1. Staff eLE: creating a holistic VLE support site for staff in Moodle Tim van Drimmelen Associate Professor Michael Sankey Learning Environments and Media

2. Enrolled students USQ All students28,100+ On-campus 7,600 External/online20,500 (73%) International 6,000 (1,100 ONC) The vast majority of USQ students access information services online Most Students and Staff know what they’re getting themselves in for when they come to USQ

3. The context – our VLE USQStudyDesk Student facing USQStaffDesk Staff training and playground USQOpenDesk OERs and Community based courses Repository Equella – LOR and other collections ePortfolio USQ Website and Portal

4. Get official support and training Categories and governance 4 categories for tools Learning and Teaching Systems Advisory Group ICT Services committee Academic Division L&T Committee Education Management Committee Core e.g. Moodle Supported e.g. Turnitin Emerging Experimental Allowed Publishers

5. For Staff For Student Aligned support and training Context PedagogyTraining

6. Standardised look and feel

8. Context

9. Staff eLE

12. Electronic Assignment Submission What is it? Why would I use it? Discussion forum How do I use it? Support and training Technology tips System requirements Setup details Useful resources General Moodle resources

13. Training

15. USQStaffDesk

16. Pedagogy

20. Staff eLE

21. Staff eLE editor Built by the USQ Multimedia team HTML, CSS and JavaScript Resources are housed in our repository (Equella) Mobile responsive Easy to use, requires little training Allows the user to create beautifully custom made Mobile responsive Moodle Pages.

22. Staff eLE editor

23. Editing the content pages Creates circular buttons Creates text box Creates text box with image/video Creates a splash image/video Creates a video row Bulletpoints Bullet numbers Anchor points

28. Wins and Gotcha’s WinsGotcha’s Creation of a Moodle Page editorMoodle upgrades can cause minor issues Easy to update/maintain content, no formatting needed No breadcrumbing navigation Beautifully displayed contentNo search functionality Navigation bar

29. Conclusion USQ is not allowing staff facing content on its public website. OK, that’s fare enough. Is Moodle a website? No But it’s a great training place And if we want to keep it all together there is a way to do it You just have to think a bit differently about how you manage the space.