Tuesday, 23 October 2007

Rethinking the structure

After all I have read about groups, I think we have to completely lose the idea of publishing a course together and sharing it with students - all assignments get muddled up.
I think we should consider changing the categories to "11D2 Physics", "11D3 Physics", etc. I am not sure how easy it is then to copy resources from one to the other, but if we both have admin rights it shouldn't be too hard?
Groups could then be used internally in the class, for example for lab partners, or if we do any more extended project work, groups could be used for students to share resources within a project but not with the rest of the class.
First consequence of this: we get a much larger site. This is when metacourses could come into play, but I will need more reading first...

1 comment:

mini-Andy said...

yeah definitely need to know more about metacourses. It's a shame the groups thing isn't as straightforward as it could be. That final solution given sounds like something that our IT department would have come up with.