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Discussion #2a: business writing

LMS: for business course

RE: CMS for a business coures

More reflections

  •  One must remember to mention the rules of “netiquette“
  • I find that to organize the materials is what takes me the longest… because it (directly or indirectly) involves the assessment procedures.
  • Evaluations are, for me, the most difficult aspect of such courses.
    • They should be intrinsically linked with the course content and must be clear, well scheduled and at an appropriate level. And they are so important for students!
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Discussion #2: moodle

Benoît & Moodle

RE: About sticking with what you know, especially when there seems to be little technical help.

In this scenario, Benoît seems to be asked to make this decision alone. So, if there is no technical support to make this important decision… how much will there be when he tries to create the course on Moodle?

That being said, sometimes you just have to take a risk and plunge into it! With the help of the Arts department, he might be able to choose a more appropriate LMS for his students… in the end, they are one of the most important factors in the equation.

As Pekins and Pfaffman (2006) state in their article: “CMSs enable teachers to easily post assignments, lesson plans, announcements, and course documents (…). They also allow students ot participate in online discussion sand chats and turn in assignments online.”

Food for thought…

Ref: Perkins, M., Pfaffman, J. (2006). Using a Course Management System to Improve Classroom Communication. Science Teacher, 73(7), 33-37.

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Discussion #2a: business writing

Reflections: Business Writing Course

Module 2: Presentation Tools: Spaces, Places and Platforms for Learning / Learning Management Systems

RE: Business Writing course

How much development time (in weeks) would you estimate Benoît would need to develop Business Writing, the online version?

According to my estimate, with 5 hours a week available to work on his new LMS, Benoit would need 8 weeks to complete his online course.

Rationale: (using the MIT Stellar Class/Project Sites / Standard Features)

Week 1: Learning curve  / Create a homepage for the class

  • If he chooses WebCT, he will still have to add some interactive activies. He has used this CMS before, but just to present information, not to create interaction.
  • If he uses Moodle, he will have to learn how to organize the site and might have to elicit the support of the IT staff to do so.
  • Write a course information and description
  • Add an image
  • Prepare an announcements to the class
  • Find out how to edit information

Week 2: Materials / Schedule/Calendar

  • Add intro text
  • Organize by topic
  • Add documents, webpages, and links
  • Reorder topics/posted materials
  • Restrict access to materials
  • Add intro text
  • Show academic calendar
  • Add/remove event
  • Add documents

 Week 3: Homework & Forums

  • Add intro text to this section
  • Add topics
    • Find out how to: Reorder topics
  • Post assignments and solutions
  • Find out how to: Collect homework submissions
  • View, grade, and comment on homework submissions
  • Find out how to: Allow students to read and comment on each other’s work after due date
  • Find out how to: Create and moderate online discussions
  • Learn how to: WYSIWYG editor for posting messages
  • Learn how to:Attach files to messages
  • Set: Personal user profiles
  • Learn how to: Watch discussions
  • Learn how to: Bookmark discussions
  • Learn how to: Search discussions

Week 4: Membership Management & Sections

  • Learn how to: View list of registered students
  • Learn how to: View/add/remove members
  • Learn how to: Control access to the site
  • Learn how to: Manage section membership
  • Learn how to: See photos of enrolled students
  • Learn how to: Email members
  • Learn how to: Create and configure section subsites
  • Learn how to: Allow students to sign up for section until a cutoff date
  • Staff List
    • Learn how to: List contact information for instructors and TAs

Week 5: Website Settings; Help & Search

  • Customize site navigation bar
  • Choose website style from available templates
  • Learn how to: Import content
  • Learn how to: Edit class metadata
  • Learn how to: Present a list of most relevant help topics
  • Learn how to: Search the site
  • Learn how to: Search help pages

Week 6: RSS Feeds & Gradebook

  • Learn how to: make available for Updates and for individual classes
  • Learn how to: Subscribe to feeds to get notified of changes to site content
  • Learn how to: View class performance summary
  • Learn how to: View student summary
  • Learn how to: View assignment summary
  • Learn how to: Add grades and approve
  • Learn how to: Apply grade weighting
  • Learn how to: Add comments for students
  • Learn how to: Export grades

Week 7: Wiki; Survey & Images

  • Learn about: Collaborative authoring of content
  • Learn about: add pages and links
  • Learn about: Track changes
  • Learn about: Creating and conducting online surveys or polls
  • Learn how to: Upload images
  • Learn about: Federated search across several image banks and repositories
  • Add images to slideshow
  • Organize slideshows
  • View and present slideshows

Week 8: Verify settings and information

Ref: Panettieri, J. (2007). Addition by subtraction. University Business, August, 58-62. Accessed online 11 March 2009 http://www.universitybusiness.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=845

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