The Faculty Innovation Center is excited to announce that monthly training on H5P continues, with the upcoming June 21 training focusing on H5P Flashcards. Flashcards are a set of cards containing a picture on one side of the card and a corresponding text on the other side. The learner is asked to type a word or expression corresponding to the picture, before turning the card over and revealing the correct answer.
What are some uses for H5P flashcards?
They can be used as a drill to help learners memorize words, expressions, or sentences. This makes them especially useful when learning a new language. Flashcards can be used to present math problems or help learners remember facts such as historical dates, formulas, or names. Flashcards can also spice up text heavy pages and increase student engagement in your course.
Typical Flashcards provide a prompt on one side of the card, and an answer on the other side. You can use text, an image or both for the prompt. If you add alternative text, your flashcards can be read by a screen reader, making them accessible.
Visit H5P flashcards for more information and a tutorial if you wish to try them on your own.
How can you check it out yourself? Start in Falcon Online. Then click on Content in the navigation bar. Next you will click on the blue button that says Upload/Create. From the drop-down menu, choose Create a File. Now click the Insert Stuff icon. Scroll down that drop-down menu until you find H5P and click on it. You can then choose what type of H5P activity you want to build after clicking on the blue Add Content button.
Don't know what type of H5P content you want to create? Here are some examples. You may also access H5P by going directly to the site.
We encourage faculty members to attend this upcoming training session and explore the benefits of H5P flashcards in their online courses.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful tool that holds immense potential for transforming various education. As educators, it is essential for faculty members to embrace AI and explore its applications to enhance teaching and learning experiences. By incorporating AI into their classes, faculty can engage students, personalize instruction, and foster critical thinking skills. But how should we do this? Where should we start?
Get Familiar with AI:
Faculty need to have a understanding of what AI is and how it works. Do some research. Talk to other faculty. Become familiar with the basic concepts, terminologies, and applications of AI in education. Knowing these things can help you make informed decisions about how you want to use AI.
We want to help you with this. The Faculty Innovation Center (FIC) will be writing a series of blog posts on how Daytona State faculty are addressing ChatGPT/AI in their courses. If you want to share your plans with your peers, please reach out to us. If you know of a colleague who is adapting courses, assessments, or assignments because of Chat/GPT/AI, we'd love to know that too.
Make a Plan:
Where can AI add value to your course? AI can be used for assessment, content delivery, student engagement, and data analytics. For example, AI tools can automate grading and supply personalized feedback for learners. Once it is set up, this could be a timesaver for faculty. Review your course learning objectives to ascertain where AI can be used to benefit you and your learners.
Get some hands-on experience: The best way to see AI in action is to use it. Spend some time playing with AI tools you think could be beneficial to you and your learners.
Learner Collaboration and Project-Based Learning: Use AI for course projects. Have your students use AI tools to gather and analyze data, collaborate remotely, and gain insights into complex problems. This approach nurtures teamwork, creativity, and analytical thinking, essential skills for the future workforce.
Discuss AI with Learners: It is important to discuss ethical issues. Address the use of AI usage in your syllabus and remind students of your policy. Let students know of the problems that still exist in AI such as biases, transparency, and privacy.
Stay Informed: New advancements occur on an almost daily basis. Know the latest trends, research, and best practices Engaging in continuous professional development will help you continue to use AI effectively.
Introducing the New Discussion Creation Experience
A new create and edit experience for Discussion topics is coming soon to Falcon Online. Here is an preview of this update so that you can review, prepare, and raise any questions you may have. This update will be opt-in so after the next update on 27 April, you will see this screen when you first create or edit a topic in the discussion tool.
Figure 1: Opt in to the new discussion experience
Once you make a selection the panel will minimize to an arrow that you can use to access the panel to move between the classic and new experience.
Figure 2: Arrow to access the opt in panel
Consistent layout
The redesigned create and edit screen for Discussion topics has the same layout as in Assignments and Quizzes, making it familiar and easy to learn.
Figure 3: New Discussion Creation Screen.
The primary panel on the left contains common, frequently used fields that are always displayed. These fields are most relevant to learners and are core to topic creation.
Figure 4: Primary Panel of New Discussion Creation.
The right-hand panel organizes additional, more advanced options such as start and end dates, and release conditions. These options follow the same logical groupings as found in Assignments and Quizzes.
Figure 5: Right Panel of New Discussion Creation.
While the right-hand groupings are collapsed, the summary text provides details about which settings are active so you can see which settings are applied at a glance.
Figure 6: Availability Dates and Conditions Accordion.
Notable changes
Beyond the restructuring of the topic creation page for consistency, the new experience also includes updates and wording changes to a few settings that you may be familiar with. These changes are designed to simplify workflows and to align more closely with our Daylight patterns. Let’s review these changes.
