2. Peter Van den Broeck
English/ Dutch Teacher
Masters Degree Languages
No IT-qualifications
Platform manager of Kajakaja
Kajakaja.be – Chamilo 1.8.7.1 with
campus Plugin
3. STJ Hamme
Secondary school – years 3 to 6
(vocational 7)
ASO – technical – vocational
364 students
61 teachers
Using LMS since 2006
4. First steps…
Introduction
in April 2006
Stephen Hargreaves – Working with
Webquests
Making a choice: Dokeos or Moodle
Why D0ke0s?
Expertise (trainee from HoWest – AUGent)
Simple and clear layout
(Partly) Belgian based – language support
100%
6. Level 1 – Sep 2006
Separate domain – hosted environment
(kajakaja)
Account for every student / teacher
Choice of use was with teacher (no-
obligation)
5 teachers in 8 classes
LIMITED SUCCESS
7. First push – Jan 2007
Introduction of ‘Mededelingen’ for
teachers
Weekly update
All school related forms for download
announcements
Result:
+30 passive users (teachers)
PRACTICAL USE
8. Second push – Mar 2007
Update to 1.8.x
Series of hands-on sessions for interested
teachers
Results:
5 -> 20 teachers who use courses for students
60% of students have a login
Math dpt starts its own cross curricular course
DOWNSIDE: Flashy Fileserver
9. Some setbacks – Sep 2007
AUGent partnership project
Free dokeos platform
Centralized management
Helpdesk
Left the program after 14 days
Failurein update to 1.8.4 -> reinstall from
scratch
Relaunch 3rd week of September
Bad practice: teachers hand out account
details
Problems -> less teachers rely on platform
hence less students get their account details
10. Revenge at hand – Jan 2008
Introduction ‘ leerlingenmededelingen’
All students get login through administation
Initiation by IT-teachers
End Jan 95% have logged in at least once
Stable active teacher usage 40%
BUT: Flashy Fileserver, only 2 teachers use
other modules
Motivational setback: no real progress in 1,5
years
11. Land ahoi – Mar 2008
Campus Plugin – Ludwig Theunis
Amazing Tool
Installation of 2nd testing Platform
Test with selected group
May: decision to implement -> total
cleanup
June: mandatory sessions to introduce
new platform
12. Kajakaja 2.0 – Sep 2008
Dokeos 1.8.5 + Campus Plugin
New features:
Timetable
Journal based on timetable
Students listings
Reservations tool
13. A better way?
Personalised letters 1st day of school +
mini-manual
Voluntary school journal
Mandatory for reservations
Timetable changes: consult the platform
AMAZING: by half Sep
96% of students
99% of teachers
14. STS – Jan 2009
Student Tracking System
Mandatory
Learning disorders – Results – Behaviour
RESULT
More teachers become ‘active users’
Links – documents – announcements
Most popular: Journal - Listings
15. Open evaluation
Positive perception
More up than down
Split in IT and LMS
STS is sole source information
DOWN: first student hack
16. Year 2 2.0 – Sep 2009
Same procedures
Active Day 3 of school year
Massive course growth (DEPT courses)
DOWN: 1 course -> several courses
CLB Login
17. Jan – May 2010
New headmaster:
Former Dokeos Platform Admin
New blood
Go Chamilo decision
Limit course creation
Cleanup
18. On hold – Sep 2010
Start schoolyear: Dokeos 186 + Campus
1.4
Mandatory school journal
Precreated courses
DB stability problems in webhosting (21.000
tables)
Oct 2010:
decision migrate to VPS
Decision upgrade to Chamilo
19. The move – Dec 2010
Move Dokeos 186 to VPS
Problem: DB of 21.000 tables
Rights management (webhosting sucks)
Upgrade to Chamilo
Stable!
Database bugs:
Course list
Within courses
20. Chamilo – Jan 2011
Introduction Jan 3rd
Positive response to overall system
Negative response
Social network (exclusion)
Currently unused again
21. IT admin – Mar 2011
Added new function
Single tracking system for IT errors
Positive response
22. Back to the future
Downside in usage:
Fileserver
Administrative platform
Plans
Hands on session for different modules
Online testing experiments
Learning paths
23. Future for Chamilo
Hopeful developments 2.0
Plugin Code: integrated in full project
More config options for Social network
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