Moodle@SRCE

One Moodle installation for over 100 higher education institutions in Croatia

Zvonko Martinović

University of Zagreb University Computing Centre (SRCE)

Moodlemoot Greece, November 2019

University Computing Centre (SRCE)

• Founded in 1971 within the University of Zagreb, the only Croatian university at the time, with the purpose to enhance the implementation of information technologies in the academic community as well as in Croatia in general

• Today, SRCE is the main computing centre and the architect of the e-infrastructure, covering both the University of Zagreb and the whole research and high education system

• Competence center for information and communication technologies as well as the center for education and support in the area of ICT application

• Key activities:• National academic information systems

• Identity management infrastructure

• Advanced computing infrastructure

• Academic and national network infrastructures

• E-learning, training and user support

• International cooperation, programs and projects

• Croatian scientific and educational cloud (HR-ZOO)

E-learning Centre (ELC)

• Established at University Computing Centre University of Zagreb in 2007

• Basic objectives:

• Support teachers, students, e-learning teams and institutions

• Provide and maintain reliable and generally accessible university platform for e-learning

• Support the university network of people involved or interested in e-learning

• Promote and foster implementation of e-learning

• University Office for E-learning situated at the E-learning Centre

What does ELC do?

E-learning system

• Systems ELC provide to our users:

• Merlin – University e-learning system

• MoD – e-learning system for e-learning projects in community

• MuS – e-learning system for schools

• Moodle2Test – e-learning system for testing

• Moodle2Demo – demo system

• E-portfolio system

• Webinars

University E-learning Platform Merlin

• E-learning platform based on an open-source system Moodle and it is developed, maintained and administrated by the E-learning Centre

• System Merlin is organised in academic years: system for current academic year and four archived

• For academic year 2019/2020 we have prepared:

• New installation of Moodle 3.7: https://moodle.srce.hr/2019-2020/

• New theme based on Moodle Classic theme

• New report for institution administrators

• MerlinMobile application available in Google Play and App Store

• New versions of user manuals, online courses, animations...

Front page of e-learning platform Merlin (https://merlin.srce.hr)

Virtual Learning Environment - Merlin

In academic year 2019/202012.400+ e-courses34.960 archived e-courses180.000+ users55.000+ students5.100+ teachers42.000 average unique user per week 110.000 average visits per week550 average daily peek concurrent users116 institutions use Merlin76 institutional users on Merlin

National e-learning platform where higher education institutions in Croatia can open their e-learning courses and get the support in development and advancement of their e-courses.

Merlin users

• 9 universities

• 15 Polytechnic and school of professional higher education

• In total 116 institutions

• 76 institutional users

• 51 institutions using Merlin-ISVU connection

• University of Zagreb – 31 institutions using Merlin (36 including universitystudies), 22 as institutional users

• For Universities of Zadar, Dubrovnik, Rijeka, Sjever and Catholic University of Croatia Merlin is the official e-learning system

System Merlin in numbers(Number of open courses and registered users per academic year)

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System Merlin in numbers(Number of enrolled teachers and students per academic year)

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Server architecture of the E-learning systems

How to open an e-course

1. For teachers:

• Course request:

• https://moodle.srce.hr/2019-2020/mod/page/view.php?id=1649

2. For institution administrators:

• Manual course creation

• Course list upload:

• https://www.srce.unizg.hr/sustavi-za-ucenje-na-daljinu/merlin/obrasci

• Opening a course from ISVU

Roles in Merlin

• Administrator ustanove – institution administrator can view/edit all courses on institution and can create new courses

• Nadglednik kolegija – institution supervisor can view all courses on institution but can’t create/edit courses

• Nositelj kolegija – course teacher can edit course and all participants

• Izvođač kolegija – course assistant teacher can edit course and students

• On-line asistent – online assistant can edit course and students but can’t grade students

• Demonstrator – student that can edit course

• Student – student can view course

• Gost

Merlin - ISVU connection

• Enables:

• Opening of the courses according to the template prepared for the each institution

• Opening of the courses in multiple levels, depending on the needs of the single institution

• Students enrolment into courses and distribution in the groups by teacher

• Students enrolment from the multiple courses at ISVU in one course at Merlin

• Automatic students and teachers enrolment from ISVU into e-courses on Merlin

• Grade export from Merlin to ISVU

• 51 institution actively uses this connection

• 11.500+ e-courses opened from ISVU in ac. year 2019/2020

Opening courses from ISVU

Our users

• Teachers – majority

• Listening their needs and ideas

• Try to always say yes

• Working with them

• Different types of users - different approaches

• Students

• Need occasional support

• Need proper introduction to e-learning at the beginning of studies

• Institutions, local e-learning teams

• Advice and guidance on the implementation process

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User support

• Technical support to users who work with e-learning technologies maintained by the E-learning Centre

• Advised support to teachers in preparation and maintenance of e-courses:• Help desk: email, phone, online form, FAQ, Quick Help• Consultancy• Instructional design and support in preparation, development and delivery of e-courses

• Training Courses (on-line & f2f) on the use of e-learning technologies maintained by the E-learning Centre:

• https://www.srce.unizg.hr/usluge/centar-za-e-ucenje/podrska-korisnicima/tecajevi-i-radionice-centra-za-e-ucenje

• Manuals, instructions and animations about the use of e-learning technologies:• https://www.srce.unizg.hr/sustavi-za-ucenje-na-daljinu/merlin/prirucnici-i-animacije

• Test and demo systems:• https://www.srce.unizg.hr/sustavi-za-ucenje-na-daljinu/testni-sustavi

• Promotional activities with the aim to raise awareness on e-learning and create a network of people

MerlinMobile

• Edited version of Moodle Mobile application configured to work with system Merlin

• Android and iOS version:

• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moodle.merlinmobile

• https://apps.apple.com/hr/app/merlinmobile/id1473570180

Merlin – case study presented at moodle.com

University of Zagreb uses Moodle to support e-learning in over 115 higher education institutions in Croatia

https://moodle.com/news/university-of-zagreb/

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