1. OERS AT RRU: CUSTOMIZING AND SHARING MOODLE CODE Emma Irwin and Mary Burgess

2. RRU Open Educational Resource Initiative How? Kind people at BC Campus. How? Support from staff. How? Support from senior executive. What? Moodle training materials. Why? Marketing. Why? Faculty Recruitment What? Moodle Code. Why? Open Source products we’ve used. What? Courses with pedagogy Why? We have useful resources. What? Multimedia resources.

3. Why did Royal Roads share? Our use of open source software. Faculty recruitment We have created some useful resources. Marketing

4. What are we sharing? Customized Code Instructional Multimedia Moodle training resources Courses with pedagogy

5. How did we do it? Moodle code – some extracted, some newly written, shared back to Moodle community Moodle training resources – posted on our public Moodle site for anyone to download and use Instructional multimedia – posted in SOLR (BC Campus repository) Courses – hosted on our public Moodle site and include the pedagogy

6. Open Source Communities Open Source Software communities are DIFFERENT. Get to know yours! Social Conferences (Moodlemoot) Meet-ups (start one!) Twitter Contribution Code contributions Bug Fixes /Patches Forums Test Plans Feedback! Documentation Translation Champion Share the enthusiasm, grow the project

7. 1.95 (Default Courses) The process … Created Patch from Vanilla Moodle w/ our Default Course code Tested code & patch Documented Conformed Moodle Standards Created Moodle Tracker Task for Contrib Reviewed by->Fr. Anthony Borrow Created Moodle Plugin Entry Added to Moodle Docs Told the world! -> Forums Respond to requests/bug reports and maintain Now a part of core functionality in 2.0 Sharing Code Our Experiences

8. 2.1 (Team Assignments) created patches to support team assignment Through test plan & documentation Submitted it via Moodle tracker as a ‘new feature’ in core. Very well received, needs for this functionality was echoed by many other institutions. Functionality slated for 2.3 core assignment functionality Sharing Code Our Experiences

9. Lessons Learned/Next Steps? Start the conversation early Check in often Contribute Contribute Contribute