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Hi Wes, That sounds great. I would certainly love to see how your site goes and I am always eager to learn from others whenever possible. Most certainly would like to take up your guest access once your happy with it. Will put an entry in my diary to get back to you after Crimbo!. Best regards, Ian

Hi and thanks for the tip on accessing structures. Have tried it and it certainly does give me a good idea of how others have either kept it simple or rather more complex. Thanks also for the info on what is happening with your moves to Moodle 2.0. I really do agree with you though - whenever possible KEEP IT SIMPLE and I will stick to that ethos for this project. Thanks again. Regards, Ian

Hi, I would be very pleased to hear from anyone out there who is currently using Moodle as their VLE and would be willing to let me access it to see just what it can do and how it can look when setup etc. by people who have already gone through the learning curve. Most of the Moodle sites I come across quite rightly only let you see a minimal amount without the need to login. We currently use a commercially hosted VLE provider for our High school and we are considering the option of moving away from this to our own locally hosted set-up. My job is to build a new school website and use this to front up a moodle VLE. I have been getting to grips with Moodle and slowly re-training my brain to think of Categories and Courses instead of Groups and Resources. It would really help if I could see how others have done this and structured the various curriculum subjects and resources, sorry course etc. below them! Obviously I am not after any access that could possibly allow me to interact in any with courses but purely to see how others have set up the structure and what the look and feel of a half decent Moodle VLE it is like. All help greatly appreciated.

We are with Uniservity and I can only corrobroate what you say about Uniservity not answering questions put to them. We took on the Parental Enagagement module with them only to find out almost immediately that one part, the timetable did not work at all for schools on 2 week timetable cycle!. Since then whilst trying to configure the PE I have come up against significant bugs, the last one took a whole month for them to fix, and that was after asking for a directors name and contact details, which we never were supplied with!. I have found yet more problems with the PE module and yet again appear to be getting nowhere in temrs of receiving a resolution. We are due to go over to 'Life' sometime soon, probably next early next year and to be honest - I am really dreading the future with Uniservity. So much does not work with the PE and I cannot find any school that is currently using 'Life' to get a users opinon. The sandpit version is pretty terrible to work with and try to understand (I too lost had my sandpit login disabled and it took ages to get it back). At the moment Uniservity are really not providing anything like the service we are paying for and I am dreading next year - if we are still with them!!