Hi there, I'm Sandy Allnock, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube, and today I'm going to be painting ostriches, and I'll be painting a background for them as well, which I don't do very often, so in for a little treat. I'm using WPlus9's stamp set, and notice that I blacked out one of the sentiments. I didn't realize there was one with a bad word in it here, so I've not only blacked it out, but I've removed it and thrown it away, so when I gift this in my, one of my giveaways, somebody's going to get a stamp without that sentiment in it, so there you go. The images are stamped onto some watercolor paper from Arches, and I'm going to be painting with Daniel Smith watercolors, as I always do. The sky color that I'm using here is a phthalo. Phthalo blues are beautiful, but they are very staining, so what that means is if you let any of the edges dry, and you want to turn them into soft edges, they're not going to go soft unless you mess with them right away, so I've got a baby wipe, and I'm going to quickly wipe some clouds into it and lighten that color, because I didn't want the sky to be super dark. Used a little bit of Carbazole Violet to make some mountains in the distance, just a little hint of a hillside out there. When I was trying to figure out where do ostriches live, what do their surroundings look like? I just pulled up some pictures on Google just to see, and there was a place that had little purple mountains in the background, so I thought that would be usable and doable.  So I'm going to mix up some quin gold, I think, with sepia in order to make a brownish color. Of course, I did not make enough of it, so I will have to solve for that. That's a common problem that I have, you might have, and we have to be aware of these kind of things when we're painting, whether or not we're making enough of a puddle of paint, but a lot of times it seems impossible for me to make a big enough pile of the same color, big enough puddle that's going to last for a long time. I work on a lot of larger fine art pieces, and that's a real challenge when you get to a large piece. So I often mix on the paper, which gives me a lot more freedom. And when you're doing something like this, I'm mixing quickly and painting quickly because those leading edges of that path are starting to dry, and I want to make sure I hit them while they're wet so that I don't get those hard edges. So a lot of folks get too fussy and stress out about the color that they're mixing. You can glaze over it later if you need to. You can add some more paint into it, do it while it's wet. But your wetness needs to match between the two colors that you're using together. If you have too much water in one, it's going to bleed into the other. And that's the issue that I'm going to have on this left hand side. I have very watery green paint, and the brown paint was thicker. So where it touches on that left side, it's bleeding right into it. So I'll have to glaze over that and take care of that and fix it. So a lot of watercolor is about fixing things. And it's just the way life goes. When you're a watercolorist, you get used to the idea. You have to repair stuff sometimes. I know there are professional artists. I watch them paint and take their classes. And I'm amazed that they can do it without having an instance like that, but not me. That just doesn't happen. But it's all about faking it until you make it. So I figure someday I'm going to discover the secrets, but it's really practice. There's definitely a value in taking classes in person and online. I've done the same, and you need to learn things by learning from experts, people who know how to do what they're doing. But there is no substitute for actually doing it yourself. You can't watch enough videos to make your hand do what it needs to do in order to paint. Now, I just recently watched a video on how to make a sketchbook out of the kind of paper that I want to make a sketchbook out of. I can now do that. Mentally, I know I can go do it. I will probably refer to the video again when I actually make it. But I mentally know how to do it. But until I actually do it, it's not going to make any difference how many times I watch that video because I haven't actually experienced it. So that's what you need to do is you need to experience the actual painting of something and not just watching videos on it over and over and over again. You need to actually do it in order to understand the process and how it works and how it's going to look like these legs and heads that I'm doing. I started painting them in browns. And that didn't quite look right compared to the photographs that I had seen because they had a little bit of a pink tinge to them. So I'm starting to glaze a little bit with some of the pink and then wiping some of it off and then adding some of it back in. And that's experimentation. There's no way I can say I'm going to mix up exactly that color and have it come out right. I'm experimenting. I'm learning as I go. And that's just what I do. That's the way I paint. So the ostriches that I found online, a bunch of them have different white spots in different places. Some of them, it's underneath of their bodies. Some of it is like their tail feathers. And you can have them match and be a matching pair of ostriches, which is what I decided to do to have the top part of their back feathers. These are not the same feathers that I saw in the photographs because they were more of like poofy tails that kind of got curly. But I thought this would still work because I'm making their back ends kind of the white portion. And I'm doing first a very light glaze because when you've got something that's full black, like these are really, really black birds, their back ends. But I wanted to have some dimension in them still.  I decided after a while that drawing in all those feathers was not helping me. It was not getting me anywhere because I really needed that rich black. And I stopped short of the highlight area on the bird and then put a little bit of darker black on the other side of the wing.  