1. Roll Out of a LMS(Moodle) in a Secondary SchoolA Pragmatic View Nathan Hutchings ICT & eLearning Coordinator Forest Lake College

2. worked with Meta Data Descriptors for Music content databases main technologies XML,XSLT, HTML, JAVASCRIPT ORACLE, ASP, JAVA Prior to teachingaround 2002

3. Academic training1994…. BA (Philosophy/Sociology/minor in Programming) Part time on campus Graduate Diploma (E-Commerce) online part time in Vic, Norway & QLD BA Education Full-time on campus Currently nearing completion of MEd (Leadership) distance/online part time

4. Three rollouts over four years on three different campuses Sheldon College Forest Lake College Springfield College experience

5. It is really helpful if you know… how to code HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Php AND Understand; How web based applications work Windows Internet Information Server Appache Web server MySQL, XML will help as well

6. But Why? So, if you break it you can fix it or ask someone else for help and explain what you did and what you think the problem might be

7. The steps Install Create Course categories Create Course subcategories Create Courses create groups (classes) within courses assigning roles Upload Users Users create learning content

8. Installation of Moodle Before you do anything create an account at Moodle.org and read the support section FIRST Download latest stable release, see http://moodle.org Follow the download instructions Install it, best to do this with your network technician close by If you are a really worried try downloading a standalone USB installation and familiarise yourself with this firsthttp://www.chsoftware.net/en/mowes/mowesportable/mowes.htm

9. Create Course Categories It is a good idea to use terms that everyone is familiar with and which match your student handbooks . By subject area By year level groupings Science Senior School Chemistry Science Physics Humanities Biology Middle School Science Humanities

10. Creating Courses 1. Need list of subjects, who teaches them and when, usually the master time table. 2. Names of teachers and the codes used for them when they are on student time tables. 3. You need to know the class and teacher codes that appear on student time tables Enforce a naming standard, very important for reducing the time taken to enroll large numbers of studentsref: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Upload_users

11. Creating Groups (Classes) within courses Each course (Year 12 Chemistry) has one or more classes Each class has a teacher and students In Moodle think of the classes as groups within a course Give each group an enrolment key, use the subject and line number that students have on their time table as the enrolment code. "What’s the enrolment code Miss?" “Check your time table, what class are you in now... well that’s the enrolment code“ Confused? Ref: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Groups_FAQ

12. Enrolment Codes Use the subject and line number that students have on their time table as the enrolment code. "What’s the enrolment code Miss?" “Check your time table, what class are you in now... well that’s the enrolment code"

13. Assigning Roles Who can do what, where Ref: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Assign_roles

14. Assigning Roles Who can do what, where Ref: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Assign_roles Guest role (look don’t touch) Authenticated user (default role) Student role (self explanatory) Non-editing teacher role (can’t change content) Teacher role Course creator role Administrator role

15. Creating Accounts Create teacher accounts manually Use LDAP or similar technology to link students accounts, you need to achieve one user name & password for network and Moodle access

16. Uploading Learning Content Keep you upload limits small, I set it around 8 Meg But why, space is inexpensive? Otherwise your Moodle will blow out and you will encourage bad content creation and management practices If you can link to external content “YouTube” or podcast do it. But what happens if something changes and the link dies? Keep your teaching and content fresh, check your links

17. Getting teachers to use your LMS Did I Mention… Training, Training, Training Let’em at it Find the keen teachers and let'em rip 1 to 1 support Find the stumblers and give one to one support

18. Getting teachers to use your LMS Show Case Success Get the keen to present what they have done Nurture enthusiasm Look after your stumblersone by one, not all at once this could burn you out.

19. Getting teachers to use your LMS Once the stumblers have learnt to go forward move their enquires to the keen. Promote, Promote... "Should see (stumblers) Moodle their getting right into it!"

20. What to expect in the first year... Upload /Download approach Mainly working as a content repository it will not look pretty during the first year support your keen users (one on one help!)

21. The steps Install Create Course categories Create Course subcategories Create Courses create groups (classes) within courses assigning roles Upload Users Users create learning content