Automatically create a new forum with same name and visibility as a new topic
To streamline getting started with the Discussions tool, new topics will create a new forum of the same name and same visibility. This eliminates the requirement of creating a forum prior to creating a topic when first building out the discussions area in Brightspace. For example, a new topic titled, “Introduction” which is marked as visible to learners, will automatically associate and generate a new, visible forum titled, “Introduction”. Once saved, topics and forums behave as they do today and become independently managed. For greater flexibility with this behavior, users can leverage the Change Forum workflow to edit the name of the newly created forum or associate the current topic with an existing forum.
Figure 7: Automatically Create a Forum for a Topic.
Figure 8: Change Forum Dialog
Checkboxes now radio buttons for Allow anonymous posts and Users must start a thread
Previously, the settings of Allow anonymous posts and Users must start a thread were independent checkboxes that could only have one selection at a time. These capabilities persist in the new creation experience but now appear as a set of radio buttons.
A new radio option of Default participation has been added and is equivalent to neither Allow anonymous posts nor Users must start a thread being selected in classic.
The radio option of Allow learners to hide their name from other learners has updated wording and is equivalent to Allow anonymous posts being selected in classic.
The radio option of Learners must start a thread before they can view or reply to other threads has updated wording and is equivalent to Users must start a thread before they can read and reply to other threads being selected in classic.
An illustrated diagram below shows these settings and how they appear today in classic and how they will appear going forward in the new experience.
Figure 9: Comparing how to set Allow anonymous posts and Users must start a thread in Classic and New Experience.
Topic type selector replaced by Manage Restrictions workflow
The radio buttons for selecting a topic type have been replaced by an updated Manage Restrictions workflow in the new experience. Like today, all new topics in the new experience start as an “open topic”. To change an open topic to either a group or section restricted topic or to a restricted topic with separate threads, open the Availability Dates & Conditions accordion and launch into the Manage Restrictions workflow to add a restriction.
Figure 10: Open topics are no longer explicitly called out in the new experience. Add group and section restrictions using the new Manage Restrictions workflow.
Restricting topic and separate threads
To restrict a topic so that learners can only view threads from their group or section, choose the radio option Restrict topic and separate threads in the new Manage Restrictions workflow.
Figure 11: Comparing how to restrict topic so only learners can view threads from their group or section in Classic and New Experience.
Restricting topic using groups and section restrictions
To restrict a topic so that only selected groups and sections of users can view a topic and all threads, choose the radio option of Restrict topic in the new Manage Restrictions workflow.
Figure 12: Comparing how to restrict topic so only groups and sections of users can view a topic and threads in classic and new experience.
Full functionality
With this first release of the new discussion creation experience, there are no known functional gaps when compared to classic discussion topic creation.
What's next
As previously mention you can move between the classic and new experience. However, with the July 2023 update, the new experience will become the default and only view.
The Faculty Innovation Center is excited to announce that monthly training on H5P will continue, with the upcoming April training focusing on H5P synchronous components. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about and experiment with features such as The Emoji Cloud, The Word Cloud, and The Chase.
Adding synchronous activities to online courses can be highly beneficial for students, as they offer opportunities to ask questions and build relationships with their instructors and peers. Synchronous lessons promote active student engagement and deeper learning.
Through synchronous sessions, instructors can build rapport with their students and provide valuable opportunities for them to assess their own understanding, ask critical questions, and seek feedback from their peers and instructor. By fostering a collaborative learning environment, students are more likely to stay engaged and motivated, leading to improved outcomes.
We encourage faculty members to attend this upcoming training session and explore the benefits of synchronous activities in their online courses.
The Emoji Cloud is a live engagement tool. Students respond to a question using an emoji. How can this tool be used? It makes it easy to get live feedback and makes it easy to conduct a poll where learners select an emoji as their response. You could ask students if they understood the material, how they feel about an upcoming assessment, or even how their day is going.
H5P's "The Chase" is an online active learning tool where students compete against each other to give the most correct answers in their class. You can use a wide range of question types such as Multiple Choice Questions, Fill in the Blanks, and Drag and Drop. While the Chase is relatively new, the interface is similar to the interfaces of other H5P components, and users of H5P should not have any issues creating The Chase for their classes. It provides an engaging and game-like environment. It can also be used as a review tool since incorrect answers are shown and can be discussed further.
Word Cloud
To be able to gather more detailed feedback from your audience, we’re also offering Word Cloud. With Word Cloud, users may answer a question by choosing between predefined words or typing their own. The results are presented both as a word cloud and as a tabular view.
A new create and edit experience for Quizzing is coming in the June 23rd update of Falcon Online. Here is an early preview of this update so that you can review, prepare, and raise any questions you may have. When you access the quiz creation/edit screen you will see a message about the new experience where you can choose to leave it on or turn it off, as seen in this screenshot. I recommend that you leave it on as this will eventually become the default view, date to be determined. If you choose to turn it off, you will be asked to provide a reason.
Figure 1: New quiz creation experience welcome panel
Once you select an option, this panel will collapse, but you can use the arrow at the top right of the quiz edit screen to re-open it and adjust your selection.
Figure 2: Dropdown arrow for opening the welcome panel
Old vs New
The current quiz creation workflow uses a tabbed interface with each tab providing access to various settings and properties.
