ELIS For Moodle Platform

ELIS is an acronym for Remote-Learner’s Enterprise Learning Intelligence Suite for Moodle. ELIS for Moodle was built in response to the needs of our clients who require an enterprise level of functionality that Moodle does not offer on its own. ELIS is not an add-on to Moodle. Moodle is part of ELIS; the course management part. ELIS is a suite of learning applications that allows an organization to manage its entire learning enterprise. ELIS core can be supplemented with options needed to support learners in K-12, Post-Secondary and Corporate/Government learning environments. ELIS consists of four core systems, integrating seamlessly with each other and Moodle:

Curriculum Management
Notifications
Reporting
Content Repository

ELIS CM: Curriculum Management

Standard Moodle is "course-centric" with users being managed course-by-course and reports generated course-by-course, leaving the Moodle administrator with a limited ability to see a big picture view of student progress. ELIS CM overcomes this limitation by allowing administrators to track learner progress in entire curricula or learning programs. It also allows the administrator to generate and keep learner transcripts without having to maintain student data in Moodle.

ELIS CM gives administrators the ability to create site wide groups of users called Clusters. For example, groups can be created based on user location, supervisor, job role, academic department or discipline and more. These groups can be populated manually or through custom profile fields in Moodle and then used to track the group’s progress and/or enroll them in curricula. Cluster leaders can be assigned to these groups to have access to the reports specific to their Cluster or group. The use of Clusters can greatly simplify many of Moodle’s administrative tasks.

Finally, ELIS CM offers functionality to define and track learning activities from all learning environments, including:

Online courses
Face-to-face classroom courses
Blended courses
Synchronous online webinar sessions
OJT
Any admin defined learning environment

Administrators can bring in off-line course work or learning programs and manage and track them with their Moodle courses. These “outside” courses will become a part of student transcripts and will be reported on accordingly.

ELIS Notifications: Auto Notification System

ELIS ANS provides the administrator with the mechanism to send out automatic notifications on specific events that occur within Moodle. For example, a notification can be sent out when a user enrolled in a course. This notification is sent out via Moodle Messages, which will then go to the user’s designated email address if they are not logged into Moodle at the time the notification went out. Notifications can be automated for:

Class Enrollment
Class Completion
Class Not Started
Number of Days After Enrollment
Class Not Completed
Number of Days Before Class Ends
Curriculum Completed
Curriculm Not Completed
Number of Days Before Curriculum Ends
Track Enrollment
Course Recurrence
Number of Days Before Course Recurs

ELIS BI: Business Intelligence Reporting

In addition to the reports available within Moodle, ELIS BI offers a variety of standard reports to aid in the tracking and reporting needs organization administrators must have to verify learner progress toward goals, objectives, outcomes and completions. ELIS BI includes seemless integration between the JasperServer Enterprise reporting engine and the ELIS CM system (available from an intuitive dashboard) to meet these needs. Standard ELIS BI reports include:

My User Report
Users report
Course Completion by Cluster
Curricula
Class Activity by Course Group
Class Activity Report with Role Parameter
Course Completion Gas Gauge
Forum Participation
New Registrants grouped by Student
New Registrants grouped by Course
Non-Starter Report
Outcomes Report
Site-wide Course Completion Report
Site-wide ELIS Transcript Report
Site-wide Time Summary

ELIS CMS: Content Management Repository

ELIS CMS integrates the Alfresco Enterprise Content Repository with Moodle. This tightly woven integration allows for site wide file sharing, user file spaces, searching content metadata and more. With ELIS CMS, anytime a user accesses the Moodle file system there is a drop down menu for selecting the repository to upload a file to, or select a file from Alfresco. ELIS CMS features include: