Option to Comment on Posted videos (or other activities)

Option to Comment on Posted videos (or other activities)

Julien Camus གིས-
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Hello,

I am trying to accomplish what is described in this closed thread dating from a few years ago: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=341054

The Hot Question plugin seemed like a good option but as reported, if the video plays in the activity page itself, whenever a student posts a question, the page reloads, causing the video to stop and start from the beginning again.

Would anyone have an idea of any new/different options to get such a thing going? Having the ability to comment/ask questions directly from an activity would be so much more intuitive than having to go to a seperate forum or comments block, outside of the activity...

Thnak you!

Julien 

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Re: Option to Comment on Posted videos (or other activities)

Matthias Giger གིས-
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Have a look whether the database preset I wrote some time ago does what you need:
https://gigers.com/blog/videos-in-moodle-gemeinsam-annotieren/ (use Google translate)
Feel free to ask further questions, in case you are interested.
BTW, I have a preset in English, too, but that one hasn't been published.
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Re: Option to Comment on Posted videos (or other activities)

AL Rachels གིས-
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Could you send me the English version of the preset? I've bee contacted by Julien and I have not been able to find those example I placed in the old forum link he found. I am still looking, though while doing other stuff.
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Julien Camus གིས-
thank you so much AL for taking the time to try to help me!
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Re: Option to Comment on Posted videos (or other activities)

AL Rachels གིས-
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Unfortunately, I have not been able to find those old examples. Yesterday, it suddenly dawned on me that those entries were from about eight years ago, and I think I may have deleted that archived Moodle site as it contained actual student data that I needed to get rid of. Sorry I could not be of more help.

However, I have just tested and discovered that my latest development version of iContent can do exactly what you have re-described to Mathias just below here. The nice thing about iContent is that it not only allows the student to ask public/private questions of the tutor/teacher, but it also allows them to keep public/private notes. And, since the iContent is very similar to a slide show, the ability to create the questions and notes is based on doing so for each slide.

There is also the ability to add four types of graded questions, again based on each slide. Here is where the problem arises with this really nice plugin. It supports only four types of questions, essay, multiple choice, matching, and true/false and unfortunately the answers are never shuffled. I am working on it, but basically, I need to do a total rewrite of the question code and my time is very limited, mostly due to the problems I've been having with my eyesight.

If you are interested in trying out iContent, send me a private message and I will provide access to the development code as both a teacher and as a student so you can try it out.
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Re: Option to Comment on Posted videos (or other activities)

Bob Gilmore གིས-
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I'm happy to see progress on iContent. We used it a lot back in the old 3.x series, but migrated to books and lessons for 4.x which feels like a huge step backwards, especially books although lessons branching navigation is useful.

iContents Notes and Questions feature is something that should be on every single Moodle activity. It's just that good. I've been using the comments block as a replacement to some limited success, but the blocks panel keep getting closed on most screen widths if the navigation is open so my learners forget about them and there is no easy way to view all the comments if you're not an administrator.

I have grabbed the current iContent plugin form your github and have been playing around with it a bit on my 4.4 test server. The only issue Ive noticed so far is to blocks opening the course navigation pane.
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Re: Option to Comment on Posted videos (or other activities)

AL Rachels གིས-
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Hi Bob,
Thanks for the feedback. I do try to work on iContent one day each week, and today just happens to be one of those days. I'll be happy to look, but sometimes I am a bit dense so I freely admit, I am not quite sure what you mean by, "The only issue Ive noticed so far is to blocks opening the course navigation pane."
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Re: Option to Comment on Posted videos (or other activities)

Bob Gilmore གིས-
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I can't reproduce it now. Previously, trying to open the nav draw from inside an iContent activity page, nothing would happen.  Tried again today and it's working as expected, so... yay?

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Re: Option to Comment on Posted videos (or other activities)

AL Rachels གིས-
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I had a thought about this when I woke up this morning and I think I know what you were referring to. I will create a ticket and add this to my TODO list. I really wish I had kept better track of all the "fixes" I have implemented so far. I know that it is up in the thousands as I started with the last version which showed code prechecks 14565 | 1334 and I fixed all of those, plus dozens of others. Yesterday, I started work on moving things out of the locallib.php file and now have the index.php page showing meaningful information.
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Re: Option to Comment on Posted videos (or other activities)

AL Rachels གིས-
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Just pushed all my latest changes to master and v1.0.7.2 branches at https://github.com/drachels/moodle-mod_icontent and at https://github.com/drachels/moodle-mod_icontent/tree/MOODLE_1072_STABLE. Still need to fix the capability to shuffle the answers for the matching type question, but nearly everything else works as it should.
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Re: Option to Comment on Posted videos (or other activities)

Visvanath Ratnaweera གིས-
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I can confirm that the plug-in Content Pages aka iContent has a blog-like comments function and a separate note taking function.

The only remaining problem is the documentation, but is on the way > Re: Anyone interested in an updated version of Content Pages (mod_icontent)?
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Re: Option to Comment on Posted videos (or other activities)

Julien Camus གིས-
Hello Matthias, if I understand you well, the develoment you are refering to allows to ask students a question at a time in a video that you have chosen, correct? My goal was even more basic than that. It was to have, below or next to a video, a field allowing a student to comment or ask a question. A bit like a forum but something that leaves on the page of the video/resource and that would not reload and stop the video when the student submits their question or comment. See what I mean? Does your develoment allow to do that? Danke!
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Re: Option to Comment on Posted videos (or other activities)

Matthias Giger གིས-
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Hello Julien

The questions students or you ask are shown at the chosen time index while the video is playing and alternatively underneath the video. Be aware that only entries are shown with a time index greater than the current time index of the video.
 


My solution puts the video on pause, the students enter their question and then can continue watching the video from where they left off.

In case you just want them to add some questions about the video, you could either use a forum or the plugin iContent. iContent displays comments and questions underneath the content (e.g. a video).
 
You might also look into professional solutions such as https://moodle.org/plugins/filter_amanote, but they are not free and you give your data to an external provider.
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Re: Option to Comment on Posted videos (or other activities)

Visvanath Ratnaweera གིས-
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If the "commenting" is synchronous JazzQuiz is fun.

If the integration in to a page is important, then there is the Embed question filter.
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Julien Camus གིས-

Hi Visvanath,

Thank you for takin the time to answer me. Maybe I wasn't clear but I am not looking into asking students question about a video they would be watching, but allowing them to comment/ask questions (to our insturctors) while watching a video we provided them...

Cheers!

Julien

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Re: Option to Comment on Posted videos (or other activities)

Visvanath Ratnaweera གིས-
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Yeah, I misunderstood. My corner of Moodle is different. What you are looking for reminds me what a typical blog, say Wordpress, has: Just below the blog there is a comments section, which could be questions and answers too. Only thing, there are no private discussions, the whole class can read them. If so, Matthias' example could be the right thing.

Just to mention, since Moodle 4.3 (I think) Moodle has a link to Matrix. I know, that won't be "below the video", but there could be ways of organizing comments in "Channels" or "Rooms" or whatever.