10 Data-Backed Tips to Ensure Your Students & Staff

successfully and accurately engage with Moodle

● improve onboarding times● reduce requests for

assistance● cut training costs● enhance productivity

Moodle can be an effective educational tool that, if used properly, can yield tremendous

results for educational institutions

These tips can help your institution...

● Whether a company runs its own servers or outsources, it should make sure that the choice is reliable and secure

Invest in Quality Servers

● Forgotten user passwords are an obstacle to engagement

● Integrating Moodle with 3rd party user authorization systems can improve e-learning productivity and achievement

Employ Automated User Sign-in

● Making customized user roles adds unneeded complexities

● Instead, use an intermediate user interface layer that helps users do what they need to do, without customizing roles

Work with the built-in Moodle Roles

● Each time code is changed to achieve a custom feature, extensive testing must be done to ensure that the customization works

● More often than not, a reliable third party already maintains a module that performs your feature

● Instead of developing an in-house hack, use these established modules

Use Robust Moodle Modules, Not In-house Hacks

● Find out what users think of different modules by reading Moodle forums

● Forums can alert you to potential usability problems,suggestions, or good practices

Make Use of Forums to Evaluate New Moodle Modules

● Navigating endless courses can be complicated

● Moodle’s ‘Collapsed Topics’ feature simplifies endless scrolling between and within topics

Improve Course Navigation via Existing Tools

● The missing ingredient from Moodle’s software is a user-friendly interface

● Onscreen guidance, such as WalkMe, can guide users on how to complete certain tasks

● WalkMe works both on in-house Moodle systems and third party hosters

Offer Real-time Onscreen Guidance

● In our mobile-driven world, users expect a flawless mobile experience

● All the features of Moodle, including any onscreen guidance, should be able to adapt to mobile as well

Make Mobile Access Just as User-Friendly as Web

● It is not just the users that need to engage with the software. It is just as important for the administrators to be familiar with it

● The better an administrator understands the software, the better he/she will be able to help users with their complications

Give Administrators the Tools to Make Moodle Implementation Better

● When users are presented with too many choices and no guidance, confusion is guaranteed

● Less choices with more guidance will yield better results in achieving the user’s end goals

Avoid the“Multiple-Choice” Functionality Temptation

1. Invest in Quality Servers2. Employ automated user sign-in3. Work with the built-in Moodle roles4. Use robust Moodle modules, not in-

house hacks5. Make use of forums to evaluate new

Moodle modules6. Improve course navigation via existing

tools7. Offer real-time onscreen guidance 8. Make mobile access access just as

user-friendly as web

Conclusion: Tips for Moodle Implementation

9. Give administrators the tools to make Moodle implementation better10. Avoid the “multiple-choice” functionality temptation

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