Course organization question

Course organization question

by John Hunter -
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Good Day;

I am trying to organize my content and am having a difficult time.

I am looking at 3500+ lessons across 5 departments for 6 job areas. This content is a variety of CBT, classroom and hands-on. Some lesson are across all departments, others are job specific.

Example:

Lesson A- Required by all 

Lesson B- A CBT required by job #1 in department 1

Lesson C- A hands-on required by job #2 in department 3

I have tried using categories and sub categories 

Category 1 = All presentations

Sub-Category 1(a) = Department 1

Sub-sub Category 1(a)(a)= Job Description 1

Category 2 = All documents

I am not convinced this is a good organization. Any help is appreciated.

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Re: Course organization question

by Melanie Scott -
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You might consider setting up cohorts where each person is assigned to a job. You could even have an all staff cohort for those courses everyone does. Then, you enroll cohorts in the appropriate courses. Organize the courses by topic(ish). If someone changes jobs, check their completions and make sure to add manual enrollments for them for anything they completed before moving them to a new cohort, otherwise, all is well. Add new people to the right cohort and they get enrolled everywhere you want.

Another option is meta courses...but that is more complicated for my brain this morning.  Cohorts is pretty simple.
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Re: Re: Course organization question

by John Hunter -
Thank you for your response. So, let me lay it out so I understand.

Category 1- All Media (Presentations/CBT)
Category 2- All Documents (Instructor Guides/Student Guides, Handouts, etc.)

Establish Cohort 1- All users for courses that everyone must complete
Establish Cohort 2- For students in Department 1, all students
Establish Cohort 2a- For students in Department 1, Job A
Establish Cohort 2b- For students in Department 1, Job B
Establish Cohort 2c- For students in Department 1 Job C

Is this correct? I like this very much!
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by Melanie Scott -
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I'm not sure I follow your categories but your cohort plan looks reasonable. When I look at Moodle, there are categories (where courses live), courses (where you put your content) and activities (the actual content, which may include Lessons, a type of activity). So, for me, it might be Category 1: Introductory courses for all staff (sexual harassment, legal stuff, it security, etc), Category 2: topics for Department 1, Category 3: topics for Department 2, etc (or alternatively, if Department 2 and 1 jobs overlap for some courses, maybe a category for like-topics). Then you go to the courses and enroll each cohort in the courses that apply to that particular group...cohort 1 in all the cat 1 courses, cohort 2 in all the cat 2 courses etc. I'd probably be more descriptive in my cohort names, numbering tends to result in confusion (but your numbering might be for example only). Does that make sense?

Or as examples:
Intro to Company (enroll Cohort 1)
How Not to Be a Jerk at Work (enroll Cohort 1)
Being Safe on the Internet (enroll Cohort 1)
Intro to Department 1 (enroll cohort 2)
Intro to Department 2 (enroll Cohort 3
Doing Job A in Department 1 (enroll Cohort 2a)
Advanced topics in JA D1 (enroll Cohort 2a)...etc...
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