Considering using Moodle/Joomdle, a few questions

Hi!

I have a new project that I've been tasked to do and I'm seeking the best way to create a site for a music instructor.

The instructor currently has 60 students. There will be more in the future. I need something easy enough to be able to train the instructor how to do this via video tutorials. I want to keep it simple for him.

What I need the site to do is the following:

• Have regular website pages created in Joomla
• Have a member only section accessed via login module where there is a unique page created for each music student that will be a repository for lesson items needed. Only that one specific student user would be able to see the assets placed on their unique page (not public, for all members)
• Each student gets their own private page that they are directed to on login
• There are some shared group pages which everyone will need to have access to
li] The instructor needs to be able manually create the user account and assign the un/pw to student and give that to them. All the 'courses' are free as they are part of the live teaching component, this member page is just to deliver assets to individual students.[/li]

• The instructor will need to know how to create the individual student pages as well as shared resources and assign to the student user
• The items that will need to be placed on the customized student page are Mp3 files, PDFs, and video (via All Videos or YouTube)
• -The instructor will need to be able to manually delete a student profile and student page

Would Moodle/Jommdle be the best solution?

I'd like to test an installation to see if it might work. Do I get Moodle and Joomdle seperately? How do I install a fresh site with Joomla/Moodle/Joomdle? If someone can point me to some step by step instructions that would be great.

Thanks!
Michelle

For the installation and configuration of Joomdle into both Joomla and Moodle you can refer to the documentation tab on this website.

Is Moodle right for you? My first thought is that Moodle (and therefore Joomdle) is an overkill for your project. That said, you do not really talk about the courses that much but instead you taught about user / member / student profiles and pages.

Some possibilities could include:
- membership management with each member having pages
- forums for assets and hidden forums for defined users (a lot of maintenance)
- community applications like jomsocial leveraging the user walls and groups
- multi-user blogs where each user gets their own blog site
- etc.

Personally I would be looking at where the content is created, who creates it, who needs it, and what security is placed on it.

Hi Chris,

There are no courses being offered.

All the instructor wants to do is have one dedicated private page per student and some pages which all students can access with one easy login.

The content is Mp3s, PDFs, text and movies that he will upload and then place onto the student page or group page.

He is not offering a course, this is just a private login repository for files created specifically for individual students and groups.

At first I though of just using Joomla with ACL or perhaps JUGA or something like that. But then someone suggested I check into Moodle. The suite does look to be overkill for what I want to do, so perhaps doing it the first way I envisioned is better.

Any suggestions?

Again, the teacher wants each student to have a unique login un/pw and their own private page as a repository for files which no other student can access on the site.

Thanks!
Michelle

Hi Michelle,

Moodle would certainly be too much. That said, I don't think JUGA would be right either. Personally, I would look into document management, community, forum type tools. I would suggest one of the biggest considerations will be the amount of administration the instructor is required to do.

Regards,

Chris

Hi Chris,

Thanks for that info. Would you be able to suggest anything that could make this work? I really want to use Joomla to do this. I'm not sure how a forum would work to deliver individual pages to students, tho I've not worked a lot with forums.

Thanks again!