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==Managing Educational Content==
==Managing Educational Content==
Within the Karma Learning System, the Learn activity delivers educational content stored on the school server. From one academic year to the next, this content needs to be updated based on the experience of the teachers in using the content, changes in the curriculum, and new resources that become available. Many schools divide the academic year into semesters or terms.
One strategy is to keep the current terms content in the main menu. Content from previous years or terms are kept as Resouces on the school server but not linked to the learning system. Content for the next term can be developed in a Laboratory subject visible only to the staff.
The reality is that in most deployments, the first task will be to develop a baseline of content sufficient for the academic year. This may take some years to accomplish. Once a baseline is reached, the Laboratory can be initialized from the Resources from previous terms. The focus of the staff will be on improving the courses and incorporating new material. Until that time, the focus will be on creating lessons based on turning paper lesson plans into computer-based lessons.
The Learn activity supports this process at the milestone level. Managing subjects and courses requires the efforts of an adminstrator with technical knowledge. This intervention is very important to manage the rotation of content between terms.
This document assumes that there ia a Laboratory subject and that the courses there are the ones needed in the next academic period.
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