Your premium eLearning technology service partner netspot.com.au

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