Over the last four years the University of Wales, Newport has been making extensive use of Moodle as part of it's web based learning environment, both internally via it's "myLearningEssentials" platform and externally as part of it's "Outside Learning Network".
During this time, usage of the system has grown exponentially and with it have come feature requests from both staff and students and so for the last nine months, members of the CDEL team have been working closely with key stakeholders to develop and test a brand new Moodle system to replace the existing one site for the forthcoming academic year. This new system contains many bespoke features which adress all of the requests made by staff and students, meeting the logistic, strategic and pedagogical needs of everyone contributing to the quality of the student experience within the University of Wales, Newport.
Powered by Moodle 2, the look and feel of the site has also been refreshed and modernised to fit in with the next generation of myLearningEssentials, which itself has been rebuilt from the ground up and will be known as "myNewport", being developed by the university web team alongside the Moodle project.
Over the last few weeks, the CDEL team have worked to transfer all existing modules from the current system to the new one, this process is now complete and the new site is now live and ready for staff to start building the next generation of online and blended courses for the forthcoming academic year.
