Decision on a LMS

We were introduced to Moodle at the beginning of 2009 when a few teachers on the staff thought it would be useful to have an integrated LMS. This coincided with the Ministry Roadshow on LMSs which has been running for most of this year.

I decided to do a UC course on Best Practices in Online Teaching and Learning and this experience has given me insight into how to convert face-to-face teaching/learning content into online format.

At the moment the school still has not made up its mind on which LMS to go with. A visit to a number of Auckland schools who have different LMS up and running has given us some insight into the questions which need to be asked about setting up an LMS but not really given us answers as to which one to go with. Moodle seems a logical choice because it is education based and appears to be directed at schools.