Getting further with my e-learning site

Now I have gained some experience with my site.

I have the general access level which lists all available courses (only one at the moment).
This is will be visible to everyone in our collaboration.

It gives access to the site for my pilot course. After the registration, the access will be limited to the participants only.

I have implemented an administration area for this course which includes the planning of the course and the activities. This will be limited to the project team.

I'm actively using the administration area and it gives some nice possibilities for the planning.
I will not give the course myself so planning is an important issue. As I know my dear colleagues, and I know that the material itself (slides, instructions etc) will not be ready well in advance before the course, I have setup a form which they have to fill to define what they actually plan to present in different modules and what exercises they will include (see an example of an empty form and filled in information). In this way, even if the material is not ready everyone knows what the others have planned.

The admin site works really well. I'm not so much convinced of the course site itself. The outcome can be quite nice but for putting in contents as web pages it seems to require some authoring tools which I do not have or writing wikis in pure html. I do not mind typing html but I'm afraid that not all my collaborators who would eventually use this site for e-learning courses are happy with that... Well, I'm often told that people can read code when I bug them with the requests on documentation - now I can tell them that you can type html...

It is however true that most of the material resides in our agenda system outside this site and we will just link there for slides and such. This site will be used mainly for the exercises. This is not only because these are the tools we have, but it is because the material will be public to all collaboration while the exercises and communications within the course are restricted to the participants only.

I have not been able to import the material built with eXe, which is a pity, it would have been nice to see if people like it. I will keep on exercising....