Solving the Training and Support Challenge Rob Moore | [email protected]@unc.edu Manager, Foreign Language Resource Center

Solving the Training and Support Challenge

Rob Moore | [email protected] Manager, Foreign Language Resource Center

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11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 | Moore | Training

A typical UNC course and Blackboard


How ROML used Blackboard

• Each section had a separate site

Blackboard sites

• Had to maintain an external site for common course content

• Also had to teach their own sections

Course Coordinators

• Responsible for loading content into Blackboard

Instructors


Multi-section Language courses and Blackboard


Communication and Organizational Breakdown


Motivation for Change

• Spanish 105, 203, 204 have between 25 – 43 sections each

• That’s over 400 students in each of these courses, more than would fit in Carroll 111 Photo taken from http://hotline.unc.edu


Features of the ROML Sakai Pilot

• All sections enrolled into 1 Sakai site

Umbrella Site

• Able to make common course content available to all sections at same time

Coordinators

• No longer had to worry about loading common content• Can customize content for their specific sections

Instructors


Problem solved – Sakai Umbrella course


Email & Remedy Tickets

Hands on Training

Optimizing Sakai

FLRCVideos

Supporting the instructors


Email and Remedy Tickets

• Create course sites and manage SIS integration for population• Respond to remedy tickets from instructors and students

ITS Support

• To send announcements to instructors using Sakai• To triage problems or questions from students using Sakai

FLRC Listservs

• ITS had Sakai Pilot experience• Liaison between vendor and pilot participants

Information Exchange


Hands on Training

• Can attend training to understand how Sakai works• Are given access to DEV sites

Coordinators

• New instructors can attend training sessions

Instructors

• Receive training on gradebook and other key functions• Provide on-demand training

FLRC Work Study students


Optimizing Sakai: Articulation


Optimizing Sakai: Collaboration


Optimizing Sakai: Portable content


Optimizing Sakai: Importable Content


FLRCVideos

Features and uses

• Tutorials of specific tasks or skills

• Permalink for direct linking

• Playlists to group specific videos

• Each video tutorial has PDF script

• 100% streaming content


FLRCVideos: Video playlists

Features and uses

• Series of related tutorials• Uses a permalink• Displays total length of

playlist• Allows navigation to

specific video


FLRCVideos: Embedding playlists within sites


FLRCVideos: Screen capture FAQs

Features and uses

• Demonstrates a specific task or skill

• Videos are typically less than 5 minutes

• Zoom and pan on specific areas

• PDF script version has screenshots


FLRCVideos: Tutorial examples

• Training Example: – Direct link to a tutorial:

http://flrcvideos.unc.edu/video.php?link=277• Training Example: – Playlist to group specific videos together:

https://flrcvideos.unc.edu/playlist.php?id=4• Support Example: – Playlist explaining how specific Sakai Tools are being

used for a course: http://flrcvideos.unc.edu/playlist.php?id=22

http://flrcvideos.unc.edu/video.php?link=277

https://flrcvideos.unc.edu/playlist.php?id=4

http://flrcvideos.unc.edu/playlist.php?id=22


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Solving the Training and Support Challenge Rob Moore | [email protected]@unc.edu Manager, Foreign Language Resource Center