Course Category Summary
- Development
- Courses
- Summer 2009
- Fall 2009
- Winter 2009
- Archival (one full year)
- Summer 2008
- Fall 2008
- Winter 2008
- Spring 2008
- Other Instruction
- IT Services Workshops and Training
- Documentation
Course Management Model Illustration
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Course Category Characteristics
- Development
- Courses within the Moodle Development category are used by instructors to create, manage, and reuse course content.
Characteristics
Title Naming Convention: "username Development tag" (instructor-specified 45-character tag)
Breadcrumb Naming Convention: "username-dev-tag" (instructor-specified 15-character tag)
Content from a Development course is reused from semester-to-semester by importing content into individual semester-based course-section shells found within the Courses category
Development course requests are limited to IUP instructors
Development courses do not expire
Development courses do not have the ability to contain student enrollment
The requestor (owner) of a
Development course is added to the course under both the "Teacher" and "Student"
roles
- Review
- The Moodle Review subcategory is used to facilitate the departmental, college, and curriculum review process.
- Characteristics:
- Naming Convention: N/A
- UWUCC
- University-Wide Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Subcategory
- Instructors can provide view-access to the UWUCC via <online request form>
- UWGC
- University-Wide Graduate Committee Subcategory
- Instructors can provide view-access to the UWGC via <online request form>
- Other
- Instructors can provide view-access to other individuals or groups in support of departmental, college or other curriculum review processes
- Courses
- The Moodle Courses category contains semester-based course-section "shells" for all courses offered during the current, and eventually next two, semesters.
- Characteristics
- Title Naming Convention: [Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter] YEAR DEPT COURSE SECTION (e.g. Fall 2009 ENGL 101 001)
- Breadcrumb Naming Convention: [FL, SP, SM, WT] YearDeptCourseSection (e.g. FL2009ENGL101001)
- Semester-based Course-Section Shells are generated automatically
- Course-Section shells are set to inactive and are unavailable to enrolled students until the instructor activates the course
- The Instructor(s)-of-Record is managed automatically and is added to the course-section shell under the "teacher" role
- Teaching Associates are managed automatically and are added to the course-section shell under the "non-editing teacher" role
- Student enrollment is managed automatically using the "student" role
- Student drop/add is managed automatically
- Additional instructors, teaching associates, or students can be added to a course-section shell via the Assign Roles feature
- Formal Teaching Associates are typically added (through Banner) by the School of Graduate Studies and Research
- The Moodle Semester-Based Course-Section shell model is mimicked after the Project Directory Service model
Term
- The Courses category contains a subcategory for the current, and eventually next two, semesters
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- Archival
- The Moodle Archival course subcategory contains courses (course materials and student data) from previous semesters.
- Characteristics:
- Title Naming Convention: [Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter] YEAR DEPT COURSE SECTION (e.g. Fall 2009 ENGL 101 001)
- Breadcrumb Naming Convention: [FL, SP, SM, WT] YearDeptCourseSection (e.g. FL2009ENGL101001)
- Archival courses are a subcategory of the Courses course category
- Semester-Based Course-Sections are archived for a period of one year and remain available on the server
- Student enrollment is inactivated in archived courses, while instructors continue to retain access
- Other Instruction
- The Moodle Other Instruction course category is used by instructors when no other category will meet instructional needs due to a unique timeframe, unique enrollment requirements, or unique instructional requirements.
- Characteristics
Title Naming Convention: "username Other tag" (instructor-specified 45-character tag)
Breadcrumb Naming Convention: "username-other-tag" (instructor-specified 15-character tag)
Other Instruction course requests are limited to IUP instructors
Enrollment is limited to users that possess an IUP network (IUPMSD) account
Instructors are responsible for management of student enrollment
Courses in the Other Instruction category have an expiration/renewal model (one year of inactivity)
Additional instructors can be added via <online request form>
Instructors can request a course for other instructional purposes via <online request form>
- IT Services Workshops and Training
- The Moodle IT Services Workshops and Training subcategory contains materials for workshops offered by IT Services.
- Characteristics:
- Title Naming Convention: "IT Services - WorkshopTitle"
- Breadcrumb Naming Convention: "Workshop Title"
- IT Services Workshops and Training courses are a subcategory of the Other Instruction course category
- Self-Enrollment is available to all users who possess an IUP network (IUPMSD) account
- Documentation
- The Moodle Documentation subcategory contains Moodle-related materials.
- Characteristics
- Title Naming Convention: "Documentation - DocumentTitle"
- Breadcrumb Naming Convention: "Document Title"
- Documentation courses are a subcategory of the Other Instruction course category
- Self-Enrollment is available to all users who possess an IUP network (IUPMSD) account
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