Instructional Technology

Moodle Support Group (MSG)

Suggested Agenda for 1st Meeting

1. new version for implementation. 1.5 is almost ready (could we have a test version up perhaps?). 1.6 is slated to be available by August. This is important for me because it's the version that will have blogs in it.
2. Organising courses. Currently we have departmental categories. I would like to propose that we implement categories based on departments. How should we tackle interdepartmental courses? How should we handle courses that are now in the Moodle system – we need some way of making them accessible to faculty without confusing current usage. Also, how do manage copying resources and other stuff from old courses into new ones (backup/restore)?
3. A faculty has asked whether we could import student names and pictures from the EC Facebook.
4. Could we have all faculty and students pre-enrolled and courses presetup? Dusko?
5. Reporting procedures for bugs and issues. I'd like to have an easy to use procedure where students and faculty can record problems, issues and apparent bugs. Despite my best efforts (not good enough) I still end up getting news of problems by hearsay. Eg, Welling Hall asserted that a student assistant in one course had been able to see other student's grades in a different course; an assertion that I was unable to replicate.
6. backup / Restore files > 64Mb.

Improvements in v1.5

• The All-new assignment module
  View pop-up screenshot
• Blogging. I've been conversing with Daryl Hawes — see more moodleblog musings .In Blogging definitely in 1.6 Martin Dougiamas writes:

Moodle 1.6 will have a lot less stuff in it that 1.4 -> 1.5 has, and I fully expect it to be out by that date.
One thing it will DEFINITELY have in it is blogging … this feature has been delayed long enough and is much needed.

• There's a brand new wiki module proposed. Though it's not clear what Moodle version it'll see the light of day.View screenshot