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Student
experience
Gavin Henrick
@ghenrick
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What is the student experience?
● Social
● Collaborative
● Organisation processes
● Organisation systems

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Organisation systems - Moodle
● Recognition
● Access
● Navigation
● Consumption
● Extraction
● Communication
● Reporting

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Recognition
● Knowing instantly where they are by looking at the site
● Application of brand to Moodle
● A theme?
● Process?
● Content?

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Access
● Providing options for access
● Mobile friendly
● Mobile App
● Different devices
● Desktop
● Secure
● Single Sign on

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Navigation
● Finding their way around the sites
● Finding what they want
● Finding it when they want, and need it
● Finding their way from one task to another
● Finding their way

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Consistency
When you browse through a website, like a news site, the one thing you
will know is where things will be.
● Category pages are consistent
● Content pages are consistent
● Consistency is what keeps you from getting stressed by too much
change as you go around the site.
How do you apply this to Moodle sites and courses?

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Information Architecture
It is the structural design of shared information environments.
"the art and science of organizing and labelling websites ... to support
usability."
- Information Architecture Institute.
"consciously organising the content and flow of a website"
- The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2010/feb/02/what-is-
information-architecture

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How does this impact a course?
Take the key components
• Organising the content
• Designing navigation
• Improving flexibility
• Labelling
• Research

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Consumption
● Using the content
● on devices of their choices
● At a place of their choice
● At a time of their choosing

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Extraction
● What is their take-away?
● Printed handouts?
● Photographs?
● Recording lectures on phones
● Downloading lecture notes
● Editing and annotating notes
● Revising a section of the video of a lecture
● Sharing notes

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Communication
● Receiving timely information from lecturers
● Being notified of organisational issues
● Providing feedback to appropriate contact
● Contacting other students to collaborate and assist

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Reporting
● Where am I?
● What have I done?
● What have I still to do?
● How am I doing compared to others?
● How am I doing compared to what I should be doing?

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Improving the student experience
● It is quantifiable
● It is tangible
● It is in your control
● What are you going to do first?

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Example Credits
● Slide 5 - Dublin City University Moodle Login page - http://www.dcu.ie/
● Slide 6 - RCSI School of Pharmacy Login - http://www.rcsi.ie/
● Slide 8,17 - Moodle Mobile - https://docs.moodle.org/Moodle_Mobile
● Slide 10 - Dont Memorise project - http://dontmemorise.com/
● Slide 14,15,20,21 - IT Sligo Lean Sigma Quality Mooc - http://www.itsligo.ie/
● Slide 23 - Maynooth University Funded Dashboard plugins -
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/
● Slide 24 - My Grades Report funded by Dublin City University - http://www.dcu.ie/
● Slide 25 - Compass Competency Activity Visualisation funded by RCSI School of
Pharmacy - http://www.rcsi.ie/

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Thank you
Gavin Henrick
Community Projects Manager
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