DESIGNING AN INTERACTIVE USER-GUIDE FOR MOODLE
DESIGNING AN INTERACTIVE USER-GUIDE FOR MOODLE

Summary/Abstract: There are many advantages to open-source software: no licence fees, freedom to adapt the code to suit one’s needs and (usually) a community of enthusiasts behind it ready to help out. As far as open source Learning Content Management Systems go, Moodle is probably the best known and most used e-Learning platform. But in terms of support for users, it lacks a comprehensive and effective user guide. Because each Moodle instance is different, creating a tutorial for one platform using screen capture works only for that instance, since another will use a different theme, and different blocks and settings. This paper aims to study the possibility to set up advanced interactions, similar to those from screen captures made in Adobe Captivate, and load a coherent workflow in a so called “tutorial mode” using the live platform, in order to teach a new user how to navigate the system and take full advantage of its possibilities.

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