Things are progressing reasonably well with Moodle at the moment. The pilot modules appear to have gone without too much of a hitch - a small evaluation is in the planning.
We have also begun our wider university staff development programme and feedback so far has been generally positive. Hopefully that will continue and by September everyone should be in a healthy position for adoption.
Moodle integration with other data sources is the next big milestone in the project plan. This will mean that the system will generate the module spaces which people have been requesting using the MoodleModules page. The process will also handle staff and student enrolment on the moodle modules, via LDAP. Daniel has developed a nice Camtasia Video to support this process.
We experienced some issues with the upgrade routine from Toodle > Moodle, which resulted in some course formats disappearing and some other plugins like the multiple files upload. Jim seems to be on top of this now.
We decided as a team that we would put a freeze on Moodle from August 1st, to ensure that we are all working with a stable and reliable system for September. The current service will also be getting moved over to a new infrastructure sometime soon, so we can be assured that the data and site structure are regularly backed up.
We've decided to remove the PDF online assignment tool from Moodle for several reasons, one of which is that the functionality is largely duplicated using Turnitin's Grademark tool.
A few other blocks that we experimented with have also been identified for removal, those being the mentees and the feedback blocks.
Finally, Blayn is working on the templates for Moodle and trying to get feedback from key people so that we can use it as a basis for producing themes for all faculties and some specific programmes.
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