Hi Barbara.

We have been using Moodle at Ohio University for a few years now in a  
handful of Linguistics and ESL classes. We have been very happy with  
the language support aspects and have transferred much of our  
traditional audio lab functions over to Moodle, thus allowing  
students to do their lab work from nearly any location.

You can visit the site (ohioenglish.com) to have a look.

If you have any specific questions I would be glad to talk with you.

Best,
Greg

Greg Kessler, Ph.D.
Director
International Teaching Associates Program
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Yes, I, for one, Moodle and at the past CALICO conference in Hawaii gave a
presentation on how Moodle was introduced at my university (12,000
students).  In sum, Moodle, as a system is quite workable and reliable.
Your main problem will be human -- many people won't want to switch if they
have already their material on BB -- even though tools exist to convert some
modules, such as the quizzes to Moodle format.

Thus, as long as you are considering it as an *alternative* you should have
no problem.  You might also consider, once it is up and running, disallowing
NEW courses on BB, thus forcing people to move over to the new system.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,
 Tom Robb, Kyoto, Japan


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