1. AQPC 30th Annual Symposium Migration to Moodle at Dawson College: Customization and Lessons Learned Rafael Scapin, Ph.D. Coordinator of Educational Technology Office of Instructional Development

4. Customization

5. New Modules

6. Lessons Learned

8. Students: 10,000 (7,000 day students and 3,000 night students)

9. Teachers: 600

11. CMSs Analyzed Open Source Proprietary And the was ...

12. Who Uses Moodle (Québec)

13. Who Uses Moodle (World)

14. Migration: WebCT to Moodle Automatic Migration Script Developed by Université de Sherbrooke 4 Start from Scratch Manual Migration 6

15. Migration: WebCT to Moodle WebCT 4 Course (Created by Rajesh Malik)

16. Migration: WebCT to Moodle Example of a WebCT4 Course Migrated to Moodle Using Université de Sherbrooke’s Script

17. Migration: WebCT to Moodle Some Migration Issues No script to automatize migration from WebCT 6 to Moodle Manual Migration (time consuming) Quizzes migrated manually (WebCT 6) Final layout (different than WebCT)

18. Customization and Integration Theme: Dawson’s website look and feel

19. Customization and Integration Architecture Internet Load Balancer LB1 LB2 Servers (CentOS + Apache) Moodle 1.9.8 Database + (Moodle Data) (MySQL)

20. Customization and Integration Authentication: Teachers, Staff and Students Authentication modules: ldap_faculty, ldap_staff, ldap_student The custom authentication modules connect to our Novell LDAP server. Three similar modules which distinguish between faculty, students, and staff. A cron job that runs daily and creates new users in Moodle if they don't already exist. (faculty & students)

21. Customization and Integration Authentication Modules ldap_faculty ldap_student ldap_staff Novell LDAP Server

22. Customization and Integration One Single Login and Password Teachers, Students and Staff use the same Novell Login/password to access Moodle No need of a specific Moodle password (no resetting passwords anymore!) Also integrated with My Dawson Portal (Single Sign On)

23. Customization and Integration Student Login (First Time Access)

24. Customization and Integration My Moodle Page (Students)

25. Customization and Integration My Moodle Page (Teachers)

26. Customization and Integration Creating a New Course

27. Customization and Integration Enrolling Students We can merge 2 or more sections into 1 course OR create separate courses for every section

28. Customization and Integration Unenrolling Students We can unenroll 1 or more sections

29. Customization and Integration List of Enrolled Students Teachers can reuse their courses every year by unenrolling old students and enrolling new ones.

30. Customization and Integration Admin CEGEP Module: How it Works Student Information System (CLARA)

31. Customization and Integration A Moodle Course Shell

32. Modules and Plugins Moodle has a great number of plugins and modules developed by its community of users Pros: Diversity, flexibility, do-not-reinvent-the-wheel approach Cons: Compatibility with a newer Moodle version (when upgrading), some plugins/modules have not been reviewed, and the quality and/or suitability for a working Moodle site has not been checked.

33. Modules and Blocks

34. Omnivox Integration Omnivox is a gradebook system used by Dawson. Developed by Skytech (Montreal) We didn’t have permission from Skytech to make a real integration between Moodle’s gradebook and Omnivox. We have developed a module that creates a 2-column Excel file compliant with Omnivox. Teachers need just Copy and Paste these 2 columns into Omnivox.

35. Omnivox Integration

36. Statistics Google Analytics September 2009 – May 2010 Spring Break Holidays’ Break

37. Statistics September 2009 – May 2010 Students: 4350 Teachers: 260 Courses Created: 308 Unique Accesses

39. Detail how the content of the former CMS will be converted to Moodle (emphasize the content won’t be lost!)

40. Show examples of how courses will look like in Moodle

41. Help teachers to create courses from scratch (if necessary)

42. Have a Migration & Communication Plan

44. Create a FAQ (text and video, if possible) and an email and phone Helpline

45. Training workshops should be available when Moodle is released.

46. Personal Moodle Trainer

47. Technician to support Moodle (programmer)

49. Create your own “Moodle Flavour”!

51. Questions

52. Contact Rafael Scapin rscapin@dawsoncollege.qc.ca rscapin www.facebook.com/rscapin rscapin@hotmail.com rscapin

53. Thank you very uch !