Would an LMS be better for this?

[nikaso]

We currently run an educational scheme which is made up of three different awards of escalating levels of difficulty.  For argument's sake, this is the 'School Name Diploma' and has three awards as part of it, Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3.  To achieve each level, there are about 30 Microsoft Teams assignments to complete.  We are then required to report on this to SLT, covering things such as completion rate for different forms with variables such as SEN/PP status, etc.

 

At present, I've got all the forms in Years 7 to 9 set up as individual Microsoft Teams.  What was meant to happen is that there is a master list of assignments and an "insert random admin person here" was meant to assign these tasks to each form team.  Unfortunately, over the 2-plus years we've run this, there have been cockups aplenty with duplicate assignment names, kids having the wrong email addresses and a host of other problems.  This all means when we've tried to use MS Access and PowerBI to report on the various aspects SLT wants, it is a complete mess.

 

I'm trying to convey to SLT that what they are asking for is effectively an LMS but not wanting to pay anything for it either in terms of software licensing or staff resourcing.  Does anyone have any recommendations for an LMS that would fulfil the following criteria? 

 

• Can import assignments from Microsoft Teams
• Can import users/teams from Microsoft Teams
• Can produce reports that can be exported to excel (I would assume this is pretty standard)
• Uses Microsoft SSO

 

Any tips gratefully received. I've spent the entire day today trying to unpick the exports from Teams and sanitise them into something usable in Power BI!

 

 

 

 

[dmj]

Sounds like another "We want Google classroom for pedagogy, but all we got is MS teams" thread.

 

There's a moodle integration that would likely fit your needs:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/install-moodle-integration

[nikaso]

My last experience with Moodle is what you saved on cost was more than made up for by the setup and maintenance of it going forward, admittedly this was some years ago, is it any better?

[dmj]

1 hour ago, nikaso said:

My last experience with Moodle is what you saved on cost was more than made up for by the setup and maintenance of it going forward, admittedly this was some years ago, is it any better?

Same old Moodle. It's the best of a bad bunch though. Still less effort than an 0365->Google migration

[nikaso]

3 minutes ago, dmj said:

Same old Moodle. It's the best of a bad bunch though. Still less effort than an 0365->Google migration

Fair enough, might have to put my big boy pants on and have a proper look!