[Moodle] WIKI - Staff ICT AUDIT and Professional Development

Tue Apr 22 10:55:07 EST 2008

Hi All,

When we attempted to tackle the problem last year we tried a couple of
solutions. Moodle was seen as the ideal container for Student Learning
Goals (SLG) because...

    * students knew how to login and access Moodle (well, most of them.
Anyway it was a good method of making sure all could log in affectively)
    * Moodle has the facility to group students so homegroup teachers
couuld easily identify their bunch of students for editing and feedback
purposes
    * By setting up a class called Student Learning Goals, students had
an easy way of loacting their SLG's. Also support materials,
instructions etc would also be here for both students and teachers.
    * Using phpMyAdmin would allow me to pull out the comments from
Moodle and put them in a format so that they could be bulk uploaded into
Markbook.

Initially we tried to use the forum module but anyone who has tried this
will know that the comments need to be copied and pasted by the
homegroup teacher from the journal to Markbook, If the comments from the
journal are extracted from the the Moodle database then the html tags
have to be stripped from the text. I found this to be so time consuming
that this method was rejected.

The next method we tried was to use the questionnaire module which I
installed into Moodle. This solved the problem of tags as it only
required a text entry. It seemed to work well initially. Three input
boxes were created for students to record their goals and staff could go
to their grouped students to check their goals. As we were doing this
for years 7 to 10 the task was quite a handful. My method of managing
the goals was to use phpMyAdmin to down load all the necessary tables
from the Moodle database and use Access to develop all reports to keep
track of everything. Also it would eventually be possible to to a bulk
upload of SLG's into Markbook instead of individually cutting and
pasting.

Then when everything was going well ....

    * we started having problems with the questionnaire module in that
some students would type in their goals but they would not save. There
was no apparent reason for this as the problem occurred
indiscriminately. Eventually we were overwhelmed by this.

    * Staff were slow to monitor SLG's and I had to use Access to print
special home group reports.  They were reluctant to go to Moodle to
check - I guess this is a common issue with staff and technology. This
made the whole process very time consuming and difficult to manage.
    * we eventually abandoned the whole thing and had a good think about
how we might better manage SLG's

Anyway to cut a long and painful story short we now get students to
write up their goals in their diaries and homegroup teachers validate
these for their reports. Much simpler solution.

I still think the Moodle solution is good because it groups students
really well. What we need is some specific module which will manage the
SLG specifically for our needs and not a hacked solution like the one I
tried. Probably the best solution would be a specifically written module
written by Markbook which would allow students to input their comments
directly into Markbook over the network.

Has anyone else got any ideas?

Phil Brown
Wellington SC

-----Original Message-----
From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Kevork Krozian
Sent: Tuesday, 19 February 2008 12:02 PM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Cc: moodle at edulists.com.au
Subject: [Moodle] WIKI - Staff ICT AUDIT and Professional Development

Hi Folks,

 Latching on this idea of a staff audit, I have been trying to prepare a
year long PD program for the staff at my school.
But, what to teach them, when and to what depth ?
  We are investing heavily in Moodle PD as well and this is building
along nicely.

 So, to assist us all to build the best package I need your input.  

 I have set up a WIKI at the edulists site www.edulists.com.au and
invite all teachers who wish to contribute to make their suggestions .

 You will need to register to contribute and in the spirit of wikis
there are no restrictions on anyone joining.

Take Care

Kevork Krozian
IT Manager , Forest Hill College
k.krozian at fhc.vic.edu.au
http://www.fhc.vic.edu.au
Mobile: 0419 356 034

>>> "WEIR Andrew" <andrew.weir at thomascarr.vic.edu.au> 19/02/2008 10:17
am >>>
I am at a catholic school. not government can't use the epotential
survey

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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au 
[mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of SAMANTHA MITCHELL
Sent: Tuesday, 19 February 2008 9:35 AM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: RE: [Year 12 IT Apps] OT-- Staffr ICT AUDIT

Have any of you done the ePotential survey with your staff? We did in
Term 4 last year, to say it is time consuming is an understatement! I'd
be interested to know how useful others found it.

Samantha Mitchell
Learning Technologies Manager
Mildura Senior College

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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Robyn Dunn
Sent: Tue 19/02/2008 9:10 AM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] OT-- Staffr ICT AUDIT

epotential survey?

Ms Robyn Dunn
Director of elearning
Camberwell High School
email: du at camhigh.vic.edu.au 
phone: 98360555
fax: 98360194
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>>> "WEIR Andrew" <andrew.weir at thomascarr.vic.edu.au> 18/02/2008 4:03 pm
>>>
Dear all,
Apologies for the off topic post but I needed to ask the question.
In the past there as been mention of staff ICT audit tools, Can anybody
remember what they were.
I am really looking for an option we can run internally on either as a
moodle questionnaire or a php page.
Want to try and get a picture of ICT skills so that we can target the
training.

Regards

Andrew

Andrew Weir

Information Technology Co-ordinator

Thomas Carr College

35 Thomas Carr Drive,

Tarneit, VIC 3029

(P) (03) 9748-4466

(F) (03) 9748 4388

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