Using Moodle for Rapid E-Learning Deployment

How we used Moodle and Captivate to onboard 1500 new staff online in four months »
Alistair Cockroft

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The Brief
1500 New staff
Dispersed in community
Assess Core Knowledge
But...
Options:
1. Tried and tested (Coursebuilder)
2. Untried and untested (Captivate and Moodle)
Install
Test SCORM
User Records
User Experience
Help!

Coursebuilder
HTML
Works
Easy (have templates)
100% Reliable
Log-in for each assessment
Development Time
(Very) Limited Knowledge
Plug & Play?
Time for contingency
IT infrastructure
SCORM
Development Time
Future Proof
Plug & Play
Single Sign-In
Existing Client Base
Using Moodle for Rapid E-Learning Deployment
Alistair Cockroft
E-Learning Manager
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
12 years
30 developments
10000+ users
185000+ completions
7000+ moodle completions
2, 1, 1, 5
Named Board of the Year at the NHS Leadership Awards
523 additional lives saved
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." -

  --  Douglas Noel Adams
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one”
 Elbert Hubbard quotes (American editor, publisher and writer, 1856-1915)
Henry Ford forgot to put a reverse gear on his first automobile.
Toughest Challenges?
Hide other users
Hide 'Profile'
Show scores
Add Certificate
Solutions
HowToMoodle
Google
Twitter/LinkedIn
If at first you don't succeed...
Questions?
Demo?
Receiving a Judge’s Commendation in the Acute Organisation of the Year category at the HSJ Awards
Named by Dr Foster as having one of the lowest hospital standardised mortality rates in the country (and the lowest in Greater Manchester)
Winner of the HSJ Award for Quality and Productivity
Winner of a National Patient Safety Award
Named as Employer of the Year at the Greater Manchester Employer Coalition Awards
Named Top Teaching Trust in England by Healthcare 100
Rated as ‘excellent’ for quality of services for four consecutive years by the Care Quality Commission;
96% of patients said they would be happy for a friend or relative to be treated at Salford Royal;
Cardiac arrests reduced by 41% outside critical care wards;
The Falls Reduction pilot confirmed a 25% reduction in falls;
Achieved Level Three compliance against the NHS Litigation Authority Risk Management Standards;
The Trust commenced Patient Safety Leadership WalkRounds in 2009 and all wards/departments have been visited;
Every Board meeting begins with a patient experience story which reaffirms the Boards commitment to patient safety and quality.
Albert Einstein’s parents were told he might be mentally retarded.
Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.
Napoleon finished near the bottom of his military school class.
The Beatles were turned down for a recording contract by Decca Records.
John Grisham’s first novel was rejected by sixteen agents and a dozen publishers.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs
even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those
poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because
they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
26th president of US (1858 - 1919)
Next steps?
Lots to learn
Improve user experience
LMS/PLE What do we REALLY need?
NO MONEY!!
NO TIME!!
DON'T PANIC!
Steep Learning Curve = Fast Run Up!
Leap Of Faith
MindMap Project
Project Plan Plan Plan
Get IT onboard...by any means neccessary!
Take the phone off the hook
Link to external database for user records
MUST be easy to use

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