Between the increasing mandates towards raising testing performance and budgetary concerns to fund interventions needed to raise such testing performance, schools and educators need a viable avenue to extend the classroom beyond the 55 minute block allotted in the secondary setting that is both practical and cost effective. This project sought to determine the efficacy of utilizing Moodle™—an open source, free Learning Management System—to extend the classroom. Specifically, this project centered on creating video tutorials and a demo class aimed to help teachers utilize this powerful medium. TechSmith's Camtasia Studio® was used to create the video tutorials and a "sandbox" class, which only allowed participating teachers in to experiment with features, was created to help facilitate the learning of how to create and manage an online class with Moodle™. The project itself was successful as demonstrated by the teacher participants' willingness to continue utilizing the site beyond the testing period and a want to utilize the system in the coming years. However, further study will be needed to see pragmatically how to run the site with an increased number of students.
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