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* License and copyright
* Download access (Note that Film studies course on demo.moodle.org is also available from http://www.linux-for-education.org/course/view.php?id=11)
* Possibility of including user data
* Backup file size limit
* Backup file size limit
* Competition duration
* Competition duration

Revision as of 15:49, 9 July 2009

Note: This page is a work-in-progress. Please feel free to edit this page or use the page comments if you have any suggestions or feedback.


The purpose of the Cool Course Competition is to encourage people to donate great Moodle demo courses for our Moodle demo site and to start building our demo community hub for Moodle 2.0.


Dates

To be decided...

Competition categories

  • Best application of Moodle activities
  • Best use of graphics

...

Competition rules

  • The Cool Course Competition is open to all Moodlers except for Moodle.com employees.
  • You may enter as many courses in the competition as you wish.
  • All course content must be freely available or available under one of the Creative Commons licenses.
  • You guarantee that they have to authority to publish the course under one of the Creative Commons licenses.
  • Real courses currently available on demo.moodle.org may also be entered in the competition.
  • By entering a course in the competition, you are agreeing for your course to be hosted on demo.moodle.org and available for others to download.

How to enter

To enter your course in the competition:

  1. Check carefully that all course content is copyright-free or covered by a Creative Commons license.
  2. Optional: If you wish, add a course credit block similar to the course credit block in the Romeo and Juliet course.
  3. Create a course backup without user data and with the following options selected:
    • Metacourse: No
    • Users: None
    • Logs: No
    • User files: No
    • Course files: Yes
  4. Download and save the backup zip file.
  5. Complete the Cool Course Competition entry form (link available soon) and upload your backup zip file.

Your course backup will be manually checked before being added to demo.moodle.org.

Judging

The Moodle community will be invited to vote for the winner in each category by participating in choice activities. In the event of a tie, prize money will be divided accordingly.

Prizes

There will be cash prizes for each category. If you wish to contribute towards the prizes, please use http://moodle.org/donations/ or contact Moodle.com.

Issues to consider

  • Backup file size limit
  • Competition duration
  • Use of donated course for advertising
  • Metadata collection (target age range for the course, ...)

See also