How you organize your Modules can play a key role in how efficiently your students are able to navigate your course, find the needed resources at the time, and locate, complete, and submit their work. It also allows any other viewers, like Teacher Learning Specialists (TLS), Parent Observers, Co-Teachers, Facilitators, School Administrators, and Solutions Specialists (troubleshooters) to navigate your content to support you and/or the students they are charged with supporting.
Having a clear rhyme and reason is paramount for the visibility of all these users/viewers.
PLI recommends, as a best practice, to always have your lesson plan module at the top. This serves your user group and your view groups.
Lesson plans are a weekly expectation of all Proximity Learning teachers. Lesson plans are typically due by Thursday of the week before the lessons are to take place, unless otherwise notified by your TLS. Lesson plans serve many purposes, but key among them: they serve to help students stay on track with the pace of the course, as well as serve to be a guidepost for substitute teachers to take over at a moment's notice if needed.
Click here for Instructions and Expectations for Viewing and Posting Weekly Lesson Plans
Generally speaking, it might make sense to have your Modules ordered like the following:
Lesson Plans
Course Resources
Student Orientation (to online instruction and online learning)
Academic Content
One of the most common methods of organizing content is sticking with a broader Unit Method that is Chronological: Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, etc.
For some age groups, particularly your younger and middle age groups up to about 6th grade, you may find you need more specificity in the chronology. Labeling your Modules by Week and Dates contained in that week may fit this need better: Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, etc.
Caution...It might even be tempting to break things down further and label by day. However, let us caution you against getting that granular in your scope.
Consider the volume of items that you would cover over the course of even a single grading period.
By the time you reach even that first report card time period, your navigation of Modules would become a nightmare-even more so for your young students.