As we wrapped up the first-ever MoodleMoot Global last week in Spain, we’re jumping into another exciting virtual event across the sea from Montana, USA – Mountain Moot 2020!
Celebrating its 10th Anniversary, a small moot with big ideas on July 15-17, 2020. Now online and 100% free! Yup, that’s right – Free for all!
Mountain Moot will be focusing on the use of Moodle and educational technology to improve teaching and learning.
We’re excited to be going alongside leading Moodlers, teachers, EdTech specialists around the world. Some of our partners will also be there as a sponsor and speaker!
*All session time in MDT
Thursday 16 July 2020
Title: Choosing the Right LMS (Case Study)
Presenter: Kathryn Fortin, CEO at Fortech
Time: 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM MDT | 5:00 AM – 5:50 AM AEST (on Friday 17 July)
One size does not fit all! After a global company had two failed attempts at using different LMS systems, they decided to thoroughly analyze what would be the best fit for them. As the LMS SME on the project for a large international retailer, I helped them define and fine-tune their business and technical requirements, found LMS platforms that aligned with the business & technical needs, went through an RFP process and then an onsite demo of the platforms that made the cut. Then compared the finalists to see what LMS platforms would be asked to participate in the Proof of Concept phase. Come see how the project was defined and implemented based on the company’s needs & requirements. Moreover, come see which platforms were the winners and why!
Title: Moodle for the Enterprise
Presenter: Dean Saunders, CEO & Founder at eCreators & Learnbook
Time: 4:00 PM – 4:50 PM MDT | 8:00 AM – 8:50 AM AEST (on Friday 17 July)
Whether you’re big, little or small, people always looking for additional features and plugins to make their Moodle more configurable. Come down the rabbit hole with Dean Saunders, CEO & Founder at eCreators, as he takes you on a journey of what’s possible. In its elegant simplicity with one of the world’s friendliest Moodle theme – Learnbook. And discover how a Global and APAC Moodle partner of the year created the platform that loved by your learners while empowered your administrators.
Friday 17 July 2020
Title: Gamification for the win!
Presenter: Jeff Campbell – Director, Mootivation Technologies
Time: 8:00 AM – 8:50 AM MDT | 12:00 AM – 12:50 AM AEST (on Saturday 18 July)
Let’s dive into the Moodle gamification plugins and have a look at what’s possible to drive learner engagement and motivation. We’ll go through some of the principles of gamification, introduce a handful of plugins, and explain how you can use them.
Title: Hands Off! Automating Moodle processes to save time and money
Presenter: Darrel Tenter, Fortech
Time: 8:00 AM – 8:50 AM MDT | 12:00 AM – 12:50 AM AEST (on Saturday 18 July)
Imagine you’re a training director for a large retail organization with almost 90 locations. Your stores are hiring every day. All those new people need to be registered in Moodle and enrolled into multiple course groups. New hires can’t always access their email to confirm their registration. So managers sent requests in to corporate, who confirmed the accounts manually. Then the store manager would give an enrollment key to the new user and they would enroll themselves. This was all very time consuming. But now it’s different. Using built-in Moodle tools and little creativity we built a solution that automated all of this. The users register themselves, and are enrolled into multiple courses automatically – including group membership! No corporate or management intervention is needed. Want to learn how we did this? Join and you too can take your hands off of Moodle.
Title: Managing A Successful Virtual Team
Presenter: Kathryn Fortin, CEO at Fortech
Time: 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM MDT | 3:00 AM – 3:50 AM AEST (on Saturday 18 July)
How do you build a company culture with remote workers? How do you avoid failure when it comes to your virtual team? Are you aware of the differences when it comes to virtual teams vs. traditional in-person teams? How can you set up your virtual team for success? Virtual teams are on the rise and if you already have one, you know they come with their own set of benefits and challenges. In this presentation, we’re going to take a look at some of the common issues that arise with a virtual team and we’ll also review the best practices of highly successful virtual teams, along with knowing the common issues to avoid that arise within virtual teams. You’ll walk away from this session with new strategies and tips to better manage a location-diverse team.
