I presented a series of Moodle workshops at a London conference earlier this week. There was strong interest in Moodle and interestingly about 75% of the workshop attendees had not yet seen it.
 
Strong themes from the groups were requirements for knowledge sharing, testing, SCORM package deployment, delivery of content and tracking. Some of the requirements e.g. progress tracking and conditional management of activities is not available in the current version of Moodle but there was the the news that these are in the forthcoming Moodle 2.0. As many of the organisations represented were at the start of their explorations into online, the anticipated time-scales associated with Moodle 2.0 being OK for production use will probably coincide quite nicely.
 
It was good to clarify what Moodle doesn't do in the sessions and also great to discover how closely these requirements align to some course catalogue/learner course selection proposals we've been putting together recently.
 
A big lesson for me too over the day... don't agree to do 45 minute sessions on Moodle again. We really pared these down but allowed space for questions so that the sessions were as relevant as possible to the attendees. So many questions! We'd scheduled a fun quiz with a Course Creator Moodle Manual as the prize for the highest score but only had time to run one of those.
 
I was asked if I would be posting my PowerPoint slides anywhere (Hi, Fong!). I'm not big on lots of PPT slides in presentations if I can avoid it so, unsupported, they don't really give much of a feel for what was said during the presentation part of my session. So I've just posted one slide here which reflects a theme that we are coming back to repeatedly in our consultancy and training work - People. All of the technology needs to be appropriate, working, secure etc. but many organisations still seem to be led by the technology rather then what they need to achieve with it.