Subject: Course Templates

1/26/2010

Joy Mark

Chief Information Officer
Tabor College
400 S. Jefferson
Hillsboro, KS 67063
620-947-3120 ext 1011

joym@tabor.edu

Question to ListServ:

My understanding of how a course looks upon creation is that there is only one standard course template in LMS. However, we have a desire to create multiple templates so that new courses created for different programs have a different set up (e.g., a certain standard set up for the nursing programs based on weekly presentations while a different one is used for other adult programs, etc.). We're thinking of creating multiple course "templates" by setting dummy courses and copying them over the standard set up once new courses are created each term. However, this creates problems with permissions as the school is hoping to have one or two administrative assistants do the copying instead of the faculty (to prevent confusion in adjuncts who don't have much experience in LMS). Does anybody have experience in trying such a venture that you would be willing to share?

Responses from ListServ:

from Peggy Johnson

peggy.johnson@tm.edu

• We haven’t done what you are describing. However, once a course has been designed with additional pages, it should not be difficult for someone to change the content of a particular page to reflect the new course. I do this with pages I have created in a course when I want to make significant changes. Basically, it simply means editing the page and then copying whatever the new content will be and pasting it over the old content. I think this would work if you had pages you wanted to be a part of all classes in a discipline and just wanted to have the content be appropriate for a specific course within that discipline. For example, I have a page I have created called “Assignments” for each class I teach. My assignments are broken down by weeks, so when I teach a course next semester that I have taught in the past, I simply need to make out a schedule for the new semester’s assignments and copy it over the assignments from the previous course.

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