Moodle HQ have launched their highly anticipated 3.2 major version release. This latest version of world’s most popular LMS platform includes several new features and major improvements:

Boost

A brand new core theme which boast better navigation within and between courses, and more space on screen for course content, giving you a clear, consistent way to configure key pages such as courses and activities; and a unified experience with the Moodle mobile app.

Messaging and notifications

Moodle 3.2 has new messaging and notifications functions that are user-friendly and easy to use. Now you have the ability to easily configure how you want Moodle to notify you about important events on the web site – via email or direct mobile notifications. Moodle’s new messaging functionality also means you can find and contact other users easily on any device.

User tours

You can now welcome your users to your Moodle site with your own custom tours of the interface; allowing you to Create and share walkthroughs with teachers and students with the user tours feature in Moodle 3.2 and highlight key aspects of your Moodle site.

New media player plugins

Moodle 3.2 brings a range of new media options with its new default player Video.js – which now provides industry-leading accessibility and usability for video and audio in your content. There is also full support for captions and subtitles for any video in any part of the site, and with pluggable support you can now also add new video players easily to anywhere in your site.

New responsive/accessible graphs on all reports

Users can now generate interactive and responsive charts with a brand new graph library in Moodle 3.2, allowing them to understand what’s happening in their course by viewing graph information in a summarised list format. For developers: Chart.js has been chosen for the next generation graph API backend because of its clean-cut aesthetics and responsive scaling to screen size.

LTI 2 compliance

Moodle 3.2 is now compliant with LTI 2, so It’s now easier than ever to seamlessly access shared content. Cartridges have also been implemented so that people interested in accessing your LTI tools will now know more about the content you’ve shared and also get handy information such as a title, icon and description. There is also the exciting new addition of Content Item – a powerful tool that allows users to configure and customise LTI tools to their specific needs so they can get the most out of the tools they’re accessing.

Rubrics calculations improvements

You asked and they’ve listened – welcome to improved rubric marking improvements in Moodle 3.2. Arbitrary scoring is now possible with the rubric marking function in Moodle 3.2, and competency frameworks can now be easily shared between Moodle sites and also the repository on moodle.net.

Summary

As you can see, there is plenty to get stuck into with Moodle 3.2, and even more to come with future releases.
If you would like to discuss upgrading your current Moodle version or if you have any queries on this latest version get in touch with our friendly experts on 0330 660 1111 or contact us here.

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We have selected some of our recent favourites from our extensive portfolio, ranging from our Brand it! (brand-matching) creations through to our Design it! service.

You can view our Showcase site here: https://showcase.howtomoodle.com.

We’d love to know what you think to our new themes site! Simply submit a comment below to give us feedback!

If you would like to give your Moodle or Totara LMS site a boost, get in touch with our theme experts on 0330 660 1111 to discuss your requirements further.

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BigBlueButton is an extremely popular open source web conferencing system for online learning that complements Moodle perfectly, providing an easy to use tool for HowToMoodle clients to add real time video, talk, presentations and chat to their courses.

HowToMoodle will include web conferencing with all of its hosting plans from November 2016. HowToMoodle clients will be able to conduct virtual classrooms with webcam sharing, chat, polling and presentation sharing for up to 6 participants at no extra charge. Additional options such as session recording, desktop sharing and additional users can be added, if required, with the “Conference Plus” package.

Speaking on the partnership, HowToMoodle’s Director Ray Lawrence comments; “An increasing number of our clients have identified the benefits of a web conferencing solution to work with their Moodle site. Our clients will now have the facility to conduct real time training sessions, meetings tutorials and more at no extra cost. Adding a web conferencing session is just like adding any other activity to Moodle.”

Frederick Dixon from Blindside Networks comments; “We are delighted to be working with HowToMoodle to provide their customers with real-time interaction with students. As customers are looking for ways to increase student engagement and retention, this partnership enables HowToMoodle to offer an integrated hosting solution with BigBlueButton that gives instructors the ability to share their audio, video, slides, chat and desktop and to engage students with polling and emojis. Instructors may record the sessions as well for easy viewing later on from within Moodle.“

For more information on BigBlueButton visit this page. To take advantage of the service view our hosting plans options here.

