Post on 16-Dec-2015
SYLLABUS PREVIEW PROJECTAUG 6, 2013
ABOUT ME• SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/rexlorenzo
• CCLE lead developer (Common Collaboration & Learning Environment) at UCLA
• Working with Moodle since 2011
• Particularly helper Moodler
OUTLINE
1. Background
2. Walkthrough
3. Lessons learned
1. BACKGROUND• History
• Instructor concerns
• Students concerns
• Our “solution”
HISTORY
1. IEI fee – renewed in 2007, seed funding for CCLE
• Students expecting more from class websites
2. Increasing time until graduation
• Difficulty in getting classes
3. Anderson School joining CCLE
• Needed way to tag syllabi for student course shopping
INSTRUCTOR CONCERNS
1. Intellectual thievery
• My syllabus is my intellectual property• I have had other schools “take” my course without
permission
2. Course “shopping”
• “Shopping” for courses? Are they for sale?• Students who pre-read syllabi are trying to find the “easier”
class to take.
3. Extra chore
• It is really annoying to get those messages asking, asking, asking for a syllabus in advance
STUDENT CONCERNS• Unable to make informed decisions
• Look at past syllabus• Word of mouth• Bruinwalk
• Want to find courses that “fit”
• Don’t just want “easy” courses• Want balance
OUR “SOLUTION”• Allow instructors to control access to syllabi
• Identify courses with syllabi
• Flag “preview” syllabi
2. WALKTHROUGH• How instructors can upload a syllabus
• How students access syllabi
• Future plans
REMINDER
SYLLABUS MANAGER
ADDING A RESTRICTED SYLLABUS
ADDING AN “UNRESTRICTED” SYLLABUS
MANAGING SYLLABI
VIEWING A SYLLABUS
SYLLABI BROWSING
Public
UCLA
Enrolled only
FUTURE DEVELOPMENT PLANS• Integrate with UCLA Registrar course listings
• Integrate with MyUCLA class planner
UCLA REGISTRAR COURSE LISTINGS
MYUCLA CLASS PLANNER
3. LESSONS LEARNED• No one reads email!
• Defaults matter
• “Marketing”
NO ONE READS EMAIL!
Adding syllabus reminder
Courses w/ syllabi
General public
Logged in
Restricted
0 1020304050607080
Spring 2013Winter 2013
~2X increase!
A problem
DEFAULTS MATTER
General public
Logged in
Restricted
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Summer 2013Spring 2013
DEFAULTS MATTER
“MARKETING”• Choose words carefully
• “Course shopping”• Sell, Advertise, Promote• Expectations, Appropriate, “Time to degree”
• Who’s job is it get faculty post early syllabi?
CONCLUSION/QUESTIONS?
Github
• https://github.com/ucla/moodle-local_syllabus
Slides
• http://www.slideshare.net/rexlorenzo• http://goo.gl/R01p2r
My info: Rex Lorenzo <rex@oid.ucla.edu>