Planning
Course Planning
This is great; I’m excited about using these different task types in our course. Can we start building?
Let's make sure our course plan is in place before we start building. Take a look at my brain to see how it will react.
We need to start with an overall course purpose. Our brains like organization.
Wow. My amygdala really liked that.
And then we need clearly defined learning outcomes that will help us accomplish the purpose. Small steps keep us from feeling overwhelmed.
Agreed. Look my corpus collossum really gets turned on when it’s not overwhelmed.
Then we can match task types to our learning outcomes and organize the sequence of tasks in folders.
Look at my brain! Engagement is way up!
Take a look- this is what we are after, right?
Yep. I think we're on to something.
Match Learning Outcomes
Which course task type will best fit the learning outcome?
Educators discuss and share what they are learning with other course participants.
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Which course task type will best fit the learning outcome?
Educators see teaching strategies effectively modeled.
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Which course task type will best fit the learning outcome?
Educators are given access to multiple sites that give additional information about the course topic.
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Considering Options
Let's get started building then.
There is one more thing you need to consider before we begin: Each task can be set to require facilitation.
Does that mean someone must examine what the participant did in the task before it can be completed?
Exactly. Even though you can check the box to Require Facilitation on any task, you should understand when it is appropriate to do so. Look at this table below.
When to Require Facilitation
| Task Type | Require Facilitation? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Never | The participant is only reading information and doesn't provide anything for you to check or approve. | |
| When Necessary | If you want to have them watch a portion of video, you may provide times in a Generic task before the video and then facilitate the task to ensure they watched the right length of time. | |
| When Necessary | If you want to examine the contents of what they uploaded, require facilitation on this task. | |
| Never | You can use other tasks and require facilitation to ensure that the content from the download was examined. For example, you could use a Free Response or a Forum Post task. Or you could not require facilitation and use a Multiple Choice task. | |
| Never | You can use other tasks and require facilitation to ensure that the content on the external site was examined. For example, you could use a Free Response or a Forum Post task. Or you could not require facilitation and use a Multiple Choice task. | |
| When Necessary | If you want to see that the initial post of the thread was relevant, require facilitation. | |
| When Necessary | If you want to see that the post was relevant to the desired outcome, require facilitation. | |
| Never | Edivate can easily determine that a participant answered with the correct response. | |
| Always | You must determine whether the response was appropriate to the question, unless you truly don't care about the response. |
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