Platform phase

Goals and deliverables

This phase starts 7 weeks before the course launch by placing all videos, texts, quizzes, images and tools on the FutureLearn platform, resulting in a testable course. Online placement is done by student assistants from ESI. This phase takes 2 weeks to complete.

Deliverable 10: All materials on the FutureLearn platform

These are some general principles to keep in mind when putting steps online. This is a subset taken from the Writing phase, :

1)    Longer articles should be cut up by subheaders and images to improve learning experience.

2)    The first paragraph in each step will always be in bold, so no ** are needed.

3)    Almost all steps have a box with copyright. This should be University of Groningen,  University of Groningen / UMCG or the partnership that designed the MOOC. We allow everyone to use our materials for free for non- commercial purposes, but nevertheless it is essential to show that it has been developed by our organisation.

4)    We write Week 1, Week 2, etc with a capital. However first week and second week are without. This is a FutureLearn standard.

5)   We also require that each Article and Discussion step contains an image at the top for stylistic reasons. Longer Article steps also require one or two in-text images to break it up and improve the learning experience.

6)   Besides a caption with the title of an image, each image requires a so-called alt description that literally states what is in the image for learners that are visually impaired. An example:

·       Caption text: Mona Lisa >> Alt text: Young woman smiling

·       Caption text: Interaction >> Alt text: Two women talking

7)   Image copyright can just be "Storyblocks" or "Justin Matthews via Unsplash". Even when we do not have to     

       contribute, it is decent to do so.