Introduction

A little background for you.

I teach on a BA Technical and Production Arts degree course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. For the last year I have been investigating Virtual Learning Environment (VLEs) for use with our course, and we are about to launch a pilot system for our next intake of first years at the end of September. The system we are going to use is Moodle (http://moodle.org), an open source, php based system which is gaining a great deal of popularity in the academic world.

There is a great voluntary support community surrounding the Moodle project and I decided to publish a blog of my experience with implementing a Moodle based VLE for our department in the hope that it might be of use or interest to that community and to other teachers, institutions, etc, considering implementing Moodle, or another VLE system.