I attended a session today. At first, I was a bit reluctant to attend. After all, it is the same Elearning. But something inside me was bugging me to attend the session. Well, there are some new things indeed that have been improved since last year. Indeed.
One of the things is there will be a direct link of blended learning rating to TESDCP (under the category of T&L Delivery Resources. You can see other information like E-content (but you cannot add your E content materials here. There is another system for that).
I learn (relearn) on how to do backup/restore (again). It is simple but I have to be extra careful in doing it. If not, I might accidentally delete the students who might have registered for the upcoming semester (which is in another one more week). Since we are using two course codes (old vs new version) for certain courses, I asked if we can merge the courses into one. Dr Nihra gave a tips. We can either (1) metacourse link the courses or (2) import or enrol the students from either one of the courses (old or new code) to another one. But there is a catch. You might not comply to the blended learning rating. For the metacourse link, you need to request it to your faculty’s IT manager.
So what I did is for one course that I pair with another colleague, I did the backup/restore of the course, but I hide it from students. In this case, we are going to maintain the course with two codes.
For another course that I pair with juniors, I decided not to do the backup/restore thingy. Let’s start afresh! Another tips that Dr Nihra shared which some others have done it before (and will continue doing it in this upcoming semester) is we can prepare our Elearning in advanced and can get 4 rating if we comply to all the things (ABCD) [Refer to the picture]. So what left is the active involvement of students with the materials, activities and assessments that we prepare in the Elearning. For that, we have to achieve at least 28 active index. Any lesser than that will lead us to get 4 band. There is a calculation but I am not sure about that. But if I am not mistaken, the 28 active index depends on how many students log in to Elearning and get accessed to our course.
Another thing that I just noticed (after Dr Nihra showed it to us) is a box on the right side “Course Blended Status“. If you want to know if you have complied the blended learning requirement, you can check it in your Elearning. The example that I show in the picture (below) shows that I have achieved band 4 rating. But let’s see how it goes.
