Sharedresource Activity Module: Teachers' User Guide

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Introduction

A teacher with the “author” role can add published and shared resources to his courses via the shared library. The operation is similar to that of a local resource, with the exception of an intermediate step: the information of the resource on behalf of the library (taxonomic fields), before its integration in the course.

An “author” teacher with appropriate rights can also add a shared resource directly from the library, according to two modalities:

Add to the course a shared resource already existing in the library, rather than creating a new one.

Navigate the library from the course (the context is kept during this navigation), in order to allow a rapid deployment or publication from the search results.

Access from a course

Enable editing mode, then select Add an activity > Shared Resource.

The “Shared Resource” activity is generally used in conjunction with the block Shared Resources.

Add and manage shared resources

The shared resources differ from the classical resources of a course by the following characteristics:

They are referenced and indexed in a single location of the platform.

Their identification is independent of the Moodle context.

They benefit from a complete documentary indexing, in accordance with the market standards.

They can be invoked for several classes.

They can be exposed and listed by other systems.

They can be invoked or transferred to other Moodle instances via a network share of the library.

They can represent documents, as well as dynamic teaching objects (see the “Resource Types” section).

As a central and documentary library, it has its own search engine, based directly on the standard metadata of the platform’s active documentary scheme.

Types of resources

The shared library is designed primarily to host “file” type resources, but also allows you to index a resource as a URL.

It can represent dynamic educational objects ready to be deployed in courses, in SCORM (interoperability standard) format or as “Moodle objects”, offering richer interaction and integration possibilities than the SCORM format.

It can represent any Moodle activity in the form of an MBZ file, thanks to the “Activity Publisher” component. See activity exporter block documentation.

Case of use

The main use cases are:

Add a new resource to the library (direct addition in the holdings) : consult corresponding documentation.

Add an existing shared resource to a course : consult corresponding documentation.

Add a new shared resource to a course : consult the corresponding documentation.

Complementary use case (documentalist)

The role of documentalist gives access to additional features of managing the holdings. See the Sharedresources Library documentation.

Credits

Valéry Frémaux (valery@activeprolearn.com) : Architecture and development

Florence Labord (florence@activeprolearn.com) : Documentation and functional review

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