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I am currently learning patience here at work.
I am in a team that is working towards moving our student learning program into Moodle…and wow does it require patience! I love the idea of Moodle, opensource software that allows integration with so many different programs, eventually making life easy for students, academics and us here in the library. At the moment however, I am hating on it!
The main thing I’m hating, the lack of description in the ‘how to guides’. All day I have been trying to work out how to insert a plugin into part of a lesson I am designing…all day!!! I have looked at Youtube videos, the Moodle forums, outsourced to my Twitter account. Everything that comes back my way is vague, so frustrating!
This whole day has taught me two valuable lessons. Firstly, patience is definitely needed when working with a fairly new program, that nobody truly understands. Secondly, the next time I am writing ‘how to’ programs I am definitely going to provide enough information to ensure it is as simple as possible. Rather than just ‘Go to the module and make some matching questions’. What does that even mean!!!
Please feel free to email me, you know I love Moodle and having created many many ‘how to’ guides for Moodle I’d be more than happy to try and explain it better. As I wrote, you cannot install plugins unless you have access to the server files in Moodle etc. I have done heaps with quizzes especially and can work the system
Thanks Kristina. You really are wonderful, and all those guides you made at Macquarie have been an amazing help to all of us. Very much looking forward to loving Moodle as much as you do