations that can guide and manage their content while actively listening and engaging, can survive and thrive. Online Education has shifted fundamentally from a space where users have participated to one where they are equal part creators of content. Engagement, gamification, and social communication are all buzz-words on the tips of professionals grappling to stay current.
Bradley Shende will lead a conversation on this next phase of social evolution through examples of technology past present and future. Featured throughout this presentation are stories and examples of organizations who have embraced social to staggering success and sometimes dismal failure. We will take an honest look at the challenges faced, solutions discovered, lessons learned, and change achieved.
Understanding this paradigmatic shift in what makes communication now so social - is also a key to keeping up with the pace of technology in education.