Title: About this course/Notes to the Instructor & the Restoring Process (Hide this)
Course: Advanced Composition for the Digital Age SP14

Course layout, theme, Academic Standards and National Tech Standards Alignment

About This Course

Academic Standards and National Tech Standards Alignment-These are Common Core Standards but with some extra standards built in by the state of MN.

The full layout of this course can be seen after you install it by clicking on Settings and then changing the number of course topics to 2. The reason for the Moodle Zen layout is because long scrolling Moodle courses aren't visually appealing and they tend to intimidate students. By compacting the resources and activities students can go through course content without being intimidated by how much they have to complete. Also, it makes it possible for entire courses to be left open with no hidden sections for schools with rolling enrollments or a transient student population.

This course uses the Checklist Add-on for Moodle so that students can keep track of progress. Your Moodle Administrator can add it to your site for you by following this link: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=3582&filter=1

Clipart used in this course is from OpenClipArt.org

Restoring this Course

When you restore this course to your own Moodle site, you make have to repair some broken links. This will most likely happen to the Images on the main page and the Home links that are at the bottom of each unit summary. This is easy to repair. Update the resource and toggle to the HTML version of the page, from there you can replace the incorrect course number in the link or the entire link itself with the new one on your Moodle site.

If you see any of the links replaced with: $@COURSEVIEWBYID*597@$ simply replace them with new link to course page in HTML mode.

You may also notice that images need to be re-sized. If this is the case, reinserting the image and entering the desired size will resolve this. If it is the same image in multiple resources (forum) you can copy the HTML code for one and paste it over all other others.

To see every resource in this course you can go in to Settings and display two topics instead of one, this will open up everything for you to edit/replace or do whatever you'd like. The whole process may take about 5-10 min.

If you're not sure of something you can contact me through my website. I'd be thrilled to know if you're using this course, how things are going and how it's received by students. Please let me know if there are any broken links in this course that are not a result of the course restore process and I will be happy to replace them.