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Enhancing the My home page to display forum postings and more Andy Syson, Coventry University, UK [email protected]

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Andrew Syson - Enhancing the My Homepage to Display Forum Postings and More at Moodlemoot AU 2014.

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Enhancing the My home page to display forum postings and more

Andy Syson, Coventry University, [email protected]

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Background

• New Vice-chancellor • Target - an enhanced student experience and higher

student retention figures

– New Library• Eco friendly

– New course focused approach• Upgrade from Moodle 1.x to 2.x

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Lanchester Library

Student retention - the story

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Lanchester Library

Student retention - the truth

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Course focused

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Moodle Hub v1.9

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Senior management proposal

• Abandon individual module webs

• Have one big course web

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View from my office window

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View from my office window

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View from my office window

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One wish

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Solutions

• My home -> My course– Course Directors feel they have ownership

Course focused block– Brings together all information in one compact block

• Teacher links block– Self enrolment in to next year’s module

• e-Module boxes– For external examiners prior to visit

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• Play video

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Demo

• Login to Coventry Moodle

• Login to Local Moodle

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Student view

• Show ‘Move to’– Only for none Universe modules

• Moodle assignments– Roll over to view details – also in calendar

• Your tutors– All tutors plus contact information

• Student profile– Additional profile fields

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Staff view

• Show ‘Move to’– For all modules

• Edit office hours– Easy to update

• Course web– Edit summary text – post to the news forum

• Module web– Teacher links & e-Module boxes

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Jenkins - a sorry tale

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Jenkins - before

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Jenkins - after

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Thank you