The first "official" Moodle training took place on December 11th. Three faculty attended and spent time exploring the Moodle tools and preparing their spring 2009 Blackboard course for single sign-on to Moodle. Moodle Open Lab is scheduled for January 15th.
Participating faculty on the Moodle Pilot are enrolled in the Moodle Pilot Forum where they will experience the LMS from a student perspective and have easy access to training and documentation materials. More updates as conversations take place!
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Moodle pilot course shells created
All requested Moodle pilot course shells have been created. Each instructor is given one developmental course shell and one pilot course shell. Students will be enrolled to the pilot course shell in the 2nd week of Jan 2009.
p.s. All courses are created manually. Batch loading process and Peoplesoft integration is being developed.
p.s. All courses are created manually. Batch loading process and Peoplesoft integration is being developed.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Moodle'fied Mahara
Mahara has been installed and integrated with Moodle pilot for SSO. It is very simple to set up by following the document at:
https://eduforge.org/docman/view.php/176/3200/Mahoodle.pdf
This concludes the LMS Pilot - ePortfolio integration for both Sakai and Moodle.
https://eduforge.org/docman/view.php/176/3200/Mahoodle.pdf
This concludes the LMS Pilot - ePortfolio integration for both Sakai and Moodle.
Monday, December 8, 2008
And -- ePortfolio
A quick follow up:
With our on-going efforts on the LMS pilots, there are ePortfolio tools available for both Moodle and Sakai. Moodle has an integrable ePortfolio tool called Mahara (http://www.mahara.org). Mahara is a 'very Web 2.0 implementation' for providing ePortfolio and Social Networking features with user-centered focus. Sakai Project comes with OSPortfolio (Open Source Portfolio - http://www.osportfolio.org/) that is very powerful (aka. complicated) with their Learning Matrix and comprehensives Assessment implementation. One of our 'technology' goals is to evaluate the two open source LMS/eP solutions with Blackboard/ePortfolio system ('IF' Bb-NG is proven to be section 508 compliant :-) ). Also, one of our main criteria is to carefully evaluate any ePortfolio solutions with the adoption of IMS ePortfolio standard (http://www.imsglobal.org/ep/) to ensure content interoperability for life-long learning; so, the ePortfolios are not depending on any particular application. All Mahara, OSPortfiolio, and Blackboard eP are or being implemented with IMS eP standard in mind! Another exciting project related to this is our ICS (Instructional Content System). ICS will allow users (students and faculty) to directly publish digital content directly to the LMS/eP system, and also, with the potential, to Facebook and iGoogle for peer reviews or team projects by taking advantage of their Social Network technologies.
With our on-going efforts on the LMS pilots, there are ePortfolio tools available for both Moodle and Sakai. Moodle has an integrable ePortfolio tool called Mahara (http://www.mahara.org). Mahara is a 'very Web 2.0 implementation' for providing ePortfolio and Social Networking features with user-centered focus. Sakai Project comes with OSPortfolio (Open Source Portfolio - http://www.osportfolio.org/) that is very powerful (aka. complicated) with their Learning Matrix and comprehensives Assessment implementation. One of our 'technology' goals is to evaluate the two open source LMS/eP solutions with Blackboard/ePortfolio system ('IF' Bb-NG is proven to be section 508 compliant :-) ). Also, one of our main criteria is to carefully evaluate any ePortfolio solutions with the adoption of IMS ePortfolio standard (http://www.imsglobal.org/ep/) to ensure content interoperability for life-long learning; so, the ePortfolios are not depending on any particular application. All Mahara, OSPortfiolio, and Blackboard eP are or being implemented with IMS eP standard in mind! Another exciting project related to this is our ICS (Instructional Content System). ICS will allow users (students and faculty) to directly publish digital content directly to the LMS/eP system, and also, with the potential, to Facebook and iGoogle for peer reviews or team projects by taking advantage of their Social Network technologies.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Sakai Pilot Site is up and running
Sakai Pilot site is now up and running. It is version 2.5.x complied with both core and provisional tools (see http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/DOC/Tool+List+(2.5) ) as well as two additional OSS tools: jForum and Melete from http://etudesproject.org/ .
It is integrated with Fresno LDAP authentication through CAS. The theme is pending to be updated as soon as the initial QA is completed this week.
You will find the site at: http://sakaipilot.tlt.csufresno.edu/
Max
It is integrated with Fresno LDAP authentication through CAS. The theme is pending to be updated as soon as the initial QA is completed this week.
You will find the site at: http://sakaipilot.tlt.csufresno.edu/
Max
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