Presentation on Key Features of Moodle 2.0 and the Remote-Learner ELIS Platform Presented in the UK in Jan 2011. http://www.remote-learner.net/

1. Introduction to Moodle 2.0 Gavin Henrick Learning Solutions Consultant Jan 2011

2. Introduction to Moodle 2.0

3. Interface Updates Course Management Student Management Key Features Repositories ePortfolios Some new things in Moodle 2.0

4. Navigation and Settings Blocks New HTML Editor File Handling Interface Changes

5. Standard Navigation block Expandable/Collapsible Contextual Links Easy Access to all courses Dockable Navigation and Settings

6. Settings block Standard block on every page Edit Items you have permissions for across site a course an activity Navigation and Settings

7. Consistent across all pages Can be visible in activities Customise Home Page New Blocks Dockable Blocks

8. Based on Industry Standard TinyMCE Works on more browsers Integrated to repositories Resizable Editing Area Easier to use New HTML Editor

9. New File Picker Import or Link to external Repositories Meta Data - Author, Date, License File Handling

10. Activity / Course Completion Conditional Activities Community Hubs Course Management

11. Specify when activity is complete Manual completion Participants can track progress Overall report available Course status Activity Completion

12. Restrict access to activities Dates Grades Completion of activity Progressive course rollout Conditional Activities

13. Share courses with others Register on Moodle hub Enrol or Download option Standard Metadata Create a hub Build template database Community Hubs

14. Cohorts MyHome Student Management

15. Create Cohorts Across site Category Auto-Enrols members Cohorts

16. Enhanced “mymoodle” Student personal space Customisable with blocks Can force site-wide layout MyHome

17. Workshop Wiki Quiz Blogs Comments Key Features

18. Phased process Manage task, evaluation criteria, sample submission Student submit Students assess work Teacher reviews grades Workshop

19. Individual or Group edit Check history Add comments Wiki map of pages Cleaner interface Wiki

20. New question engine Categorise and tag questions Improved Navigation Improved reporting Clearer Settings Quiz

21. Import/Export/Synchronise with external blogs Link entries to activity or resource Comment on each entry Blogs

22. New comments block Enables commenting anywhere Instantly added without refresh Comments

23. Importing Content Exporting Content Repositories & ePortfolios

24. Create & Manage content outside of Moodle Import content into Moodle GoogleDocs, Flickr, Youtube, Wikimedia, Box.net … Repositories

25. Publish or save items from Moodle to other places Supports downloading, Box.net, Flickr, Google Docs, Mahara and Picasa. ePortfolios

26. Extending Moodle

27. TM From Remote-Learner

28. I’m enrolled in Business Math 101 “Course-centric” LMS’s have become obsolete; Curriculum Management features are now a requirement Curriculum Management

29. I need to complete Business Curriculum AND two othercurriculum Business Curriculum Learning plans typically mean completing more than a single Curriculum; a cluster of Curriculum for example Science Curriculum Tech Curriculum Curriculum Management

30. ELIS Core is included with all Remote-Learner Enterprise Hosting Service levels. Pay only for the components you need!

31. Select Learning Environment Create Learning Plans Manage Outcomes Transcripts/Certificates Completion Tracking Auto-Enrollment Profile Tagging Curriculum Management

32. Class Enrollment Class Not Started Curriculum/Class Ending X Days No Participation in X Days Learning Plan Enrollment Class/Curriculum Completed Course Recurring in X Days Notification Management

33. User & Activity Class, Curriculum & Track Registration & Enrolment Non-Starter & Completion Transcript & Time Reports Manager

34. Reuse of digital assets, mass course updates Secure storage WebDav and CIF’s access Document check out/in version control Workflow approvals and conversions Powerful repository-wide searching Repository Management

35. Auto Create Users Courses Enrolments Grades Export Users and Grades ELIS - curricula, courses, tracks, classes Integration Point

36. Course Class Curriculum Track Cluster Overview of the basics

37. Is a written description of what will be learned Has extra meta-data compared to Moodle course Example: Maths Module 1 Course

39. Is an instance of a course Has active start/end dates Student numbers Example: Maths Module 1 2009-2010 Class

41. Is a series or group of courses. Are often termed Learning Paths, Programs of Study, etc. Example: Maths Year 1 Curriculum

43. is a given instance of a curriculum given on a particular schedule manage enrolments start and end times reports Example Maths Year 1 2009-2010 Track

45. Site wide (organizational) groups Added manually or automatically via their custom profile fields Used in Enrolment Used in Reporting Auto-Create course level groups Clusters

47. The graphics of the little men used under creative commons license from http://thegoldguys.blogspot.com/ Credits

48. Contact Information Gavin Henrick Email: gavin@remote-learner.net Skype: gavin.henrick Web: www.remote-learner.net