Term Begins

The 2012/13 Academic Term has started for all three College partners. What have we been doing during the summer break to get the project underway?   We have:

1. Set up and tested our Moodle Hub between two of the partners, Anniesland and Cardonald;

2. We have all upgraded to Moodle 2.2.3.

3. We tested a number of alternative working methodologies for creating learning materials and settled on a combination of:

For intial learning materials

• Producing simple videos or powerpoints
• Repackaging these with Camtasia as MP4 or M4V files

For learning summaries

• Using Moodle webpages

For Quizzes

• Creating quizzes on html templates
• Importing them into Moodle quizzes via Respondus

4. We have created a number of sample learning materials which are now available through the Anniesland Moodle, under the Moodle2Go heading.

5. We have created a Moodle2Go logo.

6. We have ordered the software needed by the various College partners.

7. We have ordered 3 Google Nexus tablets as the test devices for materials via the Android operating system.

The Moodle2Go Project

Moodle2Go is a joint project between Cardonald College, Anniesland College and Langside College to develop and test mobile learning materials which will be distributed through a Moodle Hub. The materials will be configured to be usuable by students on a range of mobile devices and will cover three areas of the curriculum - Complementary Therapies, Catering and Computing.

The project is funded at £15k by the JISC Advance FE and Skills – Development and Resources Programme, and will last until December 2012.