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Good Idea for Rollout in a K-12 Installation - orforema<br>
(pardon me if I'm not following the format, I'm just writing here)

-Eliminate all student to student social networking aspects of moodle (kids love myspace, districts hate it)<br>
-Secure the pages the best you can, it's a good idea to eliminate the moodle "open" front page where anonymous people can go through and browse courses and such.<br>
-Since most email services (yahoo, hotmail, gmail, cox, etc) is filtered by our strict district policy of "no email at school", we have a custom script that will enroll students into courses.  If your school district filters access to email services, it's a good idea to enroll students manually.<br>
-Alot of school districts use Active Directory/LDAP for user management.  Integrate moodle into that, and it will create a "Single Sign On" for students across the system.  Students will be less apt to forget their passwords, and it will streamline management.<br>
-Lay guidelines with teachers, teachers need to know what NOT to put up on moodle and what to put up on moodle.<br>
-We have a custom script inside of moodle that checks URL resources upon creation, editing, and viewing against our district's filtering system.  If the site is blocked, it wont let the teacher/student to add/view that URL.<br>

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