But I want that line to remain slightly hard. So I'm going to let it dry a little bit while I paint the other bird. And I'll go back in and soften it in just a minute once I finish this other bird. Because I want to give it just a second to dry. And that's one of those things that you'll learn eventually is that with a certain amount of time, things will dry enough for the idea that you want to get across for whatever kind of brush stroke. So I'm using a damp brush that's clean to do this blending on the outside edges of those highlights. But I knew that I couldn't do that right away or else I might push that color back into the feathers on the back of the birds and that was not going to work either. I wasn't happy with what I did so far on the legs because they didn't have enough dimension to them. And I really studied some of the photographs and they all have knees. And I know birds have knees. Who would have known? I'm sure it's not called a knee for a bird. But that was one of the things that seemed to be missing on these birds. There were no knees really drawn in necessarily. So I painted them in myself by creating a stronger shadow on each side of the legs and then just putting a little kind of almost a comma underneath of the knees. And then I'm using a damp brush in order to do some of that blending and a little bit of darker color in a few spots where it's needed to create some deeper shadows. Much happier with the way the legs are looking now because I have that contrast. For me it's all about having contrast in something to make that realism happen. A little bit on that guy's head and then I'm going to start working on the rest of the scene. I've got shadows coming from them and I'm going to put kind of long shadows off the back side of them so the sun is going to be low-ish on the horizon. And shadows tend to be like long strips when you're looking at an animal or an object from the side. If you're looking at it from up above it would look wider, that sort of thing. Long lessons that would be needed in how to do shadows but suffice it to say this would be good enough for most things. For the grasses I wanted to have the grasses in front look like they're larger and I don't know more detailed. So I've created those grasses right along the edge of the path and then I added some bright yellow that I'm going to put into the rest of the grasses so that separates them from the hills in the very far distance. So I get multiple layers in my scene around the ostriches. That bright yellow is going to help to make the grasses just look closer because it's a more vibrant color as well as just differentiating it from that background. So now not only do those trees recede, that purple from the mountains that was there before seems to almost be invisible. So I'm going to have to go back in and add that back in if the purple is important. Then just putting a little tiny, barely visible line across there and then use a clean brush with just a little bit of water on it to soften out that edge so I don't end up with a hard outline around my mountains. And everything's drying lighter than it went on so just kind of keeping an eye on what's contrasting with what. And I noticed their tail feathers were just looking way too bright. So I did add a few, just a couple little strokes of gray fur on there. And then I took a micron pen to just add some hair on them because the pictures I saw they're all like little like bald but hairy kinds of heads and necks, which I thought would be kind of funny to make them a little funnier. So things will get better seem the perfect sentiment. To send this to a friend who's having a hard time. Yes, things will get better. I'm your friend and I'm standing here with you as a second ostrich in the picture. And hopefully that would be good encouragement for somebody who needs it. So thank you so much for staying tuned for this video. Go over to my blog if you need to pin this for future reference. You can make sure you click that like button and subscribe if you haven't yet already and I will see you again next time. Thanks so much. Take care. Bye bye.


Google Celebrates Freedom Day with a Doodle Google celebrated Freedom Day in South Africa with a special Doodle dedicated to the historic day. The Doodle on the search engine's homepage featured a waving South African flag between two king proteas the national flower. On their website Google said the Doodle was to commemorate the first democratic elections in South Africa on April 27, 1994. Google users who clicked on the Doodle were led to a Google search with information about Freedom Day which commemorates the first elections in which South Africans voted as equals after 300 years of colonialism and apartheid. While this national holiday is a celebration of the progress that has been made so far it also serves as a reminder for South Africans to continue making steps towards unity and equality Google wrote on their site. Today we celebrate Freedom Day and the hard-earned progress that is continuously made throughout the country. The Doodle received attention on social media. Western Cape Premier Helen Zill tweeted a photo of the Doodle and wrote, Happy Freedom Day. Let's keep freedoms alive, including the foundational freedom of speech. This was not the first time Google has celebrated the day with the Doodle, last year an image of Nkosi Siklal I Africa composer Enoch Mankai Isuntung graced the homepage.


Okay. When we need our student quiz, welcome to student quiz. My name is Frank. I'm from the University of Applied Sciences in Rappersfield, Switzerland. And I have two reasons to talk to you. Whoops. Good start. One is student and the other is quiz. Student because we think that mood content is rather teacher driven. And we wanted to engage students to create mood content by themselves. And quiz because students just like quizzes for multiple reasons I will address this later on. This graph here shows the activities of my students during the course of the semester. And I guess you know what happened at the very end. I think students all over the world, they pay high importance to exams. And that's why they often ask for all exams for multiple choice questions for quizzes in order to prepare themselves. That is good. But it has a little downside because you have to create all these questions. It's hard work for all the many quizzes and self tests that you want to provide. And then there's usually this guy here. It's a poor teacher and he's doing it all by himself or herself. And that's exactly the point where student quiz comes in. With student quiz we want to enable students to create these questions by