Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Issues?

What issues/troubles are you encountering in migrated masters? Please comment to add.

Here's my first one: in M8ENG100, When I try to edit an announcement that came over, I get the big ugly red error:



Worse, I can't delete it either.

Postscript: Recycling (now called Bulk Delete) removed the announcement. We may have to do this for all courses.

Brainstorming checkout and cleanup tasks

Things we need to look at/do in each course:
  1. Click each link in Course Content of each course, including:
  • links to external websites
  • links to embedded files (make sure they download/open)
  • links to attached files if any are still floating around
  1. Check a graded discussion forum to make sure the grading works
  2. Test both a test and an assignment from the student's perspective
  3. Look for "invalid HTML" warnings in content areas
  4. Check for properly enabled Course Tools (Control Panel > Customize > Tool Availability > all needed tools)
  5. Fix course titles for any unnamed courses
  6. Add Course Home module to each master page (the Course Modulator building block will automate some of this)

What else? Please comment to add more stuff to this list.

Masters are in

The migration of masters seems to have completed overnight. I dropped into a handful of courses. Many look good.

The only issue I see at first glance is that some came over with no title and no banner image. I can't figure out the logic behind those that came over with titles intact and those that didn't. Adding titles will be on the list of cleanup tasks.

PS - I added "cleanup" as a new tag.