Questions from the Webinar: Best Practices for Moodle in K-12 Schools

Last week, Moodlerooms had the chance to collaborate with eSchool News and two educators from across the country to explore best practices that K-12 classrooms, schools and districts can leverage when deploying Moodle to achieve their specific learning mission.

Moderated by eSchool News Contributing Editor, Jennifer Natsu, the webinar featured perspectives from Sarah Weston, Curriculum Director for the Open High School of Utah; and Vicki Butler, Director of Academic Technology for the Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences. The presentation was capped off by a short demonstration of joule 2, the newest iteration of our enterprise Moodle platform, which was followed by a short Q & A session.

If you didn't get a chance to view the presentation live, you can view a copy on-demand, here.

Today, we wanted to address a few of the audience questions that the panelists didn't have time for during the live broadcast. If you have any more questions after viewing the on-demand webinar, feel free to email feedback@moodlerooms.com.

Q: What was the web address for Open High School of Utah?

• The web address for the Open High School of Utah is www.openhighschool.org
  

Q; Did Sarah of Open High School say that they share their courses with anyone who asks?

• All of the Open High School of Utah's courses leverage OER (open educational resources). Only the courses and the content that makes up each course is available. The activities, quizzes and other assessments are not shared with the public.
  

Q: Can teachers create their own content in the joule 2 LMS?

• Teachers are free to create and/or import their own rich course content into joule 2. The joule 2 platform supports a wide variety of content from documents to rich multimedia.
  

Q: I'm confused how Open High School and Seattle Academy are able to scale to such a level. Are they hosting themselves? If not, how are they able to scale to such a degree?

• Open High School of Utah and Seattle Academy's Moodle sites are hosted in a high availability cloud environment made available through Moodlerooms. Click here for more information.
  

Q: Can Moodlerooms convert courses from another LMS into Moodle version 1.9?

• Moodlerooms can generally convert any courses from an industry standard LMS to Moodle 1.9 or 2.0. Click here for more information.
  

Q: Do you offer Moodle training so I can learn to set up Moodle from start to finish?

• Moodlerooms offers a wide variety of training packages to get teachers, schools and districts up and running on Moodle. Click here for more information.

Thanks for reading,

Brad