Large Scale Course, Enrollment & Content Management

Notes from Moodlemoot 2013

Asim Aziz and Chris Goetz from the U of A presented

Challenges
Info from SIS is very fluid
18 different faculties
SIS info is often behind reality
Philosophy is if something is not urgent and not unusual, it should be automated.

Automation
course creation - automatically created upon instructor request
self-service request tool

Content management
copy content from old courses, user never sees moodle's backup restore page

enrollment management
180000 seats in flux
cohorts used for enrollment
instructors/TAs enrolled
sometimes a faculty level course used for shared resources

create course
copy contents
add cohorts

faculties broken down by categories
cohorts sync'd daily
groups created with cohort

copy content plugin + IMS enterprise plugin

Archive server filesystem is mounted to production server to allow access to courses (so it can get at MBZ)