The majority of modules will now have finished for the year. The exception to these are a number which take place over the summer months, any dissertation submission areas and those which have resit students still using them. As soon as course areas no longer require student interaction for the 2017/18 academic year, they can be rolled over and prepared for the new students to be enrolled onto. Please take a look at the points listed below to ensure that your course area is ready for the new intake of students, that it is accessible and easily navigable.

• Rollover vs Duplicating a course area
• Housekeeping
• Other important things to consider

If you are ensure as to whether a course area is still in use or not, please consult your colleagues. Please ask the E-Learning Unit any questions if you are unsure in order to avert disaster!

Before you get started:

• Check with the course convenor, departmental learning technologist or central administrator as to who is responsible for carrying out the rollover, if it is not known (to ensure that the process isn’t done multiple times by mistake, or at a time it shouldn’t be)
• Backup the course area to be sure that you have all needed data should anything go wrong i.e. when the course has been rolled over when it shouldn’t have been.
• Check with colleagues as to what needs to be kept or removed (i.e. forums, glossaries, groups & groupings’ structure, etc)

New things to remember:

• Once a course area has been rolled over, the Q-Review tool-link will need un-linked and redirected to the new 18/19 year’s section. Alternatively (and more easily), the Q-Review tool-link can be deleted and a new one added. Please follow the steps shown here to link your course to the appropriate section on Q-Review.

Other things to consider

• If you are still having to update activities in Topic Zero (at the top of the course area) by adding hyperlinks to each piece of assessment, then now is the time to make the switch to the Assessment Information block which will automatically link to any assessment activities which you have.
• You may wish to add an introduction to your course area – either by a welcome message or by using the first Module Announcement’s post to display at the top of the page.
• Update the module image for your course area (or uploading an initial one), keeping the page looking fresh. This can be done by clicking ‘edit settings’ in the Settings block and then selecting an image to upload via the ‘Course Summary Files’ option.
• Any old hyperlinks for external websites which are listed on your course area (these may have been inherited if you have taken over teaching a module from a predecessor) will need checking to ensure that they’re not broken.
• Should you use Talis reading lists, these will need checking to ensure that they are up to date & if not, any reading material should be added/edited accordingly.
• Check how your course appears when accessing it via a phone or tablet. Up to 33% of students use mobile devices to access QMplus, so it is important that your course area is easily navigable and that there is not too much ‘scrolling’ to get to the content.
• We run drop in sessions twice weekly, from 1-2pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Please come by with any questions which you have. We shall be holding further drop ins at the start of term.
• Should your students require help, please direct them to us via the Helpdesk. We shall also be staffing a helpdesk stall in the Library a week after they have enrolled.