The Build phase

Now you’re ready to build your microteach! If you’ve done the design carefully then your build should be fairly quick and easy and represents about 20%of the effort.

Let’s take a deeper dive into what you need to do.

• BUILD:
  • Request access to the website through Raymond Lee
  • Familiarize yourself with LearnPress by watching the video in this microteach.

What is LearnPress?

This website is developed in WordPress a well known open-source content management system (CMS). LearnPress is a plugin to WordPress providing Learning Management System (LMS) functionality allowing us to create courses, lessons and interactive engaging digital microlearning content. It will also allow us to report on student usage as one measure of engagement.

Watch the following videos on:

1. How to create a Course in LearnPress
2. How to create Lessons for your Course in LearnPress
3. Adding H5P interactions to your Lessons in LearnPress

Now you should be able to easily build your course and lessons, copying and pasting your text from your Learning Design Template and creating your H5P interactions as you go.