Growing Mahara at the University of Warwick
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Growing Mahara at the University of Warwick Jim Judges @JimJUK Senior Academic Technologist (ITS) & eLearning Manager (CLL) [email protected]
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Growing Maharaat the University of Warwick
Jim Judges @JimJUK
Senior Academic Technologist (ITS)& eLearning Manager (CLL)
• Background
• Sowing seeds & Propagation
• Growth
• Surviving the Mahara-‐eating Deadlock bug
• Monitoring the crops
• Green shoots & next year’s harvest
Growing Mahara
• Externally hosted Moodle & Mahara
• Central Moodle launched October 2012*
• Open Mahara training since early 2013
• Central Mahara “open to all” Sept. 2013
• Y1 Early adopters mainly Education (CPE) & interest from SCS
• Y2 CPE, WMS, CLL, SCS, History & others
Background
Secondary & Primary PGCE programme introduced a Mahara template to record evidence from teaching practice. - Collection Template originally developed and piloted (13/14).- Developed further & made mandatory 14/15
13-‐14 -‐ SCS interest -‐ Student development group -‐ Use by WUIP (summer 2014) -‐ CLL increasing use -‐ Changed name -‐ Improved Help guides* -‐ MahUG or MyPUG
July 2nd 2014
September 30th 2013
September 30th 2014
September 30th 2014
September 16th 2015
~ 1000+ Unique logins/month ~ 600+ Unique logins/week ~ Max login/ day = 315
History
TAP
WMG Moodle assignment
Deadlock
Making History14/15 280 Yr1 Undergraduates used the Moodle-‐Mahara assignment plugin to submit research project responsesThis is being repeated 15/16
WMG 3rd Year Advanced Engineering Programme (JLR)
Deadlock
Link
• MySQL related (multiple transactions – locking index on view table)
• Different default transaction isolation levels in Postgres & MySQL
• Affecting 1.9 -‐1.10-‐15.04
Deadlock
Link
• Largest group users -‐ First time use • Confidence of staff and students affected • Comms & information updates helped • Applied patch – didn’t resolve our issues • Host & Catalyst investigating • A solution will be found… • …or move to Postgres
Deadlock
Link
• Largest group users -‐ First time use • Confidence of staff and students affected • Comms & information updates helped • Applied patch – didn’t resolve our issues • Host & Catalyst investigating • A solution will be found… • …or move to Postgres
FutureAlternative Assignment submissions – “student as producer”
Mahara could support personal tutor meetings Increased Careers & Skills initiatives using Mahara in departments
