the free LMS should it be yours

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the free LMS- should it be yours?
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firstwho we are
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Nowwhat about YOU?

• Lets start with a poll Take the poll you see on
  the right-hand side of your screen so we can
  learn about you, your organization, and the
  training you do.
• Now, use the chat to tell us What motivated you
  to sign up?
• Finally, raise your hands
• How many of you have heard the term Moodle but
  really didnt know what it was?
• How many of you currently have an LMS?
• How many of you feel you need an LMS?
• How many of you just like the LOL Live sessions
  we do and are okay with whatever we talk about?

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nowan agenda

• What Moodle is and isnt
• 3 stories about Moodlers
• Demo of the Moodle experience for
• Learners
• Course creators
• Administrator(s)
• The data you can track
• The costs (soft and hard)
• The decision to Moodle or not?

Demo of Moodle experience learners, course
creators, admins
Quick look at the data you can track
Stories about Moodlers
What Moodle isand isnt
To Moodleor not?
The REAL costs
Any questions about what well cover? Write them
in the chat box. Shelbys watching and jotting
them down.
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What it isand is not
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It is

• Top LMS tools (marketshare)
• Moodle (18.6)
• Other (16.6)
• Developed in-house (14.8)
• SumTotal (14.6)
• Saba (12.5)
• Blackboard (8.9)
• Oracle (7.9)
• Plateau (7.5)
• Learn.com (6.7)
• SkillSoft (6.2)

• It IS.
• A top LMS tool used by millions
• Optimized for course management
• Ideal for building a learning community very
  learner focused
• Flexible
• Free to download

• Organizations with MORE than 10,000
• SumTotal (22.3)
• Saba (20.4)
• Developed in-house (16.8)
• Plateau (14.1)
• Oracle (10.9)
• TIE SkillSoft and Moodle (7.9)
• Blackboard (7.6)
• SAP (4.6)
• Learn.com (4.3)

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It is NOT
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What it looked like at install
What it looks like today
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Moodler stories 3 of them
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Stories 1 and 2 Other folks

• Farm Bureau
• 1700 employees lots in the field
• No budget for LMS
• One person in training with a technical bent
• Need to verify passing and completion
• Huge desire to enhance informal learning

• Sleep Train
• 230 stores 4 states, 1 training person, no
  for an LMS.
• LOTS of turnover continual new product info to
  share
• Need to verify people passed

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Story 3 us!

• 16 employeesbut mostly scattered.
• Constant need to learn new techniques, tools,
  technologies.
• Huge need for informal learning
• Desire to offer training to external customers
  and charge them for training.
• Desire to learn Moodle so we can help small
  organizations implement it for themselves.

The bottom-line (no pun intended) Moodle can
and does work for lots of different
organizations who want/need to connect learners
to resources and each other.
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The Moodle Experience learners, course creators,
administrators

• There are six possible roles
• Student (i.e. learner)
• Course creator
• Editing teacher
• Non-editing teacher
• Administrator
• Guests

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Lets start with the learner
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Course Creators
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system administrators
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installation and configuration

• Knowledge assets
• PHP (installation)
• CSS (graphical look, positioning, etc)
• MySQL (installation)
• HTML (installation)
• SCORM (course configuration)
• Course design/development (course creation)
• Social media savvy (informal learning)
• Personality assets
• Patience (installation, configuration,
  development)
• Confidence (i.e. cant be afraid to try stuff and
  see what happens)

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moodle experience for admins

• What questions should an admin be asking before
  even deciding on Moodle?
• Does a resource exist who is willing to learn an
  open-source software application? Will my
  organization support open-source software?
• Will I have any IT support?
• Do I have the money, time, and expertise to host
  Moodle on my own internal server OR should I find
  an external host?
• If I decide to have an external host, should I
  get a dedicated server or a shared server?
• Who will be the system administrators? How will
  admins divide responsibility?

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Moodle Requirements

• Hardware Requirements
• Minimum 150 to 200MB disk space
• Network or standalone
• Software Requirements
• Database MySQL is recommended
• Web server Apache is preferred
• PHP PHP 4.30 is required to run Moodle 1.9. It
  is advisable to use PHP 5.24 or higher for Moodle
  2.0.
• PHP Extensions
• Moodle Packages
• Standard
• Mac OS X - local
• Windows local

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more on configuration
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The data you can track
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reporting

• What reports can you get?
• Site level
• All/Individual activity logs across entire site
  or by course
• Course level
• All/individual participant activity logs
• All participant grades
• Individual participant reports
• What do these reports tell you?
• Activity logs what the user did, not how they
  did.
• Grade and participant reports completion, score,
  and activity.

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reporting

• What if you want more?
• Add-ons are available. Here are a few we have
  found but not tried
• Category Activity Reports
• Completion Report
• Moomis

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The costsreally
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Or not?
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is moodle for you?

• It depends .
• What are your needs?
• Why would you use it?
• What tracking do you HAVE to have?
• Can you get the server space you need?
• Do you have a resource to support it?

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