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Editing Your Online Course to Meet Midway Standards: Topics & Weekly Objectives

In accordance with Midway Online Course Standards, each Week or Topic must be accompanied with a Topic description, dates, objectives, and tasks. The image below depicts what each Week/Topic must look like in order to meet the Midway Standards.

Updating Week/Topic Heading

In order to update the Week/Topic Heading you mush click the gear below the heading ().  Once you click this gear you will be directed to the page depicted below.

Next, you will need to delete (Insert topic description) and insert the week/topic main concepts or theme.  After updating the topic copy and paste the information below into the Summary field:

Start Date - End Date (ex. August 12 - August 19)

Your tasks are:

  1. {Assigned Reading}
  2. {Online Learning Activity} ex: Discuss...
  3. {Regularly assigned work} ex: HW Assignment/Quiz/Project work, etc.

You can ask any questions you might have about the week's materials or activities in the "Raise your hand!" forum. 

More than likely the Master course editors will need to update (1) the assigned readings; (2) the weeks online assignment; and (3) the regularly assigned works.  It is also important that you update the last sentence in the Summary to match the name and forum you want students to direct questions too. As Master course editors you can leave the date in the format shown above.  The dates will only need to be changed by course facilitators.

It is VERY important that you copy and paste the text above.  Without copying and pasting you will lost the embedded code that allows it to appear properly on Moodle.

In order to prevent student confusion we highly recommend deleting extra labels in all courses.  In the example below the labels are:

  1. Lesson Lecture
  2. Study Resources
  3. Lesson Activities.

We recommend using these labels to divide the course content and assignments up into manageable chunks. In many classes these labels are left in the course with no content in the section.  If you are not using one of these three labels we highly recommend deleting it because labels without content may make students think they are missing assignments or that the content is not loading properly.  Removing these labels reduces confusion in the online learning environment.

Deleting Labels

You can delete labels by going to the course and selecting Turn editing on.  Then scroll down to the label you want to delete and select Edit (seen in the image above).  A drop down should appear and Delete can be found at the bottom.

 

Select Delete and confirm you want to delete the label by click Yes.