Welcome to LSE Moodle

Moodle is hosted & supported by the LSE Centre for Learning Technology

Courses using Moodle are listed by department

		Support for Students		Support for Staff
	Report problems How to login and enrol Further help for students Student tutorials at Moodle.org Get started with Moodle in 3-steps - add yourself into Moodle courses - NEW IT Services guide for new students Training portal for students		How to login and enrol Further help for staff Teacher documentation at Moodle.org Training portal for staff Moodle Training: book a place Contact Moodle Support
Note: Not all lecturers choose to make use of Moodle. Your lecturer / department can advise if Moodle is being used, and when a specific course will be made available to students.

There is currently a problem with Echo 360 that affects the automatic publishing of Echo 360 recorded lectures to Moodle course calendars. You may find that none or only some lecture recordings are automatically published to your Moodle calendar, even though teachers/departments have requested that this feature be switched on. This only affects lectures recorded during Lent term.

For teachers/editors: We have informed Echo 360 of the problem and they are working on a fix. In the meantime the best alternative solution to have recordings automatically published to your Moodle course is for editors/teachers to use the "Echo recorded lectures" resource type in Moodle. See option 3 in our brief guide to publishing Echo 360 lecture recordings in your Moodle course for details on how to use this resource type.

We shall of course post any updates relating to this problem on Moodle site news.

The internet is full of delights, a treasure trove to be pilfered (where pilfer stands for “using legally sourced files”).

"Food Fight" on youTube

And Moodle is an excellent platform on which to share these delightful (educational) finds with students and to enrich course areas with images, audio, video. For example, you can very easily embed youTube videos in Moodle pages, like this excellent 5’30’’ Food Fight video by “touristpictures” (an "abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict.")

Of course youTube isn’t the only place to find video. We have collected a whole page of links to multimedia resources on our CLT multimedia resources page for staff to use in their teaching.

Welcome back to the LSE and a very happy 2010 to each of you!

In June 2009 we asked you students to complete a survey on your experiences with and opinions of Moodle and the results were overwhelmingly positive. new year image by optical illusion

Most of you really seem to be happy with it (45% very satisfied! 50% fairly satisfied!) and 91% of you agree that Moodle had been a valuable component of your course. At the time of the survey undergraduates had only been using Moodle for one academic year so this is really a positive result. Thanks to all of you who shared their views with us.

Of course, we appreciate positive and negative criticism alike. The former tells us where we are going right; the latter tells us what we need to improve.

Understandably you were not happy about:

Too many broken links
PDFs not opening properly
Inconsistency of Moodle use – every course should use it!

We are going to feed this back to your teachers and will do our best to help them improve their course areas. And we will continue to find ways to improve Moodle for both students and teachers.

Here's to a successful 2010 for all of us.

Photo by optical_illusion on flickr

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