User:Chris collman/LessonDemo1

Lesson Demo notes, I work at many computers and need a semi public space to make notes and get feedback. My apologies in advance to anyone I offend. Here is the tracker link which has the latest zip file that can be restored.

December 2007 goals

This page is going to change. I created a new Lesson topic in 1.8x that had 3 or 4 lessons. My todo's

1. Find some version of what I did back in April-May 2007 in the 1.8 version
2. Create a 1.9 localhost just for this project.
3. Move or upgrade or what ever the 1.8 Lesson examples into 1.9
4. Create an improvement issue in tracker [https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDLSITE-304 MDLSITE-304] and store backup there
5. Create another subpage under this that has headings for each lessons and lists each page (logical order) with a brief description, purpose. Done see Chris collman/LessonDemo1/LessonPageList
6. Insert data into LessonPageList page
   1. Put in page titles, type of page and jumps
   2. Put in description of purpose of page
7. That will bring me back up to speed (sigh).
8. Rewrite this page, restate goals add todo list to this page or subpage.
9. Chip away at the todo list
10. Get some advise on how this is going to be critiqued - maybe via tracker and a 1.9 public sandbox moodle used by developers?

That is a plan and I feel better. Now all I have to do is follow it and revise it as needed. <grin> --Chris collman 06:26, 7 December 2007 (CST)

Goal of lesson demo

The Lesson Demo topic section in Moodle.org and demo.Moodle is to demonstrate and explain Lesson features for teachers. While major features and techniques can be explained, other potentials maybe demonstrated with no or a brief notation.

The entire lesson demo should take no longer than 25 minutes (excluding refresh rates) to complete as a student who is a native speaker of english.

General changes to lesson demo

I did not think about the Lesson demo for several months. Here are my most recent (Feb 2007) reflections.

Questions need obvious answers

I want a teacher to know the right answer from the start, so they can intentionally select it or a wrong answer to see what happens in an example question. Some examples:

• I changed the matching question from poets to the alphabet.
• I gave the various number ranges in the numeric question content so the teacher could try different answers.
• I put an * in front of the correct answers in other question types.

Visual graphics

We need a few visual graphics. Not in every page but some changes in font, inserted images, things for a teacher to see how somebody did it in edit mode looking at a page's content. And we don't even need to tell them how to do it in the demo. For example just one time: Which is your favorite kitty?, with pictures as answers.

Links in content

We need links as part of the content of a page. I am thinking that a often used feature of a lesson demo page should be a link to a good page(subsection) in Moodle Docs, or to a resource in the demo course. Another way to cut down on our words, while increasing meaningful content. Isn't that what we would do in an online class? Give the student choices to learn more about a topic.

Best practice examples

We need to consistantly follow best practices. For example, I need to go back to make sure the correct answer is always the first one in edit mode.

More than 1 student's activity

We need to set it up as if students had finished the lesson, so at least one demo lesson shows their score compared to others. This might be a good idea for the demo course but too complicated (ie too much time for volunteers) to script out for each of the sections.

Multiple linked lessons

I think we need 3 lessons in the section. The first one pretty much as is. Have it linked to the second. The second one more advanced, but shorter with maybe 1 or 2 stupid questions, in their own branch. The third to be the conditional lesson, very short based upon getting 100% in the 2nd lesson. Now the teacher gets an idea of some flow potentials. We are also setting up a learning curve for 2.0 conditional activities.

Features to touch

Most of the basic features are covered in the current LessonDemo1.5. Here is my table of contents that I think should directly link to specific page(s) in the lesson demo.

The page titles on the Chris collman/LessonDemo1/LessonPageList page gives some clues. --Chris collman 08:00, 8 December 2007 (CST)

Lesson views edit

Page insertion, preview & edit views, student view

Basic page setup

Page title, content, answer/description, jumps, HTML tool bar

Page and Question types

Branch, Cluster, Question

Special navigation effects

Some Lesson settings to cover Flash, Navigation, links to next activity, conditional dependency.

• Lesson 2 is conditional on Lesson 1.
• "Lesson 3 Cluster and Branch Tables, Oh My" gives some examples of navigation features
• "Lesson 4 - Flash Card Lesson"
• Lesson 3 has end of lesson link show to Lesson 4 (mentioned in Last Words).

Evaluations

Grades, scores, limits

• Display score is turned on in Lesson 2 and Lesson 3.
• Grades need to be integrated into gradebook (another module)