Moodle : " M odular O bject- O riented D ynamic L earning E nvironment" Moodle is an online "Learning Management System" (LMS), like WebCT. At the end of the Spring 2008 semester, UNCA will be replacing WebCT with Moodle. According to John Myers, Instructional Technology Consultant, on 3/25/08: "...WebCT will no longer be our online Learning Management System (LMS) after this semester. There will be a few courses in WebCT for the summer session, but all others will be migrated to...Moodle. "Moodle has all the capabilities of WebCT with some useful and significant  (...)

From John Myers 8/14/08: "Student data for the Fall 2008 semester will be loaded into the Moodle database for the first time on Monday, August 18.  This upload of data will create accounts for students who are new to the database and place them into their Moodle courses.  If a student in already in the database because of summer courses or manual account creation, their records will be updated and they will be placed in their Moodle courses.  A daily upload of students will occur throughout the drop/add period. The method available to us this semester for student upload wi (...)

Per John Myers, Instructional Technology Consultant, 3/25/08: " The broad steps needed to migrate from WebCT to Moodle are: 1. To clean up our current WebCT server by removing old, no longer needed courses. 2. To prepare the WebCT courses that will be migrated to Moodle 3. To migrate the course content to Moodle 4. To create new courses in Moodle Details on how to accomplish each of the steps above will be available in the coming weeks. There will be scheduled workshops that you can attend as well as tutorials posted on the Instructional Technology website. And I'm always willing to w (...)

Questions regarding Moodle -- access, accounts, application or instructional support, tutorials, etc. -- should be directed to: John Myers Instructional Technology Consultant Center for Teaching and Learning HU114A UNC Asheville 828-250-3885 jmyers@unca.edu

The schedule for Moodle training workshops can be found online at the following location: http://www.ctl.unca.edu/instructionaltechnology/Workshop_Schedule.htm This site can also be accessed as follows: Go to the UNCA Homepage Click on Campus Technology Click on Instructional Technology Click on Workshop Schedule For more information, or if what you're looking for isn't there, contact: John Myers Instructional Tech. Consult Classroom and Inst Tech Support HU114A 828-250-3885 jmyers@unca.edu

The WebCT server will be taken off line and shut down on Monday, August 11. If you have any content left on the server that you want, you will need to download it before Monday morning, August 11. If you indicated you wanted your WebCT content moved to Moodle, you will find that content in the files area of a corresponding Moodle course. If you indicated you did not want your content moved, or if you did not respond to previous emails about moving the content, then it will be deleted after the server is taken off line. If you need help locating your files in Moodle, or downloading files from W (...)