 Hi everyone, welcome back to the Technology Group. Our next session is brought to us by Michelle Lomond from Southwest Tape in Victoria, Australia. Michelle is going to show us how to get the most from H5P in Moodle. If you have any questions, as always, post them in the forum and we'll try and get to them at the end of the presentation. Michelle's also going to jump in and respond to any issue you can. Welcome, Michelle. Thank you very much. Welcome to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, where it is currently 9pm. So that means it has to be story time. So I hope you're ready for a good story because once upon a time in a land far, far away, down under, there was a girl who fell madly in love with Moodle. And wherever the girl went, Moodle went too. That is actually kind of handy during what we're experiencing the zombie apocalypse at the moment. So the girl spends every day with Moodle and turns out her job is to make Moodle magic and that includes making Moodle courses and activities and these days a lot of that magic includes using H5P. Now, as it turns out, one of the positive things about a zombie apocalypse is that since March, the requests for Moodle magic has actually tripled. Go figure. So in this Moodle site that we're going to look at today, there's now over 800 H5P activities. So let's go explore some of them. The really cool thing about H5P is that you can either have it as a sequence of activities and content or you can get rid of the old score form and you can have it as a package in its own or a module. And so on this screen, for instance, you're seeing some examples of H5P used for staff training and some of those are sequences and some of them are individual modules that staff undertake. But let's go and explore some of my favourite H5P tools. Now, the column tool has actually turned out to be my top favourite. Now, if you are someone who tends to develop in, say, Rise or Adapt, you'd be quite familiar with this sort of layout. So particularly good these days for a lot of users on the smaller screens where scrolling is a lot easier for them than, say, flipping pages. So in the column tool in H5P, you can actually put together a sequence of activities and content and you can put it in any sequence that you like. So in this case, this one came from Beauty Course. And on the next slide we're looking at, this is from a tourism course. And as I said, you can sequence things in any order you like and it can be good for things like, so the tourism wanted to ask a whole bunch of questions and a quiz, well, they can get overwhelming after a while. So this was great because we could use some question sets so that users could tackle little chunks rather than being overwhelmed by a huge screen full of questions. And in this example from Beauty, and I'd have to say if Hair and Beauty and Nursing and the other practical courses that we're looking at can use Moodle during the zombie apocalypse, then any course can leverage online. So in this particular case, students view a video and then underneath it are a sequence of questions and you can have a whole bunch of different question types in there. And some of the different content types or activity types that you might want to put in there include in this case we have some flash cards which we're going to have a look at a little bit later on. And also followed up by an essay question which is one of my favourite tools in H5P now. So we will focus on that one coming up as well. So as I said, you can have a whole bunch of different types of questions in a column and when you do that you'll then have the option in the back end of a whole bunch of different settings. So you can control settings for individual questions as well as for the entire column tool as well which makes it really powerful and quite flexible as well. One of my other favourite tools has to be the course presentation. So if you're a fan of the old Scorn package then the course presentation tool might be a good one for you whereas the column was really good for if you're into Rise and Adapt and like the scrolling. So course presentation as I was looking at earlier can be a sequence of activities or you can have it just as one single package. So we're going to have a look at a use here where it was actually used to create like a gaming type experience. So each level of the game used different types of H5P tools. So this allows you to actually look at the learning outcomes and have some variety so you don't have that boredom but you also have consistency as well. So in this level I've used some drag and drop. And what I would recommend if you were going to do something like this is if you've got access to a good range of vector images it's going to make your life a lot simpler. In the next level some different question types have been used and the cool thing here is that you can have different types of questions and you can have a slide background to provide a little bit more interest. Now I usually fade out my background images and you can also control the opacity of the question as well so a little bit of white behind the question to provide a little bit more contrast between your background image and your question and you can also see that you've got quite a few ways of navigating by using cause presentation as well. Now in the third level of this game different content tool again and in this particular case the users had to look at some different email examples and so there were 10 different emails and they had to identify whether they were real or scam but a lot easier than well you would think it would be easier than it actually was and so I've allowed people to retry this as well and again enabling them to navigate a few different ways. Now in this version of the course presentation I actually chose to put a series of questions all on the same slide. Now I don't often do this but it provided a little bit of variety throughout the course presentation and I were very short questions and I purposely chose the true false question type because it allowed me to put the feedback directly on the screen and in this particular case the feedback was really important and was part of the learning journey and so once again you can see we've got lots of different ways of people navigating and we've also got the full screen option which is really handy as well. On this one Dragon Drop came into play. Now a couple of tips when you're doing some Dragon Drop on the top right I've got a full screen button option for the Dragon Drop as well. One tip with that don't put your drop zones over the top of where that