5 Courses or 1 Course and 5 meta courses?

5 Courses or 1 Course and 5 meta courses?

Tom Connolly發表於
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I teach 5 sections of oral English with each section's classes being almost identical.  In the past I have created a separate class for each section and had a class called "library" to share common items like "midterm review" and "midterm"  This was a little troublesome because each aspect of each class had to be redone 5 times, i.e. 5 different calendars, etc.  Can someone give me some suggestions on how to set this up for the new semester?

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Re: 5 Courses or 1 Course and 5 meta courses?

Mary Cooch發表於
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Hi Tom. Terminology question  -when you say "class" you mean group of students? Or do you mean  a course in Moodle-speak? I am asking because it seems to me that if you have the same or very similar materials that are used by several different groups of students then they can all share the same Moodle course - and you can split them up by using Moodle's group and - if needs be - Groupings features. No need to duplicate courses. You can use the same calendar and add group events just for each separate group of students.

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Re: 5 Courses or 1 Course and 5 meta courses?

Tom Connolly發表於

Thanks!  I have discovered that proper terminology is a key to making moodle sing 微笑  I teach 5 groups of students (classes) a course called oral english.  Each class is taking approximately the same course.

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Re: 5 Courses or 1 Course and 5 meta courses?

Robert Brenstein發表於
You probably solved your issue by now, but in case you still ponder, consider 1 metacourse (for common stuff) with 5 normal courses as its children, for each of your student groups. You can place cross-links in them for students to switch easily.