using the student voice to plan our moodle path - moodle moot uk 2014 eamon costello and mark glynn

Using the Student Voice to Plan our

Moodle Path

Mark Glynn and Eamon Costello

Dublin City University

National Survey

Irish National VLE Student Experience

Survey

Anonymous and collegiate sharing

o data collected since 2008

o 12 institutions

o institutions anonymised, no use of results for PR

o common detailed questionnaire

o over 20,500 student responses

Overview

3 DCU iterations- '09 '11 '13

• 2013 figures

• >1800 students

• 90% Full time students

• 40% were first year

• 75% under 24 years old

26 Questions e.g.

How often do you use Moodle?

If you do not use Moodle, why not?

For each of the statements below, choose whether you

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Is there anything else that prevents you from getting

the best use of Moodle?

What is the most important thing you would

like to see improved about Moodle?

Q1 - How often do you use…?

2009 2011 2013

Q2 – Use of Moodle

Q3 - What proportion of your coursework

2009 2011 2013

Q4 - If not, why not?

Q5 – How useful is Moodle for….?

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Q10 - What prevented you

Lecturers notes were not up in advance

It is very user unfriendly

Appearance is bland

Surge in usage prevented assignment upload

DCU Moodle crashes

No mobile app available

Q11 - Statements

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Q13 - Most important thing

2009 2011 2013

Response

Lecturers use of Moodle

Student Focus groups

Change in IT infrastructure

Integration with existing systems

Ease of use for all

Professional Development

Moodle Clinics

Future

Anonymous to confidential

Enhanced Analytics

Business Intelligence

Machine Learning

Invite other institutions to run

the survey

Increase focus on UX –

consistent experience

Questions

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eamon.costello@dcu.ie