Often when building modules in Headrush, one will ponder how to best structure them:
How to manage a project within a seminar?
How to group related team projects into one view?
How to relate a series of modules by a particular subject, theme, or timeframe?
How do I build the ultimate learning experience that combines the best of teacher-led scaffolding with the freedom and flexibility for learners to follow their inspirations?
Structuring can be as simple as adding/organizing tasks and columns within one module, creating separate modules and tagging them, or both at once— creating multiple modules and tasks and connecting them. Here's how that works:
The benefits of using Connected Modules include:
Clearer communication of the connections between related work
Easier navigation to related learning
Different viewpoints to reference collections of modules
Overview
Understanding connected modules
It's easy to think of a connected module as a link between two modules. When a module is connected, it appears as a card on the task board of a different module. The connected module can be opened and used like any other module, without leaving the task board. For example, in the Task board below, 'Drill Press' and 'Laser Cutter' are connected modules:
However, a Connected Module remains an independent module:
Changes to the top module do not affect connected modules.
Each module has independent learners, creators, and advisors.
Disconnecting a connected module does not delete it.
Modules can be connected to multiple modules.
If a module is deleted, it will also be deleted from the modules to which it is connected.
Connecting a module as part of another
Open any module's task board.
In the column where you want the connected module, click to add a module at the bottom or the top.
Search to find the module(s) you want to add to the task board, then click done.
Drag and drop modules just like tasks.
Ways to Use a Connected Module
Connected modules can help with several workflow scenarios, including:
Crossreferencing another module for information purposes
Inviting Learners to Join a Connected Module
Adding Learners as Members to the Connected Module
Inviting Learners to Create a Copy of a Connected Module
1. Crossreferencing another module for information purposes
Connect to another module to reference and associate it with the module you are on. Click to open and view the Connected module just like you would otherwise to view the Task board, Overview, and other parts. Edit the Connected module just like any other module, but do it without leaving the module you started on:
2. Inviting Learners to Join a Connected Module
By default, Connected modules do NOT add the learners of the module it is a part of. However, you can optionally allow learners to join your connected module. You can add learners via the 3-dot menu located on the Connected Module:
Alternatively, you can go directly to the Connect Module's Overview > "Who's Involved" prompt and set up the module to be joinable how you choose.
3. Adding Learners as Members to the Connected Module
By default, Connected modules do NOT add the learners of the module it is a part of. You can add learners via the 3-dot menu located on the Connected Module:
Alternatively, you can go directly to the Connect Module's Overview > "Who's Involved" prompt and add learners as you would on any other module.
4. Inviting Learners to Create a Copy of a Connected Module
By default, learners on a module where a Connected Modules are linked, will have the ability to create a copy of that module. That module will not appear within the existing module, but will appear on their respective 'My Modules' page.
If you DO NOT want learners to have the ability to copy a connected module:
Go to the Overview of the Connected Module
Go to the "Who's Involved" section
Change the "Allow module to be copied" toggle to off (i.e.- to the left so it no longer it green)
Disconnect a module
Click on a connected module's menu to disconnect it from the task board. This removes the module from the task board, but does not delete it or change it in any other way. So, if learners are involved, they will remain involved and will still find the module on My Modules.
See which modules are connected
When modules are connected, an indicator will appear in the module's card on My Modules, or at the top when viewing a module. Click the indicator to see which modules are connected, and then click on the connected module to open it.