Curriculum Lesson Plans - Timing?

Tim_Collier

The College Curriculum has 12 'weekly' lessons. Can anyone suggest what a reasonable time allocation for each week might be? For senior high school, does 3 hours a week sound right? 

noa

Hi @Tim_Collier, I'm hoping a few teachers that have used the curriculum chime in to share their experiences, but I can share our thoughts. I would expect at least two one-hour in-class sessions plus 2-3 hours of time outside of class. A popular method is to have students do the readings outside of class and do the exercises together in class.

brian_brady

Tim_Collier said:

Thanks Noa,  that is a big help. It gives me a starting point to work from. 
Brian, can you expand on the problem you mentioned - re "accessibility" and "failed" ?

We use Blackboard and all of our PDF and other documents need to be accessible for persons with disabilities, i.e. blind and visually impaired students need to be able to use a screen reader with the files. All images need to have alternate text and the reading flow needs to be correct. These two issues accounted for most of the failures.

noa

Hi @Tim_Collier, I'm hoping a few teachers that have used the curriculum chime in to share their experiences, but I can share our thoughts. I would expect at least two one-hour in-class sessions plus 2-3 hours of time outside of class. A popular method is to have students do the readings outside of class and do the exercises together in class.

brian_brady

@noa,

Is the curriculum being updated this summer? We are being pushed to make all PDF and other documents used in classes accessible. I tested a couple of the Onshape College documents for accessibility back in March and they failed miserably.

I use your curriculum in my class, but not rigidly nor in its entirety. It is just one source of assignments I use.

Brian

Tim_Collier

Thanks Noa,  that is a big help. It gives me a starting point to work from. 
Brian, can you expand on the problem you mentioned - re "accessibility" and "failed" ?

noa

Hi @brian_brady , we do not have plans at this time to make significant updates to the curriculum this summer, but welcome the submission of feedback tickets so that we can measure the interest.

brian_brady

Tim_Collier said:

Thanks Noa,  that is a big help. It gives me a starting point to work from. 
Brian, can you expand on the problem you mentioned - re "accessibility" and "failed" ?

We use Blackboard and all of our PDF and other documents need to be accessible for persons with disabilities, i.e. blind and visually impaired students need to be able to use a screen reader with the files. All images need to have alternate text and the reading flow needs to be correct. These two issues accounted for most of the failures.

Tim_Collier

Thanks Brian ... gosh, I hadn't thought about that ... that is one barrier that we are yet to address.

mark_rogers198

Where can I find the onshape curriculum?

Jake_Rosenfeld

@mark_rogers198

https://www.onshape.com/edu/college-curriculum

brian_brady

Jake_Rosenfeld said:

@mark_rogers198

https://www.onshape.com/edu/college-curriculum

@Jake_Rosenfeld This link is broken. Is the college curriculum no longer available? I was hoping that it would be updated to match a more current version of Onshape and maybe some freshening/changing of some of the exercises. Any chance this is just a mistake and an update is on the way?

Brian

lana

@brian_brady
I was able to open that link. Could you please check again? - Nah actual curriculum link is broken- sorry did not follow it far enough. 

bradley_sauln

@brian_brady The curriculum link has been taken down due to the content being out of date compared to the product. The difficult part with our fast-paced innovation is making sure we keep our learning materials up to date!

Our training team is amazing but unfortunately also only human so it takes some time to get to everything. I can't speak on a timeline for having updated content but it sounds like you have a good understanding of what was available. Do you have any feedback for what we could add/focus on? 

dave_sartory

Is there any way we could get the legacy curriculum back?  Even if it's a bit outdated it had some excellent starting points and since it was shared as a Google Doc I could easily add/remove things that don't pertain to my class.  Thank you!