1. Cardonald College Anniesland College Langside College
Moodle2Go
Cardonald College
Anniesland College
Langside College

2. Aim of Project
Aim of project – to produce mobile learning materials for three curriculum areas, to be distributed via a Moodle Hub – hub being a network of two or more Moodle instances
Curriculum areas are
Complementary Therapies
Catering
Computing

3. Mobile Devices Conducting Survey of student devices
Key devices we assume are:
Ipods
Ipads
Smartphones
Android devices with small screens
Android tablets

4. Format of Materials
Initial video
Key points list
Self-test questions

5. 1. Initial Video Content
Handheld digital video recorders, home-made look
1 – 2 minute clips, maximum of 2 minutes
Looked at Camtasia and Captivate
Captivate (Version 6) sophisticated but outputs as Flash

6. 1. Initial Video Content
Camtasia (Versions 7 or 8) outputs in wider range of formats with preset sizes:
Web – MPEG-4 (MP4) video
Ipad – ditto
IPhone/IPod – M4V
Allows us to add subtitles, captions etc.
Tested movies in Moodle. Setting important.
Embed was not a good choice for Android.
Download seems to be best choice – forces to play in player on machine
Quality in test materials seems good
Alternatives considered included Softchalk

7. 2. Key Facts
Tried simply creating a web page in Moodle – bulleted list, worked well and displayed well on mobile devices
Had considered HTML/Flash authoring softwares, but key is to keep this replicable

8. 3. Quizzes
Decided to go with the Moodle Quiz Engine – combined with Respondus
Looked at Wirenode (but pay now), and also Captivate and Camtasia
Respondus gets round complexity of Moodle quiz engine. Also allows lecturer to type questions on template
Tested Moodle quizzes on mobile devices and found they presented well
Realised better to turn off Flagging option on Moodle quizzes for mobile presentation
Allows tutor to check – reporting

9. Workflow The lecturer shoots video or is helped
We edit and produce video
Lecturer creates bullet list of key facts as Word doc – we add these to materials as html page
Lecturer submits self-assessment questions as Word templates in Respondus format, we upload these

10. Moodle Hub Tested Anniesland Cardonald, yet to test between 3 colleges
We have synchronised our versions of Moodle – 2.2.3
Hub involves networking settings within Moodle, and sending public key.
Yet to test fully

11. Where are We ? Need to survey own students Working on videos
Do testing on devices
Then test with students and evaluate
Produce guides and good practice materials
Have a blog at

12. Underlying Principles
Simplicity of production
Snippets of materials and self-testing
Range of devices
Replicable
Using Moodle Hub

13. Main Contacts John Edmonstone Kevan Scade Iain Shaw
Kevan Scade
Iain Shaw