utilising ‘master courses’ to support collaboration (moodle 2)
DESCRIPTION
In this presentation I present the concept of master courses for collaboration and talk about typical course editing problems for teachers in Moodle 2 and Learning Management Systems in general and how this may be resolved through managing activity editing permissions based on the concept of the master course.TRANSCRIPT
Utilising ‘Master Courses’ to support collaboration (Moodle 2)
STEVEN PARKER@sparkered
“A Master Course is a complete course consisting of well designed learner centered activities and resources…
Refer: Steven Parker http://goo.gl/ulQvK
WhatWhat is a ‘Master Course’?
typically developed by a team of teachersat time, effort and cost”
How Moodle works
Add resource/ activity…
EDITING TEACHER
NON- EDITING TEACHER
MANAGER
Course Roles and Permissions
…typically developed by a team of teachers.” Locked down courses = TENSIONTurn editing on = TENSION
SOLUTION: Manage course activity editing rights ‘Free up’ the creativity ofnon-editing teachers using: ‘Groupings’Multiple copies of activities ‘Teacher Role’ on individual activities
Still maintains quality control
GROUPINGS
What is a Grouping?
A Grouping is an activity setting to control viewing access for specific student groups.
i.e. Control of who sees what activity!
Multiple copies of activities assigned to ‘Groupings’
Assign Non-editing teachers ‘EDITING’ permissions at an activity level
Controlled visibility based on the activity’s Grouping
NEW MOODLE 2 FEATURE RECOMMENDATION: Assign course editing privileges against Groupings
Course Administrator able to: Lock down core activities and resources as a
‘Master course’ grouping. Configure a teacher’s course level editing
privileges against their allocated grouping. Teachers able to:
View each other’s activities using a course groupings filter.
Managers able to: Assign well designed activities and resources to
the core ‘Master course’ grouping.
COLLABORATION OUTCOME & BENEFITS
Groupings can improve the Master Course concept
Teachers can edit courses without impacting each other
Fosters collaborative culture around course design incidentally
Allows course administrators easy management of course lifecycle
Return on investment of time cost and effort in developing courses.
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