themselves and to share them in a common question pool. And when we implemented this, it's student driven as I already commented. And it is collaborative, collaborative also in the sense that the questions you are getting from your students might not be really the quality you want. So they can improve like in a crowd intelligence system the quality by commenting, by rating the questions. It's an ongoing story a little bit like in Wikipedia. Then with a time you will collect lots and lots of questions. It depends on the size of your cohort. For example, me as a teacher maybe during the course of the semester I can create 20, 30, 40 good questions. I hope they are good. But if I have 100 students and each of them is providing one question I get completely different numbers. So we have filters because the questions become so many that you can create the quiz that you want to learn with. Like the most difficult questions or the latest questions or the ones that you have not yet answered. There are many possibilities. Then when students work their way through the crisis, student crisis collecting usage data about the quality of the question, how difficult was the question, but also about the students themselves. And this we can use for gaming fight approaches later I show you. But also for the personal learning assistance. It's a crowdsourced system but if I'm students Paul, I would like to know how I perform in comparison to my fellow students. And then the personal learning assistance shows me exactly where I stand. It's like a learning cockpit. And good news also for teachers, the questions created in student crisis, they can be shared. They can be reused in standard noodle crisis. So you just export them and use them wherever you want. And of course it's open source and so on at my university. Now the time does not allow a real demo. I have only screenshots here. I show you some important screenshots. When you create a student quiz, it's just like an activity. Like what we've seen many times now, the H5P activity. You create a student quiz activity and then this stream might be interesting where you can allow different kinds of question types. Maybe you want to create allow only multiple choice questions. So your ticket or you just leave everything open up to you. You can enforce commenting, you can enforce rating. Then there's another screen asking you whether you want to make the students anonymous. I strongly recommend that you run it anonymous so that they don't know each other. Whether new questions become published right away or whether they need some sort of improvement by the teacher. And then for gamification purposes, we have different numbers that you can configure. For example, to create a question, you get certain that many points. If the quality is good, depending on the stars that your community assigns to you, you get more points. If you answer a question correctly, you get two points. If you answer it incorrectly, you get minus one point. But you can create your own incentives by setting these figures. And maybe you want yourself excluded from the game, then you can fix a teacher or otherwise everybody. Anybody in your course can participate. Now let's go to the main screen. That's what the main screen looks like. And it's a little complicated, so I focus on different points here. Up there, you can see it already encircled. That's when you want to create a new question. Okay, that's the creative moment. But most of the time we'll probably work with this block here. That is a list of questions already available. And in this course, for example, it was 560 questions. Of course, they are paged here. And this is a view of one of my students. And this student here is John Luca Zanetti. And you can point it out. You see that all the others are anonymous.  And because it's his own, he could like delete it. He has the right to delete it, but of course he cannot delete questions from other people. You can also see here with the cross or the check mark, these questions are either approved or disapproved by the professor. Let's look into different other areas. This is a filter section. Again, you get lots and lots of questions here. It was 560. You don't want to run a quiz with 560 questions. You want to focus. So that's where you filter. And there is also a show more. There are many, many more filters hidden behind the show more. You can combine them. And in this area here, this is what we call the personal learning assistance, my progress. For example, John Luca, my student here, he answered 370 questions correctly, but he paid on 89 questions and 91 he has not yet answered. So he sees it right away. There is also the second bar here. He has turned in so and so many questions that he created. Nine of them were approved by the teacher. Seven were denied. And there is none that gets opened. Then the figures that you saw before. Sorry, I missed this here. When you click on more, when you want to know more details, then this next screen that pops up where in the left column, you see your own statistics. For example, percentage of your correct answers is 56%. And here on the right side, I see the statistics from my community. So this student is just a little bit above average. His community was 55% at that time. Of course, it changes all the time. Let's go on with this screen. This is John Luca wants to know where to extend in relation to my community. So right now he is in the top 10 ranking list. He is number five. He doesn't know the names above him or below him, but he sees how many points do I need to get in order to make it to place number four. A little bit like competition creation. Some students like it, others maybe not so much. And here you can also click on more because John Luca will not know this 987 points. How do I actually get it? And then here is another screen with the exact math behind it how these points were created. Okay. Now this was if you want to compare yourself with your community. But there's another level of comparison on the level of each question. So imagine you are John Luca and you answered this question here, this data warehouse question. Then you see this yellow asterisks and bulbs and also the blue background. The blue background is the community. What we measured from the community. So for example here, the community assigned two stars to this question. Not really a very good question, but yeah, two stars better than one star, right? But John Luca, he assigned only one star.  