Al-Quds University

Do You Moodle?Do You Moodle?

Rashid Jayousi, PhDComputer Science Dept.rjayousi@science.alquds.edu

Al-Quds University’s experience in E-learningAl-Quds University’s experience in E-learning

Presentation Overview

• IT service at Al-Quds University

• Overview about Moodle

• Al-Quds University’s experience

The Said Khoury Information Technology Center of Excellence

(SKITCI)

SKITCI Mission

• Operates at local and national levels to provide high quality and effective training for students as well as practitioners in the field of information technology.

Curriculum Development & Production of Training Material

• SKITCE is recognized for its high quality and tailor-made training packages.

• Develop packages to meet changing needs. • Prepare quality training packages for the new

training areas identified in the Operational Plan. • Prepare and design tailor-made training

packages for national specialist training institutions.

• Upgrade staff skills in designing materials that incorporate new teaching technology

What is Moodle?

• software package for producing internet-based courses and web sites

• ongoing development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education

• provided freely as Open Source software

Reference: http://moodle.org

Features

Overall Design• Suitable for 100% online classes • Simple, lightweight, efficient, compatible, and

secure • Course listing shows descriptions for every

course on the server, including accessibility to guests.

• Courses can be categorized and searched• One Moodle site can support thousands of

courses• embedded WYSIWYG HTML editor

Reference: http://moodle.org

Features

Site and User Management• Flexibility to change / customize the

site’s design• Multilingual- currently 43 languages

including Arabic• Three types of users

– Admin: overall system management (i.e. create courses, upgrade users)

– Teacher: assigned courses management– Student: Enrollment in courses

Reference: http://moodle.org

Features

Course management• A full teacher has full control over all settings for

a course, including restricting other teachers• Choice of course formats (week, topic,

discussion focused)• Flexible array of course activities (Forums,

Journals, Quizzes, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments, Chats, Workshops )

• Track of recent changes to the course• All grades for Forums, Journals, Quizzes and

Assignments can be viewed on one page (and downloaded as a spreadsheet file)

Reference: http://moodle.org

Al-Quds experience

• Al-Quds University has decided to embrace the concept of electronic learning in the summer of 2004

• Claroline, a Learning/Content management system was used during Summer 2004 (http://www.claroline.net)

• Due to functionality and security limitation of Claroline, Moodle was adopted as the official E-learning system (http://moodle.org)

Time lineDateAction

Summer 2004Installation and use of Claroline

Fall 2004/5Installation and use of Moodle

Spring 2004/5Use of Moodle still limited to the CS and IT depts.

Summer 2005Use of Moodle still limited to the CS and IT depts.

Fall 2005/6Other faculties started to use Moodle. Total number of classes: 52!

End of Fall 2005/6Training sessions are to e conducted (starting December 20th) to train all academic staff on the use of Moodle

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Moodle at Al-Quds UniversityURL: http://eclass.alquds.edu