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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:54:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: darlingb
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Subject: Re: Important - WebCT-using Faculty at Lane
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Hi Joe!

It's Bruce, the WebCT pest!

I am finally all ready to convert all my courses to Moodle!

All four of my online classes this summer are fully evolved and ready to be converted!

They are:

BA 211 Financial Accounting #12265

BA 213 Managerial Accounting #12266

BA 226 Business Law #12268

BT 295 Preofessional Bookkeeping #12286

I would greatly appreciate them being converted over to Moodle so that I don't loose them when WebCT goes bye-bye.

There is another course:

BT262 Personal Finance #11115

I did this course in Summer of 2004 in WebCT, and if it can also be saved and converted to Moodle, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks so much and let me know if I can help in any way!

Bruce L. Darling

>>> Online 05/02/06 9:10 AM >>>
Nope Bruce, 
That won't be a problem.  I don't really need any lead time to do the conversions.  You will need time to reorganize the assignments/handouts in Moodle.  If you could spare 15-30 minutes with me sometime, I could come to your office and show you what's involved so you can have a better idea. 
 
Whenever you are ready to do anything regarding WebCT and Moodle, be sure to be in contact with me directly, Summer included. 
 
Joe 
 
>>> Bruce Darling 05/02/06 8:25 am >>> 
 
I'm not worried about learning Moodle, I'm sure it won't be too hard or even a hassle.  You have correctly detected the problem, the courses are either evolving or being completed and rolled out in the summer (I have four summer onlines!).  I would hate to convert an old or out of date version, and not take advantage to all the work done to add and enhance for the latest, summer class versions.  I may have one or two others we can convert immediately, but the majority are not ready and won't be until summer. 
 
 
Hope this won't be a problem, 
 
 
Bruce L. Darling 
 
 
>>> Online  >>> 
 
The conversions take place using the backups of a WebCT course, so the conversion does not affect any course-in-progress.   Your email seems to indicate to me that the Summer courses are not really complete yet.  Do you have past WebCT classes that are complete and candidates for conversion? 
 
 
Of course, I can do the conversions at any time before Fall 2006, but would like to give you as much lead time as possible to learn the Moodle software (which, I think, is very easy.) 
 
 
Let me know, 
 
 
Joe 
 
 
 
>>> Bruce Darling 05/01/06 11:15 am >>> 
 
 
HI! 
 
 
 
I have several (around 4) classes on WebCT.  I will be teaching them this summer and will then wish to convert them to moodle (there is no other option).  But they won't be ready for conversion until well into the Summer term.  Is this going to present a problem? 
 
 
 
Thanks, 
 
 
 
Bruce L. Darling 
 
 
 
>>> Online  >>> 
 
 
Hello faculty, 
 
 
 
I hope the third week of the term finds you well. This is the second e-mail communication I am sending to all WebCT instructors. An archive of all of these communications can be found at the following web site: 
 
 
 
http://teach.lanecc.edu/moodle 
 
 
 
In addition, an audio podcast version of this email is also located at the above web site. That way, if you would rather not read a lengthy e-mail, you may listen to the same message over the internet through your computer speakers. 
 
 
 
For those of you who have contacted me already, had your courses converted to Moodle, or have notified me that you are no longer using WebCT, I thank you.  If you are aware that the WebCT server and all courses and files on it, and access to it, will not be possible after September, 2006, you can ignore the rest of this e-mail.  I simply want to be sure that no one is left behind. 
 
 
 
 
I want to take this opportunity, to be clearer and more precise than perhaps I was in my first message to you.  In that email, I asked that all WebCT instructors contact the WebCT system administrator, David Walton (at webct@lanecc.edu), and let him know the specific filenames of each of your WebCT classes to convert to Moodle.  Less than 25% percent of the faculty using WebCT have done this so far.  I know that many of you are busy, and that the first announcement came during final exam week last term.   But, believe it or not, nearly a month has passed.  I am also sure that many of you may have thought that you would not need to do this because you did not teach a WebCT class in the Fall. 
 
 
 
Unfortunately, the WebCT server will not be available for any instructor to use, or even the system administrator to access, after September of 2006.  Therefore, regardless of what term you offered your WebCT course in the past, you will need to have those course materials saved and that course converted to Moodle before September, and preferably by the end of this term in June.  (Once converted to Moodle, your files will be safe.  No one expects you to be a Moodle expert and have your courses in tip top shape by June.) 
 
 
 
Of course, some of you may decide not to use a learning management system (LMS) with your future courses.  Others may be changing textbook versions and related publisher materials such as test banks and PowerPoints and no longer need their outdated courses.  Some of you may just want to start from scratch. Regardless, I would like to hear back from each WebCT instructor to be sure that no one is left behind. 
 
 
 
 
I have met with individual instructors and groups of instructors since the announcement of Moodle as the adopted LMS at the end of last term. The faculty webmasters will continue to meet with faculty and offer workshops, advertised both in The Daily and on the faculty web site at: 
 
 
 
http://teach.lanecc.edu 
 
 
 
With only seven weeks left in the term, the time to get started is now.  Although we will be available to help you over the Summer, many faculty would like to avoid any extensive work over the break.  And there are some who will be busy teaching courses Summer Term. 
 
 
 
I encourage you to contact me if you have any questions in the matter of WebCT to Moodle course conversions for both online courses and web-enhanced traditional courses. Starting in the Fall Term, 2006, Moodle will be the only operational LMS at Lane Community College.  To date, the conversions have been very successful, and I hope we can provide that same level of service and satisfaction to all Lane instructors. 
 
 
 
Joe Escobar 
 
 
Faculty Webmaster 
 
 
Lane Community College 

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