It's also quite a nice comparison. And it's the same with difficulty. This question was incredibly difficult for him. He answered it seven times. The last answer was wrong. And his community did slightly better. So this seems to be a difficult question. All right. And then of course you want to start a quiz. That's the buttons that you click after you filter. And then when you run the quiz, it just looks like any moodle quiz. It just looks like any moodle quiz. Question after question, next, next, next. You probably know this, I guess. The only thing that we changed here is this one. So now you have a rating option. After you answered the question, I thought that's the very best moments, when you thought for the first time. Now you make up your mind, do I like it? I don't like it. And that's the moment when we ask your rating. And another thing is you can comment on the question. So maybe I'm not happy with the solution or I want to improve it a little bit. I would send, I would type some notes in there. And they also would receive an email, notification about my message. All right. So that was the screenshots. And now, if you're into buzzwords, if you're into buzzwords, these are buzzwords that have slightly to do with students, quiz, some more, some less cooperation. You're not alone. I think you saw it, no? My students now work. I am still involved as a now work. I am still involved as a coach because I have to approve those questions or not approve. Now nobody's forcing me, but I would strongly suggest this. Then collaboration, create and share and share. We have here, it's a cloud intelligence system with the rating and commenting feature that you saw. We have a personal learning assistance. It's gamified with this top 10 approach. So we try to foster competition approach. So we try to foster competitions there. And the words that Martin Dugana likes a lot, that constructionism, it's good to answer a question. We can learn, but I hope you agree. It is so much better now if you create a question by yourself. If you ever explain something to maybe your little brother or your little sister, you might know about this phenomenon. And think about this phenomenon. And you can run a flipped classroom scenario. So students create your questions first. I come in a little later with my approval, with my commenting, and I try to drive up the quality of the student risk. And I also have to add inspiration. Student creativity often rocks. I'm so often surprised what my students created. So just some experiences that we collected. Experiences that we collected. I have now more than 550 institutions using student quiz as a plug-in, right? Available in the moody plug-in directory. And I know only a few of them. The ones that send requests that engage with me, most of them are anonymous to me, unfortunately. And this is, for example, the University of Otago in New Zealand. And this is, for example, the University of Otago in New Zealand. And they were a little bit scared. They started in the Faculty of Medicine. I was also scared. I mean, medicine, and then students create the questions. I hope nobody dies. But then, oops, sorry. The students created quite many questions in the different disciplines. And then they gave another course free for the fifth year's course free for the fifth year students, like a revision course that they created by themselves. And they were really proud. They collected almost 6,000 questions there. It's a treasure. I don't know how much money you would pay for 6,000 questions. I don't know how much money you would pay for 6,000 questions. Not all of them will be good. I'm usually getting, like, 20% trash, but I'm also getting 20% really good stuff that inspires me a lot, and I couldn't do it any better. And now, the University of Otago gave it free to 20,000 students. You are in the Open University, my biggest customer, right? With almost 200,000 students, they also want to work with it. Of course, I also work with it. Here at my university, my last course was with 84 students and I asked all students, each student, to provide four questions. So it should be 320. But what they created was 540 questions, so I liked that. And this is not a really big figure. It's a really big figure. It's this one here. This is the activity report. You can see the activity report. This is the activity report. You probably know this from Moodle. And, I mean, this here completely sticks out. So Student Chris makes your server running warm. It's incredible the activity that happens there for more than 20,000 answers that I collected, 1,000 answers that I collected during the course of a semester, I have to say, with the 84 students. Then sometimes I'm surprised the way that people use it, things that I didn't think of, for example, you probably know flashcards. For example, you probably know flashcards. And I once had a student who did not report to class and I actually gave up on him already. I thought he's gone. But then I was surprised. He had lots of activity on Student Chris and he was using it as a summary. So instead of reading the summaries of his peers, he was using Student Chris as an interactive summary because after answering the question you write a note now whether you're wrong because after answering the question you write a note now whether you're wrong or not. And then he focused only on the questions that he had difficulty with. That was a feedback. I asked, what are you doing there? And that was his statement. Okay. So all the resources of Student Chris are available. Of course, there are also resources of Student Chris are available. Of course, we also created the page studentchris.hsr.ch We have an introduction video for teachers also for students. It also has a resource, how to create a good multiple choice question that's often the point. Sometimes students don't really know how to do that. I created just like a four page each composition from different sources. There's a sandbox where you can just play with it without installing anything if your admin maybe is hesitant to install it. If your admin maybe is hesitant to install it. And the feedback form okay. There's Student Chris the user interface speaks Catalan and Castellano and the documentation is also available in