UPDATE: Introduction to GitHub

[a-a-ron]

The purpose of this PR is to see how we can increase the completion rate and improve the user experience. Below is the August data for this module:

Module	Completion Rate	# completed / # started
Introduction to GitHub	38.74%	1,177/3,038

For reference: See the parent issue for context

Module file structure

Items to review for this module

We need to conduct a performance review on each of these modules to see how we can increase the completion rates, improve the user experience, and maintain the level of quality that we set for our learners.

Items for consideration

• Thoroughly review the module content for flow, narrative, and length
  • Review use of images, tables, and other visual elements
  • Does the content read like a doc or like a conversation guide?
  • Does the estimated time to complete each unit remain accurate?
• Review the introduction unit
  • Does it capture your attention?
  • Does it contain repetitive content from the course title page?
  • Do the learning objectives/scope align with the content?
  • Does the target audience match the content?
  • Do we accurately describe the module and learning objectives? (Is it possible that learners start the course thinking it's one thing to find out it's another?)
• Review the module exercise
  • Does it work?
  • Does it enforce a learning objective?
  • How is it placed in the module? Should we move it around?
  • Do we need other exercises?
• Review the questions at the end of the module
  • Do the questions test on content taught in the module?
  • Do the questions follow best practices for item writing?

Estimated Work Effort

Task	Hours
Detailed module review	18 hours
Action items as identified from review	TBD

[camihmerhar]

Action Items For Each Module

• Thoroughly review the module content for flow, narrative, and length
  • Review use of images, tables, and other visual elements
    • I feel like the images are great and relevant to the subunits.
  • Does the content read like a doc or like a conversation guide?
    - I feel like it reads like a conversation guide. The content is short and to the point and high level enough for people to understand
• Review the introduction unit
  • Does it capture your attention?
    - I think the content set the reader up for what it intended to do which is introduce someone to GitHub and its most common and utilized features. However the learning objectives seemed off so I had rewrote them to be more clear for the reader to anticipate what was coming. I also removed the GitHub flow subunit because it felt out of place. If we believe it fits then I would recommend making it a prerequisite or making it a new unit.
  • Do the learning objectives/scope align with the content?
    - To me it did not, I can see how, but you really need to stop, digest the information and correlate what you did/read to the objectives
  • Does the target audience match the content?
    - In my opinion, yes and no. Yes that the content is easy to read and to the point. The only thing that seems out of place is GitHub flow subunit so I removed it.
  • Do we accurately describe the module and learning objectives? (Is it possible that learners start the course thinking it's one thing to find out it's another?)
    • I believe learners to go into this expecting a barebones simple intro, but the learning objectives seemed confusing
• Review the module exercise
  • Does it work?
    - Yes!
  • Does it enforce a learning objective?
    - With the new learning objectives I believe it does
  • How is it placed in the module? Should we move it around?
    - I believe it is in a good position and it follows similar patterns of other
  • Do we need other exercises?
    - I don't think so
• Review the questions at the end of the module
  • Do the questions test on content taught in the module?
    - Yes!
  • Do the questions follow best practices for item writing?
    - I believe so

This module is estimated at 1 hour and 12 minutes with 58 minutes dedicated to the exercise. I just did the exercise and I would estimate that it took me 30 minutes, with the shortened intro that should take a minute to read (aka removing the learning objectives) we can bring that down to a minute, the unit would take 8 minutes to read, and then the summary would be a minute. With that I believe the new total time could be 40 minutes.