Al-Quds University Do You Moodle? Rashid Jayousi, PhD Computer Science Dept. Al-Quds University’s experience in E-learning

Presentation Overview IT service at Al-Quds University Overview about Moodle Al-Quds University’s experience

The Said Khoury Information Technology Center of Excellence (SKITCI)

SKITCI Mission Operates at local and national levels to provide high quality and effective training for students as well as practitioners in the field of information technology.

Curriculum Development & Production of Training Material SKITCE is recognized for its high quality and tailor-made training packages. Develop packages to meet changing needs. Prepare quality training packages for the new training areas identified in the Operational Plan. Prepare and design tailor-made training packages for national specialist training institutions. Upgrade staff skills in designing materials that incorporate new teaching technology

What is Moodle? software package for producing internet-based courses and web sites ongoing development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education provided freely as Open Source software Reference:

Features Overall Design Suitable for 100% online classes Simple, lightweight, efficient, compatible, and secure Course listing shows descriptions for every course on the server, including accessibility to guests. Courses can be categorized and searched One Moodle site can support thousands of courses embedded WYSIWYG HTML editor Reference:

Features Site and User Management Flexibility to change / customize the site’s design Multilingual- currently 43 languages including Arabic Three types of users –Admin: overall system management (i.e. create courses, upgrade users) –Teacher: assigned courses management –Student: Enrollment in courses Reference:

Features Course management A full teacher has full control over all settings for a course, including restricting other teachers Choice of course formats (week, topic, discussion focused) Flexible array of course activities (Forums, Journals, Quizzes, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments, Chats, Workshops ) Track of recent changes to the course All grades for Forums, Journals, Quizzes and Assignments can be viewed on one page (and downloaded as a spreadsheet file) Reference:

Al-Quds experience Al-Quds University has decided to embrace the concept of electronic learning in the summer of 2004 Claroline, a Learning/Content management system was used during Summer 2004 ( Due to functionality and security limitation of Claroline, Moodle was adopted as the official E-learning system (

Time line ActionDate Installation and use of ClarolineSummer 2004 Installation and use of MoodleFall 2004/5 Use of Moodle still limited to the CS and IT depts. Spring 2004/5 Use of Moodle still limited to the CS and IT depts. Summer 2005 Other faculties started to use Moodle. Total number of classes: 52! Fall 2005/6 Training sessions are to e conducted (starting December 20 th ) to train all academic staff on the use of Moodle End of Fall 2005/6

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