Illawarra Institute Draft Moodle Workflow v1.1

Teaching and Learning Initiatives

Process: Creation, Dev and Quality Assurance

Aim: • To Enable Creation, Development and Quality

Signoff of Courseware to occur on Single Moodle Server.

• To Enable Teachers and Staff (With Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Skills) to take control of processes as their confidence skills and knowledge increase independent of TLI.

• To Reduce the direct support required from TLI Admin staff and enable teachers to be self reliant in delivering their Courseware.

Beginner Teacher : Requests New Course.

Beginner Teacher : Fills in Course Details.

TLI Admin: Approves Request: Course Automatically Created Categorised under ‘Units’.

Course Automatically added to HIDDEN Dev Category

New Quality Assurance Role Created

Moodle Course Creation Roles

• Teachers (Beginner): can request a New Course be created by TLI Admin and build a course sequence.

• Course creators (Intermediate): can create new courses independently but cannot move courses out of the Hidden Development Category.

• Quality Assurance (Advanced): can do all of the above AND move Teacher’s Courses out of development to a ‘Live Delivery’ category following Quality Assurance Signoff.

TLI Admin: Add Staff To Appropriate Roles Over Time

Meta Courses - Empty Course Shell (Cert IV, Diploma...) created & categorised under Courses

Add Units to Meta Course

Draft Process: SAM OLS Enrolment of Students

Process: Development of Courseware

• Aim, Enable :

Use Media Wiki to Develop Resources

Media Wiki: Templated Content

Why not try putting as

much of the course introduction as you

can into pop-up windows

... or record it as a

podcast/ vodcast

This course is a good example

Moodle: Develop Unit Learning Sequence & LINK to MediaWiki ‘iiResources’ or LRR repository files.

LRR: Upload Moodle Unit Course Zip files after QA signoff

Link Unit (Meta Course) to Cert IV Course

Units (Meta Course) available as links within Cert IV Course

Restore Meta Unit Course .ZIP from LRR

What we are looking for/ working on:

• Process: Group Creation & Enrolment of Students (SAM) OLS

• LRR/ Moodle Integration• Adobe Connect / Moodle Integration• Mahara ePortfolio and Moodle integration• Media Wiki, Moodle and LRR ‘How To’ resources : • Backing Up, Archiving, Managing Moodle Unit

Courseware through LRR• Currently: using http://moodle.nciwiki.edu.au with North

Coast to pool resources. • Can we set up a cross Institute Moodle Group?• Can we use FLN wiki to pull together workflows and

guidelines?