Elective Learning Plans in Moodle?

Elective Learning Plans in Moodle?

by Fay Scott -
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Hello Moodlers,

Our company is considering using Moodle for a certification program we host online. We initially tried Geolearning but found their limited customization was a dealbreaker for us. These are our needs:

  • Learning Plan tracking: We have 6 required courses and 4 elective courses (student gets to choose from list). We need a way for them to easily track how many courses they have left in each category: required and elective
  • Branding Customization: Moodle is obviously the best LMS for this - no problem there
  • Elective Courses: we want our elective courses to be in a library of sorts in which they can be categorized by topic and browsed
  • Usability: we want our users to be able to use the LMS without extra training or complicated instructions
  • Exporting already existing users into LMS
I would really appreciate your feedback - it will make this decision much easier to hear from users who have first hand experience building their LMS on Moodle.

-Fay


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Re: Elective Learning Plans in Moodle?

by Tim Hunt -
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1. This sort of thing is currently being specified for implementation in Moodle 2.0 Development:Progress_tracking. I have not read that in detail yet, so I don't know if it meets your particular requirements. (Now would be a good time to speak up if not.) -

Please don't ask when Moodle 2.0 will be finished wink If you want to start now, assume you will be using 1.9 and will have to upgrade later. Therefore, the answer for this is that currently Moodle only has limited facilities for tracking this sort of information. You will probably have to think about doing it outside Moodle for a while. You can export the gradebook from each course as a spreadsheet (or XML, or ...) to get the raw data to work with.

2. Yes.

3. Courses can be categorised into hierarchical categories.

4. For students mostly pretty easy to use. Most of the bits of the interface that we know are tricky, and we really need to improve when we get time, affect teachers setting up courses, and even so it is not really difficult to use, it is just that some of the pages of options are a bit daunting because there are a lot of options you can control.

5. Yes. The words you need to search for in the documentation are 'Authentication' and 'Enrolment' plugins / methods.
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