Moodle
Moodle at DePauw
Moodle is DePauw University's primary learning management system (LMS). Developed from a learning-centric perspective rather than a technical administrative perspective, Moodle enables faculty members to enhance their face-to-face teaching and their students’ learning by providing an online environment to distribute materials and encourage collaboration and interaction both within and outside the classroom.
Why Moodle?
Faculty Instructional Technology Support (FITS) and the Faculty Academic Technology Advisory Committee (ATAC) collaborated during the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 academic years to carefully research and identify the next steps that we, as a campus, should take with regard to Blackboard and our LMS. As a result of that research and our pilot studies, we identified Moodle as the best path to take in upgrading the LMS.
Moodle is a system that provides all the features that we were already using in Blackboard, while also offering additional features and flexibility to enable us to ultimately do new and creative things online. Moodle is also a system that is widely adopted by several small liberal arts institutions like DePauw, which enables us with a strong community of support and sharing best practices among our colleagues.
Read ATAC's recommendation (pdf 15KB, 4 pages)
How do I login to Moodle?
Faculty, staff, and students may login to Moodle by browsing to http://moodle.depauw.edu and using your Novell/GroupWise user name and password.
Where can I get help with Moodle?
Faculty
and staff members - Online help, including instructional guides, is available at DePauw's Moodle 101: About Moodle course.
Students - If your professor is using Moodle in a course, the course
should be included in your My Courses list when you login to Moodle. If
you do not see the course, please check with your professor to find out if the
course has been made available to students. Online help is available at
DePauw's Moodle 101 for Students: An Introduction to
Moodle - Student Resources & Documentation.
If you have questions or would like additional information, please contact moodle@depauw.edu or any FITS instructional technologist:
Lynda LaRoche, llaroche@depauw.edu
Michael Gough, michaelgough@depauw.edu
Dave Diedriech, ddiedriech@depauw.edu
Veronica Pejril, veronicapejril@depauw.edu
