AlQuds University Do You Moodle AlQuds Universitys experience

Al-Quds University Do You Moodle? Al-Quds University’s experience in E-learning Rashid Jayousi, Ph. D Computer Science Dept. rjayousi@science. alquds. edu

Presentation Overview • IT service at Al-Quds University • Overview about Moodle • Al-Quds University’s experience

The Said Khoury Information Technology Center of Excellence (SKITCI)

SKITCI Mission • Operates at local and national levels to provide high quality and effective training for students as well as practitioners in the field of information technology.

Curriculum Development & Production of Training Material • SKITCE is recognized for its high quality and tailor-made training packages. • Develop packages to meet changing needs. • Prepare quality training packages for the new training areas identified in the Operational Plan. • Prepare and design tailor-made training packages for national specialist training institutions. • Upgrade staff skills in designing materials that incorporate new teaching technology

What is Moodle? • software package for producing internet-based courses and web sites • ongoing development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education • provided freely as Open Source software Reference: http: //moodle. org

Features Overall Design • Suitable for 100% online classes • Simple, lightweight, efficient, compatible, and secure • Course listing shows descriptions for every course on the server, including accessibility to guests. • Courses can be categorized and searched • One Moodle site can support thousands of courses • embedded WYSIWYG HTML editor Reference: http: //moodle. org

Features Site and User Management • Flexibility to change / customize the site’s design • Multilingual- currently 43 languages including Arabic • Three types of users – Admin: overall system management (i. e. create courses, upgrade users) – Teacher: assigned courses management – Student: Enrollment in courses Reference: http: //moodle. org

Features • • • Course management A full teacher has full control over all settings for a course, including restricting other teachers Choice of course formats (week, topic, discussion focused) Flexible array of course activities (Forums, Journals, Quizzes, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments, Chats, Workshops ) Track of recent changes to the course All grades for Forums, Journals, Quizzes and Assignments can be viewed on one page (and downloaded as a spreadsheet file) Reference: http: //moodle. org

Al-Quds experience • Al-Quds University has decided to embrace the concept of electronic learning in the summer of 2004 • Claroline, a Learning/Content management system was used during Summer 2004 (http: //www. claroline. net) • Due to functionality and security limitation of Claroline, Moodle was adopted as the official E-learning system (http: //moodle. org)

Time line Date Action Summer 2004 Installation and use of Claroline Fall 2004/5 Installation and use of Moodle Spring 2004/5 Use of Moodle still limited to the CS and IT depts. Summer 2005 Use of Moodle still limited to the CS and IT depts. Fall 2005/6 Other faculties started to use Moodle. Total number of classes: 52! End of Fall 2005/6 Training sessions are to e conducted (starting December 20 th) to train all academic staff on the use of Moodle

Moodle at Al-Quds University URL: http: //eclass. alquds. edu