Standard Moodle Course Template

• The course templates have been designed with a strong focus on the user experience. Lecturers, students, and staff from digital teaching support services were involved in their development.
• The course templates were developed specifically for use in university teaching during the semester. This makes it easier for teachers to create materials. They can focus more on the content, as the course template provides structure and barrier-free design.
• The course template makes it easier for lecturers and students to get started in Moodle and find their way around a course. Because the content is structured similarly in different courses, students can concentrate more on the content while learning.
• The course template facilitates orientation in the course through the use of symbols that are as uniform as possible, the meanings of which are defined across disciplines in the demo course in a code snippet collection for icons.
• The course templates are designed according to the principles of robustness, interoperability, mobility, and accessibility. They are very small in size (less than 15 MB) and therefore run very efficiently on different systems. Even with low or only temporarily available data volume, the course content can be used by downloading it in the form of books, directories, and videos, for example.
• If data-intensive content such as photos, videos, and interactive materials are primarily stored at the book level, this increases the performance of the course and the entire Moodle platform. These are then loaded when they are specifically needed.
• The use of Font Awesome icons via HTML code also makes it possible to create very lean and high-performance courses. The courses load relatively quickly from the internet. The images can be easily replaced using HTML code. No editing with a graphics program is necessary. In terms of sustainability, this conserves resources.
• Careers at universities are characterised by a high degree of mobility. The Boost Union version can be easily transferred by lecturers to another university in the DACH region and is executable there. In principle, the OER version can be easily used on any Moodle instance worldwide.
• The course templates are suitable for international collaborations. Content can be easily exchanged and translated on a book-by-book basis.
• The course templates are structured in a modular way into lessons. This makes it easier to reuse individual lessons in different degree programmes and modules. It also facilitates the exchange and adaptation of knowledge in collaborations with other universities.
• The course templates were created as OER materials, making them easy to reuse.

Here you can download a presentation on the "Standard Course Template" and "Blended Learning Course Template."

• Presentation on the Standard course template and Blended Learning course template (PDF, 970.32 KB)

  © Presentation: Julia Lee, FH Potsdam, Licence: CC BY SA 4.0, further licences see slide below