button would appear because otherwise the button looks like it's going to work but it actually doesn't because it's been covered. The other tip with Dragon Drop is to play with the display settings because you want to maximise your screen size but you don't want users having to actually scroll so you might have to do a little bit of playing around with your image sizes and the H5P tool has a display setting size as well. Now the other option in a course presentation, we were looking at some different question pipes before so here it's a question set which is really good for minimising the number of slides you have to have in your course presentation. The only thing is there's always one chair in every group of students. You know them, you've had them and they're the one that don't realise that there's actually more than one question on your slide so you may want to provide a little prompt there just to remind them that there might be four or five questions that they happen to be answering and one of the other really powerful tools happens to be scenario. Now if you've ever used the lesson tool in Moodle this one will be relatively familiar to you. It's quite powerful. The only caveat or downside to that would be that you've got to do a little bit of planning first so if we take a look at what that entails in the back end of scenario so what you need to do is work out what pathway do you want learners to take. Now the really great thing about scenario like column or course presentation you can actually include a variety of different H5P activity types and content types in here but you don't have the full way so do be aware of that but it does also allow you to bring in content say from Photoshop or some animations in there as well. I would recommend that you do work out let's say do you want them to definitely get the answer right before they can move on. So for instance if we were to compare that with on the left here we have the Moodle lesson so the back end setting that up and then on the right here we have the H5P scenario back end so it's actually quite similar similar learning curve but in both cases you need to figure out what pathway do you want people to take and I would say when you're setting either of them up use meaningful names when you set up the varying pages in those or slides in the scenario case because you're going to have to link to them and you want to know which one you're actually linking to you can outsmart yourself pretty quickly always fun now one of my new favourite H5P activity types is the essay so most of us are really big fans of Moodle quiz for instance and Moodle lesson etc probably one of the things as teachers that we don't enjoy doing is marking and with us doing a lot more online learning with our students it gets a bit onerous if we're marking everything so the cool thing about the essay tool is you can take questions where you want the students to type in answers and you can have Moodle market for you winning so for instance in the top right there let's say that you've got a question where there's potentially 10 different answers and you'd accept any of them but let's say that you want the learner to type in five correct responses for them to get a tick for that so all we do is we tell Moodle hey here's the question here's 10 potential answers that can get a tick and you can tell it as long as they get five of those they're going to get a tick for that and the cool thing is that we can then say so you can see here that the show solution button then becomes available so you can control when that does become available I mean I said it once I got everything right but they can then have a look at hey here were the other five that you could have used as well so it is a really cool tool if we unpack this a little bit further couple of tips when you're setting up an essay it will ask you for a title and for any question whether it be an essay or multiple choice question any time you've got questions built into H5P I do recommend you put some meaningful names for your questions a couple of reasons for that when you go to link to something or you're reordering something if they're not titled they don't mean anything to you and again you've outsmarted yourself the other reason is the summary slide so on a lot of these tools like course presentation for instance you will have a summary slide now if you don't name your questions well then on the summary slide it will just come up as untitled and that's really not helpful to the learner or to you when you're going in and reviewing things so to set up the essay question we pop in the name of the question in the task description we tell the learner here's the question here's what I want you to do and in this case I've popped in the sample solution that will pop up for them as well now also when you happen to be setting this one up there's a couple of ways you can use this and again I'm really good at outsmarting myself setting this one up so tips from the one who has looked it up many times so one way is to say for instance in this case we've got four things that we're looking for there's four things keywords that we want the learner to type in they could be words they could be phrases and the good thing about this is for each one of those four we can put in some variations so let's say that it doesn't have to be the exact phrase or we know they often misspell something you can put in some variations for that the alternative to that let's say that going back to the example of there were 10 possible answers where I need five I would stick all of them into one of these little keyword cards and put all 10 into there and the reason for that is that in the settings you can say that there are five occurrences that I'm looking for so we can see on the left here that I could change the occurrences to five so it would then look for hey did they get five of the 10 the other couple of settings on that one I usually disable case sensitive unless you have a very good reason to otherwise change that and I have my weak moments where apparently I'm a little bit nice and I enable forgive minor mistakes just in case they have a bit of a courting moment and they haven't typed it in quite correctly on the right hand side I tend to do things like say how many characters they need to type in and the reason I do that is so that they can't just hit the check button okay see I'm mean so I make them type something in at the very least before they can progress further the other thing I use is the input field size so there's two reasons for manipulating that number one maximize your