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The document discusses the Open University's adoption and development of Moodle as its virtual learning environment. Some key points: - The OU decided to adopt Moodle in July 2005 and began piloting it in May 2006 before a full launch in February 2007. - Since adoption, the OU has heavily customized Moodle through in-house developments and contributions to the Moodle community. These include modules for forums, blogs, wikis and more. - Moodle now supports over 600,000 users at the OU through a large-scale infrastructure of web servers, databases and storage. - The OU follows a quarterly release cycle to sync with core Moodle updates while gathering requirements for
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Moodle at the ou moodle moot 2010
- 1. Moodle at the OU Ross Mackenzie The Open University
- 3. Before Moodle May 2005 Major review of OU learning and teaching systems
- 4. Before Moodle May 2005 Major review of OU learning and teaching systems
- 5. The Big Decision 6 th July 2005 A momentous day for Britain The most fantastic opportunity to do everything we ever dreamed of
- 6. The Big Decision 6 th July 2005 A momentous day for Britain Tony Blair The most fantastic opportunity to do everything we ever dreamed of Seb Coe
- 7. The Big Decision 6 th July 2005 A momentous day for Britain Tony Blair The most fantastic opportunity to do everything we ever dreamed of Seb Coe
- 8. The Big Decision 6 th July 2005 Also the day when the OU decided we could go with Moodle it did lots of what we needed we could make it do what it didnt it would scale to our traffic levels
- 9. Initial Plans Formal decision in November 2005 Initial (pilot scale) launch in May 2006 Full launch in February 2007 Follow-up release in February 2008 All developments would be released back to the Moodle community
- 10. Initial Plans Formal decision in November 2005 Initial (pilot scale) launch in May 2006 Full launch in February 2007 Follow-up release in February 2008 All developments would be released back to the Moodle community
- 11. Initial Plans Formal decision in November 2005 Initial (pilot scale) launch in May 2006 Full launch in February 2007 Follow-up release in February 2008 All developments would be released back to the Moodle community
- 12. Roadmap 1
- 13. OU - Moodle.org developments OU funded/part-funded several major developments Roles & Permissions (in 1.7) Accessibility improvements (in 1.8) Gradebook (in 1.9) In each case we went live with beta releases
- 14. OU In-house Developments ForumNG OU Blog OU Wiki ResourcePage Study calendar course format Shared activities system Newfeed MyStuff Dataplus And more Most available via Moodle contrib, others elsewhere
- 15. Quiz developments Quiz Module development and maintenance OpenMark http:// www.open.ac.uk/openmarkexamples / http://openmark.dev.java.net/
- 16. Other stuff Elluminate Bridged link between Moodle and Elluminate Content Authoring Structured Content XML-based authoring via Microsoft Word
- 17. Changes to Moodle 1.x In addition to commissioned developments and local modules/blocks In addition to changes to core Localisations 2000 changes to standard Moodle remade each time we sync with a new Moodle release
- 18. OU Development Model Parallel Development Model Quarterly releases re-sync with stable Moodle release once/quarter Three month development period / two month (two stage) test period ahead of each release
- 19. Requirements Gathering Development Functional Testing Pre-release Testing In Service
- 20. Craigellachie Fettercairn Knockando We Are Here
- 21. Local OU releases Annual/six-monthly/fourth-monthly Quarterly limited changes between releases regular requirements gathering regular re-prioritisation
- 22. What have we learnt so far Dont go live with beta releases Resist the temptation Release early / release often Annual cycles dont cut it / Rolling releases hard to test Your VLE is never finished Theres always more to do
- 23. What have we learnt so far Keep soliciting requirements People will keep coming up with good ideas Never underestimate the traffic Theres always another bottle neck Keep evangelising Sell, sell and sell again
- 24. Where are we Now ?
- 25. Moodle at Scale 5330 sites on main VLE, 579 currently live 648,000 users in database, 168,000 currently active In 24h period 35,000 - 50,000 unique users Concurrency? maybe 2,000 2,500
- 26. OU Moodle Architecture Three layer architecture Red Hat-based 5 webservers 4 load-balanced serving users, 1 running cron Database cluster postgreSQL 8.3 NFS cluster Storage Area Network
- 27. Webservers Database servers File servers Storage Area Network
- 28. Multiple Systems Live Systems Acceptance Test near mirror of Live Technical Testing system replica of development Development systems one (or more) for each developer
- 29. Multiple Systems Live Systems Acceptance Test near mirror of Live Technical Testing system replica of development Development systems one (or more) for each developer
- 30. People Development Team Support Team Testing Team Evangelists
- 31. Current Developments Incremental Developments Collaborative Tools (ForumNG, OUBlog) Assessment (new quiz engine) Structured Content (richer learning material) Reporting systems Working with Google Apps for Education Associate Lecturer Dashboard
- 32. Where Next ?
- 33. Moodle 2
- 34. Moodle 2 Raises lots of questions Weve already working on elements of Moodle 2 Conditional Activities Quiz Engine (maybe Moodle 2.1?) Were not making any decisions until beta, and (this time) not doing anything until there is a stable release
- 35. Moodle 2 Were going to be working on migrating the modules weve developed (dont yet know scale of problem) We will be looking at the cost of remaking localisations Ive committed to understanding the costs of moving to Moodle 2 by end of June (beta permitting - )
- 36. Moodle 2 options Ignore it stick with Moodle 1.9 and do our own thing Adopt it remaking our localisations Likely to be expensive Adopt it but accept many fewer localisations Do more the Moodle way / Less the OU way
- 37. OU Learning and Teaching Systems Roadmap
- 38. Further out Life in the Clouds Already exploring Google Apps Initial light integration (SSO) Later tighter integration (groupings level) Cloud Hosting more likely using e.g. Amazon EC2/S3 than full external hosting.
- 39. OU at the MoodleMoot Sam Marshall Tim Hunt Jason Platts Anthony Forth Phil Butcher Tim Lowe
- 40. Any Questions? Ross Mackenzie [email_address]