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Monash Standard Template Educator Checklist

Checklist

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.

Instructions

1. Update Key Contacts information (how-to guide).
2. Add a personalised profile picture (how-to guide).
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).
1. Check dates in the Schedule tab, and populate the free-text column with any other information as required.
  Note: Dates are controlled from the learning sections and can be adjusted (how-to guide).
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).
1. Set up the Unit assessment approach (how-to guide).
2. Create all assessments and tasks that contribute to the final grade of the unit in the appropriate assessment section (in alignment with the handbook).
3. Create supplementary and non-weighted activities that support your assessment in the appropriate Assessment section (how-to guide).
4. If you want assessment tasks to appear under learning topics, you can use the shadow link activity (how-to guide) to embed them in the correct week so students can access them within the context of the learning journey as well as the assessment page.
5. If needed, reorder how activities are displayed in each section by changing the order in the Assessment sections (how-to guide).
6. 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

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