 and then Maria it is over to you in your own time. Okay great so thanks very much Rob for that introduction. Today this is going to be a very brief presentation about a project that I implemented in one of my modules last year and I did this with a lot of practical support and technical support from Rob so thanks a lot to Rob also. So as Rob said the title is increasing student agency a case study and giving students access to a lecture authoring tool. So to begin with why do this? Well firstly I wanted to harness students familiarity with video. There's nothing remotely innovative about using video in the language learning classroom but what I wanted to do was to try and incentivize students to move from being passive consumers of digital content to creative and active users and this is something that was at the heart of this project. I had previously been involved in a smartphone cinema project back as far as 2012 where DCU held Ireland's first smartphone festival, smartphone film festival but some of the student feedback was that they lacked a particular language focus in this task so whilst I really enjoyed doing it I wanted to try and improve on that. Also teachers, lecturers love setting reflective tasks. I think it's one of those things that we go to just to fill up portfolio space sometimes and students are less enthusiastic about said tasks so I wanted to find the middle ground between these two camps and H5P allowed me to do so. I'll talk about this in more detail but there are some very unique affordances offered by H5P both temporal and spatial so essentially that means what I wanted to do was I wanted to find particular points in space and time in a student video and I wanted them to reflect on what was happening at that particular moment. Just to say I use this in Loop Reflect which is Mahara supported and what was great about this was that it was a one-stop shop so for whilst I do like technology I'm not that technically savvy so it was great to have this all embedded in a very nice neat streamlined way with great technical support from Lisa Donaldson and from Rob also and just to note also one of the other reasons why I wanted to do this was that I'm really interested in students digital skills and this is aligned to Compiton 6.3 pertaining to digital content creation on the Digcomp edu framework so just to give you a quick backdrop to the project this was implemented last year in a first-year core language module with 115 students from five different programs so quite a large module it was a it's a year long module with three contact hours per week one of which was held in the lab old to be back in the glory days of having access to a lab and just also so as this is a first-year student cohort they're transitioning from summative assessment driven by the leaving third to a more formative assessment style and this is something that we need we felt we needed to accompany them and to give them the skills to do this this is a task-based module so it's based there's different units in this module and at the end of each unit they have to carry out a specific task so in the unit where we used H5P the task the assessment type was they had to carry out an interview with a French native speaker about university life then they had to create a photo novel depicting their worst day so far as a third-level student create a written piece documenting their best day day thus far as a student and then a critical analysis of a visit to an informal learning space so on campus here we have a really unique peer-led informal space called the language culture space unfortunately it's closed at the moment so we try to get students to go there interact with their peers and then with the H5P enhanced video what was unique to this project was specifically the use of reflective hot spots embedded in the video and as previously stated H5P had been recently enabled on the Mahara supported loop so this made things a lot easier from a teacher's perspective so this is just a snapshot of the digital artifact so which is the H5P enabled video so on the left hand side this is a screenshot of the video so students so when they had to interview the French native speaker for example one of the questions one of the reflection pieces was to reflect on something interesting that that happened in this experience of interviewing a peer on campus and you can see there's three little points here at the bottom three little dots and they actually are three different reflection hot spots that are embedded in the video so when you play the video they just appear and you see the text so in this little box the student says to be honest I was really surprised by how well we got on we laughed a lot and I felt quite at ease it was easy for me to be myself and thus I gained a confidence and on the right hand side this is just an overview of the overall portfolio so you have what's really nice is that the H5P enabled video it is it projects very nicely into the portfolio itself you have the graph the photo novel on the right hand side and then essentially two reflection pieces on the bottom left and on the top right just to talk you through very briefly about the process itself so those three stages involved firstly students answered H5P questions embedded in a video cloned by the lecture so basically I went and I found a video on youtube that I felt that was related to the theme that we were studying in class that week and I added myself some interactive content so just to basically get them familiar with it and to compare and contrast this form of basically comprehension versus the more traditional form of getting students to understand videos and the second stage was the students created H5P interactions themselves on a video cloned by students so that just means they went and found the video themselves but this time they came up with the questions and they asked these questions to their peers and thirdly students create and this is the last final stage students created H5P interactions embedded in the video created by students so they created these interactive hotspots on their own created video so that was a really nice culmination of the task where they you know and also they completely owned the digital artifact themselves so I think that's basically all for me Rob so I'm going to hand over to you I'm going to stop sharing now and I'll let you take over great thanks Maria thank you very much so as Maria said this was her idea and a wonderful idea it was to get students involved in this way and I provided Maria with some some technical assistance not that she needed a huge pile she's not doing herself a good service by saying she's not technically savvy but in addition to helping Maria with the technical aspect of the project I also assisted her with the evaluation of the project so at the end of