 Okay, hi everyone. So good to see so many people here. As she said, I'm Anna and this is my colleague Conerva and we are part of the Moodle team at the University of Helsinki. So we as a team not only test new features and plugins and whatnot but we also advise and instruct the teaching staff in digital pedagogy and as well as technical issues related to Moodle. And as I think all of us Moodle's know there's a lot of that sort of silent knowledge, those little tips and tricks that we might know but we sometimes struggle to actually impart them to our teaching staff. And that's why we wanted to talk to you about a sort of informal sort of easily digestible way of giving teachers valuable Moodle tips. And well basically what we did because it's in our job description to test and evaluate new features. So when one of our team members found the advanced calendar we just decided to test it on our teachers basically. And in the presentation I'm also going to talk about a bit about the activity itself, the advent calendar but we're also going to talk about the response we got and what type of content we created. So the advent calendar, the content type is fairly easy to modify visually both in terms of the overall looks but also the content of the individual doors as well. It's possible to embed videos and create sort of more visual content and it does seem to help engage teachers or well users just by its visual nature. It's automatically timed and the content can be edited even while the calendar is running which was very good because we didn't have to have all of the material ready already at the beginning of December. And also the design mode enables you to sort of preview the calendar but also open the calendar. We opened it in January for the teachers because not many of them for obvious reasons checked are logged into Moodle on a Christmas Eve and we actually sort of hoped they wouldn't. Some of them did. But I have to point out that unfortunately the advent calendar is not fully accessible so take that into consideration if you're planning on using it. But yeah more about what we actually did. As I said we always try to find new ways to engage our teachers and find easier ways to impart our knowledge to them. But I don't know if you've noticed this but teachers are incredibly busy. They do not have time to sit in long training sessions or read long instructional texts and they might not even know sort of what questions to ask. And here's just a quick preview of a couple of doors. I'm not sure if you can see them but if you want to check out the entire Moodle calendar we will be able to show it to you. So just give a shout out if you want to hear about it. But yeah we also actually wanted to boost our sort of holiday spirit within our team as well and ended up producing some well fairly unconventional content that we'll be sharing later. But this is more of a technical side of the content we created. Yes so now let's go to some statistics as we like to call them. So in our university we have a lot of training sessions for teachers. Well not a lot a lot. But last year we had around 300 of our teachers participate and that's around a quarter of the teaching staff. And if we compared that information to the fact that we had 532 participants well enrollments from the teachers that means that we almost managed to double our engagement with the teachers just by the with this one activity. To get the teachers to join the course the calendar we didn't do any special marketing we followed our normal procedures. And that for me tells that the activity itself is something exciting for teachers. And also we got teachers to come back day after day and that means that there was also something important something special within the calendar itself. Here are some graphs looks really nice high and then goes low. But as the first one shows many of the teachers visited during the first week of December. And after that the visiting numbers decline. But they are still at a really nice level from our points of view. The last one where there are 11 visits that's from like late December early September January yeah last month. But also we had teachers coming back even in August to this activity which is was really surprising to me like why would they come back. But there's something interesting about this activity in H5P. So it's good to put behind your ear. Also the second graph shows you the how many of the teachers returned. So that's around 50% and that's a really good number. And the visit interval between visits from teachers who returned for the second time and more was 11 days. And how the H5P advent calendar works. It's like a normal Christmas calendar. You can if you come on the 15th of December then you can open all the doors until the 15 days. So the teachers were able to get the information that we had put behind the doors. So we are not too worried about these teachers not coming every day because they were still able to get the information. And also some super loyal ones who wanted to come every day. So that's also nice. Quickly, through some feedback that we got from the teachers on the calendar itself the teachers like the tidbit approach that we had. We had small texts like not too much information. And it was also a new and like activating way for teachers to learn about Moodle and his features. And that led the teachers to be more comfortable with Moodle because they have used it a lot but they're still not comfortable with it in most cases. And that is leading to a better use experience for them. The teachers also presented us with some ideas for this year's calendar which we are making and also for some technical aspects as well as asking for this type of content to come all year round. What was really interesting is that the teachers specified that they wanted to have this like tidbit approach also in the future because more longer the texts are they said that if it's too long I will not continue with this. So all in all based on the results that we got and the amount of resources we as a team used this will save really nice lights and fun way to share the knowledge that we have on Moodle and engage the teachers. And finally just a couple of things I wanted to mention what we learned from this first run. We're definitely bringing the calendar back this year. It's been requested and we're starting to build it. But also we've added short presentations to our we have a weekly DigiPedoc cafe online an online cafe where teachers can come and ask questions from our experts on matters of relating to digital pedagogy, continuous learning, all kinds of educational technology. But now that we've added these 10 to 15 minute presentations to the beginning of those cafes, the number of attendees in the cafes has more than doubled for those sessions. And many of the teachers have also stayed off to the presentation to chat with us and our experts about the topic or something else entirely. And many of the attendees had never before been to the DigiPedoc cafe. Yeah, we've only had a couple of these presentations so far. So we aren't yet sure if this is an ongoing trend, but we have received some really good feedback. So and some teachers have actually mentioned that that's the reason they came to to the to the DigiPedoc cafe was precisely that it was 15 minutes of their time, even if they then ended up spending the entire hour talking to us. So as a final thing, I mentioned that we produce some some more unconventional content within our team. And we're going to share a shortened version of our holiday greeting to our teaching staff. Enjoy your Moodle courses. Enjoy your Moodle courses. Enjoy your Moodle courses again next year. Good tidings we bring to you and your king. We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy... That was fantastic. Thank you. Any questions? I already have the mic. Thank you so much. It's so inspiring. I'm so doing that this year. I just have two quick questions. The first is, does it send a message beforehand when a door is available? Unfortunately, at least last year it didn't. So it was up to the teacher to remember to go back. And that's also why on the third week there was a bump because we reminded the teachers to go back. So I wish that at some point there would be that feature or that we can build it to the Moodle area to send automatic messages like every week or every day. Unfortunately, at least last year, it wasn't already in the activity. Okay, cool. And my second quick question is, was the emphasis on Christmas in any way problematic in terms of religious sensitivities among your staff? Yes, so we come from Finland and still in Finland around 73% are Christians. And that's the same thing in our staff and it's really part of the culture. So we didn't get pushback on that aspect. Also, the things that we had in the advent calendar, that was the only Christmas thing that we had the videos. It was all information, happy independence day stuff. Here's Moodle, Moodle user associates and this will come up in 3.11. So we really focused on Moodle except on the 24th one. And I think this is the only mention of Christmas. We changed the song as well. So that it wouldn't like be the most religious. Yeah, yeah. So we tried to take that into consideration but an advent calendar by its nature is, I mean, it does come with those issues, but we didn't get any any negative feedback on it. And there are actually several advent calendars at our uni produced by other teams as well. So it's a sort of a common practice within our university. There are a lot of calendars going around. Cool. Thank you. But I hope that the teachers when they start using it, you can get creative with it. Like Daily Teeth Sports students or little discussion points. So that's how we use it. But I hope that you get ideas from this one. Silly question, but is high quality harmony singing a requirement to work in your team? That was great singing. Well, we do hold auditions every year for this project. And it's as you can hear, it was really high quality. And we totally did practice this for more than one hour, including the recording time. So yes, it is a requirement.