I am interested in finding some exemplary courses so that I can see some models before designing my own course. I am new to Moodle and am doing this as a class project in my Masters Program.
I would like the course in English only and would like access as a student. Thank you for your help.
they all have passwords, and no one has guest turned on.John,
There are a few in moodlecommons.org that you might like to look at. Unfortunately I don't have a sandbox where I can post my classes for public access. I do have my Biome Unit class in there... others have posted a few others. Almost all are wide open and even have the back up file available if you want to download them.
The Moodle Exchange has course back ups that have been posted to share if your site will let you do that. I use some of them in a demo category for teachers to look at.
Paula Clough
Hi John, and others looking for exemplars.
I (and I'm sure lots of others) are happy to help, but as my team decided recently when beginning to organise our staff development, its not easy to see how 'Guest access' would help, and satisfy data protection requirements etc (unless we have courses with just demo data). There are two other possible options for community members to share: distributing a course through backup, or the route we are going down with colleagues, which is a short video guided tour using video screen recording (see for example Debut Software). (I'll try and load one later)
Perhaps we could set up a library, as for example the database for databases?
Any thoughts from others?
Paul
I like these ideas. In our school district, we have the same concerns for data and student privacy. Movies are very powerful. Thanks for sharing yours Mary!
In my school website, I have an X-change where the databases, glossaries, quizzes, etc. are actually set up so that so that teachers can look at them without having to set up their own. If they want to share one, the exports, presents etc. are posted for them to download. (I'm working on the directions for how to creat and import.) I would like to see something like that along with a set of some really nice courses for newbees to be able to see different ways that these courses can work. Courses made for different levels can look very different. Mary has some great suggestions for courses for younger children in her book. Having been a Preschool through grade 8 teacher for much of my career, my courses for teachers and older students look different from those of my peers. I can share not just the information in the courses, I can share my difference in appearance and organization.
It would be nice if we could put some of the great videos that Mary, Tom Lasic and others are making in Moodle Docs.... hmmm I thinking of an idea.
Paula Clough
