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1. The world’s most popular open source
virtual learning environment
2. Moodle VLE: www.schoolanywhere.co.uk
The world’s most popular open source VLE
Who is Schoolanywhere?
“ The site encourages pupils
to extend their school
learning and also allows
Founded in 2005, Schoolanywhere works
parents to take an active with over 300 schools in the UK, providing
interest in what their child
is learning and how it is “ hosting, training, branding, support and
being taught. content for over 120,000 Moodle users.
We help schools to:
-Raise standards in teaching and learning
-Offer up-to-the minute information for pupils
Mrs J Watson -Extend learning beyond the classroom
Assistant Head, Lent Rise School -Engage parents in their child’s education
We will work with your school to develop an entirely personal service and solution
for you, ensuring you receive unbeatable value for money.
• Reliable hosting • High quality content
• Creative branding • Expert training
• Practical course & • Friendly technical support
user management
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3. Get started with Moodle today: 0800 862 0131
Did you know?
Moodle is the most popular VLE for UK
secondary schools
What is Moodle?
Moodle emerged in 1999 from the Australian higher education community.
Moodle is an open source virtual learning environment (VLE), also known as a
course management system (CMS). Moodle is designed to support social and
collaborative learning, and comes with an impressive array of features and is
highly configurable and extensible.
Why choose Moodle?
Cost effective - Moodle is open Accessible - Moodle have
source and runs on robust, a huge commitment to
freely-available open source accessibility and have outlined
technologies. This means that a accessibility as a priority within
school which uses Moodle can their developer guidelines
spend more money on content
for their VLE and training Extensible - Moodle is the
market leader in providing
No vendor lock in - Unlike a huge library of quality 3rd
commercial learning platforms - party extensions which can
you own your Moodle then be implemented for free,
allowing Moodle to meet the
unique requirements of each
educational establishment
Built for learning and teaching -
Moodle is developed by people Ease of use - Moodle is easy
in the education sector who to use and has a proven track
have direct experience and an record of effective use from KS2
understanding of how to apply through to KS5 and beyond
technology to learning and
teaching
4. Moodle VLE: www.schoolanywhere.co.uk
Did you know?
Moodle is widely used by businesses, primary
schools, secondary schools and universities
Content Moodle services
As standard our primary school We can offer the following services to schools:
Moodles come with a number
of subject driven PowerPoints to
aid in a teacher’s delivery of the
Branding
We design your Moodle with your school colours and logo
curriculum. All of these curriculum
so that your learning platform is instantly recognisable to
PowerPoints can be downloaded
pupils and teachers. Our designers also ensure that your
easily and used as a resource
Moodle learning platform is user and child - friendly.
in the classroom. We also have
strong partnerships with a number
of high quality e-learning resource Hosting
providers, allowing us to offer you Our servers are backed up, secure and stable which
a large selection of e-learning titles guarantees that there is no downtime for your Moodle site.
for your Moodle. This means it can be used 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
We also offer you the opportunity Support
to combine any of the e-learning We offer technical support over the phone and via email so
content we sell to create custom, that your users and administrators can successfully maintain
discounted e-learning bundles for the smooth running of your Moodle learning platform.
your school.
Training
All our training sessions are designed to provide you with
the skills and knowledge to optimise Moodle for your school.
Our training sessions are delivered in two different formats:
• On site, hands-on, group teacher training sessions
• One to one remote training sessions
Course Layout Management
We work alongside your teaching staff to structure your
Moodle according to your needs. We can also add other
interesting elements to your Moodle site such as BBC
Newsround RSS feeds, Google search boxes, Wikipedia
and Clocks.
5. Get started with Moodle today: 0800 862 0131
Did you know?
Moodle is used in 211 different countries
In-School Moodle
We have two different Moodle solutions available; the ‘hosted’ and the
‘in-school’ Moodle.
The hosted Moodle is the entry-level option and involves SchoolAnywhere
managing the hosting of your school’s Moodle.
The in-School Moodle allows your VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) to be
hosted on a dedicated server at your school.
From our experience the in-school Moodle has been shown to give a number of
notable advantages, significantly:
Lower costs for ongoing web Reduced load on your internet
hosting and subscriptions connection
The entire system is backed Moodle integrates with internal
up and remotely managed by services, such as Active
experts Directory for single sign on
Should your internet Pages generally load 2-3 times
connection fail, Moodle will quicker
still be accessible
6. Moodle VLE: www.schoolanywhere.co.uk
Did you know?
Moodle can now be integrated with SIMS, allowing
online parental reporting
Moodle & MIS integration
Integrating your Moodle VLE with your Management Information System (MIS)
will not only significantly reduce the administrative duties of your staff but will also
enable you to present parents with up-to-date attendance data on their children,
improving parental reporting in your school.
