A show case for large coursesELS tooling helping you to organize teaching

Name Robert A. Rozier MScPosition Senior LecturerE-mail address r.a.rozier@pl.hanze.nl

What is the context Our Educational programmes are organised in Blocks or Themes

• Packages consisting of 5 -7 modules that are inter-related• 50 – 250 students • 5 – 15 teachers

Block: 1 Block: 2 Block: 3 Block: 4 Web programming

Business Process Modeling

Databases 1 Unified Modeling

Language Web programming

IT service & security management

IT Service management IT-Infrastructures ICT & law Social Engineering &

Ethics

Information systems

Human computer Interfaces

Configuration management

Object Oriented Programming

Business Process Modeling

Data analysis & data visualisation

Databases 2 Data visualisation

Communication skills 1 English/Intercultural

competences Project management 1

Communication skills 2 English/Intercultural

competences Academic counseling 1 Research 1

Mathematics Project Management 2

Communication skills 3 Statistics Academic counseling 2 Research 2

Total EC 15 Total EC 15 Total EC 15 Total EC 15

Worst case scenarioFifteen different teachers and up to 250 students in up to 10 different classes each divided into 5 project groups will want to communicate on:• Changes in schedules• Home work assignments• Test results• Etc.

PLUS: BB is still largely used as a Bulletin Board

The Announcement feature is often the only option we are familiar with

What would the requirements be for a solution?

• Intuitive Navigation• Targeted Communication• Getting your colleagues to jump on the bandwagon

A suggestion for a standardization ofa course menu

example Main menu Course

Behaviour and Usage Control

• Announcements are solely aimed at the whole population.• Use a fresh course every year (think through what codes and names to

use)• Pre-define groups and subgroups that fit the needs of all teachers• Target communication using the email function or the IM function

Groups and subgroups

• Take the class (20 -25 students) as a starting point• It is possible to copy groups from other courses• Let students self-enroll into sub groups (use a class prefix) f.i. Class 2A

has sub group 2A1 ….2A5.

Use of the Grade Centre in our context

• Can be used to register attendance, pass/fail, grades• Will automatically create a column when assignments and test are handed

out• Can be batch-filled with a .CSV• Can be used to batch-fill other Learning Systems

Use of the Grade Centre in our context

..But usually ends up being a colossal jungle only comprehensible to its makers.

Grade Centre Tips

• Create smart views based on groups• Create smart views based on columns • Create favourite smart views • Create categories and grading schemes

• Has a vast amount of helpful features that can hugely teaching and learning processes.

BB Learn …..

…but could improve on UX