Moodle at LSE Library: bringing information literacy to the students' desktop. Bell & Macrae-Gibson

Presented at LILAC 2008

1. MILO
Using Moodle at LSE to provide
information skills to users
Maria Bell
Rowena Macrae-Gibson
Library, London School of Economics

2. Overview
•Background
•Branding & What’s in a name?
•Moodle vs WebCT
•Staff training & input
•Review
•MILO Live

3. Background
•LSE chooses Moodle as its VLE in 2007
•Course migration
•IL course already in WebCT
•Working group of 4 Library staff
•Moodle training by LSE Centre for Learning
Technology staff
•Different group members contribute to their
strengths

4. Branding
•LSE colours & template
•No separate Library template
•Library Sticky block
•User testing & ‘Friendly’ academic
•Why MILO?
•Does it stand for anything?

6. Moodle vs WebCT
•Courses transferred from WebCT to Moodle
•Different approach required
•No long index of separate webpages
•More user friendly-for Librarians & students
•Students see course as just part of Moodle
•Don’t need to register
•Easier to direct users to
•Use material you already have

11. Initial review
•Some sections getting very long
•Decide to move the Top tips database
section into a block

13. The Future?
•Review
•Advanced pages: SuperMilo!
•Subject pages
•More interactive
•Staff manuals moving from
WebCT to Moodle

14. MILO
•Guest access available
•Username:miloguest
•Password:infolit
•Valid until the end of April
•http://moodle.lse.ac.uk/
•Choose Library

15. Contact us
•Maria Bell
[email protected]
•Rowena Macrae-Gibson
[email protected]