Course Reader

[Martin Hawksey]

We’re interested in your feedback for the Course Reader. Do you use it, is it useful, how would you like it improved?

[Marion Meyerolbersleben]

Oh sure I use it! Do not know why at the moment 😉 but I like it.

[ShunaMarr]

I use the course reader to skim through each day and see the email and other stuff that has been posted since I last looked. I’m not on the ‘as it happens’ JISC mailing list (I get a condensed daily update but that just tells me what the new posts on the course reader are) so I find it useful to go through and cherry pick things that jump out at me and strike my interest – just to see what’s going on in there.

However, what I’d like to know is – how can I go about saving a post I partiuclarly like to my ‘favourites’? I have worked out how to save forum posts to favourites, but I can’t see how to save a post I come across in the reader to my favourites list, so that I can come back to it later.

I’d also like to be able to be notified of follow up comments to posts that I’ve made a favourite – maybe there’s already a way to do these things but I haven’t worked out how yet.

This is my first MOOC and, on my day 4, I’m still finding my feet somewhat. It’s all still a bit daunting and bewildering but I’m going along on the basis that the more you put into it the more you’ll get out of it and seeing how it goes. Thanks for offering the support to us confused newbies 🙂

cheers

Shuna

[Martin Hawksey]

Hi Shuna,

A feeling of disorientation at the start of open courses is very common but it sounds like you’ve done a great job in getting your personal workflow setup. Regarding your questions:

Clicking the little star icon next to a post in the course reader. Doing this should save it to you ‘favourited posts’ (this only works in the course reader).

In forums you should be able to receive email notifications for posts by clicking the ‘subscribe’ button.

If this doesn’t answer your question or you need more information let me know

Martin

[ShunaMarr]

Thanks Martin – yes, that did it. I hadn’t noticed the star before on the course reader. I had already spotted the subscribe button on the forum posts – what I meant was follow ups on the course reader posts. However, if I have them on my favourites I can always easily go back and see them there.

I’m sure that as the weeks progress it will all become familiar. After the initial deluge of information coming back from holiday to 200 emails, it has now bedded itself down a bit and I’m getting myself organised into groups and identifying ways of managing the information into bite-sized chunks. It’s interesting to watch the process of how we go about doing that as much as anything. People obviously feel happier when things are more manageable.

Looking forward to next week when we start proper.

Cheers

Shuna

[susanlulee]

Hi, Shuna,

I agree with you that it’s good to have help from the Reader. It saves my time for navigating over so many personal blogs. I also like your suggestion regarding saving favorite items to local disks. It will be easier for me to revisit the blogs I like/need.

Su-Tuan

 

 

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