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Maximising engagement with student surveys on Moodle

Gathering feedback from students on their module and programme learning experiences is a common practice in higher education. Indeed, this feedback is often incorporated into important documents and review processes such as annual programme reviews, re-validation of programmes, quality reviews, and so on. This feedback is also useful to educators in reflecting on their practice, redesigning modules, and as evidence for promotion or fellowships. 

However, engaging students in surveys to collate their feedback is notoriously difficult, with many institutions reporting low response rates. This presentation at the Moot will share a recent case study from Dublin City University (DCU), in which a combination of programme-level Moodle courses, a plugin to deploy and manage surveys, and a plugin to deliver targeted messages to students, maximised survey response rates.

How a university rolled out the Brickfield Accessibility Toolkit for Moodle

The University adopted the Enterprise version of Brickfield Accessibility Toolkit in order to further improve accessibility in the course content by supporting staff and students in their online experience.

Come to find out what the Enterprise Toolkit offers compared to the free Starter tool released with Moodle. Learn how the University engaged faculty through onboarding process and ongoing accessibility training to support adoption. Hear how students were supported with alternate content formats for files and the Moodle Book and Page resources.

Elevating Learning Experiences: Moodle’s Integrated Products and CMS Empower the GAA’s Learning Portal

The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is Ireland’s largest sporting organisation. It is celebrated as one of the great amateur sporting associations in the world. The Association today promotes Gaelic games such as Hurling, Football, Handball and Rounders and works with sister organisations to promote Ladies Football and Camogie.

The GAA Learning & Development Portal provides access to online learning resources for anyone involved in Gaelic Games including coaching, playing, refereeing or providing administrative support at Club or County level.

The GAA is committed to nurturing a culture of lifelong learning among its members, enabling personal growth and the continuous development of skills.

The GAA is revolutionising its learning initiatives by harnessing the extended capabilities of Moodle’s integration capabilities, including a powerful Content Management System (CMS), within its Learning Portal. By seamlessly integrating Moodle LMS with a feature-rich CMS and various complementary tools, the GAA has created a comprehensive and immersive platform that enhances the learning experience for its members. This abstract explores the integration of Moodle and a CMS within the GAA’s Learning Portal and its impact on lifelong learning.

Moodle forms the foundation of the GAA’s Learning Portal, delivering essential features for content delivery, assessments, and collaboration. However, Moodle’s true power lies in its ability to integrate seamlessly with various plugins, extending its functionality and enabling a more holistic learning experience. By integrating a robust CMS, the GAA can enhance content creation, management, and customisation within the Learning Portal.

This integration empowers GAA members to embark on a journey of continuous learning and personal growth.

As the GAA continues to expand the Learning Portal, the integration of Moodle and a CMS will undoubtedly play a vital role in advancing educational initiatives, strengthening the lifelong learning culture within the organisation, and empowering GAA members to thrive in their personal and sporting endeavours.

RAMU Meeting

Encuentro de la Red de Administradores de Moodle de Universidades (RAMU): red multidisciplinar y sostenible en torno a Moodle. Desde hace once años reúne perfiles laborales, docentes y técnicos, en instalaciones Moodle de instituciones educativas de habla hispana. Su funcionamiento se basa en la cooperación y el intercambio de conocimiento en abierto. Presentaremos la red para fomentar el debate entre los asistentes sobre intereses pasados, presentes y futuros. Te invitamos a formar parte de RAMU.

Annual meeting of the Red de Administradores de Moodle de Universidades (RAMU) – the Spanish Network of Moodle Administrators of Universities.

This session will be in Spanish.

Top 10 Moodle Workplace Tips, Tricks & Hacks from a Learning Designer

Moodle Workplace offers a powerful toolkit for creating, sequencing, and delivering high-quality learning experiences. Tools and features such as Programs, Dynamic Rules, Custom Reports, Multi-tenancy, and Custom Pages are designed to allow organizations to automate processes and differentiate content across diverse segments of learners. Each of these tools does precisely what it was designed to do… and yet… when has a Moodle user ever actually used a tool for what it was originally intended?

As a Learning Designer, I listen to users’ learning and site design goals and help them leverage Moodle’s toolkit to achieve these goals. More often than not, this collaborative journey involves the discovery of unconventional and creative approaches – and, perhaps, the occasional clever “hack” – to fully realize Moodle Workplace’s potential.

