Getting Started On campus: Moodle Mania - every Wednesday all summer long Wednesdays 10 AM to noon, Emerging Technology Centre, Mackintosh-Corry Hall B109 Whether you're an experienced Moodler or simply curious about the possibilities, you are cordially invited to drop by the Emerging Technology Centre to learn more about Moodle at Queen's.
INFO SHEET moodle.queensu.ca Faculty of Engineering and Applied
June 2010 COMING FOR SEPTEMBER 2010 Peer Review
Join Us for a Brief Introduction to Moodle @ Queen's (workshops are added as required/requested) July 20 — 10:30 AM - 12:00 pm, Faculty & Staff Learning Facility, Mackintosh-Corry Hall B176 An orientation to the primary administrative and instructional tools that can be used to develop and teach a course or collaborate with others on a project or research study. The session will demonstrate basic terminology and functions to start developing your own course/site.
Online : To request a course space, register for a workshop, or find help documentation (Queen’s-specific as well as links to moodle.org):
moodle.queensu.ca
Photo: Natasha Redknap
Moodle Development Team members (l – r): Brad Murphy, Manoj Hemnani, Mike Kulesza
To request a one-to-one consult: email moodle@queensu.ca; call ext. 75611; or drop by the Faculty & Staff Learning Facility, B176 Mackintosh-Corry Hall.
Group Submit Permit anyone in a group to submit on behalf of the group
Group Grader Photo: Adam Walker
How-To What’s New Workshops Mid-August, end of August and during Frosh Week. Dates will be advertised once finalized. These workshops will focus on the new modules available this year. These workshops will be held in the Teaching Studio (Beamish-Munroe 213).
Group members assess each other’s contribution
Brian Frank, Director (Program Development), Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, and Nancy Owen, Teaching & Learning Support, ITServices, discuss the Queen’s Moodle implementation.
Provide marks to each member of a group
Clicker Registration Students register their “clickers” and update their information
Students Auto-Populated Queen’s Themes
Passing the baton After a successful pilot at the Faculty level, ITServices takes the lead on Moodle "We had very positive feedback on our Moodle Course Management System pilot last year," explains Brian Frank, Director (Program Development) for the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science (EAS). "We were able to implement functionality specifically designed to help our engineering professors deliver their courses and to gather data for program improvement. Now that we are ramping up the numbers of our instructors using the system, it is logical that we hand over the day-to-day operations of the system to ITServices, who have the resources and expertise to properly manage and support it. We will continue to work closely with the development team at ITServices to enhance Moodle for our Faculty. By handing Moodle over to ITServices, we can now turn our attention to exploring other ways to support our instructors and enhance our curriculum." “Timing is everything,” notes Nancy Owen, Teaching & Learning Support, ITServices. “Following our own successful pilot project with Moodle last year, we were already in the process of developing Moodle as an enterprise service offering. We've been working closely with Engineering and Applied Science for several months to ensure that functionality that was developed in their pilot is available in our enterprise offering. We have been participating in requirements gathering, co-development and testing. All of last year’s Applied Science Moodle courses have been successfully migrated to our Moodle installation and are currently available to instructors.” Adds Owen, “We've all seen the value of working together and believe we have a stronger service offering because of it, both for this September and into the future.”