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. Each page of each lesson can be found at the Chris collman/LessonDemo1/LessonPageList.
Goal of lesson demo
The goal of Lesson Demo topic section in Moodle.org and demo.Moodle is to demonstrate and explain Lesson features for teachers (especially, new Moodle users). The Lesson Demo should use many features available in Moodle 1.9. While many features and techniques about Lesson maybe explained, other can be discovered by a teacher in edit mode (how did it do that?).
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. Essentially, Lesson Demo should showcase Moodle features in a way that can be understood by a multi displinary and multi cultural user group.
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
Find some version of what I did back in April-May 2007 in the 1.8 version- Create a 1.9 localhost just for this project.
- Move or upgrade or what ever the 1.8 Lesson examples into 1.9
- Create an improvement issue in tracker [https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDLSITE-304 MDLSITE-304] and store backup there
- 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
- Insert data into LessonPageList page
- Put in page titles, type of page and jumps
- Put in graphic for information about the page
- That will bring me back up to speed (sigh).
- Continually rewrite this page, restate goals add todo list to this page or subpage.
- Chip away at the todo list
- Get some advise on how this is going to be critiqued -
- Put it up on tracker MDLSITE-304
- Announce on Moodle documentation forum
- Emails to Michael, Mark and Helen
- Select others who Chris believes are active in Lesson Forum - Send messages with links.
- Be shown public sandbox for developers and have this on it
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)
General changes to lesson demo
There are certain observations about showcasing features that I believe are important.
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 showed 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 fonts, 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 Lesson. For example, use images in the answers to a question, in a response and of course in a Branch table content.
- Lesson 1 has lots of inserted graphics, font changes and font backgrounds. Some are not pretty, but that gets the point across and in edit mode makes it easier to see how it was done. There are question and question answers with graphics.
- Note to file, we might want to tone down some of these to look more professional or appropriate for the content of the page. <grin>
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.
- Lesson 1 has many (over 10) links scatter over it's pages and responses that link to MoodleDocs.
- Lesson 4 uses a media link block
- Lesson x has flash file link ?
Best practice examples
We need to consistently follow best practices. For example, I need to go back to make sure the correct answer is always the first one in edit mode. There should be a mix of question and branch pages, some clear branch examples, some clear cluster examples.
- I need more help here. What best practices have been left out of Lesson. In Forums and MoodleDocs we will be referring to this demo.
Show 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 other topic sections (quiz and assignment come to mind).
- This will need to be coordinated with demo.moodle.org .
Dependent lessons
I think we need dependent example. The short Lesson 2 will be dependent upon Lesson 1. I want the teacher to complete the basics (Lesson 1 and 2) before jumping into Lesson 3. 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 Chris collman/LessonDemo1/LessonPageList page gives some idea of features in each lesson. --Chris collman 07:01, 11 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
- Lesson 1 goes into this. Of course all lessons use these features.
Page and Question types
- Lesson 1 outlines different page types and behind the interface demonstrated different uses of page types.
- Lesson 2 shows each question type, A branch table at start to direct to a particular type
- Lesson 3 goes into clusters and branches. The most complicated Lesson for navigation.
- Lesson 4 starts with a branch table and has 3 questions and another Branch
Some Lesson settings to cover Flash Cards, Navigation, links to next activity, conditional dependency (dependent on).
- Conditional
- Lesson 2 is conditional on Lesson 1 (% correct)
- Lesson 3 is conditional on Lesson 2 (completing)
- Navigation
- "Lesson 3 Cluster and Branch Tables, Oh My" gives some examples of navigation features
- Flash cards
- "Lesson 4 - Flash Card Lesson"
- Pop up and Other
- Lesson 3 has end of lesson link show to Lesson 4 (mentioned in Last Words).
- Lesson 4 uses media popup feature - Martin's 18k file.
Evaluations
Lesson settings for Grades, scores, limits
Trying hard not to be complicated and confusing. None are practice lessons.
- Lesson 1 Please see Chris collman/LessonDemo1/LessonPageList page for most exact settings.
- no custom scoring, max grade , retake , use Max score, display score, max attempts , min questions .
- Lesson 2 Please see Chris collman/LessonDemo1/LessonPageList page for most exact settings.
- Yes custom scoring, max grade , retake , use Max score, display score, max attempts , min questions . Simple scoring but no answers are given scores, so all that advance students are worth 1 point.
- Lesson 3 Please see Chris collman/LessonDemo1/LessonPageList page for most exact settings.
- Yes custom scoring, max grade, retake , use mean score, display score, max attempts , min questions . This lesson allows student review. This is the most complicated lesson for scoring, with a max possible score of 22 possible. Some answers will result in points taken off.
- Lesson 4 Please see Chris collman/LessonDemo1/LessonPageList page for most exact settings.
- Practice, no custom scoring, max grade , retake , use Max score, no display score, max attempts .
- Grades need to be integrated into gradebook (another module)