screen size so if you have everything set to 10 lines you're not going to get a lot in before they're scrolling and the second reason is that it helps the learner to basically understand how much of an answer are you looking for are you looking for a short phrase or are you looking for a paragraph of text and the bottom there on the right I always articulate what is the passing percentage that I'm after in this case it was 100% and then a very popular tool interactive video now it's very cool so you can take a YouTube video for instance or one you create yourself and you can specify that at certain points in time the video will pause and a question will pop up now a couple of tips with this one is when you add a question you've got two ways of it by default it's a button and I have found that sometimes learners miss the button and so I always set mine to be poster which is the version that you're seeing on the screen there's a whole bunch of different question types that you can add in there which is really cool and what I also love is on the right there let's say if you think back to your classroom delivery I know it seems like a really long time ago now work with me that you're showing a video and often you would pause that and you would provide some commentary to that so what you can do in here is rather than asking a question you can actually provide some text the other thing I tend to do with interactive video is I stop the letter from fast forwarding I told you I mean so what I do is I basically force it that they start the video keeps going reaches a question pauses and so the question continues on etc the big tip though is to make sure that you do specify again your summary slide because you want the score to count but the great thing is that summary slide doesn't actually have to be at the end of the video it can be halfway through the video if that's all you need so it's a really cool feature for you to leverage a specifying why is it all wrapped up now as good as interactive video is it may not always be the best choice so let's say you've got a great video and you want to ask a series of questions some of them are self-marking but perhaps you would like to use that essay type question now it can be a bit awkward when you're trying to put big questions into a video so in this case it was using the column tool with the video at the top and then a series of questions following that now hopefully you're not feeling like this by this point in time again it's 9.30 at night here at Melbourne so have another sip of coffee nothing that can't be fixed by caffeine and let's keep exploring. Question set is a really cool tool you want to quickly add a set of questions to a modal course it's an option instead of using the modal quiz you don't have to in this case here we've used it for a beauty course now if you do have a question set of course there's always some options both for each question and for the entire tool as well if you need to h5p I would say stick with the default settings see how that looks then change one scene and then see how it looks otherwise you could again outsmart yourself drag and drop really visual really engaging really popular with teachers and learners again if you've got good access to some images that really helps on the left here we've got an example from a nursing course and so this was instead of always being text based so this allows them to say to the learner drag the process into the right order using images and on the right was from a first aid module identified just by dragging and dropping the critters as to how to treat them. Some other drag and drop options here we've got one from tourism and another one from hair and beauty and couple of tips again so I talked about having good sources of images but also compress your images down be nice when it comes to bandwidth and the other tip is don't have too many drag and drop options it gets very overwhelming and bear in mind that they might be on a smaller screen size than you are and again watch out for the full screen size that you make sure that with that full screen button put your drop zones over the top of that again unless you don't like the learner and the other tip would drag and drop so for instance here the learner had to drag the items into the correct disposed bin now you could actually say that items could go into multiple bins I chose not to in this case because the downside of that is when you drag something yes it appears in the drop zone but it still remains where you took it from which can become a little bit confusing as to which ones you've completed drag the words so very similar to the drag and drop that we've looked at but quicker and easier to set up the only thing we can outsmart yourself here not that I would know of course is you could have an ambiguous answer so that simply means that one of these answers could potentially live in more than one spot now that's okay if you meant that to happen often it happens when you didn't mean it just fake it to you make it if that happens that's the only thing to watch out for with that one hotspots is another really interactive engaging visual tool so for instance here again this came from Heron beauty where they wanted to have a very simple manual handling example the user just has to click on the best option on the right they go and look at a safety data sheet there's a link for the safety data sheet there and then they come back and click on the correct icons to indicate which parts were indicated in the safety data sheet. Some other examples down on the bottom left noticing wanted students to identify where should you stick someone savagely with the needle so there are multiple spots that the student is looking for and again you can build in feedback that pops up with these things as well and tell them you're looking for 10 different spots and on the right this one came from massage where we're asking the student to click on the correct spot to find the chakra for each of those locations and hotspots can also be used for content so let's say for instance here we've got an image where the user clicks on the little I icons and then some content pops up from that and then there's a series of questions after it such as the essay type question flashcards old school digital style really popular with teachers and learners and there's two main types you can leverage on the top right there all the learner has to do is figure out what the answer should be flip the card over really handy when let's say there might be more than one answer or perhaps the language skills aren't that great