Structure and sequencing

1. Will we need streams, that is, topics running concurrently?
2. Consider Moodle’s structure.
1. It will probably be better to run as a meta-course and write the courses as components. That way we can easily generate other courses using the same components.
2. Decide which components might be useful for other courses.
3. Define calendar and lessons.
4. Put in assessment tasks and reporting.

There are two main kinds of sequence:

1. The whole set of materials is set up as a sequence that students can work through it step-by-step. This works best for project based learning, and subjects that you can't do the latter things without have learnt the beginning things. In some cases, students can go to later topics, even if they haven't done the earlier ones. In other cases, they must pass the earlier lessons to be granted admission to the later lessons, like going up a level in a computer game.
2. The materials are set out so that students can choose any topic from the home page. This sounds like a good idea, but it works best if each topic is a cycle that is self-contained sequence. You can't really do this in Moodle.

Do the the units naturally fit into a sequence that could be a project?

You might have a pipeline and water situation. Some kinds of units naturally work together, so they don't have to be taught separately.

Decide which is the tunnel and which is the water. For example:

• A music project also had a "Work in teams" unit. So students worked on the music project in teams.
• A teaching course had an OHS unit. We could have taught them separately, but it was more fun to use OHS as an example of something to teach: "How could we teach OHS?"