Figure 3: Old quiz creation/edit tab interface
The new experience provides a screen just like the current Assignment creation screen with a main screen on the left and expandable accordion panels on the right.
Figure 4: New quiz creation/edit screen
Enter a quiz name (required).
The Grade Out Of will not be available until you add questions to the quiz or add the quiz to the gradebook.
If the quiz is Not in Grade Book, Grade Out Of reflects the total points of the questions and the Grade out Of field is not editable.
If the quiz is In Grade Book, Grade Out Of is the maximum points of the associated grade item in the Grades tool. In this case the Grade Out Of field will be editable.
Choose whether to include the quiz in the gradebook. You can create a new grade item or associate it with a pre-existing grade item.
You can include a due date. The due date will automatically be added to the course calendar. NOTE: Start and End dates are set on the Availability Dates & Conditions accordion panel on the right.
You can include a description.
The Add Existing button allows you to import questions from the question library, learning object repository (LOR), or from a file.
The Create New button allows you to create new questions, sections, or question pools. NOTE: New questions created this way are only available in this specific quiz. It is highly recommended that you first create your questions in the question library and import them to a quiz.
Once you add question, these three items will appear.
The Add dropdown combines the functionality of the Add Existing and Create New buttons. Note that when a question is selected this option is disabled.
The Move To dropdown is only active if you have at least one question selected. You can then move the selected question(s) to the top or bottom of the quiz or if you have created sections, you can move them to a selected section.
The More Actions dropdown is also only active when you have one or more questions selected. This option allows to delete, set points, publish to the LOR, make mandatory, or bonus.
You can also Preview the quiz.
The expandable accordion panels on the right allow you to set other options as show below. In the collapsed view, you see a summary of the current setting for that pane. To change the settings, select the title of the accordion panel to expand it.
The main screen and the side panels can scroll vertically independent of each other. As you add questions or expand the panels you may see a dark gray scroll bar appear just to the right of each section. You can also adjust the width of each section by placing your cursor over this light bluish gray bar until it turns to a double headed arrow. Then click and hold to drag to the right or left.
Lastly, remember to use the save option at the bottom of the screen to save the quiz. You can also toggle the visibility.
Expandable Accordion Panels
The four accordion panels on the right are initially collapsed showing a summary of the current settings. Click the title of a panel to expand it and edit the settings.
Availability Dates & Conditions Accordion Panel
Figure 5: Availability dates and conditions accordion panel
Add Start and End date. NOTE: In this initial release, you can't add these availability dates to the calendar. This capability will be added in a later update. In the meantime, to add them to the calendar, you can either temporarily turn off the new experience and add them using the old screens or use the Manage Dates tool.
Create a new or add a current release condition (opens a popup screen).
Add special access (opens a popup screen).
Create a quiz password.
Set up restriction based on a range of IP addresses (opens a popup screen).
Timing & Display Accordion Panel
Figure 6: Timing and Display Accordion Panel
Set the timing requirements (opens a popup screen).
Set the paging options. You can set one question per page or set up paging based on quiz sections. If you are editing a quiz that was created using the old creation experience, you will also see the option to use legacy paging. IMPORTANT NOTE: In the current experience, you can specify the number of questions per page. In the new experience, you have to create sections in the quiz and then choose the option to set the page break based on sections.
Decide if you want to shuffle the quiz questions and sections.
Set the display options. The disable email option will be checked by default.
Set up a header and footer (opens a popup screen). Note: in the old creation screen you had to turn on the visibility for headers and footer, but in this new experience, they are automatically visible once you create them.
Attempts & Completion Accordion Panel
Figure 7: Attempts and Completion Accordion Panel
Set how many attempts are allowed and how the grade will be calculated (opens a popup screen).
Create a category or choose a pre-existing category for the quiz. Categories provide an organizational structure on the quiz listing page.
Enter you email address if you wish to receive and email notification for a quiz submission.
Set the completion requirements. A student can be marked complete after submitting the quiz or you can set a required passing grade.
Evaluation & Feedback Accordion Panel
Figure 8: Evaluation and Feedback Accordion Panel
Set whether to auto-publish the results upon submission and whether to publish the score to the gradebook. These options will be checked by default.
Choose what to display to the student upon submission. You can display the grade and the dropdown allows to choose to display:
No Questions
Incorrect question only, with correct answers
Incorrect question only, without correct answers
All questions, with correct answers
All questions, without correct answers
You can customize the results screen displayed to students upon submission (opens a popup screen).
You can also associate learning outcomes to the quiz (opens a popup screen).
Video Tutorial
Here is a video tutorial showing how to use the new quiz creation/edit experience. NOTE: When you start the video, use the full screen box icon in the lower right of the video or press "f" on your keyboard to open the video in full screen mode. Press "f" or "Esc" on your keyboard to exit full screen mode.
H5P Synchronous Components Workshops
or press "f" on your keyboard to open the video in full screen mode. Press "f" or "Esc" on your keyboard to exit full screen mode.