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We need to do a little internal marketing and dissemination here at my institution. The others see us travelling often to exotic places and begin to wonder what it is all for. ‘What do the teachers look at?’ I asked our IT department. The reply was the school’s LMS which is Fronter. In our little outpost we use Moodle so Fronter is unknown territory for me.
The idea is that I should collate the usable results from our projects so that our colleagues in the main school can have free access to them. So far I have only seen Fronter as a very occasional user. And now as an active contributor I find it entirely lacking in appeal. The layout is nothing more than a filing cabinet which users are invited to peruse with only the file names as a way of revealing what the content may be. There is no opportunity to give users a reason to click.
There is an opportunity to add a more detailed description to each document but the IT person told me that users very rarely consult this as it needs an active click to see the details. So the only alternative to ‘sell’ the content is-to-have-very-long-descriptive-file-names.
I will be very interested to see how many ‘reads’ this leads to.
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