Jasmin Hodge

Jasmin Hodge

Site based IT/Network support

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Business Development Manager | Empowering educators with open source, scalable e-learning solutions | Driving customer success and managing partnerships | Specialising in #Moodle, #MoodleWorkplace, #Totara and #Mahara

  • Education

    • Microsoft Training Academy

      2001 - 2006
      EXAM 70-217 Windows 2000 Active Directory Services pass

      Activities and Societies: Contributed to decisions made about IT infrastructure in college working groups. Key part of the IT team in the planning and preparation of the upgrade of an NT server and workstation environment to Windows 2000 Active Directory Services.

    • Forth Valley College

      2001 - 2003
      Advanced Diploma Web Development for e-commerce
  • Experience

    • John Laing Partnership

      Jan 1995 - Jan 2000
      Site based IT/Network support

      IT Implementation Co-ordinator

    • Forth Valley College

      Apr 2001 - Feb 2021

      Manage the college's Moodle and Mahara sites, leading the Moodle support team with the support and promotion of the College's embedded learning technologies. Forth Valley College deliver a wide range of subjects in many levels across 3 campuses. To ensure all learners have an active learning experience consistently throughout their studies, the team must ensure that all support, guidance and opportunities to independently learn new skills are current and available in a way that is intuitive, flexible and informative. Accessibility and eInclusion is always considered when offering this support in different formats.Chairing the eInclusion Working group and the more recent eLearning Working Group enables me to connect with all departments and services, forming a skill set combined that can help with a college wide approach to technology, as well as identifying low engagement and training needs. Show less Working with the IT support team delivering 1st, 2nd and 3rd level support for all staff across campuses. Managing the college's Windows NT server environment for uninterrupted service and a responsibility for the back up and storage of core College systems according to the IT Service Level Agreement.Ensuring documentation to be relevant and up to date was essential to the team delivering hardware, software and network support effectively.Key member of various project teams including: Implementation of a Microsoft Exchange email for all staff and learners, a new Finance system and the upgrade of the Windows NT environment to a Windows Active Directory network Show less

      • Learning Technology Co-ordinator

        Apr 2001 - Feb 2021
      • Organisational Learning Coordinator

        Jun 2008 - May 2018
      • Training and Software Officer

        Apr 2005 - Jun 2008
      • IT Support Analyst

        Apr 2001 - Apr 2005
    • ELearning Alliance

      Jan 2011 - Aug 2014
      Director of the Board

      The role as a Director for the eLearning Alliance is to support the alliance in representing Scotland’s eLearning community, making business connections for its members, and coordinating access to consultancy and research, local and national events, and fostering an active network of members.

    • Moodle moot 2014

      Jan 2013 - Jan 2013
      Committee member

      Contributed to decisions with the conference programme and collaborated on ideas with the committee members. Helped the organisers when required and will be responsible for chairing sessions during the Moot.

    • Catalyst IT Europe Limited

      Feb 2021 - now

      Moodle, Totara and Mahara Consultant

      • Business Development Manager

        Jan 2024 - now
      • Senior eLearning Consultant

        Sept 2021 - Jan 2024
      • E-learning Consultant

        Feb 2021 - Sept 2021
  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Jasmin Hodge
      itech 2013 award 'Learner Ambassador' Category JISC RSC Scotland Jun 2013 Case study of working with the learner representative of Forth Valley college's e-inclusion group which I chair. She reached her goal of encouraging learners to share ways that they use technology to support their personal learning, combined with the role of evaluating new assistive technologies available and reporting back to the group to contribute in the decisions for new initiatives.
    • Awarded to Jasmin Hodge
      The 2011 OASES Award for Institutional Progress on Equality using Technology JISC Techdis Dec 2011 JISC TechDis seeked nominations for good practices in inclusive teaching and learning from institutions that believed in taking accessibility and inclusion seriously.
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Brownie guider

      Issued by Brownie guide association on Jan 2013
      Brownie guide associationAssociated with Jasmin Hodge