I'm sorry if this isn't the correct forum for this question, but I wasn't sure where to post.
My small community college is adopting Moodle for the fall. Here's my question:
We are piloting a new academic advising program for students taking developmental courses for the Fall 2010 semester. We'd like to be able to gather and share information and data among academic advisors, track student data across a variety of variables, allow for student input (survey, text), and potentially generate results, reports, and data. Some of the important things we'd like to do electronically would involve student intake (fields for information; buttons/check boxes for variable such as semester, credits, financial aid, etc.; drop-downs (degree/certificate program); student surveys; tracking and course planning/registration; logs including advisor notes, referrals, recommendations.
We'd like to know if it would be feasible to set up a Moodle course for these purposes. If so, how might it work, and would we be able to maintain appropriate confidentiality this way? Would Moodle's database module be useful here? Does anyone know of institutions using Moodle for similar purposes?
Kindly direct me to the appropriate forum. Thank you!
Kathy Kessler
Berkshire Community College
Pittsfield, MA 01201
kkessler@berkshirecc.edu
There is the Moodle Notes feature for handling this in a basic way.
It might also be worth looking in the modules and plugins database, to see what is available on these lines.
It might also be worth looking in the modules and plugins database, to see what is available on these lines.
Hi Kathy,
Have you made any progress on this? We have a similar need on our campus. We looked at Starfish CONNECT + Starfish EARLY ALERT, but they're not integrated with Moodle. SunGard (we're a Banner campus) acquired Course Signals, but again, no Moodle integration. Remote-Learner and Moodlerooms have solutions that provide some of the relevant features, but they're not meant for advising, so they probably won't meet all our needs.
In many cases, this isn't really viewed as an LMS function. Efforts are made to integrate the advising tool with the LMS, but the functionality isn't native to the LMS. That's not to say it can't be done in Moodle - it's just the approach I see others taking.
Some thoughts from the Moodle perspective:
- Student wikis are only visible to the student and teacher/advisor
- Any hidden module is only visible to the teacher/advisor
- Form module - for input fields
- Profile fields data mapping and locking - for fields from an external source
Hope this helps.