I’m (Brian) part of a reference group that’s been assembled to give advice and feedback for the redesign of the Learning Management System, Learn. It’s being upgraded to Moodle 4.0, and they’re taking the chance to redesign things a bit.

As the library rep, they want me to funnel feedback to the group from you fine librarians. Carmen Weaver is leading the work, and in our meeting today she said something along the lines of “There’s no better time to ask for something in Learn.”

You can reach me at brian.mcelwaine@canterbury.ac.nz

Subject librarians, I’m interested in your feedback since you’re in there a bit and spend time with students.

LAC, if there are any issues related to your work, I’m keen to hear about it, though I’m also assuming Library Digital Services will be talking to them independently.

MB folks, we have Mary Boyce on the team, but I would welcome any input or suggestions you have about how we could take the opportunity to enrich the platform.

ELS, particularly those of you that have recent memory of studying at UC, but also all of you that help students deal with the vagiaries of Learn, I’m really keen to hear from you about what would help.

You can watch an introductory video about Moodle 4.0 here: https://youtu.be/sZxZ_YzsD_w

If you’d like to take a look at how it’s shaping up here at UC, you can watch some of the meeting from this morning. Donna Thompson’s demo runs from about the 12:30 mark to about 22:30. The link to the meeting is here: https://ucliveac-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/carmen_weaver_canterbury_ac_nz/ETmjdKC2JuBHrAZCTzyxJekB1TRf7pEO08XzrF9yR041VQ?e=Pd7VMG&isSPOFile=1

Thanks!

Brian