Castellano, not in Catalan. All right. All right. Do you want some hints for the teacher? I have four more minutes. I'm using it quite extensively and think about question types allowed at the beginning I gave everything and I have IT students and that turned out to become a mess because they tried to make tricky questions and then when you run a question every question behaves differently multiple choice and single choice and then drag and drop question then a calculated question that is confusing. For me it was much better to allow only one question type. Train students how to create good questions so train students how to create good questions so this four page street these four page street smart sheets that I created was good enough for me you should also provide some questions by yourself at the beginning as a starter because they use it as a template and then they see that's the quality expected as a template and then they see that's the quality expected otherwise you might collect quite many trivial questions require a minimum number of questions from each student if you can, if you have this feature then I would also try to evenly distribute it for example the four questions that I have I ask them one question in the first two weeks of the semesters the next questions are weeks 3 and 4 and so on to have a little bit distributed you can create a gamified atmosphere in my case I can win a Raspberry Pi atmosphere in my case I can win a Raspberry Pi computer it's 35 US dollars not too much but they still go for that and maybe the last year is quite important important I tell them that I might reuse good questions you know we mentioned two or three times that everybody gets it and then they pay really attention that everybody gets it and then they pay really attention to this and take it serious so we are already in question and answer I have two more minutes left and I hope you have some questions for me can I ask you a question in Castellano in Castellano in Castellano thank you it seems a great tool so congratulations congratulations I was wondering what happens on the restart because when you end the lecture year what happens to the questions do they go through the next year in which user do they go through the next year in which user do they start from scratch because if you start a semester and then you already have a question bank with hundreds of questions they are overwhelmed with it they cannot get answered because you are just about to learn this so that would be rather frustrating I start all the time with an empty student quiz and then we develop it but of course I have some very good questions from last semester these are my starter questions from last semester my starter is the first week only the ones that are usable for the first semester so that also helps me to drive quality and if you put in these kind of questions it gives a message to the students this is what is expected I answer thank you Marcus had a question here what you wanted multiple choices the obvious one and then you want something that is really easy to use and requires no learning and I recommend my own question types gap fill and word select for that is this gap fill okay thank you so much keeping up last put something on the screen which is not windows file a bit of crowd sourcing does anyone know a website where I can put something on the screen that has like a two minute countdown does anyone know a website off the top of their head that I can do that I need a website where I can countdown from like two minutes to zero classroom screen thank you this one alright is everyone in who wants to be in I'm going to here so my name is I'm Moodle net lead at Moodle and I have the pleasure of chairing this session this session is a bit of an experiment so this session gives you the Moodle community a chance to say some stuff so you know when you have a presentation and someone is on stage and then someone grabs the microphone and they don't really ask a question they just go on and on about a comment this session is all about that right you can grab the microphone I think Ron's got one there there's another one here with Lee and for a maximum of two minutes you can say anything you want about Moodle alright anything you want at all and it doesn't have to have a question in it you can just keep on making a comment and when that's finished I'll tell you to shut up and you can sit down how does that sound so the microphones are here you can talk about anything to do with Moodle you can have a rant you can say thank you to people you can say something which is like a wish list that you wish would happen you can follow on from what someone just said something entirely new so does anyone have some kind of burning issue something they'd really like to talk about something that would make them stick up their hand and grab that microphone and be the first ever person at this Moodle moot to start in this kind of session where you have two minutes Diego hello my name is Diego I work in Moodle and I wanted to say something about Moodle it's like I don't have a clue what we do and I'm looking for somebody who can teach me there's anybody in the audience who can teach me a little bit who can explain me what's Moodle in five seconds anybody here? nobody knows what's Moodle I think we've got a problem apart from that this is an experiment that I wanted to do it's like this is giving back the voice to the community so it's anything could be somebody who wants to be a developer of Moodle looking for a job, somebody who is good looking for apartment, wherever you fancy you can say it so please feel free to do it thank you I'd like the ability to explain to people who have never used Moodle and don't know what Moodle is I like to explain it to them without using words Google, Facebook or Microsoft because we always end up mentioning Facebook and then people say why do you want to use that and you say that's it for two minutes, I just want somebody to come up with three sentences to explain what Moodle is without saying the word Facebook who's up at the challenge? there's a YouTube called Moodle Explained with Lego that does it I can't use this tool, someone used this tool before how do you set it up to two minutes? do not recommend hi, I'm Steve Rycroft from the Open University this might be a bit of a rant so when I go and talk to other universities