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Helping to ensure your contributions get read

Posted on by Martin Hawksey Posted in Course information, related courses and developments
Course Reader Submission Form

Course Reader Submission Form

We aim to provide you with one easy-to-use location to which any ocTEL participant can add their activity, and then anyone can read it through an integrated interface. The feature of the ocTEL course platform that enables this is the ‘Course Reader‘. This tool provides gateway to all the participant generated activity that we are able to collect from RSS feeds (short video on RSS in plain English). Clicking on the ‘categories’ on the right hand side lets you filter for specific channels. Up until now the only way you could add your content was by going to your profile clicking the ‘Edit’ button and following the steps to add your blog and blog feed. As there is many more course artefacts being created in other places like Storify we’ve now added a ‘Course Reader Submission’ form to your profile page.

So if you have a resource you would like to share on the Course Reader, visit your profile (you’ll need to login or click the ‘Profile’ link and fill in the form and it will immediate appear in the Reader Other category.

For more information on your profile page and course reader see these screencasts.

If you would like to share your thoughts on the ocTEL platform visit this forum.

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Martin Hawksey is Chief Innovation, Technology and Community Officer for ALT his work is focused on the development of ALT’s member services exploring how connectivist approaches can be used to support the community. This includes the application of data aggregation and dissemination techniques using existing open source platforms such as WordPress.

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  1. ocTEL– proudly powered by … Jisc CETIS MASHe says:
    April 9, 2013 at 10:14 pm

    […] by using existing plugins that don’t quite do what we want. For example, to allow participants to submit individual artefacts when no rss feed is available I chose the User Submitted Posts plugin. To get this to submit to two categories (instead of the […]

  2. Taking advice | OCTEL says:
    April 15, 2013 at 11:26 pm

    […] Like a number of other open online courses we achieve this by using the FeedWordPress plugin for WordPress which has the ability to aggregate RSS data. In addition to this we recently developed the ability for participants to submit additional artefacts not accessible using RSS. […]

  3. #ocTEL: Outline of an open course (maximising email push with MailPress) Jisc CETIS MASHe says:
    April 22, 2013 at 10:06 pm

    […] Like a number of other open online courses we achieve this by using the FeedWordPress plugin for WordPress which has the ability to aggregate RSS data. In addition to this we recently developed the ability for participants to submit additional artefacts not accessible using RSS. […]

  4. #ocTEL- an open online course recipe using WordPress Jisc CETIS MASHe says:
    April 30, 2013 at 4:15 pm

    […] Storyify to the Course Reader. As this had no RSS feed in the user’s profile page we created an individual item submission form.  The form uses the User Submitted Posts plugin. In the end it might have been quicker to code […]