What can CourseBuilder do?
CourseBuilder Elements
A range of courses have been developed using CourseBuilder. While all these courses use different CourseBuilder elements/features, it is important to note the time taken and skills and expertise required to develop these courses.
Here are some examples of things you might want to do in CourseBuilder.
組織課程資源
- Lecture notes - uploading files e.g. PDFs, Word documents and Powerpoint.
- Media: link to (or embed) youtube videos or upload your own video or audio.
- Lecture recordings - link to/upload media e.g. video, audio (mp3).
- Sequential content (eg tabbed content).
- Lists with detail revealed for each heading (eg accordian tab).
- Communication - linking to discussion forums from learning management systems e.g. CECIL.
- Interaction - CourseBuilder comments and Facebook comments.
CourseBuilder features and elements commonly used for organisation:
- Pages, sub-pages, sub-sub pages.
- Freetext, accordions, tabbed content.
EXAMPLES
- Geology example
- Complex organisation for a Stage 1 Spanish class (developed with assistance from CLeaR).
多媒體互動頁面
Include images, audio and video files in context (including interactive exercises)
EXAMPLES
- A simple website on preparing images for the web.
- Phonetics for Speech Science 712 - includes an image map of an IPA chart with pop-up video. Also dictation with a specialised keyboard for typing answers.
- English 111, From Sonnets to comics - a timeline providing context for historic periods.
- Spanish 104 Quizzes related to music. The website also includes practice quizzes with video for pronunciation, listening activity and multiple choice quiz
- Business Information Skills Online - Includes interactive flash animations.
- Multimedia laboratory manual for Chemical and Materials Engineering
課程互動與溝通
- Use Comments to encourage discussion in context.
- Use Comments to produce FAQs about, for example, assignments.
- Use student pages to encourage collaboration on tasks.
- Enable 'chat' so that an individual student can talk to another.
EXAMPLE
Project management for postgraduate engineers
- Question/answer forum using "Comments" on pages about assignments reduce student queries during office hours. Students learn from answers to others' questions, similar to FAQ's. The lecturer answers the same question from many students once.
- On-line case studies to support in-class group work also use comments for discussion.
- The Lecturer invites students to provide relevant quotations and each week he gives a prize for the best. This has proved popular.
- journal/comment feedback OCSE
- flipped classroom
題目練習
- Develop quizzes with instant feedback per question.
- Develop quizzes with feedback that can be monitored. (Feedback on all questions is given at the end)
- Use 'show/hide' to encourage reflection.
- Use Student note and then supply 'expert' answer.
EXAMPLES
- Business Information Skills Online ‘test yourself’
- Spanish 104
- ELE GrammarSmart
- Linguistics for Speech Language Therapy (Exercises tab: Feedback/Survey/Quiz element to monitor student responses; Review tab: Show/Hide element)
明辨性思考 critical thinking
Promote critical thinking - using student notes, student pages and comments.
- English 111, From Sonnets to Comics - Includes close reading exercises to develop critical thinking.
- Media, Film & Television: research and writing path - Scaffolding students' research and writing.
- Ancient History 254/354 - Student-created content (each student was given a topic and a "student page").
- evPaeds - A virtual case study which includes the Decision Tree element.
- Online problem-solving for Commercial Law
設計與資源再利用
EXAMPLES
Three courses where the benefits of cloning are easily seen.
Sports Medicine in the Community
Business Information Skills Online
- Components of this course have been used in subsequent information literacy tutorials.
- It has provided ideas for other similar tutorials.
- A generic resource like this can be used by others with slight modification or customisation. Note: Flash elements reduces flexibility.
Repurposing websites for audiences with different needs
ENGGEN199 English enrichment for first year engineering students
Other features and functions for navigation and support
CourseBuilder also offers features that are separate from the elements and are enabled from the Advanced Options section of the Course Preferences. Some easy to use features:
- Include a glossary
- Include a search function
- Include quick links
- Include a sitemap
- version history
- student access/activity log
Examples:
The CourseBuilder support website includes Quick Links, a glossary, a search function and a site map.
FMHS TeachingPlus provides rich support for use of educational technologies in your teaching and includes Quick Links which have been renamed “I want to know more about...”
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