The Bedford College Moodle GradeTracker and ePLP

Roy CurrieDirector of ILTrcurrie@bedford.ac.uk

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The Modules The GradeTracker

◦ BTEC, A/AS Level, C&G, Others under development

The ePLP◦ Attendance, Targets, Tutorials, Destinations

Reporting Dashboard Guardian/Employer Portal

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The Bedford College Moodles

Bedford College The Bedford Sixth Form Bedford HE Moodle

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Why do it?Because we could!We thought it would be easy!We wanted to fill in the missing areas of

MoodleWe wanted to provide a single integrated

tool for the management of all aspects of teaching and learning

We wanted to capitalise on available data and avoid rework Supported

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BackgroundAdopted Moodle in summer 2009In-house development teamThree years of development Strong interest from wider communityJISC funding for GradeTracker community

release in two phases - Over 80 organisations have accessed latest version

Working towards making other modules available to the community and providing ongoing support and maintenance

Demo

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ImpactMoodle ‘centre stage’ in teaching and learningGrowing momentum in eLearning development

….especially on-line submission and management of assessment

Provided fertile grounds for embedding eLearning in programmes of study

Cost and efficiency gains Enthusiastic feedback from OfstedStrong demand for access from across the sectorProviding earlier and deeper insights into learner

and course performance

OpportunitiesIntegration of GradeTracker & ePLP with JISC Learner

Analytics programmeePLP already designed with use in other colleges in mind MIS system agnostic and can aggregate from disparate

data sourcesDevelopment of a support and development service for

sector on ePLP, GradeTracker and other Moodle tool development needs

Integration of Unique Learner Number in ePLP recordsAbility to export GT/ePLP data in a portable XML format

tagged with ULN

Course overview

Outcome Prediction Based on Completed Units

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Qualification Progress by Learner

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Qualification Progress by Course

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High Value Courses

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AvailabilityProject websites:

http://moodleportal.bedford.ac.ukTwitter: @MoodleGrades Email: rcurrie@bedford for download

accounts on project websites

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