ECDL Running on Moodle

Our ECDL course team, who in recent times have been making very productive use of Smart Groups for their communication with remote working students, have as a result of growing problems incurred through increasingly long delays in message delivery, have requested a Moodle account as a replacement system. This will prove a good move I am certain, however with Moodle accounts only available via Bromley College Windows Active Directory authentication, and many ECDL students not actually Bromley College students in the traditional sense, this is going to require some creative thinking on the part of some of us.

Preferred Practice

This week has seen my first training date for the Moodle quiz course, which is set to run later in April. The new lesson plan template, which you may have seen mention of in an earlier posting has now been made available to all staff, I have copy here if you would like to view it. Basically once completed, the highlighted cells are copy and pasted directly into the appropriate weekly block. Though the collaborative e-learning trial has ended, my level 4 students have requested the creation of chat (msn) and forums for their new assignment, even though this time the submission must be for work of an individual nature! Well, there seems to be a drive toward preferred and successful practice emerging here I am pleased to say.