the project students were issued an evaluation that we asked them to complete and we had about 81 respondents in total I think which is a pretty good response right considering that there was only 115 students in the class and the the results were mixed which was interesting so in terms of when we asked them did they like using H5P, did they like the activity 58% said they did and 42% said they didn't however when we asked them did their digital skills improve over 80% said yes their skills did improve and about 20% commented that that didn't or they had some other negative comment related to digital skills so it seems to be that whether or not they they liked it or not their skills did seem to improve somewhat similarly their analytical skills improved quite significantly about 76% of students saying their analytical skills improved as a result of the activity and again about roughly 60-40 saying it should be used again in the module so these survey findings really provided us with some good starting point to drill down a bit further as to why the students felt this way so a focus group was organized afterwards we had about seven students participating in the focus group and there was quite a range of them from different backgrounds and cohorts in the focus group and we teased out some of the survey results in a bit more detail and several themes emerged one of which was around instructions and guidance so even though they were provided instructions and guidance with how to use H5P some of them either A didn't realize that those instructions were provided amongst all of their other learning material or B because the instructions were provided in French they had difficulty following the the technical instructions and also the H5P interface is in English so some of them felt a bit jarred around following instructions in French for two that's in English students own predisposition towards technology seemed to be a factor in whether or not they enjoyed the activity so those that those who admitted that they you know are tech savvy naturally enjoyed it a bit more and those students that are a bit more tech-averse seemed not to enjoy it there was again some interesting opinions around digital skills development and should students be developing their digital skills as part of their modules and as part of their standard learning in higher education and again some students said yes and they're aware of the fact that they need to be able to develop digital skills in order to be ready for life after graduation but some of them didn't believe that was it at all so some of them there was one remark from a student in the focus group who said you know I came here to learn French not to learn computers essentially so some really interesting opinions from students around the place of digital skills development again there was mixed response to some of the felt it did help them with their French because they were able because they were required to listen back to a video because they were required to add interactions to their video using H5P force them to think a bit more deeply about the language and think about their vocabulary and think about their grammar and so on so it did impact on their on their level of language learning and similarly because they had to add interactions that required them to reflect on their usage of French and place that at certain points in the video it also impacted on their reflective skills so so some really interesting findings overall and those are some excerpts that you can you can you can read in your in your own time we circulate the slides afterwards so you can you can read them but again a lot of these experts tie back to to some of the findings and to some of the the the comments from the from the focus group so really Maria showed this this graphic earlier about the kind of the three aspects to the the the project you know the students answered H5P questions in an object that Maria created first and then they went and they created their own video that they copied from YouTube and then they created their own video from scratch an interview with the French speaker and they embedded the interactions in it and they embedded it in UDL so the students were using different tools and technologies they were obviously using YouTube to locate a video and and add interactions to it they were using their own devices to make their own videos and they were using the H5P community site to access the H5P interface but at every step in the process the they were touching on Moodle in one way or another Moodle was really the spine that ran through this project in the first instance Maria used the H5P plugin to create the first artifact students after they created their own H5P interactive video they all collaborated together and submitted their links to a Moodle database activity so they could all each visit each other's interactive videos and engage with them and learn from another and so on and then lastly they when they created their final video they embedded it in Mahara and they accessed Mahara through MNET through Moodle networking and then when they had finished their portfolio they submitted it back to Moodle for for grading and I think this really shows the way flexibility of Moodle in that no matter what your ecosystem of technologies is, evidently, that is open and flexible like Moodle can really touch almost everything that you use in your in your toolbox. What are the plans for the future? Well obviously the the results and the findings give us some some good improvements around the the instructions and the guidance that we provide to students so going forward we look at giving them instructions in English and not French and perhaps provide them with with increased technical support and so on, provide them with FAQs and the ability to maybe drop in and ask questions of someone like me or or or some other person who's familiar with H5P. We're interested in introducing a focus on creativity and helping students develop a sense of creativity to be more creative in the videos that they create and interestingly we're not running Moodle 3.9 in DC at the moment but I think we will be in the future at some point and obviously with Moodle 3.9 there was a fully integrated H5P interface in core Moodle and at the recent Moodle UK and Ireland Lance Rowe from Idaho State University gave a very interesting workshop around the different ways you can give students access to H5P and there's a link there that you can explore in your in your own time but Lance has a couple of suggestions there for giving students access to the H5P content bank in core Moodle and that might be something we might look at in the future and save the need for for having to use the H5P community site so there's there's definitely some some some exciting modifications and refinements that we