Custom administration and navigation tools for large-scale Moodle 2.5 sites - Ofra Haneman, Roy Yarkoni (Open University Israel) Presented at Moodlemoot Edinburgh 2014 www.moodlemoot.ie/

1. Custom Administration
and Navigation Tools
for large-scale Moodle 2.5 sites
Ofra Haneman
Head of Instructional Design Team
Roy Yarkoni
Head of the Development Team

2. • The Open University Overview
• Difficulties
• Solutions
Our Presentation…

3. Open University Overview
• 48,000 Students
• 1,000 Faculty members

4. Open University Overview
Fall Semester, 2014
• 664 Courses
• 955 Forums
• 126,728 Forum posts

5. Fall Semester 2014 – Pageviews

6. Video Overview
The Video Studios
• 9 video studios
• 7 video conferencing rooms
• 100 virtual classes

7. Video Overview
Product
• 2500 Broadcasting hours per
semester
• 500,000 Recordings hours
• More than 500,000 views
per semester
• Recorded and uploaded to
the course site

8. Support Flow
First tier – Contact center for
students
Second tier - Call
center for the faculty
High level
support

9. Difficulties in our
Moodle sites

10. Support teams - Response Time
Search
course
Participants
block
Search
user
Profile &
fake login

11. • Navigation issues - course home page
• Too many forum notifications
• Navigation issues - V.O.D system
Students

12. Solutions

13. Solutions for the Support Teams - Response Time
Roy
Yarkoni

14. The User Profile- Fake Login

15. Solution for the Students- Home Page Navigation
Blocks
Header
Blocks Content

16. Improved Navigation in the course home page
Solution for the Students

20. Solutions for the Students - V.O.D Navigation

23. Thank you for listening