Innovate Design, assessment and practice using Moodle 2.5 - Gideon Williams (Perins School) Presented at Moodlemoot Edinburgh 2014 www.moodlemoot.ie

1. Innovative Design, Assessment and
Practice using Moodle 2.5/2.6
Gideon Williams, Director of eLearning
Perins School, @gideonwilliams

2. A Brief History…
Small Rural Secondary
Alresford, Hampshire
11-16 school
1,100 students
72 teaching staff

3. Setting the Scene
• All teaching staff with laptop (3yr cycle)
• Digital projectors in every room
• All users with school/home email access
• Moodle (VLE) since 2004
• Mahara eportfolios since 2007
• 1:1 notebooks for students since 2008 (98% uptake)
• Managed site wide wireless network
• OneDrive on notebooks
• Flexible broadband filtering (100Mb)
• Led by a Headteacher willing to take risks

4. Setting the Scene
• Moodle is internally hosted at Perins
• Externally supported by WebAnywhere
• Full time elearning support officer
• 5 “administrators”
– Head of eLearning
– Assistant headteacher (Teaching and learning)
– eLearning support Officer
– ITServices manager
– WebAnywhere
• All staff are course creators
• Moodle is part of staff CPD and Department targets

5. Moodle’s Secret
Ingredient

6. 27 “Freely available” Herbs &
Spices…
Courses
Links
Notes
Videos
Forums
Glossaries
Quizzes
Checklists
Picture Gallery
Files (download)
Files (embed)
Questionnaires
Lessons
Badges
Certificates
Rubrics
Assignments
Voice recordings
Peer Review
Conditional tasks
Repository
Gradebooks
Markbooks
Web pages
Personal page
Databases
Progress trackers

7. INTERACTION
Teacher to Pupil
Pupil to Content
Pupil to Pupil
Teacher to Teacher
Teacher to Content
Pupil to Teacher

8. COURSE DESIGN

9. Course Design
• Allow flexibility between Departments
• Balance needs of department with sound
pedagogy
• Engage and excite user
• Be visual

10. Visual Navigation

14. Topic Layouts

15. English

16. Maths

17. Maths

18. ICT and Transform

19. Topic Layouts

20. One Section per Page

21. One Section per Page

22. Student Designed (Philosophy)

23. Topic Layouts

24. Gareth Barnard’s Plugin

25. Core in v2.6

27. CONTENT

28. Presenting Content

29. 4Form Approach

30. Practical Lessons

31. How?
• Resources added to Teacher’s area
• Icons are then linked to the resource
• We can “hide” the tab

32. English KS3

33. English KS3

34. Links to Embedded Files

35. Links to external Websites

36. Links to Moodle Activities

37. Traditional Layouts

38. Supporting Courses

39. Supporting Courses

40. Supporting Courses

41. MOODLE
ASSESSMENT

42. Assessment Tracking: Progress Block

43. Task Tracking: Davo Smith Checklist

44. Assessment: PDF Assignment

45. Assessment: Rubric and PoodLL

46. Rubric “Assessment”: Interims

47. Quizzes: Davo Smith Real Time Plugin

48. Quizzes: Hot Potatoes

49. Quizzes: Ordering

50. Quizzes: Ordering

51. Quizzes: Ordering

52. Quizzes: Ordering

53. Quizzes: Ordering

54. Quizzes: Ordering

55. Quizzes: Drag and Drop

56. Quizzes: Drag and Drop

57. Quizzes: Drag and Drop

58. Quizzes: Drag and Drop

59. Quizzes: Drag and Drop

60. Drag and Drop: Options

61. Quizzes: Random Calculated

62. Self Supported Learning: English

63. Self Supported Learning

64. Quiz: Replacing Paper Exams

65. Quiz: Baseline Assessment

66. Next Steps: Assessment
• Developing Mahara ePortfolio evidence for all
KS3 units of work
• Linking SIMS MIS to Moodle and Assessment
• Creating the Gradebook for Core subjects
• 4 core features
– Consistency across Department
– End of unit Assessment
– Mahara ePortfolio results
– Teachers markbook to Offline gradebook

67. Gideon Williams
@gideonwilliams
Stuff on Scoop.it

68. MAHARA
ASSESSMENT