Moodle Pilot Evaluations for Winter 2010

We've completed the evaluations from our Winter 2010 Moodle Pilot. Here is a summary of the results from both the student and faculty evaluations. More details from each can be found in links at the bottom.

Winter Moodle Pilot Summary
Summary of Student Feedback
208 submitted, 31 responded (15% response)

Overall, the student response suggested a medium to strong preference for Moodle over Blackboard CE8.  When compared as a whole, there were no categories which students preferred Blackboard over Moodle, though some preferred specific functionality of the Discussion Board in BB CE8 over the Forums in Moodle. However, there appears to be a 2/3rds preference for Moodle among students that responded.

The most common complaint was around forum subscription and e-mails that were sent to their MyPCC account.

Full evaluation from winter term students (pdf)


Faculty Summary

6/5 faculty polled, 100% response rate.

The faculty pilot participants felt that Moodle was easier to learn, use, and is more intuitive than Blackboard CE8, but that both were flexible and allowed them to effectively teach online courses. The format of the faculty evaluation differed in that we asked them a series of questions at the beginning of the pilot and at the end, comparing functions in Moodle to Blackboard.

On the whole, the pilot participants felt that Moodle functioned better than Blackboard in all categories except in "setting up the grade book," "ability to customize course layout,"  "Gradebook," and "Mail."

The biggest cons to using Moodle were

• Lack of internal Mail
• Grading and Gradebook
• Forum functionality/Grading
• Breadcrumbs unhelpful
• Lack of selective release

The biggest pros to using Moodle were

• Look and Feel (consistency)
• Stability
• Simplicity / Ease of Use
• LaTeX

Full faculty evaluation for Winter Moodle Pilot (pdf)