Summary of Manchester Metropolitan University's work with Moodle and CampusM to wrap study resources around the learner. Includes stats on adoption of the CampusM App for its first two years of operation.

1. Enhancing the student experience:
Moodle and CampusM at MMU
London | Jan 2013
Professor Mark Stubbs
Head of Learning & Research Technologies
m.stubbs@mmu.ac.uk http://twitter.com/thestubbs
http://slideshare.net/markstubbs
Saturday, January 12, 2013 1

2. Context | an interesting place to work!
• Large, popular, multi-campus university
– 36,000+ students | 1,000+ courses | consolidating from 7 sites
• Pursuing an ambitious transformation initiative
– New Buildings, New Curriculum, New Admin Processes & Systems,
New Learning & Mobile Tech, New Quality Processes…

3. Context | priority project areas
League table rankings
A
Marketing &
Recruitment Reputation
Processes
C
B
Learning, Teaching, Assessment
Student Intake Student Retention
& Personal Development
(Aspirations, Attitude Success &
Processes, Facilities
& Abilities) Satisfaction
& Resources
Resource allocation
All Year Numbers
A Recruit to target B Improve satisfaction, retention & success C Inform decision-makers

4. Context | great online experience
B Improve satisfaction, retention & success
Great Great Great
Online Experience Learning Spaces Teaching
(Seamless, personalised)

5. Context | how best to make a difference
Listening to our students
• Recurrent messages from diverse experiences
– Focus groups: consistent, easy to find info
– NSS analysis: course organisation determines Q22
– Mobile surveys: deadlines, timetables… (m-admin)
• Great (and not-so great) expectations
– “engaging, well-organised courses”
– “tutors who know me”

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Mobile | use when studying (Q4 2011)
Checking deadlines/timetables
Discussing/arranging coursework
Listening to music/blocking noise
Accessing learning materials
Looking up references
Taking notes
Producing coursework
Voting/interacting in class
Commenting on learning
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
% of respondents

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Wrapping the institution around the learner
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8. Mobile | timetable access (Q3 2012)

9. MyMMU App Registrations
Before Sep 12 Total

10. MyMMU App Usage
Android, 3, Web, 338 RIM, 536
562
iOS, 18,521

11. MyMMU App Feature Usage
2%
2% 0%
2% 2%
3%
31%
58%
My Moodle Timetables News / Events
Staff Directory Pocket Guide Locations
PC Availability Other

12. MyMMU My Moodle

13. Summary
• Pursuing joined-up approach for making a step-
change improvement in student experience:
– Wrapping resources around the learner
– Using personalised web-services
• Hand-ins, Timetable, Reading lists…
• Requires good partners with good APIs!

14. Find out more …
• Our initial drive for responsive curricula
– http://jiscdesignstudio.pbworks.com/w/page/29224166/Supporting%20Responsive%2
0Curricula%20%28SRC%29%20project
– http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/src/
• MMU’s EQAL curriculum transformation
– http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/eqal/index.php
• Our review of learning technologies
– http://lrt.mmu.ac.uk/ltreview
• How we built our integrated VLE
– http://lrt.mmu.ac.uk/w2c
• Where we’re going next with Assessment & Feedback
– http://lrt.mmu.ac.uk/traffic/
• UCISA Mobile presentation
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X17yrTbdTHs