This document summarizes the results of a student survey about Moodle usage at the National College Dublin (DCU) conducted in 2009, 2011, and 2013. Some key findings from the over 1800 students surveyed include: - 75% of students were under 24 years old and 90% were full-time students. - Students reported using Moodle most for accessing class announcements, lecture notes, and other course documents, while using it least for plagiarism detection and submitting assignments. - The most common barriers to using Moodle reported were lecturers not uploading notes in advance and the platform being unfriendly to use. - Students expressed a desire for lecturers to make better use of Moodle's features and for

1. Student “Moodle usage” survey

2. Overview
• National VLE Survey
• 3 DCU iterations- '09 '11 '13
• 2013 figures
• >1800 students
• 90% Full time students
• 40% were first year
• 75% under 24 years old

3. 26 Questions e.g.
How often do you use Moodle?
If you do not use Moodle, why not?
For each of the statements below, choose whether you
.....
Is there anything else that prevents you from getting
the best use of Moodle?
What is the most important thing you would
like to see improved about Moodle?

4. Q1 - How often do you use…?
2009 2011 2013

5. Q2 – Use of Moodle

6. Q3 - What proportion of your coursework
2009 2011 2013

7. Q4 - If not, why not?

8. Q5 – How useful is Moodle for….?
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
ClassAnnouncements
LectureNotes
OtherCourseDocuments
ReadingListsand
recommendedonlinelearning
resources
OnlineDiscussion
Quizzes
PlagiarismDetection(TurnItIn)
SubmittingAssignments;
Recommendedvideos,
screencastsandpodcasts
Do not use
Not very useful
Useful
Very useful

9. Q7 –Where do you access from
0.0%
20.0%
40.0%
60.0%
80.0%
100.0%
120.0%
Home
Workplace
OpenAccess
LabsonCampus
Departmental
Computerlabs
Laptopson
Campus
Wirelessaccess
outsidecampus
Mobilephone
device(e.g
Smartphone,
iPhone)
TabletDevice(e.g
iPad,Android
tablet)

10. Q10 - What prevented you
Lecturers notes were not up in advance
It is very user unfriendly
Appearance is bland
Surge in usage prevented assignment upload
DCU Moodle crashes
No mobile app available

11. Q11 - Statements
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400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
1800
UsingMoodlegivesme
moreaccesstomylecturers
UsingMoodlechangesthe
hoursIcanstudy
UsingMoodlegivesmemore
accesstoresourcesand
learningmaterials
Gettingnotesononline
makesmelesslikelytogoto
lectures
Iammorelikelyto
communicatewithmylecturer
whenusingMoodle(egaska
questiononline)
Iwouldlikemylecturersto
makemoreuseofMoodle
Mylecturersmakegooduse
ofMoodle
Iwouldprefergettingmaterial
inhardcopyhandoutsto
havingitputonMoodle
Strongly agree
Agree
Neutral
Disagree
Strongly disagree

12. Q13 - Most important thing
2009 2011 2013

13. Conclusions
Lecturers use of Moodle
It is very user unfriendly, no mobile app
Student Focus groups
Change in IT infrastructure
Integration with existing systems
Moodle Clinics
Anonymous to confidential