around the world and talk about Moodle people the initial reaction is kind of disappointment Moodle is a bit old-fashioned and I just wondered what we need to do as a collective to work on the marketing of it and it sounds really negative Open University we're massive fans of Moodle it's built into our strategy but the initial reaction I always get especially in the States and I know there's that corporate versus open source argument I'm always having to defend it and justify it I'd rather start off presentations more positively but actually I do so what am I saying we as a collective in this bubble we're all big fans of Moodle and it's perhaps related to the other observations, how do we present ourselves as a more forward-thinking collective it's about it who's up for an answer hello, sorry it's me again we have exactly that issue in the M.O.D. we've got 9,500 courses and most of them are document repositories everyone just goes great I can do that in SharePoint so we put together a importance, and I'll come to this a maturity model from levels 1 to 5 with statements of what is expected in each and links from each of those levels to what would expect so level 4 you may see heavy interaction integration therefore we'd expect to see forums and blended learning solutions what we need to tie into the M.E.C is a pathway of what is definable as a strong course what is a basic course and what actually is an exemplary course and in doing so we will be able to start all the presentations of actually I'm at maturity level 3 my roadmap to get to level 5 is this and from the back of that we'll see a fallout of racking stanky of plugins and development I think that has to lie alongside the roadmap because I agree with you I have the same arguments on a semi hourly basis in the military so my name is Michael I'm working as an administrator for Moodle almost 15 years ago Martin at this place thanks for the great project and thanks to the community to give me a job with some kind of sense and I decided to give something back to the community and so the small university I worked with applying science in a university at Berlin we made an integration to collaborate online and this plugin is since 3 or 2 months available over the database and so you can install it as an activity and connect to the collaboration online server and it works for spreadsheet, for work document and also yeah, that's it and for who doesn't know what collaboration online is it's a software behind it and it's server based it's open source I think it's a good alternative to Google Docs yeah, that's it it's directly we have seen the rich document app from NextCloud and Davos Miss developed us this plugin and the second part is this is still in work progress just a second sorry I'm still nervous a subplug in assignment submission so that the students can work together on a document and upload it to assignment thank you I'll be shorter than that I just want to second I didn't know that was existing so good to hear I would encourage you to support that integration and Collaborer because we need good open solutions for document collaboration that are not Google or Microsoft and I think Collaborer is making a really good effort at that and we should support that and tomorrow in OpenID Tech I'm sure this is going to come up I would love to see a good standard default solution for that I think all of us are using collaborative documents in our work in our daily life all the time but just because Google and Microsoft set up theirs first it doesn't mean others can't anymore so depending on how long you speak for it's going to go interactive in the tracker website I can't even use the Spanish keyboard somewhere like that thank you yes I will use those so this is an entirely new way of doing things it looks like we're now getting people coming on stage so if you want to queue up to come on stage it's fine too that's me sorry Hi, I'm Pablo from Argentina I have one minute because I use one of them to load this page and I want to talk to you about a problem we've seen with several audiences specifically with administrators the Moodle administrators the guys that have the admin user enter every day and suffer some things they really don't have a voice in the community it is really difficult for those persons who are not developers to use this tool which is fantastic for tracking banks it's really difficult and their problems usually are not being solved this is something we've been seeing this for instance it's been from 2013 and what I am proposing is really simple when you search a user and you put a name I'm looking for John and then you want to replace you want to search for Mark you have to first clean all the filters to add one if you'd like to catch up with Pablo after the session I'm with you that's aggressive moderation I'll tell you right there who's next do you want to show someone oh yeah okay so that's my name basically I'm here because I'm founding a new kind of high school in Italy I belong to a very interesting team it's three people I am a physics professor from university and the second one is a soccer player one who was playing in the Italian team in the world championship I don't say the name if you're interested just get in touch and the third one is a big executive of a car company not from Italy and we realize that our school has a lot of problems in Italy and we're trying to have this project to do something interesting and I'm accepting any kind of ideas for participation it's in the very early stage actually our school goes for kids from kindergarten already up to 14 years of age we have 200 kids and we are on the edge of founding the high school which hopefully we start next September so I'm here because I want to use Moodle on it in any way we can just that's it cool great who do you have next time for maybe two more how can I come on the stage you're staying there thank you my name is Hopon I have three small things one is like the guy from Argentina it's the admin page the category manager needs a little love in the admin user filters so that you can find category managers that's one the second is H5 no sorry not H5P you're doing that but if activities can have a full screen mode then that would hide a lot of extraneous navigation so users stay inside the activity until they are done and the third one I think I forgot so I'll