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Item | Any author-able, publishable entity in Libraries. This will include Component, Unit, Subsection, Section, and possibly others in the future. Items are individually versioned. |
Collection | A grouping of any combination of Items in a Library. Collections can be created for pedagogical or administrative/workflow reasons, and can be very large. The same Item may appear in multiple Collections. *Note: A Collection is not a Unit, Subsection or Section. Units, Subsections and Sections are defined as precise sequences of components/content, where the sequencing is intentional and delivers a specific learning outcome. Collections are non-sequential and may be much larger/contain much more content than a typical course unit, subsection or section. |
Problem Bank | A block type that will be added to the course and is responsible for showing a random subset of Items to a learner. These Items will ultimately come from a Library, either by selecting a particular Collection and/or some set of tags. |
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Authors can create subsets of components for the sake of grouping like components together as a method of content organization and management.
For example, I want to create a subset of evergreen videos about how to do peer-reviews.
Authors can create as many Collections in a Library as they wish.
Authors can add as many components to a collection as they wish.
Components can live in multiple collections.
Collections can contain mixed media types (for example, a collection may contain video components, text blocks and problems all within the same collection).
SeartSearch/sort/filter
Basic keyword search within a collection
Basic sort and filter
Sort alphabetical
Filter by tag
Jenna Makowski notes: “Really need to weigh the immediate user need against feasibility and eng effort, especially for MVP, esp since Collections will be assumed fairly small at the outset. Alternative barebones MVP approach is to auto-populate lists of components in collections alphabetically.”
[FUTURE STATE] When Libraries support units, subsections and section, collections may also contain any combination of components, units, sections and subsections. Note that a single unit or a single section is not considered a Collection. Rather, a Collection is comprised of multiple sections, multiple units, etc.
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