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How to use OpenLearn Create

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    • Welcome to this user guide

      This guide explains how to create Open Educational Resources (OER) using the standard Moodle functionality of OpenLearn Create.

      This user guide is under development.  If you discover anything in it which doesn't seem clear enough or a resource or activity tool which doesn't work properly, please let us know by emailing openlearncreate@open.ac.uk

      The word 'course' is used throughout this guide, though you may be using the materials/competitions/guide or handbook descriptor instead of course. Article has far less functionality (you cannot add resources and activities to an article) and is a different layout, so some of what appears in this guide does not apply to articles.

      Please note: There is a publication authorisation step now on the platform which means when you decide to publish your course/material/guide/handbook/competition/article, a message will be sent to the openlearncreate@open.ac.uk mailbox for the platform managers to check it is ready for publication. We usually provide some feedback on what you might still need to do to make it publishable.

      For information: the subpage resource is no longer compatible with core Moodle. Courses, Materials and Competitions using subpages will still function however it is no longer be possible to add new subpages to courses as of 16 March 2023. We suggest you use Book or Page instead for your course content. We are looking into the functionality of the new generation version of subpages which are being used on the OU student VLE.

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      First Published 30/05/2015.

      Updated 18/07/2023

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