Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: Introducing Live Edit!

Have you ever been in a situation where you started a lesson (assigned a sequence to your class) and while your students are going thru it you realized that it would have been better to add an extra activity before the chat, or that an activity that it is there is redundant, or you would have prefer to change your whole sequence altogether?

Well, in LAMS 2.0.3, now you can

This new feature is called Live Edit and allows a teacher/monitor to completely modify a lesson on-the-fly directly in Monitor.

To better explain this in details, let's imagine the following example:

So you are a teacher and have started a lesson with a sequence that have four activities (say Noticeboard, Q&A, Shared Resources and a Chat -in that order).

As your students get into the lesson as learners, you can monitor their progress in Monitor. In the Monitor interface, at the Sequence Tab, you will see there's a new button called "Live Edit".

If you press this button, LAMS would load the Authoring environment and allow you to change the sequence by adding, removing or changing any activity that the learners haven't yet reached.

That means that if one of your learner has reached the second activity (Q&A) then you will be able to modify the sequence from that activity onwards.

Once the students finished the Q&A, then they will get a page that asks them to wait until the Teacher/Monitor finishes modifying the design.

While you are editing this live lesson, you can add, change or remove any activities as you please. Once you are done with your changes, by clicking on the "Apply Changes" button, LAMS removes the stop point that is stopping the students and they can go thru the sequence as you just redesigned it. And you are back in Monitor monitoring your new redesigned lesson. Note that you can press the "Live Edit" button at any time to redesign your lesson as many times as you like.

As you can see, this is quite powerful for teachers, as it is not uncommon for them to have to modify their lessons on the fly.

In the past, you were allow to modify the content of the activities from Monitor, however, you couldn't modify the actual design.

Now you can woohoo!

We'll set up a demo server for you shortly so you can have a play with this new feature before we release it.

Big kudos to Mighty Fiona and Mitch for their work on this.

Thanks,

Ernie

PS: More info on Live Edit is available on the RAMS Wiki

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione