1. Making the move to Moodle 2
Approaches and Scenarios
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2. The year of Moodle 2
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3. Main Issues
 How to upgrade:
– fresh install and move courses across manually
– upgrade existing installation
– existing plug-ins
 Staff development:
– Looks similar, works slightly differently
– The filing system
 New features
– Conditional paths, cohorts, repositories, better themes,
more secure, improved activities
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4. Do I have to???
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5. Scenarios
Learning providers have adopted a number of strategies
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6. The Early Adopters
 Web team with expertise in running their own
server, moodle etc.
 Planned approach
– Curriculum teams on board
– Pilot site
– Identify issues & resolve them
– Training sessions
– Roll out
• Big bang
• Phased introduction
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7. Mainstream Adopters
(Early and Late Majority)
 Smaller sites, smaller teams of IT support or using
externally hosted servers.
– Taking more time to get to know M2
– Experimenting with installations
– Waiting until Moodle gets better
– Moving to Moodle for the first time
 Still needs a planned approach
– Curriculum buy-in
– Staff training strategy
– Exploring possibilities of M 2
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8. Late Adopters
 A mixed bunch:
– Organisations coming to Moodle late as new users or
moving across from Blackboard
– Organisations with little technical help whose Moodle is
large and the change-over implications can be
intimidating
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9. Approaches
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10. Benefits
 Spring cleaning of existing Moodle
– Get rid of old and badly put together courses
– Get rid of unwanted plug-ins
– Clean up user database
 Bring in new Moodle with new criteria for a good
course
 It’s a chance to get in some more staff
development on the use of Moodle
 It’s a chance to involve senior management
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11. The Big Bang
 Set up new instance and move everything across
or
 Upgrade your existing site
– Advantages
• Complete Moodle available
• Students only need to go to one site
– Drawbacks
• Needs careful planning & preparation
• Contingencies need allowing for
• Mock site needed for staff training before BB
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12. Phased introduction
 Set up new instance
– Transfer keen curriculum areas
– Build up a skill set which can be cascaded
– Move courses across gradually
– Requires two instances of Moodle and could be
confusing for students
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13. Moodle User Group
 Meetings once a term
 Exchange of information
 Support from colleagues
 Keep up with national/Moodle developments
 phil.hardcastle@rsc-em.ac.uk
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