Just Considering Moodle

Just Considering Moodle

av Jason Mills -
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Hey all, I'm new to the site and my agency is considering usig Moodle as our Learning Management System. 

Since I'm a bit slow with development work (being a non-techie), I wanted to know how Course work gets into Moodle.  Specifically, does Moodle let users (teachers, et al) create SCORM compliant courses in another software package and add them to the system?

I hope this makes sense.  I'm just really beginning my search and didn't find much in the documentation which answered my question.

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Re: Just Considering Moodle

av Mary Cooch -
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It does let them create SCORM stuff in another package and import into Moodle but it does much more than that as it enables them to create activities directly within Moodle without the need to make elsewhere and import in - such as self-marking activties, collaborative activities such as forums/wikis and assignments whereby students send in work to be marked and stored online by their teacher. You can alsomake your courses interesting by using multimedia - sound, vision, images, rather than just pages of boring text (well, boring to some people anyway!)
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Re: Just Considering Moodle

av Jason Mills -

When I was on the demo site, I noticed you could add the modules.  Since our focus wouldn't be in the educational field per se, I didn't know if Moodle would meet our needs. 

From what you're saying, it sounds as if I would have all that I need to create the courses in Moodle without using the external software package.   

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Re: Just Considering Moodle

av Mary Cooch -
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Jason - yes; I am sure you could create the courses in Moodl without needing to use any external software packages. However -you say you aren't in the educational field per se but would be creating courses? What kind of courses then? Training courses? CPD? Moodle can do all those!
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Re: Just Considering Moodle

av Sylvia Arzamendi-Foster -
What do you mean by SCORM stuff? Thanks
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Re: Just Considering Moodle

av Jason Mills -

SCORM is an industry standard in e-Learning.  I'm not EXACTLY sure what it entails, but my higher-ups insist that whatever LMS we go with supports SCORM. 

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Re: Just Considering Moodle

av E. L. Cooper -

Fully half of the higherups in educational setting are in the same position as you Jason. Basically *IMHO they think that by creating courses in scorm they will not have to learn to use the delivery system. They are mistaken.

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Re: Just Considering Moodle

av ben reynolds -
I dunno, E.L. I think they're looking at SCORM as a way to get their content out when they leave an l.m.s. Rather than have it, like content in e-college, all tied up in proprietary, escape-unfriendly situations.

We used some SCORM & IMS tools to get our content out of WebCT 4.1, but it didn't very satisfactorily move into Moodle. In the end, we got content in the old fashioned way: copy & paste and build new html pages.
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Re: Just Considering Moodle

av Jason Mills -

Ben,

That's exactly right.  We're looking for flexibility in how we provid our courses. 

We'd like to use a tool to build SCORM compliant courses (like Toolbook) that we can add to Moodle.  If the angency I work for finds a solution they think is better, we'd like to be able to use the same files for both systems without doing any extra work.

Jason

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Re: Just Considering Moodle

av Mark Drechsler -
Hi Jason,

Moodle can create resources without the need for any other software, but the experience I've had with corporate training is that there tends to be an expectation that training materials will be flash-based content with lots of animations and eye-candy, and this is something that Moodle definitely won't do by itself. This is where specific content tools like (for example) the Articulate suite can be used to create the content and then upload that content into Moodle.

In summary - Moodle can create content, but this will really depend on what the expectations of your management group are in terms of what 'content' means to them - get that picture clear and then you can assess whether Moodle's inbuilt tools are good enough for what you need.

Hope this helps,

Mark.
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