Innovative Design, Assessment and Practice using Moodle 2.5/2.6

Gideon Williams, Director of eLearningPerins School, @gideonwilliams

A Brief History…

Small Rural SecondaryAlresford, Hampshire11-16 school1,100 students72 teaching staff

Setting the Scene

• All teaching staff with laptop (3yr cycle)

• Digital projectors in every room

• All users with school/home email access

• Moodle (VLE) since 2004

• Mahara eportfolios since 2007

• 1:1 notebooks for students since 2008 (98% uptake)

• Managed site wide wireless network

• OneDrive on notebooks

• Flexible broadband filtering (100Mb)

• Led by a Headteacher willing to take risks

Setting the Scene

• Moodle is internally hosted at Perins

• Externally supported by WebAnywhere

• Full time elearning support officer

• 5 “administrators”

– Head of eLearning

– Assistant headteacher (Teaching and learning)

– eLearning support Officer

– ITServices manager

– WebAnywhere

• All staff are course creators

• Moodle is part of staff CPD and Department targets

Moodle’s Secret Ingredient

27 “Freely available” Herbs & Spices…

Courses

Links

Notes

Videos

Forums

Glossaries

Quizzes

Checklists

Picture Gallery

Files (download)

Files (embed)

Questionnaires

Lessons

Badges

Certificates

Rubrics

Assignments

Voice recordings

Peer Review

Conditional tasks

Repository

Gradebooks

Markbooks

Web pages

Personal page

Databases

Progress trackers

INTERACTIONTeacher to Pupil

Pupil to Content

Pupil to Pupil

Teacher to Teacher

Teacher to Content

Pupil to Teacher

COURSE DESIGN

Course Design

• Allow flexibility between Departments

• Balance needs of department with sound pedagogy

• Engage and excite user

• Be visual

Visual Navigation

Topic Layouts

English

Maths

Maths

ICT and Transform

Topic Layouts

One Section per Page

One Section per Page

Student Designed (Philosophy)

Topic Layouts

Gareth Barnard’s Plugin

Core in v2.6

CONTENT

Presenting Content

4Form Approach

Practical Lessons

How?

• Resources added to Teacher’s area

• Icons are then linked to the resource

• We can “hide” the tab

English KS3

English KS3

Links to Embedded Files

Links to external Websites

Links to Moodle Activities

Traditional Layouts

Supporting Courses

Supporting Courses

Supporting Courses

MOODLEASSESSMENT

Assessment Tracking: Progress Block

Task Tracking: Davo Smith Checklist

Assessment: PDF Assignment

Assessment: Rubric and PoodLL

Rubric “Assessment”: Interims

Quizzes: Davo Smith Real Time Plugin

Quizzes: Hot Potatoes

Quizzes: Ordering

Quizzes: Ordering

Quizzes: Ordering

Quizzes: Ordering

Quizzes: Ordering

Quizzes: Ordering

Quizzes: Drag and Drop

Quizzes: Drag and Drop

Quizzes: Drag and Drop

Quizzes: Drag and Drop

Quizzes: Drag and Drop

Drag and Drop: Options

Quizzes: Random Calculated

Self Supported Learning: English

Self Supported Learning

Quiz: Replacing Paper Exams

Quiz: Baseline Assessment

Next Steps: Assessment

• Developing Mahara ePortfolio evidence for all KS3 units of work

• Linking SIMS MIS to Moodle and Assessment

• Creating the Gradebook for Core subjects

• 4 core features

– Consistency across Department

– End of unit Assessment

– Mahara ePortfolio results

– Teachers markbook to Offline gradebook

Gideon Williams@gideonwilliams

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