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Built for business

Totara LMS is built with business in mind; whether it’s mapping your organisational hierarchies, linking managers with their team, managing employee performance reviews, or its enhanced report building tool, it’s sure to have everything you need for managing learning and development in the corporate sector.

Open source

Here at HowToMoodle, we love open source, and Totara does too! Being open source means there are no commercial licenses. Totara LMS can save organisations up to 80% with its simple, cost effective subscription fee, compared to systems that charge per-user license fees.

With the code being open, you are free to build new functionality to suit your business need. This means that improvements and new features are always being worked on, and often shared with the whole community.

Tailored experience

Don’t fancy trawling through an entire system of irrelevant content? With Totara LMS, it’s easy to make everybody’s experience of using it as tailored as you need it. Whether that’s by giving each user a bespoke, customisable dashboard, ensuring users only see the learning that’s relevant to them, or assigning reports to managers so they view information on their team only, each user’s experience can be unique.

Face-to-face event scheduling

The impressive Seminar activity is a mature scheduling tool within Totara LMS, taking the pain out of managing instructor-led classroom training events. Users can sign-up to an available session (with optional manager approval) and receive automated confirmation and reminder notifications. With Room and Asset management, you can check the availability of resources before creating the event. You can download sign-in sheets, take attendance, and report on user interest, registrations, attendance and more!

Learning allocation

Create the perfect blend of social, instructor-led, self-paced, and assessment based learning in a Totara course. Bundle related courses together into individual training programmes, and schedule recurring mandatory training (great for compliance!). With full support for competency based learning, it can automatically allocate competencies (with linked courses) based on job role or department. Users and their managers can work together to create a custom learning plan, where they can track and comment on their progress, set deadlines and prioritise items.

Reporting

Get the reports you need, by using Totara’s custom report builder. Choose from an entirely bespoke report configuration, or from one of the pre-defined report set-ups. Assign reports to managers based on their role and department, and whose data they should see. Access reports when you need them – managers can schedule their own reports to be sent to them on a regular basis via e-mail. Transform your report into customisable charts and graphs, and display on a custom dashboard for up-to-date information that makes an impact.

Scalable

Totara grows with you as your business grows. With subscription models available from <500 to 50,000+ users, and a simple subscription fee, it’s easy and affordable to gain a wider reach for your learning.

Award-winning!

Don’t just take our word for it… Totara has been voted as a Top 20 Learning Portal Company by TrainingIndustry.com, for 5 consecutive years! It’s also been voted by learning professionals worldwide as one of the Top 100 Tools for Workplace Learning 2016.

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The Gold status acknowledges HowToMoodle’s expertise and knowledge of Totara LMS, and is awarded to Totara partners who have achieved strong sales and support of Totara clients.

Since the start of our partnership in 2015, we have helped many clients discover the benefits of the open source platform. With Totara LMS being an evolution of Moodle, we have had the significant advantage of building on our strong experience in working with the Moodle platform for the past 12 years. This has enabled us to seamlessly integrate Totara LMS services into our client solutions. Our clients love the additional functionality in Totara LMS, from flexible graphical reporting and automated programmes and re-certifications to the ability to map to an organisation’s role, competencies and goal structures.

Andy Kirk, EMEA Channel Partner Manager at Totara comments on HowToMoodle’s new partner status;

“HowToMoodle is a valuable Totara Partner, with a real passion for and understanding of what Totara Learning is trying to achieve. Their events and marketing activity has helped put Totara in the forefront of discussions with their clients. Achieving Gold status is well-deserved and confirms their experience in providing professional Totara services to multiple customers, large and small. Next stop will be Platinum Status as they continue to introduce new organisations to the benefits of Totara products.”

Ray Lawrence, HowToMoodle’s Managing Director, adds;

“We are delighted with this achievement. We pride ourselves on delivering a unique, personalised service in which we can help clients objectively evaluate the best platform for their needs. We look forward to continuing to help our clients with their Moodle and Totara LMS requirements.”

If you would like to know more about Totara partners click here, or to discover how Totara LMS can benefit your organisation by attending our free Totara webinar! To register your place click here.

