When a student / member of staff logs into the present Moodle system they are presented with a ‘My Courses’ list. This list is not sourced from within the Moodle system at all. In fact we have, over the years, created a separate web service which collates this course list from a variety of sources. This list intercepts the internal course list in Moodle and replaces it with our own list. When Moodle upgrades are carried out this code has…
LearnNet WordPress Blogs PREVIOUS ePortfolio set up (20/21) The current ePortfolio system has been used since the days of the ISLE project (2007). A separate WordPress installation is created for each student by course group or individually. Tutors are then added to the sites as required. Currently students have administrative rights to their own blog sites where tutors have contribution rights. The rights will remain the same. Students who require an ePortfolio are provided with their own WordPress installation with…
Cohorts are collections of users in the Moodle system. The obvious cohorts are “all students”, “all staff”, “class reps” and perhaps other generic cohorts. This will allow enrolment of all students on global courses e.g. induction. For course enrolment the system we aim to use is much simpler than the current unit based enrolment method. The principal of the new structure is that if a student is enrolled on a course e.g. DACC, they will be added to the “All…
PROPOSED MOODLE SITE STRUCTURE Objective The new LearnNet Moodle version 3.9 is being laid out by Curriculum Area and Course (programme) rather than the old unit based method. We are moving away from the current, totally automated approach as this has caused confusion and led to the implementation of countless workarounds. Detailed information about the why the current unit based approach is difficult to maintain can be found here. Solution The proposed structure is as follows. All courses are contained…
For information about the 2020/1 proposed course layout please read this blog post. At the moment we create a Moodle “course” for every taught unit. This leads to thousands of Moodle “courses” being created which may or may not be used. Within each unit we create Moodle “groups” which separate students into separate “instances” of their course. An example: DACC (HND Accounting). The following units would be created automatically: F7J735: Business Culture and Strategy F82H35: Management Accounting for Planning and…