Working on this assignment certainly had it’s ups and downs. This was the first time I had tried to create a course using Moodle. I found the learning curve to be fairly steep. The program was not very intuitive. Many steps/tasks I wanted to were beyond my current skill-set, which was frustrating as I generally consider myself pretty technologically savvy and usually figure things our fairly easily. Luckily my group had a diverse set of skills, and together we created a project that I’m quite happy with. One issue that we faced is that we all worked on one team member’s Moodle account and then published a restoration file which we all used to update our own accounts. This worked reasonably well, but corresponding with my other Moodle use, it doesn’t quite work as expected. I have some formatting issues with my final page that I couldn’t adjust – despite spending a reasonable amount of time attempting to adjust it, and finally one of the subsections didn’t move with the transfer – so I had to recreate it  in my Moodle. I would have prefered that we simply hand in one Moodle and then each create our blog entry.

I felt like we worked well together once again. We each focussed on areas we were interested in and everyone contributed to the final project.

After spending a lot of time with Moodle, I don’t think I’d recommend it to a colleague unless I knew they were very comfortable with HTML coding.  Moodle affords a lot of customizability, supports constructivist methodology, and is a safe and secure platform for student interaction, however, I think that there are more user-friendly platforms available that will take up less of an educator’s precious time.