EMPOWERING MOODLE AT YOUR

INSTITUTION

Wissam Nahas - eLearning Manager

Moodle Team

American University of Beirut -

AUB

Outline

LMS at AUB

Reasons behind flourishing Moodle at AUB

Application side

Dedicated team for support and consultation

Well defined material and guidelines

Offering different types of course delivery

Blended program

Tips for encouraging faculty to teach using LMS

Outcome

LMS Growth @ AUB

What’s next?

Q & A

American University of Beirut - AUB

Founded in 1866

Top university in the ME

Middle States' accreditation

64 buildings over an area of 61-

acre

More than 100 programs

Around 8000 students

Faculty to students ration 1/13

LMS@ AUB

WebCT - Fall 2001

Moodle - Summer 2005

74% of AUB course-sections uses Moodle

(Using Moodle is optional by faculty)

Web-enhanced and Blended course delivery

A couple of online courses

Moodle 2

Piloting Moodle 2 – Summer 2012

Official move to Moodle 2 – Fall 2012

Reasons behind flourishing Moodle at AUB

(1) - Application side

User friendly

Customizable application

Flexibility and easy integration with existing

applications

Simple scripts that can trigger the database for

reports

(2) - Dedicated team for support and consultation

Who we are

eLearning Team

eLearning Manager, Application Support Analyst, System

Administrator, Instructional Designer & Student Work Program

Participation in MoodleMoot UK since 2007

Up-to-date with the online community Moodle.org, Moodle docs, Moodle news…

Membership in SLOANC (Sloan Consortium)

MVCR (Illinois online Network)

Latest Moodle versions & plug-ins

Reasons behind flourishing Moodle at AUB

(2) - Dedicated team

What we do

Phone and email support

Workshops and one-on-one custom sessions

Enhanced support for quizzes

Faculty to faculty

Faculty Seminars, Round table, Brown bags & international

conferences

Effective use of LMS Workshops

Web enhanced – continuous consultation – assessing

courses

Reasons behind flourishing Moodle at AUB

(3) - Well defined material and guidelines

Well defined tutorials, FAQs and quick guides

Selected as one of the top five sites by Moodle news

Different forms to suit faculty and students’ requests

Detailed steps for successful online quizzes

Documentation

Moodle admin settings

Code edits

Beginning and ending of semester procedure

Backup course/activity with user data

Reasons behind flourishing Moodle at AUB

Offering different types of course delivery:

Web enhanced

Blended program

Online courses – few cases

Blended programs – blended workshops for 8 weeks

Reasons behind flourishing Moodle at AUB

Promote the use of Moodle without forcing faculty to

use it

Conduct surveys for faculty & students

Academic events

Brown bags, round tables, faculty seminars, international

conferences

Create learning objects

Tips to encourage faculty

Significant progress of using LMS @ AUB

Leadership in region

International conference

Non-academic and off campus projects

Outcome

LMS Growth @ AUB

What’s next?

Moodle 2 summer 2012

Increase the use to 80%

Effective use

Moodle Mobile

Integration Social media

Advance Integration with Banner: grades

Questions?

Thank you!

Contact information:

Wissam Nahas

wissamn@aub.edu.lb

Academic Core Processes & Systems

www.aub.edu.lb/it/acps

Moodle @ AUB

http://moodle.aub.edu.lb