Cutting over to TAFEvc 3

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Cutting over to TAFEvc 3

• The Holmesglen Context

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TAFEvc3 Explained Whats in a name?

• TAFEvc (Virtual Campus) is a Victorian Government
  initiative
• Uses Blackboard Learning System Vista
  Enterprise License formerly called WebCT Vista 4
  as the LMS (now referred to as Blackboard Vista)
• WebCT (now Blackboard) got in before Bill Gates
  with Windows Vista

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The Team
Leah Maine
John de Figueiredo
Ian Bennington
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Know your eLF

• APT Chris Adams
• BIT David McEvoy
• BSC Clare Milligan (Chadstone) Alison
  Brewer (Moorabbin)
• CLP Rita Chiu
• DAS Teresa Cannon (Arts Comms) Roy
  Tyrrell (Furniture)
• HHC Kenneth Rankin
• HTR Malcolm Urie

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Agenda for today

• Brief introduction to TAFEvc3 demo
• Migrating courses from TAFEvc2
• Administration Tasks including branding
• Professional Development
• Questions

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TAFEvc3

• What are the differences?
• Radical change not just an upgrade!!!

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Something you may be familiar with
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and the new look TAFEvc
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and the new look TAFEvc
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Key new features

• Build/Teach/Student tabs
• Demo student for a real student view
• Learning Modules for sequencing content, web
  links, discussions, assignments, assessments, etc
• Enhanced Assignment features
• Quiz, Survey, Self Test - Assessments
• New Groups functionality
• Action Links

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Migrating courses from TAFEvc2

• Identifying courses to migrate or start again
• Identifying duplication/creating consistency
• Strategies for tidying up before and after
  migration
• What breaks?

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Migration process

• Use eLFs help identify subjects to migrate
• Some departments may choose to start clean
• Opportunity to remove duplicate subjects (eg. 8
  copies of a subject gt only 1 migrated)
• Highly manual process

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Automation

• XML files
• Need CSV to XML converters

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Learning from the Mistakes of Others

• Be ruthless
• Often easier to start from scratch than to
  migrate
• Only migrate subjects with substantial content
• Tidy up prior to migration
• Restructure delivery post-migration to get best
  use out of new features (eg learning modules)

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What breaks

• Assignments with attachments cant edit
  assignment post-migration
• Icon sets get muddled
• Clever bits where designer has introduced own
  HTML

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New Administration Interface
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Learning Context Hierarchy
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Hierarchy Mapping
Holmesglen Institute
Department
Qualification or TAFE Course
Subject (competency or cluster)
Instance (eg Thurs 11.30am, 1.1.15)
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Administration tasks

• Mapping organisational structures
• Naming conventions (sections, courses, users)
• Objects have both name and id
• Devolved administration
• My WebCT has become HIT Online (after being Bruce
  for Cup Weekend)

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Naming Conventions

• Course titles are typically Competency names
• Section names are Competency names plus Delivery
  Instance identifier

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Some pitfalls / bugs / issues

• Java applet issues
• MyComputer failing to load
• Chat fails to load
• JAVA not installed/wrong version
• Mac. weirdness
• Pop-up blockers (incl. Yahoo toolbar)
• Chat timeouts
• IE and 3rd Party file blockers

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Student Access

• There will be a new NAL icon which will unblock
  pop-up blocker and take them to

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Professional Development

• eLF power
• Support Learning with Online Tools (SLWOLT
  pronounce that!)
• Lunchtime Introduction
• Two-hour training sessions
• Online training (using video) next slide

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Online Tours and Training

• Some short multimedia tutorials from WebCT

http//tutorials.webct.com/exploring/
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Professional Development cont

• Two-hour training sessions on
• Set up section (customising)
• Entering content (file manager)
• Communication tools (calendar, email, discussion,
  chat, announcements)
• Learning modules (activity sequence)
• Assessments (quiz, survey, self-test)
• Assignments (digital dropbox)
• Media library
• SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model)

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Where are we now?

• TAFEvc2
• Total student enrolments gt10,000
• Approx 200 live courses
• Approx 80 staff (one has 10 live courses)
• TAFEvc3
• Total student enrolments gt2,000
• Approx 90 live courses
• Over 100 staff

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Shape of things to come

• Possibilities for automation (subject creation,
  user creation, user enrolment)
• Integration with QLS
• user account creation and enrolment
• resulting

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Next Steps

• Request a sandpit to play in and/or
• Request a real section
• Staffnet link will take you to next slide
• Come to some specific training sessions

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Next Steps

• Link on Staffnet will take you to

• Click Request Course or Student Enrolment a
  form will appear!

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Contact details

• John de Figueiredo phone 2647
• Ian Bennington phone 2655

Questions