can make and we're definitely interested in doing that so all I will say is simply thank you and I'm sure Maria shares her thanks as well and I'm going to pause the recording now and hand over to you Owen. Oh there so I'm talking about integrating Moodle and Microsoft Word and I have a number of plugins that operate or that provide this facility there's one for books for the Moodle book facility one for the atto import the atto editor the atto text editor and one for questions for the question bank in in in a course so I'm going to start by giving a demonstration of the three different plugins just to show them an action first and then see you know talk a little bit more about them so here I am in my test course that I am that I've prepared here and if I just go into the page go into a page I'll just actually go back here and go to the editing page and just drag page over so just go here and scroll down into the page content and drag a document into the page and it copies text and headings and pictures and so on into the Moodle page and I just save and display and then I have my Word document converted into you know native HTML for the Moodle course so that's for a single page if I have a multi-page document then I've grabbed a book or a textbook that one of our lectures here in Tala has written and I just grab the book and drag it over the choose a file the file upload facility import it and in a few minutes this is I think 250 pages or so so it's quite a large document that has to be converted so it takes a few seconds and so you then get a document a whole book it's a Moodle book and I can just jump around different chapters or you'll make you'll navigate through the document and the whole book is converted into a HTML and your images are imported tables imported and so on so that's the second facility and then the last one is the question bank so I'm in the Moodle question bank with the import and export facilities so if I select Microsoft Word and drag in a set of questions here this is about a hundred questions developed by one of our lecturers here in Tala and import that again because it's quite large it just takes a few minutes and you end up with 96 questions have been imported here's the list of questions here and you can just continue and you can see then here are the questions I can just preview a question just to grab this one and preview it so it's a multiple choice question where I have you know choose one of the five options to do it so I can just close that preview so that's the basic facility is to import and that's what I've done is just imported a small page single page document 200 page 250 page textbook and a large bunch of questions all written in Microsoft Word and from a lecturer's perspective the most the most big benefit of it is that I believe it's much more convenient to edit in Word than to edit in Moodle Moodle has lots of text boxes if you look at the question interface for example there's about 30 or 40 text boxes you're supposed to fill in to actually add one question you can do all that inside in Word in one simple step in one simple table a reasonably structured table so you can retain your master copy in Word and you can exchange that with your colleagues or with other people so it can be easily repurposed for web you can create a PDF document from it from directly from Word and so on from a student point of view I think accessibility is the big benefit that native HTML is far superior to Word documents or PDF files for reading on a website and this is particularly true for the smaller form factor mobile devices phones and tablets and so on because Word and PDF files don't re-organize the text to fit on the screen you just have to scroll left and right and up and down and so on to see the text with a native HTML to get a far superior experience and it's not just for kind of people with a smaller device but people with hearing or reading difficulties you know vision impairments and so on can also get screen readers to read the native HTML much better than anything else so then main things so third the plugins and the real question from your perspective as lecturers would be well do I have the plugin installed on my Moodle site so there's quick there's a quick and easy way to check for each of the different facilities whether you can actually use it so if you're in the auto text editor or domain text editor for Moodle you should see a little word icon in the toolbar if you're in questions if you're importing questions you'll see Microsoft word table as a possible format to import from and finally if you're in a book resource you've got facilities import from Microsoft word or export to word or export to book or export to chapter you can do all that from the from the interface so you can see fairly easily whether or not you have these plugins installed on your own Moodle website if you don't have them installed you need to get your local friendly Moodle administrator to do so and you need some good arguments for why you want them installed so some fella down the pub recommending me is probably not enough you need something you know I think you tell them they're mature reliable been around a long time they're supported and so on they're quite widely used now and they're kind of in the top 50 or so a most installed of the contributed plugins and that's 50 out of you know 1500 more or less so and they're finally they're pre-approved by Moodle hosting vendor so I know in Ireland the innovation are a big vendor and a big hosting organization so they're pre-approved and I believe catalyst as well I'm not absolutely certain but catalyst who are another vendor would probably be a bigger presence in the UK they have I think pre-approved these plugins as well so that just means that they're quicker in the easier to get them installed they don't do go to an expensive review process so stepping back a little bit there's all these plugins they're used in different situations but they're you know they have some common features so they import tables images equations even like software equations they retain inline formatting bold and color not all like we know you don't retain fonts for example but we do retain other things like bold and color and underline and finally we maintain headings so any headings in a word document are converted and formatted as headings in the html and in particular for the book and the question import they require it's not just an optional extra to have headings you must use structured content and named styles like heading one two and three are for your content in if you're importing it into book and question and the reason for that is reasonably simple so for a book it splits a long document into chapters based on the heading one style so like you just if you don't have headings then everything comes into one page it's