This slidedeck was written to support a workshop with Student Information Point colleagues about process improvement - it sets out plans for MMU's new Moodle VLE, highlighting the importance of tagging with curriculum codes to aggregate content from different systems into Moodle

1. Moodle, Portal and all that …
SIP Workshop
GM201, January 2011
Professor Mark Stubbs
Head of Learning & Research Technologies
m.stubbs@mmu.ac.uk | http://twitter.com/thestubbs
EQAL Strand 3 | Moodle: policies; areas | Portal: integration; timeframe
| Training & Support: aims | Internal Communications
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 EQAL Strand 3 Briefing 1
2010-07-23

2. EQAL Strand 3
• Aims to:
– raise student satisfaction, engagement and success by
providing a more seamless and personalised online
experience of university activity
• by:
– delivering a new, integrated VLE & supporting tools [3A]
– enhancing the student portal [3A]
– ensuring staff can take full advantage of these tools [3B]
Strand 3A coordinated by Mark Stubbs
Strand 3B coordinated by Neil Ringan

3. Moodle | Policies
• Approved by ICTSG summer
2010 following consultation
– automatic creation of areas for
• every Unit Instance
• every Programme Instance
• every Faculty
• Student Support
– standard toolset
– threshold standards for Unit
and Programme areas

4. Moodle | Unit Area policy
Every Moodle Unit Instance Area (UIA) will normally
• Display the Unit Title, Code, Level, Credits and Department
• Display the Unit Teaching Team email contact details
• Display the Unit Reading List, which will distinguish clearly between items
recommended for student purchase, essential items that students can expect to
access from MMU library and further reading; (ideally) all links to e-resources
will be single-sign-on
• Display the Unit Assessment Regime, Submission and Work Return Deadlines
• Display the Unit Timetable for the enrolled student for the next month
• Be organised as a week-by-week teaching schedule
• Display a link to the Unit Specification and Unit Handbook
• Display a link to the Support Area
• Display any “provisional” marks for the Unit held in QLS for the enrolled student

5. Moodle | Unit Instance Area

6. Moodle | Unit Instance Area
Unit Instance Area Timetable
Hand-ins & marks
Podcasts
Reading Lists
Past Papers
Scanned articles
Enrolments On/off-campus media

7. Moodle | Programme Area policy
Every Moodle Programme Instance Area (PIA) will normally
• Display the Programme Title, Code, Department and named Awards within the
Programme
• Display the Programme Management Team email contact details
• Be organised by Stages or Levels
• Display a link to the Programme Specification and Programme Handbook
• Display a link to the Assessment Regulations
• Display a link to the Support Area

8. Moodle | Programme Instance Area

9. Moodle | Portal integration
List of areas &
aggregated news
for each user Unit Instance Areas
Programme Instance Area

10. Enhanced Portal | Timeframe
• myMMU launched Sept 2009, has 30,000+ users
• Make-over Sept 2010 + new features for EQAL
– Fee status (traffic lights with follow-up) [10/11]
– Bi-annual online Unit-level satisfaction surveys [10/11]
– Assignment hand-in schedule [10/11]
– Update contact details (mobile, address, ..) [10/11]
– Transcript of Achievement [11/12]
– Personal Timetable [11/12]
– Prog-specific info on PDP + showcasing talent [11/12]
• myMMU mobile launched 30/09/2010

11. Support & Training | Aims
• Raise awareness of ways in which learning tech can be used to support
unit learning outcomes & assessment strategies developed in EQAL
• Ensure learning tech embedded effectively for administrative and
organisational purposes to enhance the student experience
• Support SLTFs, Faculty EQAL Leads, Faculty Moodle Leads and other
Faculty leaders to design & implement curriculum development
interventions to support effective embedding of learning tech
• Design & implement an appropriate range of online support resources
accessible by all staff
• Co-ordinate work of faculty-based E-Learning Support Officers to ensure
up-skilling of academic staff to ensure on-going viability
• Ensure effective engagement of central support units including ICTS,
Library and SAS to deliver elements of training, support & administration
appropriate to their areas of responsibility, and
• Establish and implement agreed protocols with appropriate stakeholders
for management and resolution of queries about VLE & tools

12. Student Comms | Review
• David Crow leading
– Cross-university working group
• Collecting data
– M&C focus groups
– National survey on students’ mobiles / info preferences
– Current practice
• Developing proposals
– Communication Protocols
• Messages & Channels

13. Opportunities to follow up?
• Moodle User Community (Neil & Mark)
• Moodle Training (Alex & Karen liaising with Neil)
• Moodle Support Protocols (Neil convening working group)
• Communication Protocols (Alex rep on David’s group)
• …