Using MTSOC
From MTS-Wiki
Mount Tamar School - Using MTSOC
Introduction
MTSOC is setup up as an 'online classroom' where the materials for a topic can be stored and accessed by teachers and pupils, work submitted for assessment and marks and feedback given.
Planning is very important and the materials for a topic need to be in place before the topic starts; there can be no 'let's do this' last minute decisions, the topic either takes place or does not.
MTSOC
MTSOC is available across the Internet and, once they have permission to access a course, a pupil can work on a course anywhere they have Internet access, school, home, library, on holiday in the USA, etc. Pupils who are of school for any length of time for whatever reason can still continue with the coursework.
Currently MTSOC is used as a storage place for course materials and not for assessment and feedback. Assessment and feedback will be looked at in time. The items stored on MTSOC are the teaching files (interactive whiteboard presentations) along with a pupils pdf version, worksheets which can be downloaded and completed, other items needed to complete the topic (eg images) and links to useful web sites.
Not all these items are visible to pupils. If a course is split up into seven weeks then only the week that the group has reached is available to them, not all the course. In addition the interactive whiteboard teaching file is always hidden from pupils, but always assessable by the teacher.
There are three levels of access to MTSOC; Creator, someone who can write courses and teach them; Teacher, someone who teaches courses that have been created and pupils. Pupils cannot change courses, they have to be given permission to access a particular course by a creator or teacher.
Setting up a course in MTSOC
The best way to learn about using an online classroom is to set up a course and experiment with it.
To set up a new course you need to be able to log into MTSOC as a member of staff at Mount Tamar School. If you are not sure about this see Mr Berry.
(more to come . . .)
