Before Session 3
- Read “Building a Model Course” from the Model Courses on the OpenLab project
- Focus on steps 1, 2, 5, 6 (we’ll focus on steps 3&4 in the next session)
- Read “Building a Course Hub” from the Model Courses on the OpenLab project
- Share as a comment on this post any questions, concerns, or ideas sparked from the readings so we can incorporate them into our session.
- Update project plan and milestones as needed
Session 3: April 28, 2022
Building a Model Course
Meeting via Zoom
Notes via Google Docs
Agenda
- Checking in
- Whole group discussion: Model Courses and Course Hubs
- Purpose
- Audience
- Format
- Course Materials
- Building a Model Course
- Building a Course Hub
- Small groups/individual work
- Drafting on the Model Course/Course Hub
- Site architecture
- Milestone updates
- Q&A
- Prep for next session
- Reflections
Before Session 4
- Read “Building a Model Course” from the Model Course on the OpenLab project
- Focus on steps 3&4
- Consider discussion, student engagement, low-stakes assignments, etc for asynchronous activity
Two weeks ago, Marie and I went to an Open Lab help session to learn how to use the dashboard. I’ve been playing with a practice course we set up to get familiar with the system. As I read through the material for tomorrow and looked at the example model courses, I had a better understanding of how these were made in the dashboard. I did notice that the menus on the model courses’ home pages were not entirely composed of individual pages. Some menu items appear to be category titles that collect appropriately-labeled posts. For example, there is no page titled “Assignments”, but there is a menu item that collects posts with an assignment category. I’m wondering if I’m correct about this or if I’m missing something in the dashboard.