Working with Master Courses
This document discusses master courses and how they can be used to maintain consistency across course sections. It provides the following key points: 1) A master course is a course template that allows for quality control and easier updating by maintaining content in one central location that can then be copied to individual course shells. 2) Using master courses helps address issues like the difficultly of consistently updating and maintaining multiple course sections as well as inconsistencies that can arise across sections when they are managed separately. 3) The document provides guidance on setting up a new course shell by generating an empty shell and then copying over content from the master course template while also checking for and fixing any broken links or other issues that may arise from
![Take care of your course
• Unimplemented features
– Creating your own test student
– Mediasite options [login]
– Grade book smart view
• Evaluation Tools
– Evaluation Performance Dashboard
– Evaluation Course Reports
• Customizing your course
– Home page
– Tools area](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/workingwithmastercourses-111117095501-phpapp02/85/Working-with-Master-Courses-4-320.jpg)
Working with Master Courses
- 1. Working with Master Courses Jinsong Zhang January 6, 2011
- 2. MASTER: What and why • What is a master course? – Course template for everyone – Quality control – Extra updating work – First cycle by August • Why master? – Difficult to maintain and update – Inconsistence across different sessions – CMS upgrade
- 3. About your course website • Process of creating a course shell – Empty shell generation – Contents from MASTER copies – Blackboard system bugs and broken links • Detecting & Fixing broken links – Control Panel Content Collection 11S8W1_ENG_123_OL – Files in Content Collection
- 4. Take care of your course • Unimplemented features – Creating your own test student – Mediasite options [login] – Grade book smart view • Evaluation Tools – Evaluation Performance Dashboard – Evaluation Course Reports • Customizing your course – Home page – Tools area
- 5. Questions