Moodle user group meeting

1. Moodle User Group
27th February Tresham College, Corby Campus

2. Moodle User Group - February
Agenda
9-30-10.00
Coffee/networking
10.00-10-15 Introductions
10.15-11.00
Monitoring usage on your Moodle
11.00-11.15
Coffee/networking
11.20-12.00
Broken links – finding and repairing
Plug-ins and add-ons
12.00-12.30 My Moodle/Developments
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What do you need to know?
What do you need to know about Moodle?
Information for:
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Yourself as admin/tutor
Your SMT
Ofsted
Curriculum Teams

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What would you like to know?
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For interest
For efficient running
To encourage staff or students
To improve your service

5. 5
Monitoring usage
Monitoring is possible through :
• Course menus
• User profiles
• Site administration reports
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Combinations of these reports
Logs and Statistics
• Logs are a daily list of what’s happened
• Statistics show aggregated activity over time

6. 6
Looking at Logs
Site Administration > Reports > Logs

7. 7
Moodle Statistics
Statistics need enabling in Moodle 2.*
Site Administration > Reports > Performance Overview
Enable Statistics
• Moodle's cronjob will process the logs and gather some statistics.
Depending on the amount of traffic on your site, this can take awhile.
If you enable this, you will be able to see some interesting graphs and
statistics about each of your courses, or on a sitewide basis.

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Running Reports
Site Administration > Reports > Statistics

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Reporting
Site Level
Administrator
Course Level
Course Tutor
User Level
User/Admin
Reporting is possible at site level through
• Site Administration > Reports > Statistics
At course level through
• Course Administration > Reports > Statistics
At user level through
• User profile > Administration settings for profile >
Activity reports
• User and site or user and course reports can be combined usefully.

10. 10
Google Analytics
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Useful for pages visited, composition of visitors, browser type etc
Has a marketing bias
Maybe not as useful for internal audience?
Can set up customised reports and a dashboard to easily get required
information
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Free to use – sign up
through
• http://www.google.
com/analytics/

11. 11
Cleaning up links
The problem:
• Excellence Gateway closed – so all
EG links were invalid
• We had moved from 1.9 to 2.x and
some links still referred back to
addresses on the old site
• Course creators have little time to
pick through their courses
What was
needed:
A way of
identifying
broken links
The solution:
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Free software: Xenus Link
Sleuth
Exported results to Excel and
filtered by course
But
They still have to
be changed by
hand!

12. 12
Grade Tracker update V6
The Moodle GradeTracker Version V6.0 is now available for download from
http://moodlegrades.bedford.ac.uk
Version 6.0 of the GradeTracker can be installed as fresh installation or can be used to gracefully upgrade a
preexisting grade tracker version.
Key updates are:
· The ability to view/filter the grids by group - A member of staff can filter their trackers by their Groupings.
These are the groupings that they are attached to (using an import and/or edit form) that can be found on the
courses they teach on.
· Activity Mods can be linked to BTEC trackers fully - Without core code changes, all Moodle gradable
activities can be linked to Units and Criteria. (We will be posting details of core code changes that may be
made to allow staff to create the activity and link to the tracker in one step. These are in the form of three sets
of code added to each activity (4/5 lines of code per set).)
· Trackers (both for the staff and the student) can be filtered/ordered by the activity due dates.
· If turned on, automatic values (using cron) will be set for the 4 core activity types we support currently
(assign, assignment(2.2), quiz and Turnitin). These will update the grids to ‘IN’, ‘WNS’ (Work Not Submitted)
and ‘Late’.
· Class grid for BTEC

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Quiz results block
The quiz results block displays the highest and/or
lowest grades achieved on a quiz within a course.
There must be a quiz in the course to correctly
configure this block.
The edit icon link allows the teacher to choose a
quiz from a drop down menu which will display
the results.
There are other options such as the number of the lowest and highest grades
displayed. If both the highest and lowest grades are set to zero then no results will be
displayed. To display all grades, set either of these to the number of participants in
the course.
Grades can be displayed as percentages, fractions or absolute numbers.
If the quiz supports groups you can also show group results instead of students.

14. 14
Creating quizzes with a Word template
http://moodurian.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/the-best-way-to-create-moodlequiz.html
• Uses a customised Word template
• Export quiz to XML
• Import xml file to Moodle quiz
Advantages
• Familiar interface
• Can include images
• Less complex composition of quizzes

15. 15
Add-ons and Plug-ins
Which ones do you use?

16. 16
News
Carpe Diem MOOC – “Learning Course Design” starting March 10th
Enrol now in Swinburne's free Open Online Course
Participants in the course can expect to:
Learn about the Carpe Diem process
Apply the method to your own learning course design
Engage and collaborate with other participants in the creation of E-tivities
Reflect on learning design and the application of Carpe Diem to practice
Join the growing number of practitioners applying Carpe Diem and
transforming the learning and teaching experience.
Seize the day.... and enrol now!

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RSC Events
In Brief: Open Badges In Brief: Open Badges 4 Mar, 2014
ILT Forum An opportunity for practitioners to network and keep abreast of
current developments in e-learning. 5 Mar, 2014
Accessibility and Inclusion Forum Accessibility and Inclusion Forum 6 Mar,
2014

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Next Meeting
21st May 2014
Possible to look at a couple of different VLEs?
Canvas? Edmodo?
Host for the meeting?

19. RSC East Midlands: Contacts
Phil Hardcastle
phil.hardcastle@rsc-em.ac.uk
Lyn Lall
lynette.lall@rsc-em.ac.uk
04/03/2014
Moodle User Group
27th February, Tresham College