St Lawrence Primary School, Northamptonshire

St. Lawrence Primary School, Northamptonshire has used its Moodle to deliver spelling tests and to set homework. Children can access the Moodle in school or at home and learn when it suits them. Forums in their Moodle site allow them to communicate with other pupils and their teachers outside school hours which has obvious benefits.

Alongside content created by school teachers all SchoolAnywhere Moodle sites are populated with bespoke PowerPoints which cover the QCA and the curriculum. Here the St. Lawrence Moodle displays 25 bespoke Science PowerPoints for use in class or at home. All PowerPoints are colourful, child friendly and animated to make learning fun and interesting. Our Moodle content engages pupils and saves teachers class preparation time.

SS Osmund and Andrews, Bolton

SS Osmund and Andrews in Bolton use their Moodle to deliver tests to children. Tests are delivered as quizzes in Moodle and can make learning fun and save teachers time. Again quizzes can be accessed in school or at home and the number of attempts allowed can be set. Teachers do not have to mark the tests as they mark themselves and can be exported directly into Excel for further analysis. You can then identify areas of weakness in your class, see how long it takes each pupil to complete the test and much more.

This screenshot shows different tests created by teachers including:

• Harry Potter
• Dr. Who
• Film and Book test
• World Cup
• Crocodile quiz
• And more...

Mount Grace School, Hertfordshire

At Mount Grace School there are in excess of one thousand registered Moodle users amongst the staff and students. They have uploaded a large amount of third-party curricular content to their Moodle, which allows students across Key Stages 4 and 5 to access this content both at home and in school. Through Moodle networking, Mount Grace have connected their Moodle to that of another local school, Hertswood. The two schools are thus able to share online materials and resources, effectively doubling the usefulness of their virtual learning platforms.

Staff from Mount Grace school received in-school training on using Moodle from one of SchoolAnywhere’s expert trainers. Two of their staff also joined up with a member of staff from Hertswood to visit our offices for an in-depth day’s training on the administration of Moodle.

Holy Rosary and St Anne's Catholic Primary School, Leeds

Holy Rosary and St Anne’s Catholic Primary School in Leeds has been a WebAnywhere customer since 2007. In line with Government initiatives, ICT is a vital strand in all areas of the curriculum for Holy Rosary. As such Holy Rosary consulted WebAnywhere about the school’s current ICT provision and how it could move forward and encompass new learning technologies.  It was decided the next step involved implementing a learning platform for the 198 pupils who attend the school. Moodle was chosen as Holy Rosary’s new learning platform as it supports personalised learning, another government initiative for schools. WebAnywhere designed Holy Rosary’s new Moodle and set up the necessary hardware in school, as well as providing the school with I am learning games-based revision software on the Moodle to get the children using it straight away.

Holy Rosary now enjoy full technical support and hosting from WebAnywhere allowing the school to concentrate on promoting home access for pupils and parental engagement with the Moodle.

Perins School, Hampshire

Perins School in Hampshire initially chose Moodle as their school’s virtual learning environment after seeing it in action at an ICT conference. They had considered other learning platforms before making their decision, but the flexibility Moodle offered coupled with the intuitive usability and the fact that the application is open source, sealed the deal.

Users logging onto Perins School Moodle can instantly view subject resources, the latest news feeds from the BBC, and have access to their personal learning plans and e-portfolios. Students, Staff and Parents all have access to the learning platform and are often surveyed on its content, layout and ease of navigation.

Perins chose to opt for a dedicated server to host their Moodle. This ensures that their Moodle can support regular access by users numbering in the thousands, and the choice of 800GB of storage adequately meets the needs of large secondary schools and colleges, allowing them to host large amounts of curricular content on their Moodle.

One of the features of Moodle is the assignment module, which allows students to upload work to the server. Staff are then able to mark their work, grade it and make relevant comments. Work can be returned to students to make changes and resubmit. Grades are then stored in a student’s own ‘mark-book’. Another Moodle feature are ‘self-marking’ quizzes which are used as revision activities and again scores can be retained in the students’ mark-books.