SYLLABUS PREVIEW PROJECTAUG 6, 2013

ABOUT ME• SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/rexlorenzo

• CCLE lead developer (Common Collaboration & Learning Environment) at UCLA

• Working with Moodle since 2011

• Particularly helper Moodler

OUTLINE

1. Background

2. Walkthrough

3. Lessons learned

1. BACKGROUND• History

• Instructor concerns

• Students concerns

• Our “solution”

HISTORY

1. IEI fee – renewed in 2007, seed funding for CCLE

• Students expecting more from class websites

2. Increasing time until graduation

• Difficulty in getting classes

3. Anderson School joining CCLE

• Needed way to tag syllabi for student course shopping

INSTRUCTOR CONCERNS

1. Intellectual thievery

• My syllabus is my intellectual property• I have had other schools “take” my course without

permission

2. Course “shopping”

• “Shopping” for courses? Are they for sale?• Students who pre-read syllabi are trying to find the “easier”

class to take.

3. Extra chore

• It is really annoying to get those messages asking, asking, asking for a syllabus in advance

STUDENT CONCERNS• Unable to make informed decisions

• Look at past syllabus• Word of mouth• Bruinwalk

• Want to find courses that “fit”

• Don’t just want “easy” courses• Want balance

OUR “SOLUTION”• Allow instructors to control access to syllabi

• Identify courses with syllabi

• Flag “preview” syllabi

2. WALKTHROUGH• How instructors can upload a syllabus

• How students access syllabi

• Future plans

REMINDER

SYLLABUS MANAGER

ADDING A RESTRICTED SYLLABUS

ADDING AN “UNRESTRICTED” SYLLABUS

MANAGING SYLLABI

VIEWING A SYLLABUS

SYLLABI BROWSING

Public

UCLA

Enrolled only

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT PLANS• Integrate with UCLA Registrar course listings

• Integrate with MyUCLA class planner

UCLA REGISTRAR COURSE LISTINGS

MYUCLA CLASS PLANNER

3. LESSONS LEARNED• No one reads email!

• Defaults matter

• “Marketing”

NO ONE READS EMAIL!

Adding syllabus reminder

Courses w/ syllabi

General public

Logged in

Restricted

0 1020304050607080

Spring 2013Winter 2013

~2X increase!

A problem

DEFAULTS MATTER

General public

Logged in

Restricted

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

Summer 2013Spring 2013

DEFAULTS MATTER

“MARKETING”• Choose words carefully

• “Course shopping”• Sell, Advertise, Promote• Expectations, Appropriate, “Time to degree”

• Who’s job is it get faculty post early syllabi?

CONCLUSION/QUESTIONS?

Github

• https://github.com/ucla/moodle-local_syllabus

Slides

• http://www.slideshare.net/rexlorenzo• http://goo.gl/R01p2r

My info: Rex Lorenzo <rex@oid.ucla.edu>