Course contents

Overview

Before you begin creating your course in the PD system, you’ll need to understand how the system works and make some basic decisions.

• Introduction

  What the PD system does, and what this mini-module will cover.

• Types and formats of learning opportunities

  Will your PD be self-paced or instructor-led, and will it use Moodle or be offered in some other way?

Creating a learning opportunity

You’ll begin by creating a “shell” for your learning opportunity in the PD system — a record of it with basic information that will allow you to manage it and participants to find it and register for it.

• Getting started

  First steps in the process of creating a shell for your PD.

Basic information

Next, you’ll fill in the basic information about your learning opportunity. This information varies slightly depending on what kind of learning opportunity you’re creating.

• Creating a self-paced learning opportunity
• Creating an instructor-led course

Further options

• Managing your learning opportunity

  Getting back to your learning opportunity once you’ve created it.

• Settings

  Additional information to help people find and register for your learning opportunity.

Managing content and learners

Once you have created the shell, you’ll need to create the content and activities, manage registration, and arrange for participants to receive grades and credit. (Note that this section will not explain how to create content and activities in Moodle.)

• Managing Resources

  For self-paced learning opportunities, especially (but not only) those not in Moodle.

• Creating and managing sections

  For instructor-led courses. (Self-paced opportunities have only one section each.)

• Managing instructors

  All learning opportunities, even self-paced ones, have assigned instructors for management purposes.

• The roster

  How to manage enrollments and award grades and credit, for both self-paced and instructor-led courses.

• Completion tracking in Moodle

  For self-paced learning opportunities in Moodle, you can use Moodle to track learners’ progress and report it to the PD system to automatically award credit for completion.