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 On 8/9/06, LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > --- Forwarded Message from Barbara Sawhill <[log in to unmask]> > --- > > >Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 01:08:23 -0400 > >From: Barbara Sawhill <[log in to unmask]> > >Subject: Do you Moodle? > >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum > <[log in to unmask]> > >User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Macintosh/20050923) > > Greetings: > > At Oberlin, we are planning to use Moodle v 1.6 > (http://www.moodle.org) as an alternative to Blackboard for language > classes (specifically the LCTLs) starting this fall. We have begun to > tinker and explore, but would appreciate any guidance or support from > LLTI'ers before we go "live" in September. > > Are there others of you out there that are using this tool for this > purpose? If so, would you be willing to share your expertise? > > Please let me know! > > Barbara > > -- > Barbara Sawhill > Director, Cooper International Learning Center > Lecturer, Hispanic Studies Department > Oberlin College > Oberlin, OH 44074 > Voice: 440-775-8595 > Fax: 440-775-6888 > http://www.oberlin.edu/ilc > > President-elect, IALLT > http://www.iallt.org > > Language Lab Unleashed! > http://www.languagelabunleashed.com (the show) > http://www.languagelabunleashed.com/blog (the blog) > > -- **Join PacCALL http://www.paccall.org ** ** 3rd Annual Conference, Nov. 16-19, 2006, Nanjing, China ** ** Thomas Robb, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan ** ** <[log in to unmask]> ** ** http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/index.html **