Open Source Learning

The company and products

Open Source Learning

• Owned and run by Andrew Hancox
• Network of highly experienced freelancers
• Three consultants/trainers, one Spanish speaking
• U/X expert front end developer
• Content creator
• AWS certified engineer
• Full service
• A full suite of products to support Moodle:
• Inward facing - e.g. Corporate LMS
• Outward facing - e.g. training sales channel partners
• E-commerce enabled
• Front end development
• Hosting
• Configuration and training

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Andrew Hancox

• 10 years of experience with Moodle
• 5,328 lines of code across 52 commits in Moodle core
• 59 accepted pull requests into Moodle plugins on github
• 79 commits in Totara

Clients

• 18 clients with 23 production Moodle sites
• Multi-sector - Pharma, Tech, SAAS, Publishing, Healthcare
• High profile clients – 2 NHS trusts, Nikei 225 listed pharma, $3.9Bn tech company, South American government, UN
• Small clients – local adult education center, further education startup

Theming

Theming

Theming

Theming

Products

• Product first approach to all client requirements
• Scale
• Value
• No hacks
• All products are one or more Moodle plugins with no core hacks
• Idiomatic
• Use of capabilities
• AMD modules
• Language packs
• Standard rendering functions
• Mustache templates

At mentions

• Slack style functionality to mention users around Moodle
• Pluggable
• Forums
• Configure to allow mentioning forum subscribers or enrolled users
• Auto subscribe mentioned users to the forum
• Notify them they have been mentioned
• Add click action to their name within the post
• Activity introduction
• Course summary

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At mentions

At mentions

Version control

• Track changes to course content
• Compare to current/previous version
• Identify individual responsible
• Download snapshot of activity/course
• Can be enabled by default for new activities or courses
• Automatic mode
• Commit is made immediately with no message
• Manual mode
• Commit is made manually
• User able to make multiple changes in a single commit
• Custom commit message

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Version control

Version control

Version control

Report builder

• A comprehensively updated and enhanced version of the GPL v3 report builder tool from Totara seedlings
• Refactored into a local plugin with no core hacks
• Re-built to work with Moodle bootstrap themes
• New set of report sources created to support Moodle entities
• Cohorts
• Activities – page, label, questions, quizzes, quiz attempts
• New custom profile fields created to drive reporting
• Standard custom profile field plugins that integrate with Moodle functionality e.g. profile forms, SSO field mappings, bulk uploads etc.
• Used to pre-filter reports

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Taxonomy

• Hierarchical taxonomies
• Each taxonomy can be used in multiple ways
• User profile field
• Database field
• Course custom field
• Option to allow users to create terms while entering values

Taxonomy

Related user

• Builds a hierarchical tree of users
• Mainly used for reporting
• Detects and prevents loops in hierarchy

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Reporting

• Choose a report source
• In SQL terms a base table with a set of joins
• E.g. label activity instances, cohorts, users, courses, enrolments
• Columns
• E.g. activity name, user name, enrolment date
• Filters for user to apply
• E.g. Enrolled before, email contains
• Pre-filters – exclude data from user view
• Only show data for line reports (direct or in-direct)
• Only show data for users attached to child terms of a hierarchy
• Graphs

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Reporting

• Columns
• E.g. activity name, user name, enrolment date

Reporting

• Filters for user to apply
• E.g. Enrolled before, email contains

Reporting

• Pre-filters – exclude data from user view
• Only show data for line reports (direct or in-direct)

Reporting

• Pre-filters – exclude data from user view
• Only show data for users attached to child terms of a hierarchy

Reporting

• Access control

Reporting

• Embeddable as block

Reporting

• Top line statistics can be embedded using a context aware filter

Reporting

• Browse accessible reports

Reporting

• Schedule delivery by email

Reporting – export to PDF

• Download or schedule email good looking reports

Reporting

• Columns can be dynamic e.g. enrolled courses by user
• Columns can be graphical, e.g. line graph

Reporting

• Columns can define expanders which inject an iframe – e.g. view submitted answers to questions

E-commerce

• Most ambitious product to date
• Far in advance of other platforms on the market
• Totally embedded and integrated
• No external dependencies except the payment gateway
• Massively more flexible
• Support for dynamic tax calculation

E-commerce

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• Each product is associated with one or more benefits e.g.
• Enrolment on a course
• Access to a restricted activity or course topic
• Booking on a scheduled event
• Quiz attempt
• Membership of a cohort
• Ability to log in to the site

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E-commerce

• Each product is associated with one or more price which can be
• One off – perpetual
• One off – fixed duration of access
• Recurring – monthly or annually
• Volume discount
• Multiple units per order
• Deep links to take user straight to the payment gateway to purchase a specific product/price – example
• Non-logged in users can purchase products which are then linked to either an existing account with a matching email or an account dynamically created with registration completed on first login

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E-commerce – edit product

E-commerce browse products

• Relevant products can be browsed by the user
• Filtered by product prerequisites and benefits the user has already purchased

E-commerce – Quiz attempt benefit

• Can be purchased from product catalog or from within the quiz

E-commerce – Course enroment benefit

• Can be purchased from product catalog or from the course enrolment screen

E-commerce – Activity/section access

• Can be purchased from product catalog or from within the course

E-commerce – purchase for team

• Users can purchase products for other users individually or in bulk
• On completion of the purchase the user is presented with a voucher that they can distribute
• The voucher consists of a link that users follow, at which point they either login or create an account which instantly receives the purchased benefits

Certifications

• Build complex lists of requirements based on course completions and re-certification.
• Configure emails to remind users to re-certify.
• Set validity period
• Automatically reset course completion data

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Certifications

• Build PDF certificates

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Certifications

• Users can view their status

Certifications

• Configure reminder emails

Certifications

• Manually award certifications
• Upload CSV files of legacy data

Certifications

• Report on user data

Certifications

• Browse
• Follow
• See status