E-Learning: Moodle 1

Well this week at work I have been talking to Clare who works with elearning things and Sandra at one of our other sites, and it has become pretty evident that our Learning Resources Centre Moodle page is in need of a good going over.

For those of you who do not know what moodle is, it is a virtual learning environment where you can create course areas where tutors can upload course information and resources. It is also used at the college I work at to create a base page for all LRC resources and information.

So having spoken to Clare and Sandra I have been coming up with some ideas for the moodle page for the site that I am based at. First of all I am going to have a look at the other three LRC moodle pages in order to get an idea of what they are like. I am then going to style my moodle page so that it is visually the same, with similar resources and a similar feel. I think this would help us brand all the LRC's better and give the students a better expereince.

To be honest though the LRC moodle page for my site is a bit rubbish at the minute, I dont think it looks the best and the resources are not uptodate. Hopefully with some work this will change and it will become useful! A visit to Sandra on Thursday/Friday last week gave me the chance to discuss the moodle LRC pages with her, so I should now have access to the resources that are on Sandra's moodle page. This week will be a busy week with training and such, but I am hoping to have enough spare time to get my hands on moodle and have a play about with it.

First off I will be styling our LRC page to look like the others to create better LRC branding. After that I will try and add some resources and try to tidy it up a bit, so expect future moodle posts and maybe some pictures!