Open access and controlled access

The Course Projects Collection provides space for collaborative work, sharing design ideas, and getting immediate feedback.

Technical solutions for making your projects accessible to peers depend on the LMS affordances.

When you publish a course in Edge edX and Eliademy, these become openly available to your colleagues and peers. Personal invitations, or sharing URL of your project – are the usual ways to share. The invited peers or students will have “to enrol” in the course to access the content.

The mechanism of peer sharing is different for Moodle and BbConnect platforms hosted by the UBC. You cannot just invite students or colleagues to your Moodle or Connect courses. The system administrators will have to create the user accounts, and also design and implement proper architecture for managing students access to your course shell.

For the ETEC 566a course, the UBC CTLT admin team creates a “dummy student” account via a “guest account” option available on Moodle and BbConnect platforms. Then this “dummy student” is assigned to your course shells. The details on peer-student access to the projects are on the Week 6/7 discussion head (BbConnect)

The sites designed on the UBC WordPress platform provide open access to all visitors. Visitors to these sites do not have to sign up.