Discussions and Release Conditions

1. Discussions and Release Conditions Bill Weber E-Learning Operations

2. Workshop Overview • Tell You • Show You • Involve You

3. Why Discussions? • Encouraging Communications between learners • Learning from each other • Higher Learning (Bloom's Taxonomy) • Quality Matters • Building an online community of learners

4. Why Release Conditions? • Control the flow of information • Allow “special access” • Solution to an eCollege problem

5. Discussion Forums (Why?) • Discussion Topics need a forum or container • Organization Uses • Different Types of Discussions • Different Forums for Different Groups • Multiple Topics for each Content Module

6. Discussion Forums (How-to) • Go to the Discussions area • Click “New Forum” • Give it a title • Save it

7. Discussion Topics • Click “Save and Add Topic” on the New Forum page • Or click on “New Topic” on the Discussions Page • Choose the Forum • Give it a title • Put the topic in the “Description Box” • Save it

8. Questions

9. Release Conditions (Why?) • Control the flow of information • Create exceptions for individual students

10. Release Conditions (How-to) • Edit item condition is being applied to • Click on the “Restrictions” tab • Click on “Create and Attach” • In the pop-up, choose the type and the details. • Click “Create” • Save the item

11. Questions / Demo