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As we discussed in the previous guest blog on Data Protection Law, operators of e-learning sites are likely to obtain and hold all kinds of data about users including names and e-mails addresses at the very least and so it is important to understand the rights that those users have in relation to their data. David Miller, Partner at Flint Bishop Solicitors, expands on this area, bringing clarity to the rights of a site user to access their personal data.

(Part 2)

Section 7 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (Act) gives all individuals the right to make a “subject access request”. In this blog we will discuss what a subject access request is and, how you (a data controller) must respond to such requests from your users (or, indeed, others).

Any individual who makes a written subject access request and pays a fee (if applicable) is entitled to be:

• told whether any personal data about them is being processed;
• given a description of the personal data, the reasons it is being processed, and whether it will be given to any other organisations or people; and
• given a copy of the information comprising the data.

In most cases you must respond to a subject access request promptly and, in any event, within 40 calendar days of receiving it.

What is a valid subject access request?

For a subject access request to be valid it should be made in writing (this means it could be made via email, fax or hard copy).

There is no requirement for you to respond to a request made verbally but, in some circumstances, it might be reasonable to do so (as long as you are confident about the identity of the person you are talking to).

Where it is clear that the individual is asking for their own personal data, such request should be treated as a subject access request. A request does not need to mention the Act specifically or even say that it is a subject access request.

A request is valid even if the individual has not sent it directly to the person who normally deals with such requests (it is therefore important that you and your employees are able to recognise what a subject access request looks like and ensure that it is treated appropriately).

Specific forms

You cannot require individuals to use a specifically designed form on your site when making a subject access request. Although your organisation may have a standard form that it would like individuals to use, you may only invite individuals to use this form. Any request made for subject access (in writing) must be considered as a valid request, whatever the format.

Contents of the information

The Act requires that any information you provide to an individual is in “intelligible form”.  This means that the information you provide should be capable of being understood by the average person. This does not mean that the information you provide must be in a form that it is intelligible to the particular individual making the request.

For example, if you receive a request from someone whose English comprehension skills are quite poor and, they ask you to translate the information that you have sent to them – there is no requirement for you to do this under the Act. However, it would be good practice for you to help them understand the information that you hold about them.

Fee

Any organisation receiving a request may (except in certain circumstances relating to health records) charge a fee for dealing with it. If your organisation chooses to charge a fee, you do not need to comply with the request until such time as you have received the fee. The usual maximum fee that you can charge is £10 (however there are different fee arrangements for organisations that hold credit, health or educational records and these should be checked before you levy a fee).

Although you need not comply with a request until you have received a fee, you cannot ignore a request simply because the individual has not sent a fee. If a fee is payable but has not been sent with the request, you should contact the individual promptly and inform them that they need to pay.

Further information

The Act allows you to confirm two things before you are obliged to respond to a subject access request:

• you may ask for information to judge whether the person making the request is the individual to whom the personal data relates (this is important as releasing the information to the wrong person would be a breach of the Act); and

• you must be reasonable about what you ask for. Therefore, you should not request lots of information if the identity of the person making the request is obvious to you.

Information regarding children

Many user of e-learning sites will be young but, for the purpose of the Act, there is not a sharp distinction between those who are over 18 and those who are not. Even if a child is too young to understand the implications of subject access rights, data about them is still their personal data and does not belong to others (e.g. a parent or guardian). Therefore it is the child who has a right of access to the information held about them (even though in the case of young children these rights are likely to be exercised by those with parental responsibility for them).

Before responding to a subject access request for information held about a child, you should consider whether the child is mature enough to understand their rights. If you are confident that the child can understand their rights then you should respond to the child rather than a parent. You should take into account the following:

• the child’s level of maturity and their ability to make decisions like this;
• the nature of the personal data;
• any court orders relating to parental access or responsibility that may apply;
• any duty of confidence owed to the child or young person;
• any consequence of allowing those with parental responsibility access to the child’s information (e.g. where there have been allegations of abuse of ill treatment);
• any detriment to the child if individuals with parental responsibility cannot access this information; and
• any views a child or young person has on whether their parent should have access to information about them.

