Instructor Guide
This page summarizes the instructor guide. The full version, including facilitation questions and the curriculum map, lives in docs/INSTRUCTOR_PILOT_GUIDE.md and docs/CURRICULUM_MAP.md.
Purpose and audience
Ram Ready Digital Literacy is an independent, open-source pilot built with first-year Angelo State students in mind, while remaining openly accessible to the public. It teaches file, communication, research, privacy, security, and AI habits college and work expect.
Suggested uses
- First-year seminar supplement
- New-student orientation module
- Library instruction session
- Writing-center or academic-advising resource
- IT/cybersecurity awareness training
- Faculty AI-policy preparation discussion
Assign any episode or quest directly
All 20 Foundations episodes and all 20 AI quests are available without completing earlier items. The maps remain useful for browsing, while stable direct links let an instructor or tester assign one item.
- Foundations pattern:
foundations.html?ep=ep01&generic=1throughfoundations.html?ep=ep20&generic=1 - AI Quest pattern:
ai-quest.html?q=q01&generic=1throughai-quest.html?q=q20&generic=1
The optional generic=1 parameter provides assignment-safe second-person wording without
requiring onboarding. Completion, stars, achievements, and local progress continue to work normally.
Small library pilot
A first pilot can assign different students and reviewers to different lesson ranges rather than asking everyone to test only the landing page. The project includes a detailed testing checklist and pilot feedback protocol.
The structured Pilot Feedback Form measures organization, pacing, assessment alignment, usefulness, relevance, participation, visuals, accessibility, source trust, technical reliability, perceived learning change, bugs, and requested features. The form prepares an email to lmcgaffie@angelo.edu and does not store the response on the site.
Library working-session presentation
The July 21 Porter Henderson Library working-session deck moves from national evidence to a live Ram Ready Digital Literacy demonstration, a bounded pilot proposal, and stakeholder decisions. Review all 21 slides as a webpage or use the one-slide-at-a-time presentation mode; detailed presenter and maintenance instructions are in the presentation guide.
Course-specific AI rules
This course does not define any instructor's official AI-use policy. Course-specific AI rules may differ by instructor and assignment — the current syllabus, assignment directions, instructor guidance, and official university policies always control.
Facilitating digital access inequity
When discussing file storage, devices, or software access, avoid assuming every student has unlimited storage, a personal laptop, high-speed internet, or paid software. The course explicitly avoids platform marketing and does not shame learners with limited devices, bandwidth, or technical experience.
Reporting a content error
Use the pilot feedback form for student and library testing. Maintainers and technical reviewers may also use the GitHub issue templates in this repository: Curriculum Review, Source Correction, or Accessibility Review. See the source review checklist.
Limits of the simulation
All simulation variables are illustrative teaching simplifications, not a formal evaluation of a learner's intelligence, employability, or academic standing. No path in the course promotes itself as the universally correct one, and no setback in the story is an irreversible dead end.