1. Moodle User Group
1st March 2012
Introduction to Moodle 2
Phil Hardcastle
Lyn Lall
Sam Tanner
March 6, 2012 | slide 1

2. Agenda
 Welcome
 Housekeeping
 Introduction to Moodle 2
– Sam Tanner from Loughborough College
– Hands on
– RSC Help
 Coffee/Networking
 Structuring your site
 News/Updates/Online Moving to Moodle 2
 Lunch
March 6, 2012 | slide 2

3. Introduction to Moodle 2
 Sam Tanner – Loughborough College
March 6, 2012 | slide 3

4. RSC Help with Moodle 2
 Help with planning
– Implementation plan
– Staff Training
 Contacts with organisations who have made the
move
 Contacts with organisations who are in the same
position to share ideas/solutions etc.
March 6, 2012 | slide 4

5. Site Structure
 How have you structured your site?
– By curriculum area
– By user
– Who else uses the site?
 Is navigation easy or difficult for users?
– User surveys?
– Students
– Staff
March 6, 2012 | slide 5

6. News, Updates & Plugins
 Moving to Moodle 2
– 3 organisations’ experience of moving to Moodle 2
– Online webinar lasting about 90 minutes
– 21st March
 User administration
– phpMYadmin – user admin plugin
– Adminer (www.adminer.org)
 Embedding videos into Moodle 2
 http://www.mguhlin.org/2012/01/embedding-
videos-in-moodle-22.html
March 6, 2012 | slide 6

7. News, Updates & Plugins
 This video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zK
WpwEX5zQ demonstrates how to add a logo to M
oodle 2
 Goldsmiths College:
http://goldsmithsleu.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/m
oving-to-moodle-2-some-things-to-bear-in-mind/
 This demo gives an intro to using the new quiz
module in 2.1 although some of the questions
types are OU additions
http://labspace.open.ac.uk/mod/quiz/view.php?id=
437794
March 6, 2012 | slide 7

8. Contacts
 Phil Hardcastle:
– phil.hardcastle@rsc-em.ac.uk
– Mob: 07584529011
 Lyn Lall :
– lynette.lall@rsc-em.ac.uk
– Mob: 07867682879
March 6, 2012 | slide 8