Migrating to Moodle

Motherwell College Experience

Report

New 72 Million Pound Campus opened 2009

Over 500 staff supporting 20,000 students

Further / Higher education / Enterprise hub

A little about us...

Started out with Blackboard

Growing eLearning market

After a strategic review Moodle was selected

Benefits Open Source

Flexible

Allow the College to grow and to shape eLearning

Why Moodle?

Change management – technology, usability etc

Staff training

Existing data structures

Existing content

Choosing a technology partner...

Challenges identified...

Competitive tender with Moodle partners & non-partners

Cost effective & high quality Proven track record

Wide reach

Outsourced solution Hosting

Ongoing support

Complex content migration

Enovation ticked all the right boxes

Choosing a supplier...

Trial migration

Iterative process: migrate, tweak, re-migrate

500+ courses migrated

Live in August 2011

Approach...

Prepare content for migration Bad source data = bad target data

Realistic expectations Different structures: BB / Moodle

Some content will look different

Not 100% perfect

Plan for delays Trial can take longer depending on course complexity

Allow time to extract / obtain source content

Allow enough time for test and data clean-up in new environment

Lessons learned...

Very good 1st year experience Excellent support performance

Building for the future with Enovation Moodle 2 and onwards...

Now...

Any questions?

www.vle.motherwell.co.uk