Procedimientos de fin-de-año

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En los sitios donde Moodle se usa en un ambiente académico, tales como una escuela o universidad, es útil tener procedimientos instaurados para remover a los estudiantes y profesores que hayan concluido y mover a los estudiantes vigentes al año, semestre, o curso superior, mientras que aseguramos que se preserva todo el trabajo esencial. Cuando aquí hablamos d procedimientos de fin-de-año, el enfoque es prepararse para el siguiente ingreso de estudiantes para uno o más cursos, y no tiene relación con el fin del año del calendario. Algunas organizaciones pueden correr cursos en línea de dos semanas de duración cada mes; otras pueden completar un ciclo cada cuatrimestre o semestre, mientras que otras tienen un programa auto-dirigido con inscripciones en cualquier momento.

Debajo hay algunas sugerencias de procedimientos a considerar. (Gracias a Gavin Henrick cuyo End of Year rollover blog proporcionó mucho del contenido siguiente.)

Primeros pensamientos

• ¿Cuando se hará esto? ¿Al final del periodo o semestre? ¿Durante el receso? Muchas organizaciones encuentran más fácil ejecutar las tareas administrativas durante días festivos, cuando menos estudiantes y profesores estén accediendo a Moodle. Sería recomendable poner el sitio en Modo de mantenimiento mientras esto se realiza.
• ¿Los estudiantes que hayan dejado la organización al final del año actual serán removidos permanentemente o sus detalles necesitan ser retenidos por un periodo de tiempo? Esto dependerá de las políticas de tu propia organización o autoridad educativa.
• Los profesores y otros miembros quienes han dejado la organización también necesitan ser removidos del sitio..

¿Cual estrategia usar?

There are a number of rolling over strategies used by schools, colleges and other organisations. Which strategy is used is dependent on a number of different criteria including:

• who creates the course structure/content
• the type of courses which are in place
• the volume of courses that is live
• whether all courses stop/start at the same time.

Here are some standard mechanisms for a course rollover:

Respaldo (copia de seguridad) para archivar cursos

Courses may be made copied for archiving by using the Respaldo del curso feature and including user details (ie, assignment submissions, forum posts etc) (Note that this would be done by the administrator, as a regular course teacher is not allowed, for security reasons, to back up courses with user details.) The courses can then be stored either externally on a disc or within Moodle in a category named, for instance, "Archives" which can be hidden from regular users. The original course may then be "reset" for a new intake of students.

Pros:

• Students and teachers have live access to the prior instance of the module.
• The initial content and activities are already built for the incoming class
• The effort can be outsourced from central administration to each teacher if they have sufficient permissions in their own category

Contras:

• There is more than one copy of the course in the Moodle site
• If carried out by a teacher they now need course creation rights in a category.
• This is effort that is needed for every course and is a linear cost in time based on the number of courses that need resetting.

An alternative is to create empty courses for teachers, give them editing rights in the course and allow them to import the resources and activities from their old course into the new course. See Importar datos de curso

Reiniciar los cursos

Once a course has been backed up for safekeeping, it can be Reiniciar curso by clicking the link in Settings>Course administration>Reset This removes all user data from a course but keeps the activities themselves ready to start afresh with students who will then be enrolled for the new academic year.

This can be done manually by teachers for their own courses and as such, they have control over what aspects are reset. They may for example choose to not reset certain activities that they want to keep the user content from (a forum, or a glossary or database for example). See Reiniciar curso

Pros:

• There is only one course in the instance
• Permissions for teachers do not change
• The initial content and activities are already built for the incoming class
• The effort can be outsourced to each teacher

Contras:

• This is effort that is needed for every course and is a linear cost in time based on the number of courses that need resetting.
• Students and teachers do not have live access to the prior instance of the module which may be desirable for a number of reasons.

Crear un curso nuevo

A third option is where an empty course is created each year and the teacher is assigned to it. However, this requires the teacher to build it again each year with the new resources and activities. They can import if they wish but this is often done where the content has potentially changed so new versions of resources need to be added rather than last year’s re-used.

Pros:

• Students and teachers have live access to the prior instance of the module.
• The content is potentially different in each instance of the course
• Some of the effort is outsourced to the teacher

Contras:

• The effort cannot all be outsourced to each teacher as someone has to create the course and assign the teacher rights.
• There is more than one copy of the course in the Moodle site
• This is effort that is needed for every course and is a linear cost in time based on the number of courses that need resetting.
• The initial content and activities are not already built for the incoming class

Hacer un sitio Moodle nuevo

Another approach is to isolate each year by creating a new instance of Moodle for the upcoming student intake. Then only the needed courses, users, and resources/activities are added to this, so that it is kept as lean and as high performance as possible. If you still want your students and teachers to have access to the old course you can keep it on an archive URL so that they can still log in and use it, but it is now isolated from the new content and users.

Pros:

• The old courses are still live to be accessed by students/teachers
• The live site only has the data that is needed in it.
• The live site does not necessarily have to be the same version as the old one.

Contras:

• There is now another Moodle instance to maintain/patch/upgrade
• If a teacher wants something from the old instance they need to back up the content and the upload to the new site before restoring, adding two extra steps of downloading/uploading.

Otras consideraciones

• ¿Quién crea el contenido? ¿Quién hace el trabajo real de subir recursos y actividades a los cursos? Depending on the institution, it might be a single teacher, an admin, a learning technologist or an IT assistant. Understanding where the burden of work will fall and having buy-in for this to happen, is of primary importance.
• ¿Cómo es que el tipo de curso impacta a cómo consideramos el fin-de-curso? If the course has predefined content and activities which will not change for the next iteration of the course then forcing a full rebuild is a huge cost which could be avoided. However if the resources are digital copies of the latest lecture notes and recorded lecture, then it potentially changes every instance of the course and is built over time.
• ¿Qué tan grande es su Moodle? If your Moodle has 10 courses managing a rollover is a different prospect compared to if your Moodle site has 2,000 courses. Doing backups of 2,000 courses and restoring them in a few days, or short period will add significant load to your Moodle site which needs to be taken into account when planning.

Accesando a los cursos el año siguiente

• ¿Como accederán a sus cursos los nuevos estudiantes y los nuevos profesores? Ellos necesitarán tanto cuentas nuevas como inscripción a los cursos. ¿Cuales métodos de Autenticación e Inscripción serán más adecuados a sus necesidades?
• Igualmente, ¿cómo accederán a sus nuevos cursos los profesores y alumnos existentes?

Vea también

• End of Year rollover blog post by Gavin Henrick from which much of this documentation was taken.

• Using Moodle New School Year - old classes forum discussion