Learning Objects Repository - LOR
Content Management or LOR (Learning Objects Repository) You can access LOR through the powerstrip, see screenshot below. Examples of usage:
- Reducing the time and effort by sharing content or learning objects between courses, departments, or even campuses across the institution.
- Teach multiple sections of the same course while managing the content in one place. (You can also request the multiple sections be merged into a merged course, all rosters will automatically be included and updated daily)
- Good for courses where the department supplies the template.
- Share standardized tests, question banks, or discussion forums across courses
- Search for content against keywords and metadata
- Deploy survey evaluations from LOR, linked from each course.
- Link to Dropbox in LOR for student "best work" samples.
- Library reserves can all reside in one LOR instead of manual labor putting them into each course each semester.
Copying LOR items from within your course
Click the Copy Item button to copy the selected items into your
course. The copied items appear at the specified level on the
Lessons tab.
If you import content from a LOR, you are also provided with the option to link to the content items (Link to Items button). Using this option creates a linked item within your course which links to the source item in the repository.
- Linking to items can be very useful but can also have unintended consequences. In particular, when linking to a quiz, survey, or drop box, student submission results are stored in the course repository and are not accessible from the course which contains the link. In some cases, this may be the desired outcome (i.e. course/instructor evaluations, standardized testing, departmental survey, etc.); however in most common cases you should copy these item types.
Other consequences and benefits of linking to content include:
- When linking to a repository discussion forum, the forum postings are stored in the repository. The forum postings are still viewable from the course which contains the link; however, the discussion forum becomes shared among all of the courses that link to the discussion forum. This can be very useful for providing a shared discussion forum among several different courses.
- Linking is ideal for providing access to large media files such as audio and video lectures. This approach reduces unnecessary duplication and inefficient use of server hard drive space.
- Reports for linked items only allow top-level activity summary and detail reports of who has accessed the link. Reports for a linked folder do not provide any detail regarding who accessed sub-items within the link (folder). Those details are only available from within the repository.
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