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Setting the Stage
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Audience: Academic Manager, Technology &
Trades, Media & Design at Algonquin College
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Purpose: To advise you of the problems with the
online Blackboard lessons for Desktop Publishing
TWR2002 and to recommend an ideal solution
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Key Message: Algonquin College can’t afford to let
this problem continue
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Algonquin College
Online Desktop Publishing TWR2002
A Proposal to Redesign and Rewrite
the Online Blackboard Lessons
Presented by: Lorraine McGee
November 20, 2012
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Introduction
 The current situation
 The proposed solution
 The alternative solutions
 The conclusion
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The Current Situation
 Background
 Investigate the situation
 How to resolve the situation
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The Current Situation
 Desktop Publishing TWR2002
 Online Blackboard lessons –
the problem
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The Current Situation
 Questionnaire
 Questionnaire results
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The Current Situation
 Constraints to resolving the problem
 Criteria for ideal solution
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The Proposed Solution
 What is the proposed solution?
 How will the proposed solution be implemented?
 What are the benefits and the cost of the proposed
solution?
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The Proposed Solution
 The proposed solution –
Objectives 1, 2, 3, and 4
 Implementation
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The Proposed Solution
Implementation – Phase I
Task Name
Start
Finish
Resource
Names
Lesson 1- Redesign Plan, Draft, User Testing
07/01/13
01/03/13
Students 1 & 2
Lesson 2- Redesign Plan, Draft, User Testing
07/01/13
01/03/13
Students 3, 4 & 5
Lesson 3- Redesign Plan, Draft, User Testing
07/01/13
01/03/13
Students 6 & 7
Lesson 4- Redesign Plan, Draft, User Testing
07/01/13
01/03/13
Student 8
Lesson 5- Redesign Plan, Draft, User Testing
07/01/13
01/03/13
Students 9 & 10
Lesson 6- Redesign Plan, Draft, User Testing
07/01/13
01/03/13
Students 11, 12 & 13
Lesson 7- Redesign Plan, Draft, User Testing
07/01/13
01/03/13
Students 14, 15 & 16
Lesson 8- Redesign Plan, Draft, User Testing
07/01/13
01/03/13
Students 17, 18 & 19
Lesson 9- Redesign Plan, Draft, User Testing
07/01/13
01/03/13
Students 20, 21 & 22
Lesson 10- Redesign Plan, Draft, User Testing
07/01/13
01/03/13
Students 23, 24 & 25
Lesson 11- Redesign Plan, Draft, User Testing
07/01/13
01/03/13
Students 26, 27 & 28
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The Proposed Solution
Implementation – Phase II
Task Name
Start
Finish
Resource
Names
Lesson 1- Draft 2, User Testing, Final Revision
04/03/13
26/04/13
Students 1 & 2
Lesson 2- Draft 2, User Testing, Final Revision
04/03/13
26/04/13
Students 3, 4 & 5
Lesson 3- Draft 2, User Testing, Final Revision
04/03/13
26/04/13
Students 6 & 7
Lesson 4- Draft 2, User Testing, Final Revision
04/03/13
26/04/13
Student 8
Lesson 5- Draft 2, User Testing, Final Revision
04/03/13
26/04/13
Students 9 & 10
Lesson 6- Draft 2, User Testing, Final Revision
04/03/13
26/04/13
Students 11, 12 & 13
Lesson 7- Draft 2, User Testing, Final Revision
04/03/13
26/04/13
Students 14, 15 & 16
Lesson 8- Draft 2, User Testing, Final Revision
04/03/13
26/04/13
Students 17, 18 & 19
Lesson 9- Draft 2, User Testing, Final Revision
04/03/13
26/04/13
Students 20, 21 & 22
Lesson 10- Draft 2, User Testing, Final Revision
04/03/13
26/04/13
Students 23, 24 & 25
Lesson 11- Draft 2, User Testing, Final Revision
04/03/13
26/04/13
Students 26, 27 & 28
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The Proposed Solution
 Benefits:
◦ Current on campus students
◦ Future students
◦ The course instructor
◦ Algonquin College
 Cost = 0
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The Alternative Solutions
 Alternatives:
◦ Do Nothing
◦ Assign a text book
◦ Hire a technical writer
◦ Use a current employee
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The Conclusion
 The problem needs to be fixed
 Time
 Money
 Resources
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Questions?
References:
 Students from the online Desktop Publishing
TWR2002 course for 2012
 Mastering the Basics (and more) of Adobe
FrameMaker 10, by Janet Underwood