In this rapid-fire session, I will share my top ten Moodle Workplace tips, tricks, and hacks, complete with follow-up resources, enabling you to experiment with these techniques yourself. Come to hear about tools pushed to their limits and stay to share your own favorite Moodle Workplace wins (near-win’s also welcome!).

The UX Dilemmas of Generative AI

Join Kate Bazilevskaya, UXC and Head of Partnerships at Tiny at Moodle Moot Global 2023, to explore the potential of generative AI to empower education and revolutionize the way prompts are crafted, making them more accessible, engaging, and effective for learners worldwide.

The UX Dilemma

Generative AI has gained significant traction in educational content creation, offering various benefits. The adoption of generative AI in the education sector is on the rise, with researchers and practitioners exploring its potential. 

Creating effective prompts is a challenge, especially for non-AI experts in the educational field, and it has become a UX dilemma that many industry experts call out today. 

As we considered the best way to add an AI capability to our rich text editor, we faced different usability challenges and considerations. We also analyzed related research and data and derived valuable insights, “The State of Rich Text Editing.” We want to share insights and learnings on our journey of building generative AI features. 

About Tiny Technologies:

  • Tiny is a Moodle Certified Integration Partner bringing TinyMCE advanced features to create high-impact course content and increased productivity.
  • TinyMCE is the world’s most trusted WYSIWYG component that enables rich text editing capabilities within an application. It powers 100M+ projects worldwide, and more than 1.5M+ developers use it to add velocity to their tech stacks so that they can build and ship their projects faster.
  • Our customers include Walmart, Drift, Atlassian, Microsoft, NASA, and more.
  • Moodle replaced the initial default editor, Atto, with TinyMCE open-source starting from Moodle version 4.1.

Backward Design Strategy with Moodle Gradebook

Moodle Gradebook is a powerful, flexible, accurate grade management system. With its natural aggregation system, teachers can leverage sum-of-points, percentage-category, and other grading strategies independently or simultaneously. Applied properly, Moodle Gradebook can be the starting point for authentic backward instructional design for corporate and academic instructors alike. By starting with objective standards and designing courses with a purposeful gradebook as the anchor, educators can set themselves up for impactful courses, engaged students, and powerful reporting.

Attendees will learn how to:

  • Set up gradebook to accommodate both sum-of-points and percentage-category grading strategies.
  • Customize the student view of gradebook to meet the needs of individual courses.
  • Create a standards-based gradebook to feed sitewide reporting.

Turning insights into action: Learning analytics practices every organization should adopt now

As education leaders know, both Higher Education institutions and businesses have invested significant money and time in adopting Learning Management Systems and other learning technologies. Yet, Higher Education institutions are struggling with lower than 70% retention rates, and businesses in the United States suffered a decrease of $183 billion in profits just in the last nine months. In a recent survey of 600 organizations, 78% reported that their workload has increased over the last three years. This combination causes burnout, disengagement and ultimately impacts employee satisfaction and learner retention.

In this session, hear from Becky Keith, IntelliBoard Chief Product Officer, about how organizations around the world are taking advantage of their LMS data, combined with other learning sources to increase their efficiencies, improve retention and engagement rates, drive revenues, and become more competitive. The session includes real-life examples from leading organizations around the globe.

Moodle Asset Archiving: Stale Content and How to Manage a Growing Moodle Footprint

This presentation will delve into the experiences and ongoing discussions that Catalyst are having with our global Enterprise Moodle customers around their Big Moodles. There are a lot of Moodles out there whose digital footprint is growing every year. Lots of data, lots of learning content.

And some spring cleaning or retention policy needs to be applied. Or just cleaning out the stale content. But how?

There are technology implications and considerations to data archiving, but in many ways this is a lifecycle management, change management and governance problem.

Catalyst will explore some of the following:

  • our concrete experiences with both good and bad Moodle digital asset archiving approaches.
  • advice on how to organisationally define what archiving is and what it’s achieving.
  • our learnings from consultation with big University Moodle instances.
  • some potential tips and tricks that might make the task more manageable.

This talk is based on our experience with large University Moodle instances, but the principles and experiences that we explore will be relevant to any Moodle administrator who has responsibility for a growing Moodle instance.

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