in the bottom left there we have another one where for instance let's say that you really wanted them to spell it correctly you want an exact answer so in this case the learner has to type in the answer and hit check and it'll flip it over and give them some feedback now flashcards can be a great alternative to just doing quiz after quiz it's also great for mastery because sometimes learners become a little bit shy when they're always getting scored on things or when they think you're always being pinned with a notification that they've done something so do think of them for any time that you would like students to practice and understand things I was actually really surprised how popular this one was it's just a word search and people love it go figure the tip I would give you for this one is I usually provide a PDF version as well just because there's always someone who still uses Internet Explorer don't know why but they do so in case you've got any browser issues or screen size issues then a PDF version can be a great backup for this one now let's have a little behind the scenes couple of tips with some of the settings of any of these puppies all of the H5P activities and content types have display options now remembering the awesome thing now is you can put H5P wherever you like be nice with this one I tend to keep the interface pretty clean so I disable these options unless I am going to go and embed it somewhere else so I untick these ones but that's at your discretion some of the other settings that you have available to you are things like grades so I use H5P so I don't use them for formal assessment tasks so here I keep my grader reports clean and neat and tidy and organized so I tell H5P hey pop this into the activities category and this is the grade to pass the maximum grade is an easy one to figure out it will come from your summary slide or if you're using the column tool just hit all the check buttons and it will tell you what the scoring would have been so you can then populate that now some of the other settings that you can look at if you're in the course presentation set this mode super awesome you can remove all of the different types of navigation and put in your own don't do that until the end until you figure everything out you might want to duplicate your activity first and make sure you get a little back up obviously because you can't undo that setting I mean as I said earlier so I untick the show solution in the summary slide I do allow them to retry to their hearts content and you might decide to enable the print button as well depending on what you've got in your presentation with course presentation though my top tip is often users miss the summary slide and therefore this score won't be recorded so on the last slide of all of my course presentations I put a little prompt with a reminder with a little example button there as well actually hyperlink to the summary slide just in case they're trying to click on that instead of the button down on the bottom right I just decided to try and minimise the issues they might experience at the end here there's other options with drag and drop so show title I actually get rid of that because Moodle already shows the title so I don't need to have that twice like a little bit more screen size and I do make sure that the user actually has to have a go at things before they can see solutions as well told you I mean if you're in multiple choice lots of different options there just like when you're doing a Moodle quiz again I get rid of the show solution button you don't have to a big tip though is if you let's say have a question that has five answers you're looking for three of them I would actually click the one point for the whole task in that case unless you want them to know that there's three out of five that you're looking for again put what percentage that you're looking for for their pass and that can be anything that works for you this is my final thought for today so remember Moodle can help you to create some epically shockingly wonderful stuff enjoy the mood happy Moodling and you can catch me on any of these channels here and I'm going to ask tomorrow to let me know if there's any questions I need to be answering at this point Hi Michelle we've had a lot of questions come through on the forum the tips that you've been sending our way I've just posted a couple in the chat there one is how do you ensure that the interaction works on mobile devices they've found responsive design a challenge on H5P I agree it can be a challenge I view it kind of akin to you can't test in every browser in every device but if you pick a few different ways that you're going to test and just check things out and do bear in mind that H5P libraries do update separately to Moodle so you might want to check things again when you've done a bit of an update so that's where I will sometimes do things like check logs to see how many of my users are leveraging say for instance the app and then test a lot maybe in the app or are they only using the browser on their mobile so there are some activities that I would say probably don't work spectacularly well at the moment on mobile but a lot of them if you think about chunking things down it will work for you one more here how can you get learning analytics out of H5P the favourite terminology learner analytics so that will depend on the version of Moodle you're using and whether you're using the plugin or now the integration of it I can tell you I'm on with the plugin and I have the best web developer in the world that works with me and so basically our teachers can go to the grader report click on the activity the H5P activity and then they can see a report and that's not something we've built we've just I think she went to one of the forums to find out how to do it so it's really powerful for that I would say though always put the emphasis on the learner allowing them to see how they're going and that's what they really love from that. Fantastic like I said there are a lot of questions in the forums so we might have the HQ team and Michelle jump on when they have an opportunity to to respond to some of those questions thank you so much Michelle there's lots of fantastic feedback on your presentation here and some of those great tips the essay tool in particular looks really interesting and I'm sure we'll have more feedback on that in the forum thank you so much for your time I know it's late there so I'll let you head off to bed and we'll have some time off now before the next session thanks again Michelle. Thank you very much. Thanks bye