The story so far
I’ve had a quick look at the stats for the school websites we’ve used over the last year (when I’ve done precious little!). It is slightly complicated by the fact that some people visit different domains; www.gcus.net, learn.gcus.net or celebrate.gcus.net.
The average daily number of visitors to our school website is currently between 100 and 150 , depending on the month. Our usage in school is counted as one visitor. It may include some automated visits from Google and other search engines, but you can count on about 80 of those being “real people” accessing the site from outside of school.
Each visitor looks at an average of 10 pages before leaving. This means that the site has been relatively successful at maintaining people’s interest and providing them with useful information.
Our Moodle installation has:
- 1500 registered users (we have about 850 pupils and 60 staff, 600 users have logged in in the last 6 months)
- 275 courses (for example Maths has courses for each level of Key Stgae 3, each tier of GCSE and each unit of A Level)
- 4500 resources (each page, link, quiz, image and PDF is a resource)
- average of 150 log ins a day (more logins to our website than recorded visitors because the school Internet address is just registered as one visitor but a lot of students log in to the website from school)
- trained over 50 staff to add content
Above are some of the pics users chose to represent themselves on the website.
Next steps
- I’ll schedule a full backup of Moodle to run tonight.
- Over the next few days I will upgrade our installation from version 1.6 up to 1.8, the latest version. Expect a few things to break temporarily! But enjoy the new features, such as customisable profiles and improved roles allowing more control over who can see what, accessibility & usability improvements, Moodle networking to join multiple instalations together which may be useful for offering Moodle to our family of schools and improvements to quizzes, assignments and lessons.
- Possibly compile a brief survey for student, staff and parental users to better guage their usage, hopes and disasters of using Moodle.
- Discuss ways of using Moodle to better support teaching and learning, initially through discussions with a range of staff.
To find out more about Moodle visit www.moodle.org