Hi,
will you be attending the first Scottish Moodle User Group (yes, a.k.a. SMUG) meeting on the 28th being organised by the two JISC Regional Support Centres? I think that would be a great opportunity to meet current Moodle users and those like yourself still thinking about adoption in the local area.
You can read the announcement on SMUG@jiscmail.ac.uk (though you probably need to register/log in and possibly then search as that URL contains my email address for some odd reason).
An interesting piece examing the potential switch to Moodle of a New Zealand IT lecturer. It's a fairly nuanced piece, so I'd suggest reading it all as a skim read may leave you with the wrong impression:
Let's Get Ready to Moodle
Steve Corich
Abstract
The growth of elearning has been described as explosive, unprecedented, and above all, disruptive. The e-learning movement is gaining momentum and for teachers of Information Technology and Management pressure to get courses online is increasing. The majority of early e-learning adopters in New Zealand decided to adopt mature learning management systems (LMS) like Blackboard and WebCT. More recently a number of tertiary institutions have been looking to the open source community to provide a less expensive and hopefully equally functional e-learning support system. Internationally, and particularly within New Zealand, there are a growing number of institutions looking towards Moodle, an open source LMS built using PHP and MySQL.
This paper investigates Moodle from the viewpoint of an IT lecturer who has published courses on Blackboard for several years and who is facing the distinct possibility of having to migrate to Moodle in the near future. The paper compares the functionality of the two systems and examines issues such as materials migration, assessment, collaboration tools and activity reporting.
Read the full article in the Bulletin of Applied Computing and Information Technology
Hi Mario,
do you know that you can turn off the HTML editor for yourself alone by changing a setting in your user profile? It is also possible for a Moodle administrator to switch off the HTML editor for all users, which may help prevent them from accidentally creating inaccessible content in Moodle (we do this at our university).
Are you finding some particular aspect of Moodle inaccessible, or incompatible with an accessibility tool you use? I ask because various people have mentioned specific areas that were causing problems for them but I've never heard anyone complain that Moodle "lacks completely every bit of Web Accessibility". Are you using an older version of Moodle perhaps?
Ah, well spotted! (though, as it turns out it doesn't seem to work in unix either, at least for me).