Actual users. Its difficult to come up with meaningful use figures so we approach the issue conservatively. We class heavy student users as those who have used all the main bits of functionality in the VLE over the course of the year (eg. posted to a discussion room, completed an MCQ, etc...). There are quite a lot more who still use the VLE but not as intensively. We don't have any tracked measure of performance against logged traffic, but we keep an eye on general performance throughout the busiest periods at the start of terms (and people tend to moan if its ever running slowly).
Comparisons would be interesting to hear about...
Paul
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From: Virtual Learning Environments on behalf of Rachel Ellaway
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Paul - are your 14000 users actual or potential users? In other words
are they the number of students on courses signed up to the VLE, or the
number you have using it in a certain time period. Do you have any
measure of VLE performance against actual logged traffic?
Rachel Ellaway
e-Learning Manager
MVMLTS
The University of Edinburgh
HRB Link Building
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Edinburgh, EH8 9XD
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On 11 Nov 2004, at 18:32, Paul Wheatley wrote:
> I'd be interested to get a feel for the costs of hardware for running
> commercial VLEs. We happily run Bodington here on one server (only 2
> processors, and not a high spec), with over 14000 heavy student users
> of the system (and far more occasional users). Yet I've heard that the
> minimum setup for Blackboard required multiple servers for modest user
> numbers. It would be interesting to get a comparison of setup/costs
> with other VLE software?
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul Wheatley
>
> VLES Team Leader
>
> University of Leeds
>
>
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> From: Virtual Learning Environments on behalf of Peter Trethewey
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>
>
> This is right as far as my own college goes
>
> We are running a pilot using Moodle in one school and this is largely
> teacher driven. Next year we might decide that Moodle is adopted by the
> whole college.
>
> Incidentally, we never purchased an official VLE but have always used
> free facilities (like Smartgroups on Freeserve).
>
> We are also likely to complement Moodle with the extra communication
> facilities that are available in LAMS.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Paul Brown
> Sent: 10 November 2004 10:13
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>
> I think that 'free' VLEs are being used more widely in FE, but are
> generally not 'officially' adopted by institutions as a whole.
> Anecdotally, I would say that it tends to be individual or small groups
> of tutors who are experimenting with the likes of Moodle with their
> learning groups, whereas whole institutions have tended to go for the
> 'safer' commercial options.
>
> Paul.
>
> Paul Brown,
> Outreach Support Officer,
> Learning & Skills,
> Becta
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Minshull [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 10 November 2004 09:18
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> At 09:12 10/11/2004 +0000, Stuart Lee said:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> many thanks for replying to my hasty survey on VLE funding. As
>> promised
>
>> here is a summary of the replies (anonymised of course),
>
>
> Thanks for this Stuart. It would be interesting to see how these
> results
> change over time too, say if the exercise was repeated in a year or so.
>
> I'm a bit surprised the "free" VLEs seem to have so little penetration.
>
>
> Geoff Minshull
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