Checklist ‐ create and publish a new course
The purpose of this page is to help you successfully create and publish your course.
Your MOOC course needs to have a course code (for example TKT10002) in Sisu for you to be able award credits for the course. University of Helsinki MOOC Center only supports MOOCs that can be studied for credit. The scope for MOOC courses is usually 2 credits, but can be slightly more or less as well.
- Discuss your MOOC plans with the heads of your degree programme.
- Make sure that both the heads of the degree programme and the faculty council approve the course as a part of the degree programme.
- Add course descriptions (prerequisites, learning objectives, course structure) to Sisu for the course code.
Once you have the course code in Sisu approved and know the start date for the course, get in touch with your degree programme's contact person in the Open University. If you do not know who the right person is, send a message to [email protected]. In your email include the name of the MOOC course and the degree programme the course is a part of.
The Open University contact person will create
- a Sisu course instance for your MOOC course
- an Open University course page (with a link to the course material)
- Open University enrollment link.
Send an email to MOOC Center ([email protected]). In your email, include
- a link to the course material,
- the Sisu course code
- name and email address of the responsible teacher MOOC Center will be in touch with admins of the Suotar system (Toska group) that handles writing the course completion information to Sisu.
Go to this page to create an account.
Send an email to MOOC Center ([email protected]) and schedule a Zoom meeting where you will learn how to use the platform.
- Course front page (title, brief course description, links to FAQ and other information pages, list of chapters)
- Chapter 1 front page (brief description of the chapter contents and goals (optional), chapter page list, chapter exercise list)
- Page 1 (learning content: text, videos, exercises)
- Page 2
- Page 3 ...
- Chapter 2 front page
- Page 1 ...
- Chapter 1 front page (brief description of the chapter contents and goals (optional), chapter page list, chapter exercise list)
Course materials on the platform are organized into chapters and pages.
- Front page contents include: title, brief course description, links to FAQ and other information pages, list of chapters
- Each Chapter has a chapter front page that lists all pages and exercises in the chapter. This page can also include a short description of the chapter contents and learning objectives. For example, take a look at the Uncover Finnish Education MOOC Chapter 1 front page.
- Pages contain the actual learning content of the course: text, video, audio, embedded content, exercises
- Create multiple slides for each (multiple-cchoice) exercise. Each student is randomly assigned one slide per exercise. This makes sharing answers or working together a bit more difficult as each student gets a different set of questions to answer.
- Try to use multiple exercise types in your course material. Do not rely exclusively on multiple-choice questions. Essay-type exercises that are peer-reviewed are a good way to add interaction between students and create variation in exercise types. You can set the point threshold for the course so that students cannot pass the course by only completing multiple-choice exercises. This wiki page explains how to set up peer-review exercises.
Create information pages (or top level pages) for all course related information that is not actually learning content: FAQs, instructions for studying the course, contributors page, etc. Pages tab > Top level pages section > New page button
Course front page is the page that potential students first see when they begin (or consider beginning) the course.
- 2.1. Add an attractive hero image (SVG format).
- 2.2. Write a brief and inviting description of the course.
- 2.3 Create links to information pages such as the FAQ. You can use the top level pages block as well.
- 2.4. Add images to course chapter cards (instructions on this wiki page.
- 2.5. Peer-reviewed exercises: Add example answers for students to peer review: We recommend that you and other course staff submit sample answers to peer review exercises. The number of sample answer should be the number of minimum peer reviews to give. This way students who are first to complete the exercises have answers to peer review immediately after they have submitted their own answers and do not have to wait for answers by other students. The sample answers do not need to be perfect or ideal answers, but instead something similar to what students might submit.
Go through your images and make sure they have alt texts if they are not decorative. You can find more detailed instructions related to alt texts next to the alt text field of an image.
If your course uses peer (or self review): Make sure peer review settings are configured consistently and that peer review questions have been added.
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Peer review questions: Each peer review exercise should have peer review questions. The questions can be exercise specific (added separately under each exercise) or use the course
default peer review config. -
Peer review processing strategy:
- If you want students either to automatically pass if they pass the accepting threshold or go to manual review if they fail, you should set strategy to
Automatically grade or manual review by average. Remember to set the `peer review accepting threshold and include at least one likert-scale peer-review question. - If you want to manually review all submissions and give points to students yourself, set strategy to
Manual review everything. You will see the peer reviews that students have submitted while grading the answer.
- If you want students either to automatically pass if they pass the accepting threshold or go to manual review if they fail, you should set strategy to
- More detailed instructions on the Peer review - how to set up wiki page.
Once you have all course exercises in place you can set the threshold for
- the number of exercises that students must attempt (out of the total number of exercises on the course)
- the number of points that students need to receive (out of total points available for all exercises) See instructions for setting up completion requirements on this wiki page If your course is graded on the scale 0-5 or you don't want to automatically give completions for some other reason see instructions for giving completions manually here: Manual completions
- Ask for your colleagues or a small group of students to test the course. This wiki page explains how you how course material can be tested: Testing course material
- Based on the feedback received from testers, do improvements to the course material.
Remember to remove draft checkbox in the course material settings once you want the course to be visible to the public: Overview tab -> Edit button -> uncheck draft -> update
- Please make sure the MOOC Center staff knows when the course material is opened to public.