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Add Career Resources to Your Avenue to Learn Course

As a course instructor, you can address student demand for Social Sciences career information with a few clicks. You can pull a pre-made Content folder containing career-focused information pages right into your Avenue to Learn course. These departmental learning packages are stored online in McMaster’s Learning Object Repository, a storehouse for pre-made Avenue to Learn content.

The current version of each Social Sciences Career Information LOR includes one (1) folder containing the following:

  1. An introductory file introducing career development resources, and redirecting your students from other faculties to their home resources;
  2. An embedded version of the Career Options page.
  3. An embedded version of the Get Experience page.
  4. For programs with a practicum, co-op option, etc., information on program selection and application.

Once you import this folder, it will appear among the other folders in your course’s Content section.

How to Access the LOR Content

If you’re a course instructor, you can pull the LOR items into your course by taking the following steps:

Choose an Avenue Folder

Within your chosen course on Avenue to Learn, navigate to the Content Section and choose or create the folder in which you would like the materials to appear. Please note that you can always move the folder location later, if you wish, including by making it a ‘root’ or ‘main’ folder in your Content section.

Select Add Existing

Select the ‘Add Existing’ button in with your destination folder. From the icon menu, select ‘LOR’, meaning Learning Object Repository. Information on the Learning Object Repository workflow, and on adding similar resources using Upload/Create, is available on the Avenue to Learn Knowledge Base.

Select a Module

Within the LOR popup, you can search for ‘career’ or using a discipline keyword. Alternatively, you can browse by selecting ‘Repository’ and ‘McMaster University’. (The Social Sciences option is under construction.) Select the discipline-specific career module you wish to import.

You can ‘Preview’ the content in question using the drop-down menu beside the title.

Customize Your Preferences

You will be given a chance to customize your experience. For example, because the imported files include images and other files, you may be prompted to create a folder (e.g. Careers) to help keep your files within Avenue organized. You may also be able to choose whether to create a copy or to create a ‘dynamic’ link that will automatically incorporate any updates made to the resource. (Creating a ‘dynamic’ link is recommended at present.)

Watch an Instruction Video

Contact

If you have any questions about using this Learning Object Repository, please contact:

Mark Busser

Mark Busser

Manager, Careers & Experiential Education

bussermp@mcmaster.ca
KTH 129 (Student Services Office)