The Curriculum module provides online teachers with a handy educational tool. It allows you to set up curriculums made up of learning elements that are URLs found anywhere online. In order to manage this course design process, a publishing workflow aids the administration of curriculums in the making. While the teachers focus on designing courses, the web publisher is ultimately responsible for determining when a course is ready for public viewing, and when it is time to archive it. Hence Curriculum is administered via a content management system.
The Curriculum admin page presents an overview of all set-up curriculums from a workflow perspective. Here you will get information about which publishing state each curriculum and its learning elements are in. If you click on a curriculum's name, you will (apart from the data about the curriculum) also be presented with those administrative actions you are allowed to take, depending on your assigned role in the workflow. On the admin page you use the tabs at the top to filter out a view of only those curriculums that are in a particular publishing state of your interest. The workflow states that are implemented in a default setup of Curriculum are: Created, Edited, Rejected, Published, and Archived.
The Curriculum admin page presents an overview of all set-up curriculums from a workflow perspective. Here you will get information about which publishing state each curriculum and its learning elements are in. If you click on a curriculum's name, you will (apart from the data about the curriculum) also be presented with those administrative actions you are allowed to take, depending on your assigned role in the workflow. On the admin page you use the tabs at the top to filter out a view of only those curriculums that are in a particular publishing state of your interest. The workflow states that are implemented in a default setup of Curriculum are: Pending, Edited, Rejected, Published, and Archived.The first thing to do is to create a new curriculum. Simply follow the "Add a curriculum" link, fill in the form, and submit it. Now, a curriculum is merely the container of the actual learning resources: the URL elements. The "Add an element" link found in the created curriculum will take you to a form where you fill in the data about a learning resource. Repeat this operation for every element in your curriculum. If you wish to change the internal order of the elements in the curriculum, just click on the arrows in the "Move" column in the curriculum table. If you have created several curriculums, the order of these can also be altered in the same way. In order for you to get notifications of administrative actions taken on a curriculum, just click on the "Watch" link in the "Actions" column of the curriculums you are interested in.
The first thing to do is to create a new curriculum. Simply follow the "Add a curriculum" link, fill in the form, and submit it. Now, a curriculum is merely the container of the actual learning resources: the URL elements. The "Add an element" link found in the created curriculum will take you to a form where you fill in the data about a learning resource. If you don't state a URL, the element will consist solely of its metadata. Then the element URL in the curriculum bar will lead to the element info page, just like the info link. Repeat this operation for every element in your curriculum. If you wish to change the internal order of the elements in the curriculum, just click on the arrows in the "Move" column in the curriculum table. If you have created several curriculums, the order of these can also be altered in the same way.The publisher will get notified about the created curriculum. If you are a publisher, you will be presented with the option of publishing the created (or edited) curriculum when you look at it in a detailed view. A published curriculum will go live; all users will be presented with it. But the users' individual curriculum bars are not updated with the new curriculum until you click on the "I'm done now, update the bar for everyone!" link to the top right of the admin page. The reason why you have to manually make sure that this happens is because you only want your very final edition to show. Also, updating users' individual bars is a rather heavy computer operation; if this were done automatically every time a curriculum or element was edited or moved, a lot of unnecessary computer processing would take place.
In order for you to get notifications of administrative actions taken on a curriculum, just click on the "Watch" link in the "Actions" column of the curriculums you are interested in. Then you will get an email report whenever someone has performed an action in the publishing workflow of the curriculum. The publisher will get notified about the created curriculum. If you are a publisher, you will be presented with the option of publishing the created (or edited) curriculum when you look at it in a detailed view. A published curriculum will go live; all users will be presented with it.