Moodle

West Sussex is trying out a piece of open source software called Moodle. It seems (so far) to work well with programs like Hot Potatoes.

What I have done so far is on http://learning.sackville.w-sussex.sch.uk/

It is very rudimentary at the moment but we have to start somewhere.

Another interesting development is that the online test for KS3 ICT involves database and spreadsheets which are clearly not Microsoft. This suggests that the over dependence on Microsoft in education is misplaced. Pupils will need to adapt to different software. Downloading some free open source software would give them that choice.