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Moodle solutions integration for a traditional university: VMU case
Danutė Pranckutė, Marius Šadauskas
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June 9th 2017
VMU or VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY since 1930
was Grand Duke of Lithuania, who ruled
from 1392 to 1430 and brought the greatest
military and political prosperity to the
country.
During his reign the push eastward by the
German Order was broken. In 1410 Vytautas
won the Battle of Grünwald (Tannenberg)
against Teutonic Order.
He also extended the state border all the way
to the shores of the Black Sea.
Vytautas legend was so great that
Lithuanians continue to name their children
after him.
TIMELINE
Arts
Catholic Theology
Economics and Management
Humanities
Informatics
NUMBERS
BA and MA
students
>PhD students
>graduates
Law
Music Academy
Natural Sciences
Political Science and Diplomacy
Social Sciences with Institute of
Social Welfare
multilingual: 30+ languages;
prospective: PhD in 16+ scientific fields;
mobile:
Erasmus+, VMU Bilateral Exchange, Virtual mobility, ...
STUDIES at VMU
Innovative Studies Institute (ISI)
Innovative Studies Institute was establish in 2000 named by Distance study center and in 2012 reorganized to Innovative Studies Institute. It is an university unit working with different faculties on curriculum re-development for distance and virtual studies.
The goal of the Institute is to develop distance studies at Vytautas Magnus University in agreement with strategic goals of the system of Education in Lithuania, and in the context of Lithuanian distance and e-learning network.
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The Institute has the following objectives:
to assist University teachers to design, implement and organize distance
studies;
to promote online studies and e-learning;
to develop teacher competences to be able to design, implement and organize
distance studies;
to train teachers to design distance studies and to ensure their quality, to meet
quality requirements and to get them assessed and accredited at institutional
and national levels;
to promote social and professional networking among academics and
education specialists;
to perform research in distance studies, and to ensure its applicability on
practical level.
Innovative Studies Institute (ISI)___
VMU systems administrated by ISI
Virtual learning environment – Moodle
Video conferening – Adobe Connect, Cisco
Online support system for students
Online support system for teachers
Survey tool – LimeSurvey
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Virtual learning environment – Moodle
2004 – 2010 we have been using BlackBoard VLE
2009 – migration for BlackBoard to Moodle VLE (version 1.5)
2011 – Moodle updated to version 1.9
2012 – Moodle updated to version 2.2, new design created
2013 – Moodle updated to version 2.4
2014 – Moodle updated to version 2.7
2015 – Moodle updated to version 2.9
2016 – Moodle updated to version 3.1, new mobile friendly design created
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Moodle platform 2012 – 2015
Current version: 3.1.1
Updated every year (in July) to the latest version
First Class system for user authentication
Users enrolment synchronization with VMU students information system
(STUDIS) using web-services
VMU Moodle is fully translated into two languages: Lithuanian and
English including main content (using Multi-language content filter)
Course categories
Course titles
Course descriptions
Moodle platform http://moodle.vdu.lt
Moodle platform: first page
Course growth at VMU distance learning environment
2320 courses, 748 teachers, 7090 students (data: 2017-02-22)
About 85% all university course are in VMU Moodle
Moodle usage statistics
Moodle usage statistics
Users from 130 countries visited VMU Moodle in 2011 – 2016
20
42
72
87
75
103
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
2011 m. 2012 m. 2013 m. 2014 m. 2015 m. 2016 m.
The most popular foreign countries in 2011 – 2016
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
Jungtinė Karalystė JAV Vokietija Norvegija Švedija
478
91
59
231
91
285
88
56
201
17
470
341
271250
107
703
759
516
305
189
625
654
220
505
47
514
583
173
221
64
2011 m.
2012 m.
2013 m.
2014 m.
2015 m.
2016 m.
Infrastructure
Vmware for virtualization;
Data-storages in different locations;
Web-servers are running on Linux Debian OS;
Rack and Blade server types;
Storage system connected by fibrechanel;
Network 10 Gbit/s.
Moodle Web-server
Web-server is running on Linux Debian OS
Database engine: MySQL
Running on:
8 CPU x Intel Xeon CPU X7542 @ 2.67GHz,
16 GB RAM,
2 TB.
Data is stored in external storage system with 25x600GB SAS 10k rpm
2.5”
Moodle backups
Automatic course backups created every week, 5 weekly backups are stored in
Moodledata to restore courses easily
Weekly backup process takes approximately 20 - 22 hours
Moodledata is stored in storage system and backups are performed nightly
VMU Moodle platform moodledata uses 534 GB
Storage system backed up to another location weekly
Support system for teachers: Course request from
Moodle
Support system for teachers: portal with support information
24/7 question about online study module
Moodle user manual (text and video)
Documents and regulations for organization of online studies
All information about virtual mobility
Our suggestions for other web 2.0 tools for communication and collaboration
OER
http://studyonline.lt
Support system for students: 24/7 for student
Moodle
Support system for students: 24/7 for student
The most popular Moodle activities tools
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Assignment 1045 1465 2185 3069 4426
Chat 215 247 226 225 258
Choice 73 83 118 148 259
Feedback 20 33 90 100 152
Forum 1928 2884 4170 4772 5802
Glossary 190 229 232 249 257
Group choice 8 38 47 78 140
HotPotatoes 748 908 933 1085 1141
Mindmap 12 37 53 79 155
Quiz 922 1023 1092 1187 1568
Wiki 56 73 156 187 234
Workshop 38 55 71 89 66
Database 45
Additional plugins
Activity modules:
Group choice
Mindmap
Subpage
Lightbox Gallery
Submission plugins
Online audio recording
Blocks:
Completion Progress
Course Contacts
Course Contents
Statistics
Quickmail
Question types:
Drag-and-Drop Matching
Spreadsheet
HTML editor extension:
WIRIS
Cloze Editor
Additional plugins
Course formats:
Onetopic format
Collapsed Topics
Grid format
Columns
Buttons format
Local plugin:
Event Reminders
Bulk course reset
Availability restrictions:
By language
Thank you!
