CIT recommends that faculty staff set up lesson plans in IVLE for all modules. This will allow students to get a week-by-week (or topic-by-topic) view of the module, as well as the relevant links to resources for that week (or topic). Here’s a quick Lesson Plan tutorial.

This tutorial assumes that you have preloaded your modules with the respective tools. E.g. files in the workbin and multimedia, forums, chat rooms and other tools.

1. Click Lesson Plan on the Workspace sidebar or under Tools on the horizontal menu bar.

2. Click Create Lesson Plan.

3. Choose the Parent Module, fill in a Lesson Plan Title and choose a Lesson Plan Type. In this tutorial we will Create a Lesson Plan following NUS Academic Calendar. Click Create. (Click screenshot below for a larger view.)

4. You will see the Preferences for the Lesson Plan. Click Lesson Schedule on the sidebar. You will see the an empty week-by-week view of the module. (Click screenshot below for a larger view.)

5. Add Week 1’s Weekly Summary by clicking . Fill in the weekly summary in the text box. You can add Instructional Resources if you wish. (These are displayed automatically if you have uploaded files to the Workbin or Multimedia, or if you have created other tools for that module. In this tutorial, we will add Instructional Resources to an Event in step 7.) Click Apply. (Click screenshot below for a larger view.)

6. You will see the Weekly Summary for Week 1. (Click screenshot below for a larger view.)

7. Click Add Event. Fill in the Event Title, Event Type (lecture in this example), Event Start Date (and time), Event End Time, Event Location and Event Description (in the text box). Add the appropriate Instructional Resources (in this example, week 1’s lecture notes and an audio clip).

You can arrange for event Recurrence to help fill out all the teaching weeks. These can be edited week-by-week later.

Click Apply. (Click screenshot below for a larger view.)

8. You can see the lecture summary and the respective instructional resources. You can Add Event again to add a tutorial or other events (e.g. assignment/project deadlines). (Click screenshot below for a larger view.)

9. After you have finished Week 1, you can click Week 2 and repeat steps 1 to 8 for that week. Continue for all the weeks. If you chose for events to recur in step 7, you only need to edit the descriptions and check the appropriate instructional resources for each week.

10. Finally, don’t forget to Publish the Lesson Plan by clicking Yes for the respective weeks and events.

Your Lesson Plan will appear on the Workspace. If you wish, you can unpublish the tools that are duplicated by the Lesson Plan on the Workspace. They can now be accessed via the Lesson Plan.