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Goal Management tool
This tool can be used to publish a set of goals for use within any set of worksites.
A major change from the 0.5 release of the GMT tools was to provide more flexibility to Goal Set publishing. In 0.5 of the tool, Goal Sets could be published either to the worksite it was created in or globally. There was no middle ground.
In 0.6, system administrators can establish associations between sites that determine the scope and availability of published Goal Sets to other worksites. Once associated, links can be made from activities to goals between worksites.
A helpful mental model might be to liken the administrative act of associating sites to each other to running conduit between worksites through which links between activities and goals may be made. This model, while more complicated to setup, allows a lot more control and flexibility than global or heirarchical models for granting privileges.
When establishing Associations between sites, it is important to consider the direction of the association. If an administrator establishes an Association from a class worksite to a program worksite using the Goal Management tool from within the class worksite, it would allow a user with the correct permissions (likely an instructor) to link activities (currently only Assignments and Data Points) to Goals published in the Program worksite.
Note that this is different from creating the Association from within the Program worksite, which would allow the Program Coordinator to link Activities in the Program Worksite to Goals published in the Class worksite...a somewhat backwards view of life in most traditionally structured institutions...
Associations must be created explicitly. Currently there are no Associations that are implied from the structure created. One might imagine a tiered heirarchy (University, College, Department, Program and Classes) that could be established with Associations with the purpose of linking Activities at the lower levels to Goals at the various higher levels. This is certainly possible, but would require each class to be explictly Associated to each of the higher levels.
Take note that, by default, a worksite is NOT associated to itelf. Even this Association must be established.
Conceptual Diagrams of Goal Aware Associations and Links |
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A transistion from traditional models of learning to a more student centered approach to life-long learning and management of their own outcomes is possible.
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Any one worksite can be Associated with many others and may strive meet several goals at once.
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In reality the structures that we think might be most useful would be more web like than heirarchical.
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Links could be established between the Activities in a Class worksite and the Goals of the Program.
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Associations are explicit and allow allow for intra- and inter-site links to be made.
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Associations between worksites (when dealing with Goal Management) can be thought of as one-way conduits that run from Activities of the originating site to the Goals of a target site through which Links between Activities and Goals can be established.
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