stop yeah I do that too here's three points I'm going to make and after the second one totally lost the third one who else would like to contribute something to this new session make sure you introduce yourself first okay I'm Claudia Delgado working for IOC at UNESCO not really a question but a couple of comments I would like to thank Moodle for inviting us with a fantastic platform for us to enable capacity development amongst our 150 member states an issue that we've been finding is that we work with all kinds of member states and with all kinds of democratic levels and we can't use many tools like I will use the words Facebook YouTube and others and we really rely on anything that a government will not want to block at some point this is very important for us because many countries will really depend on our capacity development are being blocked from getting or receiving this training because issues thank you look there the watch is there I mentioned because that replace filter options and take it there there's a proposed solution which wasn't good enough actually it was me who was trying to fix that and it's hard that you might think so this year has 26 votes so go there, vote if that's important for you would you appreciate any help so I think it's feasible but maybe not one person only only and the second thing for the full screen thing go and take the plugin by the University of Nottingham there's the full screen button always when I show people our child team of boosts campus so it's boost and boost campus there's our team but the full screen button is always there full screen screen button is really handy so I don't see why in boost you're never able to skip out the right height and the blocks, so with the blocks there you always lose the 300 pixel or whatever so this could be taken into consideration maybe to put in a fix full screen button into boost maybe alongside with some nice scroll to top and all the things the students were showing us they were explicitly there but I'm sure they would have been in those mock-ups that's all I have in mind, thanks right well ladies and gentlemen I'm going to follow the UN declaration on finishing sessions on time and this session is not going to be over so thank you for your participation and could you give all of the people who bravely volunteer their opinions so now we're changing sessions so if you're not expecting to hear from Toshihiro Kida from Kunamodo University talking about moodle enhancement with the VUI etc for realising safety education in kids safety chemical experiments and emergency nursing fields now is the time to beat a hasty exit but other than that I'm going to hand over to Toshihiro I'll let you go full screen just 10 minutes for you hello my name is Toshihiro Kida I'll talk about this thing today we are a team consisting of researchers with different specialities like this I start with the 2 or 3 minutes summary we intend to develop a safety education system in order to prevent serious accidents by providing education and we now focus on three field child injury, prevention environmental safety engineering that is in other words in another sense chemical laboratory safety and emergency nursing and across these fields we would like to explore for safety education how should Mudo and learning contents be enhanced and designed for enhancement we are currently thinking about these enhancement both user interface to Mudo and a chatbot type interface to Mudo and a new analytics model must be developed for safety education in Mudo and some engine to estimate to Mudo and for the learning material design we think about these 3 outcomes are important the first is knowledge of the risks with knowledge you should be skilled you are skilled to deal with the risks and most importantly you should have positive attitude to prepare for the risks that is summary of my presentation and safety education is very important I think almost every several disastrous accidents around the world of course physical preventive measures are very important but also educating people and professionals will prevent such accidents right now I just mentioned we focus on 3 child injury prevention environmental safety engineering and emergency counseling one of the 3 is child injury prevention injury during childhood leading cause of death around the world and the major health and in that often parents are brained if they fail to prevent their children's injury but they have little opportunity to learn about child injuries and preventive measures based on scientific knowledge environmental safety education research institutions such as science course by chemicals frequently occur some researchers and students are not aware of the risks and also they don't have opportunity to learn more appropriate procedures stipulated by law are not well known they are known they are not always followed by experimenters so extensive and effective environmental safety education is required so the last emergency nursing it said that the preventable trauma death that could have been prevented by appropriate measures 30% of total trauma death in 2005 that's quite high rate I think the situation is in Japan but I have that in other countries the situation is almost same or even worse so it's a critical task to construct a trauma medical care system for emergency medical care and improve the skills of the medical staff to give emergency care to patients in cooperation with doctors further improvement in clinical inference of nurses is necessary and for safety education we think about the three stages or three outcomes I just mentioned in the summary Robert M. Garnier is American educational psychologist he said that the learning outcomes can be classified in several types like information, intellectual skills, attitude and so on in safety education we think about each person should know the risk, be skilled to deal with the risk have a positive attitude to prepare for the risk safety education is not completed if one has no knowledge and skills but no positive attitude for example they have the risks they know how to deal with the risks but if they think maybe not today, tomorrow I will try to prepare for the risk or something so the person has no positive attitude for the risks so it's a very important point for kind of prevent danger things or risks except that the number 3 positive