Key Challenges

STRATFORD UNIVERSITYBallistic Learning helped Stratford University upgrade its existing Moodle LMS

OverviewStratford University is a private educational institution dedicated to preparing students for the challenges of a rewarding career. Alumni pursue professions in high-demand fields like information technology, hospitality, culinary arts, business administration, health sciences, and nursing. Stratford University offers Associate, Bachelor's and Master's Degrees, as well as many non-credit workshops and courses.

Stratford University was already using Moodle as their LMS when they contacted Ballistic Learning.

CHALLENGEAs Stratford university was already using Moodle LMS, they understood the benefits of e-learning and its unutilized potential. They were facing student engagement challenges, collaborative learning challenges, LMS ease-of-use challenges, and challenges of syncing data between Moodle and their SIS / ERP system. The other issue Stratford was facing was of ensuring consistent quality of instructional delivery across many of their education partners in other countries.SOLUTIONOnce Ballistic Learning came on board as the e-learning domain expert, BL undertook the following work on Moodle: • A Facebook-like social wall was developed and implemented within Moodle

courses to encourage active discussions and collaboration among students and faculty.

• New Moodle course formats with easy to use UIs were implemented to enable more student-friendly structuring and navigation of instructional resources. This also enabled course designers to design and populate courses in a manner that they become templates for ensuring consistent teaching practices.

• Gamification was implemented in Moodle to increase learner motivation levels - an exciting visual metaphor that changed according to a learner's performance of activities in the LMS.

• Badges were implemented, these being awarded to learners and faculty whose participation in online discussions was noteworthy.

• Moodle was integrated with Stratford's PowerCampus SIS / ERP system to enable pulling learner enrollment related data from the SIS into Moodle and pushing graded activities' results from Moodle to the SIS.

• Dedicated Moodle Apps were made for Android and iOS distribution to enable certain LMS workflows to benefit from smartphone and tablet device features.

WHY BL WAS CHOSEN• BL’s existing work portfolio gave a lot of comfort to Stratford in terms of

Moodle development capability. • BL had the domain experience to suggest features that Stratford could

implement to achieve their objectives• BL communication skills and project management processes also gave a lot

of comfort to Stratford as the project was to be completely implemented by us in New Delhi