What to do if the data includes information about other people

The Act says you do not have to comply with a request if to do so would mean disclosing information about another individual who can be identified from that information, except where:

• the other individual has consented to the disclosure; or
• it is reasonable in all the circumstances to comply with the request without the individual’s consent.

You will need to balance the data subject’s right of access against the other individual’s rights in respect of their own personal data. If necessary you may be able to redact information referring to others but you should only do this after receiving specialist advice on the issue.

Repeated requests

The Act does not limit the number of subject access requests an individual can make to any organisation. However, it does allow some discretion when dealing with requests that are made at unreasonable intervals. Under the Act you are not obliged to comply with an identical or similar request to one you have already dealt with, unless a reasonable interval has elapsed between the first request and any subsequent ones. You should therefore consider the following:

• the nature of the data;
• the purposes of the processing; and
• how often the data is altered.

Given that it’s so brief and general, this blog cannot be considered to be definitive legal advice and you should not rely on it. However we hope that you found it useful and,  if you do want some more specific or in-depth advice on dealing with subject access requests or compliance with the data protection regime, please feel free to contact David Miller on 01332 226466 or at david.miller@flintbishop.co.uk.

About David and Flint Bishop:

David Miller qualified as a solicitor in 2002 and joined Flint Bishop Solicitors, based in Derby, as Head of Commercial Contracts in January 2011. He advises a wide range of private and public sector clients and commercial contracts, data protection and intellectual property issues. During the course of 2012 David spent several months working as the interim head of UK Legal at publishing giant Lexis Nexis. As well as advising on specific legal issues, David conducts numerous commercial and data protection audits for businesses, ensuring compliance and minimising risk.

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The Auto enrolment is a great plugin which allows you to enrol users based on actions that they make within Moodle, such as logging in, viewing a course or viewing an activity/resource.

Is there documentation for Auto enrolment?

Unfortunately, there is no documentation for this plugin, however it is fairly straightforward to configure and get working.

How to set up Auto enrolment

The plugin is available to download in zip format from https://moodle.org/plugins/enrol_auto. Simply select your version of Moodle and then click on ‘download’. The zip file should be unzipped and its contents should be moved into ‘Moodle’/enrol folder.

Once the files are moved into the correct directory you can login to the Moodle site as an admin and complete the installation by going to ‘Site administration ► Notifications’.

For me this process took only a few minutes and completed without any errors.

As always, you should take a backup of your Moodle site before installing this plugin.

Configuration options

As an administrator there are a few configuration options to change the way that the plugin behaves.

First off you will need to enable the plugin in the ‘Enrolment’ plugins area, Site administration ► Plugins ► Enrolments ► Manage enrol plugins. Click the ‘Eye’ icon next to ‘Auto enrolment’ to make it active.

You can edit the default settings for the Auto enrolment plugin within a course by going to Site administration ► Plugins ► Enrolments ► Auto enrolment.

You can also edit the specific enrolment settings within each course when you add the ‘Auto enrolment’ as a new enrolment method.

Allow auto enrolments – This setting determines whether the enrolment method is enabled within the course. By default, this is set to ‘Yes’.

Enrol on – This setting changes the type of action required by the user to enrol them in the course. This can be set to ‘Course view’, ‘User login’ or ‘Course activity/resource view’.

• The ‘Course view’ option will enrol them in the course when the first click into the course.
• The ‘User login’ option will enrol them into the course when they first login to the site.
• The ‘Course activity/resource view’ will enrol them into the course when they access the selected activity/resource.

Activities/resources – If you have selected to enrol based on ‘Course activity/resource view’ then this is where you choose what type or types of activity or resource the user needs to view to be enrolled.

Default assigned role – Here you can decide which role users will be enrolled as. By default, roles available are:

• Student
• Manager
• Teacher
• Non-editing teacher

If you have any custom roles that can be assigned in a course, then these will be available here also.

Send course welcome message – With this option enabled users will receive an email once they have been enrolled in the course.

Custom welcome message – If you have chosen to send a course welcome message, you may add a custom welcome message here.

Our verdict

Pros

• Easy to install
• Supported for multiple versions of Moodle
• Can speed up/automate the enrolment process for new users

Cons

• No documentation available for installation/setup
• Cannot delete the enrolment method from a course once added (you can deactivate it).

