Some of the customized features are as follows:
- Combined study calendar for students across all courses that they are enrolled in
- Assessment information outlined outright on the homepage as per preference expressed by OU learners.
- EAssessment - a mention of an open-source plug-in for Math Symbols called Open Mark which is Java based.
- Reflective Assessment Rubric- this rubric is designed for reflective assessment. We would get a sample of this from Robin Mason.
- Blog module - This is quite a recent addition i.e. blogs has been integrated as a module rather than a separate entity under user profile as is the case in the current version. It is possible to create group blogs and this comes with RSS feed function and commenting facility.
- Wiki - OU has recognised the user-unfriendliness of the wiki tool in the current version. Changes have been made accordingly; lock feature - before/after certain date, online comments, list of user contributions, RSS/Atom feeds of changes and a wiki reporting tool
- HTML Editor - OU has indicated that the current HTML editor is insufficient for their use and it is working on having Tiny MCE to be built into the HTML editor.
- Web Conferencing tool - OU has embarked on a huge project with Elluminate to integrate this into their Moodle system
- LAMS - On recollection of the discussions to explore the use of LAMS (Learning Activity Management System) here at USP, I inquired if the OU was using it and what their experience with it was. We were then informed that currently LAMS was not integrated into their system. The interesting observation about LAMS shared by Niall was that it did not perform as required, rather it was found to overlap the Moodle system and it did not remain a separate module in the whole Moodle setup.
Support Offered: Niall indicated that we could contact him if we were interested in using any of the above features.
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