Champions are so supportive!

I've had a number of kind emails offering help from the ILT community for this move - some of whom have been using Blackboard for many years but can no longer afford the expense of the all singing/all dancing version. I have noticed that people are using this as an opportunity to encourage staff to use Moodle more dynamically and less as a repository or filing cabinet. This is a positive spin on a big move and I intend to pick it up and run with it. Moodle does have the advange of being like an iPhone - it's being marketed very well so a number of staff might take to it more than they did Blackboard.

Yesterday afternoon someone asked me to help them make major changes to their cross college Blackboard site. I told him about the move to Moodle (he said, "Surely the company will move all the information from Blackboard to Moodle?" I am fairly sure that this isn't part of their service... and that there is no wizard/block to enable a direct transfer). Although Moodle isn't yet installed here, I didn't think it was worth making the changes he suggested on Blackboard. So he will update some of the information and think about reorganising it when we move over.

Who moves 'stuff' from Blackboard to Moodle? I think it's going to be me/the e-learning team. Although many people will gladly get stuck into Moodle (I am hopeful), I think it's unfair to expect them to spend time moving things over. I may regret this idea but it feels like the right thing to do.