Using Moodle to enable uneOpen
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Using Moodle to enable uneOpen
About uneOpen
• Offers real university subjects for free• Self Paced• No entry requirements• Students can book tutorials with real tutors• Students can sit challenge exams to gain UNE
credit
Why Moodle?
• UNE already uses Moodle for university courses• Easy transfer of material• Teachers already know how to use it• Very skilled Moodle admin staff at UNE
• Easy to extend and integrate
Other systems
• Microsite to advertise the initiative• CRM to keep track of pre-registrations and
registrations• Social Media authentication and sharing• Tutorial booking system• Exam booking system• Payment gateway• Moodle clearly only a piece in the puzzle
Many teams
• Many different teams working on the project• coordinated by UNE: a challenge to keep all
the teams on track• Content developers• Course designers• CRM specialists• Moodle customisations and integrations• Theme• Marketing
Challenges relating to Moodle
• Marketing needs to decide on branding before theme can be developed
• Content can’t be fully tested until theme is done
• Google changed their authentication API without much warning, LinkedIn did so twice!
• Policy around tutorial and exam booking needed to be developed
Customisations to Moodle
• Started from UNE code base Modified login, enrol and logout mechanisms to integrate with CRM and microsite
• Customised FaceToFace plugin for tutorial bookings.
• Custom Exam block• Grid format• Many changes to email behaviour• Many language and user details changes
When it all comes together
• Discovered that the flow through some learning content was unnatural or unintuitive
• Get rid of Grid format, replace by Tiles format• More theme changes• Customised navigation buttons plugin• Role permission changes wrt. privacy
Go-live
• Check and double check content• Create and enrol pre-registered users in
Moodle• Change CRM to process registrations and pass
on to Moodle• Switch over microsite to reveal Moodle