We're looking forward to our next Moodle Group Meeting on Tuesday 16th November 2010 we have an interesting range of speakers who will be sharing their real world experiences of implementing and maintaining Moodle sites.  Full details at:    http://www.howtomoodle.com/moodle-groups

Richard Summers, Pickfords Group Compliance Manager will be explaining how Pickfords made the decision to migrate to a Moodle based platform in 2009, migrating from an existing system. The entire evaluation, development and roll out has been achieved using internal resources and pre-existing materials.

Pickfords is the leading removals firm with a 400 year history. Both personal and business clients rely on high levels of knowledge and customer service to ensure that all goes well at this potentially stressful time. Pickfords are Commercial Mover of the Year 2010.

Lorne Stather, Director of Education at The Gemmological Association of Great Britain will share the issues faced by Gem-A as part of its migration, including choosing a system that could grow and expand to encompass future expectations while ensuring ease of use for both students and tutors, migration costs, database interaction with existing systems and the increased administration requirements of running an on-line system.

Gem-A offered its first on-line course on Moodle in September 2008 and two years later it is still developing and improving its on-line education facilities.

Plus I'll be doing a short session on considerations for managing a busy stand alone Moodle site.