An overview of learning technology developments at Manchester Metropolitan University to support a curriculum transformation change programme to Enhance the Quality of Assessment for Learning

1. Thursday, February 10, 2011 1 Curriculum Transformation & New Technologies at MMUSouthamptonFebruary 2011 Professor Mark Stubbs Head of Learning & Research Technologies (we coordinate and partner on innovations with service providers) m.stubbs@mmu.ac.uk | http://twitter.com/thestubbsEQAL | Moodle: policies; areas | Portal: integration; timeframe EQAL Strand 3 Briefing2010-07-23

2. MMU Comprehensive “EQAL” change programme New Curriculum Framework (new standard Credit size) New Admin Systems + Business Processes Seamless Access (new VLE + enhanced Portal) Streamlined Quality Processes Outcomes Every UG course & module being re-written Entirely new first year goes live September 2011 Data-based, not document-based

3. EQAL Strand 3 Aims to: raise student satisfaction, engagement and success by providing a more seamless and personalised online experience of university activity by: delivering a new, integrated VLE & supporting tools Moodle, Aspire, Equella enhancing the student portal SharePoint and CampusM ensuring staff can take full advantage of these tools 7 E-Learning Support Officers (2yr contract, 1 per Faculty)

4. Moodle | Policies Approved summer 2010 following consultation automatic creation of areas for every Unit Instance every Programme Instance every Faculty Student Support standard toolset threshold standards for Unit and Programme areas Consistency, please...

5. Moodle | Unit Area policy Every Moodle Unit Instance Area (UIA) will normally display the Unit Title, Code, Level, Credits and Department display the Unit Teaching Team email contact details display the Unit Reading List, which will distinguish clearly between items recommended for student purchase, essential items that students can expect to access from MMU library and further reading; (ideally) all links to e-resources will be single-sign-on display the Unit Assessment Regime, Submission and Work Return Deadlines (and any provisional marks) display the Unit Timetable for the enrolled student for the next month display a link to the Unit Specification and Unit Handbook display a link to the general Student Support Area (study skills, info skills...) be organised as a week-by-week teaching schedule

6. Moodle | Unit Instance Area Consistent Module hubs

7. Moodle | Unit Instance Area Unit Code MMU ID Unit Instance Area Timetable Unit Code MMU ID Hand-ins & marks Unit Code Podcasts Unit Code Reading Lists Separate web-services + widgets Unit Code Past Papers Scanned articles On/off-campus media Unit Code MMU ID Enrolments

8. Moodle | Portal integration List of areas & aggregated news for each user Unit Instance Areas Programme Instance Area

9. Enhanced Portal | Timeframe myMMU launched Sept 2009, has 30,000+ users Initially VLE areas+news, Library, Records check Make-over Sept 2010 + new features for EQAL PC Availability [10/11] Fee status (traffic lights with follow-up) [10/11] Bi-annual online Unit-level satisfaction surveys [10/11] Assignment hand-in schedule [10/11] Update contact details (mobile, address, ..) [10/11] Transcript of Achievement [11/12] Personal Timetable [11/12] myMMU-mobile (CampusM) launched 30/09/2010

10. Follow up Blogs Learning Tech Review (why we chose Moodle) http://lrt.mmu.ac.uk/ltreview EQAL (updates from the 4 strands) http://www.blogs.mmu.ac.uk/eqal Widgets, Web- & Cloud- services (JISC W2C) http://lrt.mmu.ac.uk/w2c Thursday, February 10, 2011 MLE Workshop, Aytoun Library Seminar Room 2009-05-13 14:00 10