Until now, transferring information from your MIS into Moodle was a manual
process. With Moodle and MIS integration software, this process is automated
meaning your MIS data is available in Moodle.
Why is parental reporting important?
Targets have been put in place by the Government for parental reporting in
schools, they are:
• Primary schools will provide parents with online reports by September 2012
• Secondary schools will provide parents with online reports by September 2010
Moodle and MIS integration provides a solution to these targets. By having your
Moodle VLE and your MIS integrated you can allow:
• Parents to view useful information on their children such as attendance data
• Teachers to take advantage of MIS data in the classroom and at home
• Students to see a selection of relevant MIS data within the VLE
SchoolAnywhere can integrate the following Management Information Systems
(MIS) with Moodle VLE:
• Capita SIMS.net
• CMIS
7. Get started with Moodle today: 0800 862 0131
Did you know?
Moodle is more actively developed than any
other virtual learning environment available
Case Study - King Edward VI
Grammar School, Lincolnshire
King Edward VI Grammar School had set long term goals in mind when
they decided Moodle was the most suitable learning platform for their
school. They wanted their Moodle to be fully resourced, reviewed
regularly, to contain effective links between assessment material and
extension/support work and effectively used for access to Wikis and
glossaries. They are now well on their way to achieving all their goals
with the help of Moodle.
When their Moodle was first delivered they also decided to get the
maximum amount of support available, tapering this off as their expertise
grew.
This high level of support has enabled them to become skilled
at populating their Moodle. They have now added lesson plans,
homework, web links, worksheets, audio visual and admin resources to
their Moodle.
King Edward VI Grammar School wished to host their own Moodle so
if the internet connection was slow or non-existent they could still have
access to their virtual learning environment.
This was achieved with the in-school Moodle solution, where their
Moodle was hosted on a dedicated server on their premises.
8. Moodle VLE: www.schoolanywhere.co.uk
Did you know?
Moodle is enjoyed by over 37 million users
Case Study - Lent Rise
School, Buckinghamshire
“ Webanywhere Moodle
platform is a versatile and Lent Rise School has been a WebAnywhere customer for the last 3
flexible way of providing years. The school is at the cutting edge of ICT, with pupils using their
home access to pupil, ICT skills in all areas of their work. ICT has even been used to establish
links with schools across Europe, Africa and Asia, contributing to the
parents and the school
pupils’ cultural awareness.
community.
Lent Rise’s Moodle (Lent Rise Learning World) is widely used by pupils,
Webanywhere are teachers, parents and governors. Parents can raise concerns via the
approachable and take into VLE and support their child’s learning through regularly checking their
consideration the needs of child’s targets. Community cohesion is an integral and fundamental
the individual school when part of the school’s vision, when Lent Rise came to choose the school’s
planned and setting up VLE it was imperative it provided the necessary tools to enable parental
Moodle systems. engagement.
Lent Rise is now determined to ensure these tools are used, once a
Pupils, parents and
place has been allocated to a pupil, all parents meet the headteacher
Governors all find Lent before their child starts school to discuss how the school and home can
Rise Learning World a “ work together to support learning.
valuable online resource.
During this meeting, parents are shown how the school uses ICT and
how it can be used within the home or after school to support pupil and
family learning. When the school first started to use Moodle only 20% of
parents had broadband access to the internet at home. Now, only 6%
Mrs J Watson do not.
Assistant Head, Lent Rise School
Recently Lent Rise School has decided to opt for Moodle and SIMS
integration to enhance their VLE. Integrating the two systems together
will enable Lent Rise to present parents with up-to-date attendance data
on their children and will significantly reduce the administrative duties of
the staff.
9. Get started with Moodle today: 0800 862 0131
Did you know?
Moodle has a large collection of installations,
currently totalling somewhere between 1.5
and 2 million unique modules
Case Study - Mount Grace
School, Hertfordshire
At Mount Grace School there are in excess of one thousand registered Moodle
users amongst the staff and students.
They have uploaded a large amount of third-party curricular content to their
Moodle, which allows students across Key Stages 4 and 5 to access this
content both at home and in school.
Through Moodle networking, Mount Grace have connected their Moodle to
that of another local school, Hertswood. The two schools are thus able to share
online materials and resources, effectively doubling the usefulness of their virtual
learning platforms.
Having online resources across subjects gives students something to refer to
when completing homework assignments or writing coursework.
Students can also leave feedback for staff- perhaps to request the type of
content they’d like to see added or to suggest ways in which the Moodle
experience could be improved.
Teachers can use the Moodle to set homework tasks which can then be
completed by the students, allowing the teacher to review at a glance all the
work completed online.
Staff from Mount Grace school received in-school training on using Moodle from
one of SchoolAnywhere’s expert trainers.
Two of their staff also joined up with a member of staff from Hertswood to visit
our offices for an in-depth day’s training on the administration of Moodle.