Overall this is a great plugin which allows you to enrol users in courses easily and is especially great if you have a mandatory course that all users need access to as they can be instantly enrolled on login without any input being required from the user or the administrator, and works very well if you’re using self-registration.

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What were the reasons you decided to have a theme created for your Moodle site?

Annie: “We are a social housing provider, and we use our Moodle primarily to engage with our residents through online service improvement activities, as opposed to it purely being an LMS system. With this in mind we needed our site to be as visually engaging as possible, as we are asking residents to come onto the site out of choice and give up their personal time to engage with us on there. Also online engagement in our sector is not particularly common-place, with many residents preferring more traditional, face to face activities, so again we wanted the site to visually draw people in as much as possible and to be enjoyable to use.”

What was your design brief for the new design?

Annie: “We wanted our site to loosely reflect the look of our website and to be in line with our branding guidelines in terms of the colour palette and fonts etc. However we did want it to be a bit brighter and – as it is distinct from the Hyde Official website – separated slightly design-wise. We wanted the theme to incorporate clear, simple buttons to lead residents easily to the most important areas of the site as residents had previously told us that navigation could be an issue. Communication and discussion/debate are also important outcomes of our site, so we wanted the visually appealing image slider in the new theme to be able to show nice big images and promote new stories, consultation opportunities or discussion topics.”

Clear, simple buttons were constructed using the Quicklinks feature, which are easy to customise as and when the client needs

A visually appealing rotating slider helps the company display big images and promote important news and topics

Since the theme launch, what has been the response by your learners and colleagues to the Moodle site?

Annie: “Response has been great, our users seem to really like it and the feedback about the improved navigation has been very positive – with users telling us it’s much easier for them to find the category and activities they need. We’re really happy – we think it looks really clean and vibrant and it’s much easier for us to get our messages across. We’re about to open the site up more to other colleagues around the business and improve the links externally from our website to encourage more residents to enrol, so we’re really hoping that they all like it too!

We have also been very proud that the site has been shortlisted for 3 awards relating to innovation in digital engagement in the last year, including TPAS, the Chartered Institute of Housing and the UK Housing Awards. We won our Southern stage of the TPAS awards so can justifiably say that our Moodle site is award winning!“

Annie concluded by commenting on the new theme and working with the HowToMoodle team…

“We are Resident Engagement specialists not web designers, so we were very glad to have HowToMoodle helping us with our site! They have translated our brief really well. We did have some quite conflicting requirements, for example we wanted to have the page bright and colourful, but at the same time our users need content and links to be clear and unhindered by too many busy images. I think the new theme balances these needs really well, so we’re very happy with the outcome.”

Why we love this theme…

This theme has a bright and vibrant feel that engages the visitor from the start. It’s Quicklink buttons provide a clear navigation path that demands attention and promotes ease of navigation. The slider image is a simple to use, attractive and effective way for The Hyde Group to promote their key topics.

We also love that the challenge of creating a sector leading, engaging online portal has been achieved – as testified by resident feedback. Our best wishes to Annie and the team as they continue to extend their roll out within the organisation.

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David Miller, Partner at Flint Bishop Solicitors, gives a practical and straightforward guide into aspects you should consider with your eLearning site when it comes to complying with Data Protection Law.

The Basics (Part 1)

The law around data protection can seem very complex and confusing and many organisations struggle to understand it.  Whilst this is a sometimes difficult area of law there are some basic principles which, if kept in mind, will help you appreciate your obligations.

If you hold or store data (whether gathered through your eLearning site or otherwise) which is personal data (broadly speaking, information relating to living individuals), you are probably a “data controller” for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 (Act). It is on data controllers that the obligations under the Act fall.  A data controller must comply with eight data protection principles in relation to the personal data they hold and what follows is a short, non-exhaustive, guide to those principles and complying with them:

1. Fair and lawful processing

 The Act requires you to process personal data fairly and lawfully.  In practice, this means that you must have legitimate grounds for collecting and using personal data and you must be clear and transparent on how you intend to use the data.

