Moodle in the Enterprise

Speaker – Mike ChurchwardRemote Learner Canada

http://www.remote-learner.ca

Moodle in the EnterpriseRequirements:• Maintain educational histories, Moodle and non-Moodle• Group courses into curricula to achieve specific

educational goals (certification)• Manage and report on users at the curriculum level• Manage and report on users in system-wide groups

(departments, regions, etc.)• Provide automatic course requirements based on

curriculum definitions (pre-reqs., recurrences)• Maintain documents centrally

ELIS (Enterprise Learning Intelligence Suite)

• Defined key learning elements to meet requirements

• Elements can be managed outside of Moodle and integrate into Moodle

• Key elements:– Courses– Classes– Curricula– Tracks– Users– Clusters

ELIS (Enterprise Learning Intelligence Suite)

Courses:• Define information on a

discreet set of learning elements – name, description, length, credits, environment, cost, required grades for completion and class template

• Is not a Moodle course• Is used to create classes

Course Demo

• Add/edit

• Moodle template selection

• Completion elements

ELIS (Enterprise Learning Intelligence Suite)

Classes:• Are an instance of a

course• Can be Moodle

courses (call “class”)• Have assigned users• Have defined start

and end dates• Have associated

grades and progress

Class Demo

• Add/Edit

• Moodle class assignment

• Manage enrolment data

ELIS (Enterprise Learning Intelligence Suite)

Curricula:• Collections of courses to

achieve a general educational goal (e.g. certificate)

• Contained courses can have pre-requisites, co-requisites, optional/required and repeat frequencies

• Used to report on educational progress

• Can be used to create tracks

Curriculum Demo

• Add / Edit

• Course assignment

• Pre and co requisites

ELIS (Enterprise Learning Intelligence Suite)

Tracks:• Are instances of

curriculum• Contain start and end

dates• Contain assigned users• Contain classes for each

curriculum course• Can be used to manage

bulk class enrolment

Track Demo

• Add / Edit and auto create

• Class assignment and auto-enrol

ELIS (Enterprise Learning Intelligence Suite)

Users:• Define the people

managed by the system• May or may not have

corresponding Moodle users

• Linked by ‘id-numbers’• Contain the necessary

information needed outside of Moodle

• Can be entered into the system via plug-ins

Users Demo

• Add / Edit

• Enrol in class (Class interface)

• Enrol in track (Track interface)

ELIS (Enterprise Learning Intelligence Suite)

Clusters:• Groupings of people by

enterprise definitions• Are system-wide• Can be managed by

users restricted to that cluster

• Provide reporting and enrolment by cluster functions

• Membership can be auto-managed

Cluster Demo

• Add / Edit

• Assign cluster to track – cluster screen

• Assign cluster to track – track screen

• Assign user to cluster – cluster screen

• Assign user to cluster – user screen

User Class Auto-Enrolment Demo

• Assign user to track – enrolled in classes

• Assign user to cluster assigned to track – enrolled in classes

User Cluster Auto-Enrol Demo

• Assign profile field value to cluster enrol

• Assign profile field value to user – observe cluster enrolment, track enrolment, class enrolment

ELIS (Enterprise Learning Intelligence Suite)

Events and Notifications:• Send messages on

critical events to specified users

• Use Moodle messaging system

• Messages can be customized per event

• Recipients can be defined by capabilities assigned to roles

Event Notification Demo

• Event Notification config screen

• Look at received events in Moodle messages

ELIS (Enterprise Learning Intelligence Suite)

Reports:• Generated through the

JasperSoft BI system• SSO via Moodle

Networks• Reports per user an

cluster• Drill-down and Ad-hoc

reporting• Graphical reporting

tools

Reports Demo

• Curricula report

• Users report and transcript

• Forum participation report

• Course completion gas gauge

• …

ELIS (Enterprise Learning Intelligence Suite)

Document Repository:• Integration with

Alfresco Repository• Similar to Moodle 2.0

repository API• Also allows upload

functions• Provides course and

user level spaces

Repository Demo

• Repository settings main screen

• Front page “site files” interface

• Choose local download or link

Moodle in the Enterprise

Questions and Comments?