In this presentation I present the concept of master courses for collaboration and talk about typical course editing problems for teachers in Moodle 2 and Learning Management Systems in general and how this may be resolved through managing activity editing permissions based on the concept of the master course.

2. What
 “A Master Course is a
complete course consisting
of well designed learner
centered activities and
resources…
Refer: Steven Parker http://goo.gl/ulQvK

3. typically developed by a team of teachers
at time, effort and cost”

6. EDITING TEACHER
NON- EDITING TEACHER
MANAGER
Course Roles and Permissions

7. Locked down courses = TENSION
…typically developed by a team of teachers
Turn editing on = TENSION

8. SOLUTION: Manage course
activityediting rights
 ‘Free up’ the creativity of
non-editing teachers using:
 ‘Groupings’
 Multiple copies of activities
 ‘Teacher Role’ on individual activities
 Still maintains quality control

9. What is a Grouping?
 A Grouping is an activity setting to control
viewing access for specific student groups.
 i.e. Control of who sees what activity!

13.  Course Administrator able to:
 Lock down core activities and resources as a ‘Master
course’ grouping.
 Configure a teacher’s course level editing privileges
against their allocated grouping.
 Teachers able to:
 View each other’s activities using a course groupings
filter.
 Managers able to:
 Assign well designed activities and resources to the core
‘Master course’ grouping.

14.  Groupings can improve the Master Course concept
 Teachers can edit courses without impacting each
other
 Fosters collaborative culture around course design
incidentally
 Allows course administrators easy management of
course lifecycle
 Return on investment of time cost and effort in
developing courses.

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