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Monash Standard Template Educator Checklist

Checklist

Once your unit has been migrated to the standard Monash template, review the checklist and instructions below to prepare your unit for teaching.

Review your Moodle unit and ensure details about your Unit information, assessments and schedule are correct.
Review your Moodle unit preview and ensure details about your key contacts are correct.
Update information as required (review the instructions below for specific guidance). Once information has been updated, changes will automatically be reflected/surfaced in other areas of the template.
For example: Updating assessment due dates in the assignment activity settings will automatically update the date displayed in the Assessment summary table.
Preview your unit from the student view (guide). Consider how the journey fits together for a student and continue to make changes to your unit as necessary. Please note, assessment due dates won't be visible in student view. You will need switch back to your normal view to preview assessment due dates.

Note: We are in active development so some functionality of the template will be released later and advised to faculties. You can check the Digital Learning Uplift timeline for planned feature release dates.

Instructions

1. Update Key Contacts information (how-to guide).
2. Add a personalised profile picture (how-to guide).
Watch the short video below for a quick overview of the Unit dashboard
Credit: Ross McQueen, Educational Designer, Faculty of Information Technology
1. Create a great welcome message and video in Unit Welcome (how-to guide).
2. Review your Unit Resources, and Teaching Approach. Update details if required (how-to guide).
Watch the short video below for a quick overview of the Unit information tab
Credit: Ross McQueen, Educational Designer, Faculty of Information Technology
1. Check dates in the Schedule tab, and populate the free-text column with any other information as required.
Watch the short video below for a quick overview of the schedule tab
Credit: Ross McQueen, Educational Designer, Faculty of Information Technology
1. Check that the unit learning format is appropriate (weeks/modules/etc.). Adjust if required (how-to guide).
2. Review the Overview section for each learning section. Update if required (how-to guide). Consider making the Overview section meaningful as it’s now surfaced on the Unit dashboard via auto-population.
3. Confirm that learning sections dates are correct, update if required (how-to guide).
4. Consider how to structure content under the Own-time/Real-time/Wrap up sections. Review the placement of activities/resources and move them into the appropriate sections (how-to guide).
5. Where relevant, ensure that activities/resources are hidden (how-to guide) or that activity restrictions have been applied (how-to guide).
Watch the short video below for a quick overview of the Learning sections tab
Credit: Ross McQueen, Educational Designer, Faculty of Information Technology
1. Set up the Unit assessment approach (how-to guide).
2. Create assessments in the learning section and/or the assessment section (how-to guide).
  Note: Where you choose to create your learning activities will affect how they are displayed in the Assessment structure table:
  - Activities added in learning sections will be displayed in the list view and will contribute towards the learning journey task tracker, but will not be displayed in the Summary view.
  - Activities added in the assessment sections will be displayed in the Summary view and list view (chronologically), however they will not contribute towards the learning journey task tracker within the learning sections.
3. Create supplementary and non-weighted activities that support your assessment in the appropriate Assessment section (how-to guide).
4. If needed, reorder how activities are displayed in each section by changing the order in the Assessment sections (how-to guide).
5. For assessment activities, update all due dates (how-to guide).
1. Add announcements via the Forums tab.
2. Create other forums in the Learning sections.
1. No actions are required. Unit specific support resources can be add under Unit information.
1. Check that the Moodle Gradebook setup is correct (how-to guide).
2. Double check all links and External tool configurations (eg. Echo360, Pearson, Perusall). While every effort has been made to ensure all links are functioning, as subject matter experts you know the content better than others.
3. Preview your unit from the student view (how-to guide). Consider how the journey fits together for a student and continue to make changes to your unit as necessary. Please note, assessment due dates won't be visible in student view. You will need switch back to your normal view to preview assessment due dates.

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Monash Standard Template Educator Checklist

Checklist

Instructions

Watch the short video below for a quick overview of the Unit dashboard

Watch the short video below for a quick overview of the Unit information tab

Watch the short video below for a quick overview of the schedule tab

Watch the short video below for a quick overview of the Learning sections tab

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