Every now and then I go through a phase of wondering about some aspect of my workflow in Moodle. I am now teaching several courses, and so I am prepared to have some slightly more complex approach to deploying content. [Generally I work supporting others and it is not easy to say "go into the code view and do this"]
So my current question for my next batch of courses: what is a good way to get the content into Moodle?
Such content would include video, images and text. Nice to have is some sort of thing like accordians, slideshows and
This is content deployment I am interested in here: not worrying about testing/quizzes, and hard core interactions.
I've listed below
- My desired features
- A list of options.
What is a great combination of themes, plugins and a workflow that makes really nice content?
-Derek
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Content deployment: Desired features:
- Looks good. (Really good)
- Easy to navigate around. "Intuitive"
- At least two levels of content: content, then subcontent. (Section, subsection maybe?}
- Not click heavy
- Easy to update. [Prefer NOT to have to create elsewhere and upload]
- Responsive.
- ?? I'm sure to have forgotten something.
- Nice to have: Deep linking possible. ie if there are three items in a page, then a link to each. Not "click to go to page, and then click on item X" for instance in Boost the tabs in the admin interface are not linkable to directly. You need to go to Tab 1, then click again.
- Nice to have: reusable content. eg if there is a standard bit of HTML on a subject like (say) "What is quality reflection?" which you may have recorded once and linked to.
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Here is a list of current options for deploying content
Generally, these each have some of the "Desired features". I'd be interested if there are any I have missed.
Built in functionality of Moodle
- Label
- Page [Has the problem of navigation. When you are in a page, there is little you can do except back up via breadcrumbs]
- File
- Book [Nice, but like a page, there is little you can do in a book except back up via the breadcrumbs]
esp good with plugin https://moodle.org/plugins/booktool_wordimport - Possibly Lesson.
- ??
- ??
Plugins
- iContent https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_icontent [Looks good]
- H5P https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_hvp
- Presentation. https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_revealjs
- Poster https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_poster
- ??
Prepare elsewhere and upload (old school)
- SCORM [There are problems with deployment of SCORM in Moodle on Mobiles - iFrame problems maybe. This is complex: for one random example see https://community.adaptlearning.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=180]
- IMS
Note: There are a few that work from PPT> slide presentations; embedding - Slideshare is one option.
Getting SCORM to work
- Some have made some progress: iSpring + Totara: http://www.ispringsolutions.com/articles/add-scorm-course-into-totara.html
- Totara have a new SCORM format: https://help.totaralearning.com/display/TL29/Creating+Courses
- there are a lot more, generally commercial solutions.
- One opinion: SCORM may be old school . . . the way og the future is probably HTML5 . . .
New approaches: deep scrolling approaches/HTML5
Notes:
I'm using deep scrolling in the sense used by Adapt and Evolve products: https://www.appitierre.com/blog/tag/scrolling/ | http://www.kineo.com/nz/services/elearning/mobile | https://community.adaptlearning.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=627 | https://www.appitierre.com/blog/new-research-from-evolve-authoring-learners-prefer-scrolling-over-click-next-e-learning/ these are basically HTML5 content creators.
HTML5 editors: There is a list: https://elearningindustry.com/the-ultimate-list-of-html5-elearning-authoring-tools but I'm really only familiar with the two below which use the deep scrolling paradigm.
- Adapt
- Evolve https://appitierre.com/pages/evolve.html
- ?? I know there will be more here.
Notes:
- These produce really beautiful outputs. (Really really nice looking!!) One (selected at random) http://demo.delta-net.co.uk/fraud-awareness/#/id/co-01
- H5P has a lot in common with this.
- But at present there are problems embedding these into Moodle nicely, because of the SCORM issues above.
Coding in Moodle page/label using Bootstrap
- Using Clean, sometimes Boost: Generico https://moodle.org/plugins/filter_generico has some really nice additions.
- Using Boost: Just coding: adding stuff from Bootstrap http://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/components/alerts
eg Tabs, accordian.