{"id":2608,"date":"2016-09-08T13:25:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T12:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2016-09-08T13:31:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T12:31:10","slug":"trello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2016\/09\/08\/trello\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Trello to stay on track"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"trello_cards\"T<\/a>he LTDS Online Courses Team\u00a0have been experimenting with a number of online tools to support team-working and in the process have become great fans of Trello.<\/p>\n

A team in different places<\/h2>\n

Trello gives us a live representation of the project and current responsibilities. It is easy for us to add new people to the Trello Board as the project progresses irrespective of where they are.<\/p>\n

To put on a course we bring together a team – academic colleagues, digital media, LTDS. \u00a0We are in different locations, and our academic leads can often be off campus. \u00a0An online tool works really well for us.<\/p>\n

\"Trello<\/p>\n

Enterprise Shed 2 Trello Board<\/p>\n

Mocking up courses<\/h2>\n

Trello comes into its own after we have done a good deal of planning (on Post-it notes and paper<\/a>).\u00a0 We create a Trello List for each Week and give each step a Trello card.<\/p>\n

By mocking up the course in this way it makes it easy to check that we have variety of media\/approaches and it enables us to experiment with different routes through the learner activities.<\/p>\n

If we think the content could be ordered better, then Trello allows us to drag and drop elements.<\/p>\n

We also tend to add\u00a0extra Trello Lists to the board to share project documents and resources eg actions around Marketing. This gives us a a complete \u201cdashboard\u201d for the project.<\/p>\n

Customising Trello \u2013 agreeing conventions<\/h2>\n

One of the best things about Trello is that it is so easy to customise \u00a0to meet your needs.\u00a0 If you can agree conventions with your team before you start you will reap the rewards later.<\/p>\n

Here are some examples of what we did:<\/p>\n