Thursday, January 15, 2009

Re: moodle questions

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I'm interested in hearing the Moodle experiences, too, so please keep this open.

Thanks! Happy snow day,

Catherine

Linda Swarlis wrote ..
> We are having a snow day today but I will get back to you tomorrow with the name
> of our Moodle hosting company. We have been pleased. Tweaking costs extra but overall
> the service has been good. We were looking for a way to tweak the grading system
> so that we could use quarters instead of semesters but we purchased Senior Systems
> Backpack so we won't have to make that change. They were going to charge us for
> making those changes.
>
> More later,
> Linda
>
> ________________________________________
> From: A forum for independent school educators [ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf
> Of Karen Douse [douse@harpethhall.org]
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:51 PM
> To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: moodle questions
>
> Do any of you contract out Moodle support to a company that you can recommend?
> We are considering a move from Blackboard to Moodle, but our biggest worry is converting
> everything so the transition is as easy as possible for our teachers. Many have
> spent
> several years populating their Blackboard sites and we don't want them to have
> to do everything manually. Thanks for any recommendations you can make.
>
> Also, do you have any recommendations on companies that host Moodle sites and what
> value they add? We are trying to decide if we should host internally or externally.
> The server and expertise are not problems - time is!
>
> Thanks for any recommendations you can make.
> Karen
>
> Karen Douse
> Director of Library and Information Services
> Ann Scott Carell Library
> Harpeth Hall School
> 615-346-0116
> douse@harpethhall.org
>
>
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