Project also further developed the departments online enrolment and payment system. More details available in project final report. Used PHP Object-Oriented Programming (OOP).Classes have been created to represent the student and a course, allowing simple data retrieval (during the login process), reuse and manipulation.

It is believed that the flexibility and code reuse offered by OOP will allow future developments and improvements to be applied to the online enrolments system more easily and ensure a more stable platform.

Produced customized moodle assignment module. Technical development implemented essential functionality not available in the standard Moodle assignment module. Including:
• Assignment deadline extensions (as a new module and modifications to existing code)
• Registry workflow (to reflect the process required by the Department and University for handling assignments)
• New Capabilities and Roles in the Moodle permissions system to match Departmental roles and processes
• Addition of optional extra input parameters (e.g. word count) at assignment submission

final phase of the project will produce a number of case studies which will draw out affordances of appropriate technology use, the administrative issues they have been dealing with and the delivery of courses, as well as generic content/

using LDAP for authentication

Team are also hoping to develop 3 -4 design "models" which will provide generic information for courses to help academics effectively set up and run online courses/activities. They are working with academics to decide the most appropriate formats for this (eg word document narrative or moodle package or both). Again these willl hopefully be available as OERs and shared in multiple spaces including Cloudworks.

Had a long discussion re outputs and output formats. Team would like to make as much of their outputs available as OERs and think that they will probably make them available in a variety of formats including word documents, moodle packages, content packages etc. Team are liaising with the OpenSpire project re their experiences in the OER pilot. CETIS to send information about OER developments to date re tagging, rss, aggregation, google search optimization etc

Project also looking at XCRI as a way to import course information into Moodle and hope to build an XCRI import for moodle tool. The OXCRI project has already produced XCRI for most course at Oxford. Team may look for some support in this area. Interested in the XCRI working group, but due to timescales probably not realistic for them to get involved.

Project are also enhancing the existing online payment system through development of profile pages for students (which is fed from existing student records) and a "shopping basket" facility to help students pick courses. Payment is handled by a 3rd party service. Discuss the possibility of developing this approach of integrating student records system, personal webpage and moodle into a SUM. CETIS will contact Dave Balch about progressing this idea.

Team are building an moodle extension module which they will use to extend the functionality of the existing assessment module. The extention will allow them greater flexibility for using it not only for assignment submission but for other assesment activities such as quizzes. This extension module will be shared back into the Moodle development community.

Team have begun to add extra fields to Moodle and have been experimenting with PHP etc. So far they haven't faced any major issues working with Moodle. They are using wireframes to outline the functional requirements they need to develop.

Have found that in general the moodle tools are good to work with as is most of the documentation.

Main developments so far have been around the project/department's installation and customization of Moodle. Their installation a version of the main Uni Moodle build.