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Delivery Space Checklist

After your Delivery Space is created, it's important to review the content, and make adjustments, to ensure a smooth experience for you and your students. This guide will walk you through the necessary checks for seamless and effective delivery.

 

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Getting Block Ready

  1. When are Delivery Spaces created?
    For Block units, delivery (teaching) spaces will be available two weeks before your teaching period starts, and five weeks prior for Placement units. For details, see the VU calendar.

  2. How are Delivery Spaces created?
    After delivery (teaching) spaces are created, all content from the master (template) space is copied in.

  3. How long do I have to review my space?
    You have one week to review your space, before students gain access.

  4. When can students access the Delivery Space?
    Students are added to the space after creation, but they can only view the space one weeks before your teaching period starts, and four weeks prior for Placement units.

  5. How do I review my Space?
    Work through the four checks (Assessment, Space Admin, Content, and Communications). Make a note of the checks you need for your space and place it in location that you and your teaching team can easily access next time. For example:
    • Assessment 1 & 2 Dropboxes - add due dates
    • Assessment 1 - upload the assignment template to Turnitin, to exclude matches in the similarity check
    • Zoom Classroom - Create weekly zoom sessions
    • Teaching team - enrol staff into the space
    • Padlet board - in session 2 & 4, clear all posts

 

Interactive checklist

You can use the checklist below to mark your completed items. For Instructions, and links to guides, click on the information icon  explanation icon.

 

Online Checklist

VU Collaborate Checklist

ItemsGuides
Part 1 - Assessment Check

Add all due dates, availability dates & visibility of Dropboxes & Quizzes.

Dropbox 
Quiz Tools 

Create/edit required Groups for any group assessment.

Groups

Enable Turnitin Similarity Check where applicable.

Turnitin Similarity Check

Check Buddycheck and Feedback Fruits settings – link to Groups as required, check gradebook setup, set dates.

Buddycheck
Feedback Fruits

Check Gradebook, Rubrics, and Dropboxes are connected. Check if the ‘out of’ (max points) scores match each other across an assessment.

Assessment Tools
Part 2 - Space Admin Check

Ensure necessary teaching staff are enrolled in the space.

Enrolling People

Set up/check attendance register.

Attendance

Set up Zoom Sessions for the entire block via Communication > Zoom Classroom (online classes).

Schedule a New Class on Zoom

Set up/check Intelligent Agents.

Intelligent Agents
Part 3 - Teaching Content/Material Check

Impersonate TEST Student via Space Admin > Classlist > TEST-Student to ensure all links or activities are available on student view. If relevant, check all activities (Videos, H5Ps, Links, Blogs, Wikis, Journals) to ensure they are relevant and accessible.

Impersonating a Test Student

Reset your Padlet board and WordPress blog site - clear all posts in Padlet or wherever appropriate, recreate and share your new WordPress site.

Padlet
WordPress site

Review space for any template or placeholder text. Remove or personalise where appropriate.

E.g., in the Welcome News Item

Check the status of topics content – visible/not visible.

Content

Check Accessibility ratings of content – use the tool to correct them.

Accessibility
Part 4 - Communication Check

Activate and post starter messages for discussions where applicable.

Using Discussions

Subscribe to relevant discussion forums for instant notifications when a new thread is posted.

 

Delete or update News items carried over from Master Space.

News Items