2. ABOUT ME
• SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/rexlorenzo
• CCLE lead developer (Common Collaboration & Learning
Environment) at UCLA
• Working with Moodle since 2011
• Particularly helper Moodler
5. HISTORY
• IEI fee – renewed in 2007, seed funding for CCLE
• Students expecting more from class websites
• Increasing time until graduation
• Difficulty in getting classes
• Anderson School joining CCLE
• Needed way to tag syllabi for student course shopping
6. INSTRUCTOR CONCERNS
• Intellectual thievery
• My syllabus is my intellectual property
• I have had other schools “take” my course without
permission
• Course “shopping”
• “Shopping” for courses? Are they for sale?
• Students who pre-read syllabi are trying to find the “easier”
class to take.
• Extra chore
• It is really annoying to get those messages asking, asking,
asking for a syllabus in advance
7. STUDENT CONCERNS
• Unable to make informed decisions
• Look at past syllabus
• Word of mouth
• Bruinwalk
• Want to find courses that “fit”
• Don’t just want “easy” courses
• Want balance
8. OUR “SOLUTION”
• Allow instructors to control access to syllabi
• Identify courses with syllabi
• Flag “preview” syllabi
9. 2. WALKTHROUGH
• How instructors can upload a syllabus
• How students access syllabi
• Future plans
21. NO ONE READS EMAIL!
Adding syllabus reminder
0 20 40 60 80
Courses w/ syllabi
General public
Logged in
Restricted
Spring 2013
Winter 2013
~2X increase!
A problem
22. DEFAULTS MATTER
0 20 40 60 80
General public
Logged in
Restricted
Summer 2013
Spring 2013
24. “MARKETING”
• Choose words carefully
• “Course shopping”
• Sell, Advertise, Promote
• Expectations, Appropriate, “Time to degree”
• Who’s job is it get faculty post early syllabi?
