[Moodle] time allowance

[anton]

Thanks Allan, that is very helpful and I can approach the bosses here 
with a bit of background now.  They are not allowing anytime at all and 
being a newby to this its going to be hard.
I have booked into the Oodles of Moodle but I feel I am going to need 
all the help I can get.
:)
Anton


Allan Barnes wrote:
> Hi Anton
>
> What you are asking is how long is a piece of string.
>
> To set up Moodle is pretty easy - probably takes about a day at most. It
> also depends on where Moodle will be hosted.
>
> Once it is set up it then needs to be formatted to look like what you want
> it to look like, which might take a couple of days.
>
> Once that is done, it then needs to be populated with information. Who will
> add the information to Moodle? You or the teacher? Adding the information is
> not hard but it is time consuming. It uses PHP, but the information can be
> cut and pasted from Word, so it depends on how much information you are
> adding to it, and what sort of assessment you want to use it for, such as
> true and false questions, or short answers, or just for students to upload
> their projects, etc.
>
> There is also the task of adding students to Moodle. This can be done in
> bulk but it obviously has to be in the right format. Adding teachers as
> administrators or just as guests, etc.
>
> Once it is set up it might take 1/2 a day a week to look after, or it might
> take 1 or 2 days a week, it just depends on how much you are doing and how
> much other teachers with the courses on Moodle will be doing.
>
>    
> I have set up about 9 courses on Moodle. We have about 30 active users at
> the moment. There were some teething problems but it seems to work well now.
>
> There are also lots of add ons that you can add to assist, but obviously
> these can be added over time.
>
> I have found it to be good but our server is old and our Internet is slow so
> I am about to upgrade to speed it up. I have found that movies run very
> slowly and take about 90 seconds to actually load.
>
> This is my experience, others will obviously find it different.
>
> You can have a look at the site on www.aiet.edu.au if you want. I can also
> add you as a student to one of the courses if you want to have a look
> around.
>
>
>
> Kind regards
>  
> Allan Barnes, CEO
> Australian Institute of Education and Training
> P.O. Box 171
> Brunswick West 3055
> Ph: (03) 9387 2051
> FAX: (03) 9387 3470
> Mobile: 0409 428 221
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On Behalf Of Anton Yoxon
> Sent: Thursday, 18 June 2009 8:50 AM
> To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
> Subject: [Moodle] time allowance
>
> Hi everyone, the school I am at wants to introduce Moodle which will be 
> great, but they are placing it on me to be the Moodle coordinator.  
> Could people please let me know of what I am to expect and especially of 
> how much time should be allowed for this.
> Thanks everyone.
> Regards
> :)
> Anton Yoxon
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