just like a page so you do need these you need to have your in word you need to use structured content which is something looks like something like this so if if you're in word you can go into view and turn on the navigation pane and then you will see on the left hand side here this is the navigation pane in word where you can see all the headings and they're indented nicely so chapter one is exploring data section one b is sampling and subsection then types of data so they're headings in word and they use the native heading styles in word and you can see in over here and this is the in draft mode you can look at the style window the style area window and you can see then heading you know exploring data is a heading one sampling is a heading two and types of data is a heading level three so there the name styles in word that you need to use in books and you also need to use them in questions because the heading one style in word is used as a category name in when you import questions and the heading two style is used as a question so you need to keep your you need to use these styles otherwise it won't recognize the questions it won't recognize the tables containing the questions so there you need these structured styles in in your word document so you may not some people are familiar with word styles and using them and structuring in headings and so on other people aren't so what we've done is we've developed a couple of companion word templates that assist you to provide a kind of a kind of a scaffold of the interface to make explicit the the temp the requirements the headings and so on that you need to use in your word document so you don't need them if you're just doing your headings and you already know how to do headings but if you're creating quiz questions then it does certain structured tables in a certain format so you do need to have that definitely need to have the plugin for the question one for the plugin it's handy but for the book plugin it's handy but it doesn't absolutely isn't absolutely essential the templates must be installed in your pc so word 365 doesn't work if you can't use these templates but they are you can't install them safely because they're digitally signed by to your Dublin for security so what it looks like what a template looks like it just kind of a ribbon we use the ribbon in word and for that book template you've got styles like heading one two three title and so on list and styles and table styles and so on and for the question template we have you know the different supported question types so multiple choice multiple answer true false and so on so all these you can just click on these buttons and you know it creates a new question or it creates a new question file and so on so they're just the interface that we make explicit in word to assist the content creation and maintenance process so i'm going to give a quick demonstration of creating a new question file and in creating a multiple choice question not an essay question and importing that into movies we're going to finish off with that more or less so if i can just skip out of that and go to word so here i am in the word interface and i can say i want a new question file and it pops up and it kind of immediately asks you to save a file so i'm going to say one two it saves the file and there's already a one default question in there and so i'm going to just answer it in certain question so you can see that the table structure here has a certain format and the first thing it says is over here on the right hand side is this is mc so it's a multiple choice question and here's the question stem part of the table and i can add then questions answers the possible answers so i'm just going to put in the answers here let's see if i can manage that fill it in from stuff i had earlier so i've created answers to the question and i save that file and back i go to my moodle page import select the question type choose a file upload from moodle munch i hope it's here somewhere there's moodle munch two imported and just imports one question and i can preview the question here so there's my here's my question submit yep right answer but you can see that the interface for adding questions is relatively straightforward if i wanted to add a true false question i just click on the button and it brings me down it creates a new table creates a new heading heading level two it says it's a true false question puts me into the text box to fill in the question stem and then i just need to answer you know i need to say decide is this a which is the correct answer to true or false one so there's all these supported default supported question types most of them are kind of default a question types in moodle all or nothing is a kind of a special case multiple choice question but it's not part of the standard default or standard moodle it's a it's a plugin but you can see at the top here that's the moodle quiz interface and then in the for moodle books you can just use heading styles and bullet styles and so on so that's the demonstration of the how to use them in practice and word so the two integrate reasonably nicely between moodle and word or to kind of using word in a in a structured and controlled way you get very you get good results and quick easy importing it to moodle just to kind of put in a kind of a larger perspective the the digital competence framework to kind of around which the whole moodle munch is built if you're looking at that framework for educators then these plugins kind of hit three of the strands that are talked about digital resources assessment and empowering learners and kind of there's a kind of a bit more information a bit more depth as to where which of the actual strands and which of the competences specifically are addressed by these particular plugins so there's no interesting ones in assessment and sharing and creating and modifying resources and so on so that's quite useful and finally just there's a if you don't if have the plugins installed and if you don't can't get your moodle administrator to install them there is a kind of a plan be a run a website called moodletowword.net and you can create your own account on that site and use it to create your own quiz questions and export them from that site and import them into your own site as xml rather than word and you can also download the templates from this site and you can also view various videos on how to install the templates and how to how to use them how to use them in practice and so on so that's kind of that's it that's it really there's just further information you can download the plugins from the moodle database of plugins the contributed ones there's the links and there's the address of the moodletowword website and what you can do on that website and that's really it so it's kind of open for questions