Chad Parmentier

I would really appreciate it! I work as an instructional technologist and am having a terrible time trying to get my instructors to interact with students and post content. They really only want to load blackboard quiz cartridges. I thought maybe if I showed them how OU puts lecture content together it might inspire them to use it and who knows maybe they will even post discussion boards and create a community of learners online. On the other hand I administer a Moodle site for k12 and they are wonderful with regard to interacting with students and facilitating discussion boards. They wanted the web resources (lectures) to have the course menu as it very usable and easy for students to read materials independently of weekly/topic content. My correct email is in my profile and again i a appreciate you help.

P.S I also have some custom code in our moodle installation that complements the Minted ims package and am almost finished with a new theme that is similar to yahoo.com. If you interested you are welcome to have the code. The only other code we have is a modified delete courses script that automatically turns off canceled courses. once I ma finished I plan to submit it to moodle.

The nasty little hack is precisely the hack that I want. This really cleans up a course (compose webpage resource) in certain applications. We would be  in debt to you if you were to share!  

 

Does anyone know how open university is able to show the course menu block alone with-in an html page seemingly created with moodle? here is a link to an example. http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=169597

Interesting I have the same problem with one of my installs but not the other.

I would like to take a shot at developing a moodle demo course. I think what is needed is a course centered around outcomes and one that demonstrates the true interaction and collaboration of students working with core academic content. Its difficult to explain but my wife and I have had classes at the high school level "take off" and students began to interact with content and each others experiences to end with a higher understanding of the content. Our subjects are limited to English and history but we are piloting one of the first summer school "hybrid" courses in a Michigan public school. Our summer English course will have clean graphics and use many different activities (differentiated instruction). The discussion boards will be instructor facilitated and active versus passive. The students taking the class are deemed at risk and range in age from 15 to 17. Grades 9-10.

We are in the process of developing the course now and it starts July 7th and runs into the first part of October. I will check with central administration on the ferpa laws but I think as long as we have parental consent and user data is anonymous we should be ok. let me know if this would be helpful to the community.