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A few days ago, I tweeted a request to Moodle education users to share their “Moodle Appropriate Use” guidelines. Unfortunately, while I did receive a few retweets, 2-3 remarks regarding how “limiting” guidelines could be, I received few actual responses (one response from a Texas district appears below!). I was surprised by this because Moodles have been around in education for years…surely, more than a few implementers of Moodle have had to come up with appropriate use?

Then, it occurred to me that my request was too general. This isn’t an acceptable use policy just for Moodle. Rather, it provides some ideas on how Moodle might be used appropriately–not acceptable use appropriate, but ideally–in schools. It’s designed as an orientation online course.

This all came about because Moodle courses are now “taking off” in my teaching and learning situation…we need a way to help people understand how Moodle can/should be used (as opposed to using a blog or wiki).

Right now, I have a Moodle Request Form–remember, we have a few thousand teachers, hundred or so principals, support staff, departments–online that people can complete to request a Moodle. Below is the form used…how do you handle this in your District?

Request a Moodle Course for Your Virtual Learning Situation

1. Please enter your name (this is the primary contact for this request).
2. Please enter your GISD email address. Be sure to include the complete email address, such as “mguhlin@gisd.net”
3. Please enter your work phone number.
4. Please choose whether this is a campus or district level professional learning request.
5. Please enter the name of your campus/department below.
6. Did you obtain your campus principal’s or supervisor’s approval before initiating this process?
7. Please indicate which of the ONLINE courses below–IF ANY–you have attended.
8. What will this Moodle Course be used for?
9. Is there anything else you would like to share with us? Perhaps, you teach different courses (e.g. Geometry, Algebra) and need a separate course for each?

What other questions would/do you ask on your Moodle Request Form?

Update 10/11/2009: Moodle Access Rules removed at copyright holder’s request.

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