Update for 2012-02-29 Moodle User Group at Manchester Metropolitan University covering marks handling, engagement tracking, arrangements for the coming academic year and plans for moving to Moodle2

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Moodle User Group
Manchester | February 2012
Professor Mark Stubbs
Head of Learning & Research Technologies
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Marks | Engagement tracker | Plan for 12/13 | Moodle2
Thursday, March 01, 2012 1

2. Marks, Moodle & Agresso (QLS)
Agresso Moodle

3. Changes to Moodle’s right-hand block

4. Steps to releasing marks via Moodle
Policy Technical
EQAL deliverable

Detailed testing
LIRE SG
confirmation 
Technical sign-off
Deputy Registrar
sign-off
All-staff email with
release date

5. Position on marks upload from Moodle
• Following the Assessments Steering Group’s recent decision to allow
marks upload from Moodle, ULCC have been commissioned to provide
a marks extract web service, which is currently undergoing testing. The
service extracts data from columns in the Moodle Gradebook where the
column’s “GradeItemInfo” field contains the QLS Assessment Element
ID followed by _OK (to indicate that the marks are for a particular QLS
assessment and have all been confirmed as ready for upload). Work is
in an early stage of testing and is expected to go live in early April.
LIRE SG members should note that Agresso screens remain the main
route for marks entry, and there is a risk that Moodle marks upload may
not deliver in time for the Unit boards

6. Engagement tracker

7. Plan for 2012/13
• Detailed plan coming soon
• 12/13 Unit + Prog areas appear May 1 to …
– 12/13 Unit and Prog leaders (QLS)
– 11/12 tutors on units/progs with same code
(others can be added via webform)
• No automatic copy of content
• ULCC commissioned to write
– Next year / last year accordion-style My Areas page
– Improved “Import” area option, so Unit + Prog areas can be copied
easily if required
• Podcast & ELSO support being planned
• Student access to 12/13 areas from Sept 2012

8. Moodle2
• Stick with Moodle 1.9 for 12/13
• Upgrade to Moodle 2.4 in June 2013
• Risk
– No more security patches for 1.9
– V.low likelihood / V.high impact risk of being
forced to upgrade to Moodle 2 mid-year
– To reduce impact, planning for Moodle 2.2
development server with ULCC