{"CACHEDAT":"2026-11-12 10:55:00","HOWSUBJECTMAP":{},"SLUG":"technology-enhanced-setup-hDZ7JryAPP","MARKDOWN":"# Course Platform\n\n* [Outline](https://github.com/outline/outline)\n\nBoth the virtual phases and the technology-enhanced on-site week require a platform that is easy to access and easy to use. In the first SciLMi pilot course, the SciLMi Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) for pre-service teachers, the team started with the open-source learning management system [Moodle](https://github.com/moodle/moodle) for the virtual sessions but switched to the open-source knowledge base [Outline](https://github.com/outline/outline) during the on-site week, as it proved much easier to handle. The SciLMi BITs therefore ran on a self-hosted Outline instance from the start.\n\n\n:::info\nLearning management systems such as Moodle show their strengths when the same learners take several courses on one platform. For a single professional development course, Outline is considerably easier to set up and run on the provider's own servers, and it makes it much easier for the trainer team to prepare the course collaboratively. Complemented by digital apps for the virtual sessions, it offers a lean alternative.\n\n:::\n\nThe course platform is a protected area that participants access with a simple login. It contains materials tailored to the specific course, which build on the modules in the SciLMi Wiki, and the participants' own contributions. \n\n* **Low-threshold co-creation**\n\n Outline proved extremely practical for the co-creation of all SciLMi deliverables, including the modules, and considerably more accessible than shared Word documents on SharePoint.\n* **Simple login**\n\n Participants need no prior experience with learning management systems.\n* **Successive release of content**\n\n Trainers release course pages with a single click when they are needed, so that participants are not distracted by reading ahead.\n* **Collaboration in one place**\n\n Participants upload their contributions, such as group results, and comment on each other's work directly where it is. Changes are visible to everyone immediately, and the revision history shows who changed what.\n* **Differentiated access rights**\n\n Participants have read access to input and instruction pages. They are given editing rights on pages for their own contributions and commenting rights to provide peer feedback.\n\n# SciLMi Wiki\n\nIn the Moodle course, the modules, activities, and supporting materials were accessible only to enrolled participants. SciLMi has made them openly available in the [SciLMi Wiki](https://www.scilmi.eu/wiki), together with the SciLMi Framework. The modules are directly linked to the SciLMi Framework and the supporting materials rather than duplicating them. Instead of a complete course package, which may be difficult for CPD providers to manage, teacher trainers and teachers can search the Wiki, easily access individual modules, and adapt them to their own needs.\n\nThe SciLMi Wiki is also based on Outline but has been individually extended into an interactive resource that requires no login. As participants are already familiar with its design and navigation from the course platform, the threshold for using it after the course is low.\n\nGuidelines for technology-enhanced trainer-trainee interaction, developed by OsloMet, are integrated into the SciLMi Wiki.\n\n# Apps\n\nAll tools were selected to keep the blended setup low-cost, sustainable, and compatible with the GDPR. For course preparation and delivery, the following apps proved most useful:\n\n## Schedule\n\n* ### [**Teamup**](https://www.teamup.com/) / [Calendar](https://www.calendar.com/) (free version)\n\n A shared online calendar provides the agenda of the course in day, week, and list views, colour coding for session types, and individual links to resources, so that participants can easily find the materials required for each session.\n * very helpful for designing the programme\n * easy to adjust during the course, for example in the evening team meeting ([→ Trainer Team](/doc/trainer-team-6WE4YbGxk8#h-duties)), with participants seeing the updated agenda immediately\n\n## Application Form\n\n* ### [**LimeSurvey**](https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey)\n\n The open-source survey tool can be self-hosted and used for the online application form and an online lesson plan template.\n\n## Interactive Activities\n\n* ### [**Mindomo**](https://www.mindomo.com/)\n\n Mindomo was used for collaborative mind maps, for example for mapping SSI topics across subjects. The free version requires a login.\n* ### [**EasyRetro**](https://easyretro.io/) (free version)\n\n EasyRetro was used for collaborative boards in virtual sessions. Participants work on the same board at the same time and need no account. When the trainers hide the cards, participants see that others are adding cards, but the content stays blurred until the trainers reveal it. Participants or groups can thus first develop their ideas independently and then see and discuss the overall result. The free version allows one public board.","RENDERMODE":"markdown","HTML":"

Course Platform

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Both the virtual phases and the technology-enhanced on-site week require a platform that is easy to access and easy to use. In the first SciLMi pilot course, the SciLMi Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) for pre-service teachers, the team started with the open-source learning management system blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moodle for the virtual sessions but switched to the open-source knowledge base blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Outline during the on-site week, as it proved much easier to handle. The SciLMi BITs therefore ran on a self-hosted Outline instance from the start.

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Learning management systems such as Moodle show their strengths when the same learners take several courses on one platform. For a single professional development course, Outline is considerably easier to set up and run on the provider's own servers, and it makes it much easier for the trainer team to prepare the course collaboratively. Complemented by digital apps for the virtual sessions, it offers a lean alternative.

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The course platform is a protected area that participants access with a simple login. It contains materials tailored to the specific course, which build on the modules in the SciLMi Wiki, and the participants' own contributions.

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Outline proved extremely practical for the co-creation of all SciLMi deliverables, including the modules, and considerably more accessible than shared Word documents on SharePoint.

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Participants need no prior experience with learning management systems.

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Trainers release course pages with a single click when they are needed, so that participants are not distracted by reading ahead.

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Participants upload their contributions, such as group results, and comment on each other's work directly where it is. Changes are visible to everyone immediately, and the revision history shows who changed what.

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Participants have read access to input and instruction pages. They are given editing rights on pages for their own contributions and commenting rights to provide peer feedback.

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SciLMi Wiki

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In the Moodle course, the modules, activities, and supporting materials were accessible only to enrolled participants. SciLMi has made them openly available in the SciLMi Wiki, together with the SciLMi Framework. The modules are directly linked to the SciLMi Framework and the supporting materials rather than duplicating them. Instead of a complete course package, which may be difficult for CPD providers to manage, teacher trainers and teachers can search the Wiki, easily access individual modules, and adapt them to their own needs.

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The SciLMi Wiki is also based on Outline but has been individually extended into an interactive resource that requires no login. As participants are already familiar with its design and navigation from the course platform, the threshold for using it after the course is low.

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Guidelines for technology-enhanced trainer-trainee interaction, developed by OsloMet, are integrated into the SciLMi Wiki.

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Apps

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All tools were selected to keep the blended setup low-cost, sustainable, and compatible with the GDPR. For course preparation and delivery, the following apps proved most useful:

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Schedule

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A shared online calendar provides the agenda of the course in day, week, and list views, colour coding for session types, and individual links to resources, so that participants can easily find the materials required for each session.

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Application Form

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The open-source survey tool can be self-hosted and used for the online application form and an online lesson plan template.

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Interactive Activities

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Mindomo was used for collaborative mind maps, for example for mapping SSI topics across subjects. The free version requires a login.

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EasyRetro was used for collaborative boards in virtual sessions. Participants work on the same board at the same time and need no account. When the trainers hide the cards, participants see that others are adding cards, but the content stays blurred until the trainers reveal it. Participants or groups can thus first develop their ideas independently and then see and discuss the overall result. The free version allows one public board.

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