A practical step to take to comply with this principle would be to provide individuals with appropriate privacy notices when collecting their personal data detailing what information you collect and store and what you use it for. These notices should be placed on the front page of your eLearning site and brought to the attention of users whenever you capture data about them personally.

 2. Specified purpose

 Personal data must be:

• obtained for one or more specified and lawful purpose and;
• it must not be processed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or those purposes.

Organisations should be open about their reasons for obtaining personal data and what they do with the information must be in line with the reasonable expectations of the individuals concerned.

The Act specifies two ways in which you can specify the relevant purpose of obtaining personal data:

a) in a privacy notice given to individuals at the time their personal data is collected; or

b) in a notification given to the information commissioner.

3. Adequate, relevant and not excessive

The personal data you hold must be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purpose or purposes for which it is processed. You should therefore ensure that where you hold personal data about an individual:

• that data is sufficient for the purpose you are holding it for in relation to that individual and;
• you do not hold more information than you need for that purpose.  Any excess information should be securely disposed of.

4. Accurate

Personal data must be kept accurate and up to date. To comply with this provision, you should:

• take reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy of any personal data you obtain;
• ensure that the source of any personal data is clear;
• carefully consider any challenges to the accuracy of information; and
• consider whether it is necessary to update the information and, if it is, update it promptly.

5. Not be kept for longer than necessary

Personal data processed for any purpose must not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose. The Act does not set out any specific minimum or maximum periods for retaining personal data. In practice, it therefore means that you will need to:

• review the length of time that you keep personal data;
• check whether you are under any obligation to keep the data for any particular length of time (whilst the Act may not spell out a timetable other laws or codes of practice may do);
• consider the purpose for which you hold the information in deciding whether (and for how long) to retain it;
• securely delete information that is no longer needed for this purpose; and
• update, archive or securely delete information when you have held it for the maximum period.

6. Data subjects

The people whose information you hold (called in the Act “data subjects”) have certain rights under the Act. These are as follows:

• a right to access a copy of the information comprised in their personal data;
• a right to object to processing that is likely to cause or is causing damage or distress;
• a right to prevent processing for direct marketing;
• a right to object to decisions being taken by automated means;
• a right in certain circumstances to have inaccurate personal data rectified, blocked, erased or destroyed; and
• a right to claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the Act.

Where a data subject seeks to exercise a right in relation to data you hold about them you must comply with the Act.  This can be a difficult and sensitive area however and we will be posting some further guidance on this soon. We always recommend that you get professional advice before responding to any enquiry by a data subject.

7. Secure

Under the Act, appropriate technical and organisational measures must be taken against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data. You, therefore, need to ensure that you have appropriate security measures (both physical and technical) in place to prevent the accidental or deliberate compromise of personal data that you hold.  This could include locked rooms and filing cabinets (for physical records) and password protection and encryption (for digital information).

8. Transfer outside of EEA

Personal data must not be transferred to a country or territory outside the EEA unless that country or territory ensures an adequate level of protection for the rights and freedoms of data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data. A transfer of personal data for the purposes of this principle occurs when information moves from an EEA country or territory outside the EEA.

If your eLearning site can be accessed from outside of the EEA you should include a provision in your terms of use/privacy notice to address this and obtain the data subject’s consent to this transfer of data.

Given that it’s so brief and general, this article cannot be considered to be definitive legal advice and you should not rely on it. However we hope that you found it useful and, if you do want some more specific or in-depth advice on compliance with the data protection regime, please feel free to contact David Miller on 01332 226466 or at david.miller@flintbishop.co.uk.

About David and Flint Bishop:

David Miller qualified as a solicitor in 2002 and joined Flint Bishop Solicitors, based in Derby, as Head of Commercial Contracts in January 2011. He advises a wide range of private and public sector clients and commercial contracts, data protection and intellectual property issues. During the course of 2012 David spent several months working as the interim head of UK Legal at publishing giant Lexis Nexis. As well as advising on specific legal issues, David conducts numerous commercial and data protection audits for businesses, ensuring compliance and minimising risk.

We will be publishing Part 2 of David’s guest blog regarding data subject access requests in the coming weeks. So you don’t miss it, stay up to date with our latest advice for your Moodle or Totara LMS site by subscribing to our monthly newsletter here.

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