Muddled about Moodle

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Muddled about Moodle?

• The Maynooth experience

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Background

• Experience of 3 VLEs
• Piloted 2 Commercial Opensource
• Chose Moodle and have university commitment
• Dedicated staff in place

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Library Involvement

• Evaluators Educators
• Raise awareness of Library within the University
• Allows branding of library resources
• Integrate library activities into wider
  university activities
• Integrate e-learning into existing university and
  library activities

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Library Challenges

• Mostly at pilot stage

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Statistics

• The total number of users is 4744
• Peaked at 1500 logins per day from students with
  900 distinct logins
• Average use is once or twice per week
• 177 teachers assigned to 445 courses

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Usage

• Not yet using all sophisticated features
• Less use of communication/assessment tools
• Service areas making use of it
• Library area in progress
• Must be realistic

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In summary

• Commitment from staff students
• Involvement of many areas including the Library
• Early involvement is best
• Delaney, Mary, 2005, MyVLE at Maynooth
  e-learning and the Library in SCONUL Focus Number
  34, Spring.