attitude is not so relevant to the nursing education because they are quite professional to achieve that goal I am thinking about the Moodle enhancement like this so let me do some demonstration right here and Alexa, open Moodle quiz, start a quiz quizzes in the course named voice UI UI demo course 1 are available there are several quizzes which quiz do you want to attempt first quiz or second quiz or the other 7th quiz quiz number 7 the total number of questions is 1 question 1, let's learn child safety tips by one quiz per day assuming common situations your child is playing in a park which of the following you should be most careful about 1, he is digging a hole in the sandbox with his wet hands 2, he wears sneakers and stand on a swing 3, he is going down the slide with his hat under his butt 4, he is running around wearing clothes with a gun 2, your answer is 2 here is your result quiz number 1 incorrect the hood may get caught in a protrusion or handrails of the playground equipment causing the neck to get stuck and suffocate, don't buy hooded clothes or stuff the hood in the collar when playing this is the end of the quiz if you want to do it once again say start the quiz just like this I connected Moodle to the voice user interface like Alexa, like the Amazon Echo product or Google Home product and this is the sample of the quiz for the child injury prevention and other planning is also going on and this research project is the 3 year project and I would like to extend to more fields as we develop many features of a safety education system that is a URL of our research project website thank you very much I don't have any questions we've got a bit of time before the next session so how many questions about what you just heard I was particularly impressed by my kids both have Google Homes in their bedroom they're always doing quizzes and that kind of stuff so linking up like this is a fantastic idea does anyone have any technical questions any questions about kind of procedurally how this worked Marlin's hand has just gone straight up there so let's go straight in with Marlin Kita-san I really I know about this already I've seen it before and I'm glad you're able to bring it to a wider audience I keep thinking this is a hard question because I don't think there's an answer but have you been thinking lately about the future of voice interfaces in general given that we have this locked ecosystems of Apple and Google and Alexa and it's kind of hard to fully integrate where through these devices how can we break that how can we give Moodle like a full interface where we don't have to do all these hard hacks around have you got any ideas apart from making a Moodle phone yeah that's a quite good and difficult question and I'm now thinking the smart speakers or something like that where we are very common in the near future that is supposed to be located almost every home each home and it's quite common for everyone to interact with everyday very handy and more more more handy than the smart phones because we just have to talk to this speaker and just quickly get reactions and also when people talk to something, some people with some machine where I can say the emotional situation is a little bit different from the kind of conventional devices like this and also if machines talk to us the feeling is kind of different and for that kind of purpose is safety education or some some if someone to pass rate something or pass rate someone to lead to some good election maybe that will be another channel for people to educate in another way so it's not a nice answer but yeah something about time can come up yeah do we have any more questions please please introduce yourself first so just extending a martins question I wonder whether you've done any testing or work around mycroft which is an open source voice assistant have you looked at that at all or it's an open source product called mycroft which is an open source voice assistant technology not Google, not Amazon yeah just a little bit but yeah it's kind of interesting yeah yeah of course currently Google and Amazon or some proprietary services are very nice so we better use that kind of system for now maybe open source kind of system will catch up in a future so I'd love to use that kind of system any more questions there no, okay well it's to give you a round of applause thank you while we're on this subject actually and while we've got a few moments Mozilla have a project called open voice so if you're like me I have to speak, I have to pronounce my words at events like this in England and I've got quite an accent when I don't try now can you imagine coming from different parts of the world where Silicon Valley companies don't really care about this kind of stuff Mozilla's kind of common voice I think it used to be called open voice now it's called common voice what it asks you to do is to donate your voice so that you can improve these kinds of smart speakers Google and Amazon and Apple have their own data sets but Mozilla has an open data set where you can use this through an API and the more people who donate their voice to this the better so the department of economics houses its offices in the building today their microphones not on this laptop but then it finishes that you press done and you move on to the next one so I actually do this several times a week and I donate my voice to the project so that this open way of voice recognition gets better so I think this is a great project it's just voice.mozilla.org and if you tell everyone about us we'll not have lock-in to proprietary systems like Amazon and Google and stuff alright then well in four minutes time we have Andreas Husker talking oh you're here already well we can't actually start for the next four minutes but you can certainly get set up are you using a laptop why don't you get set up and we'll start in three minutes yeah you get set up this is the part where if you've got a song to sing or a dad joke to tell this is the part where you might want to say that okay well I make that three o'clock so if you're not in the session you're arriving late so we now have Andreas Husker doing new reminder tool conditional automatic messaging Andreas is looking forward to your questions at the end we'll have five minutes for questions so please do think of those as you as Andreas goes through thank you very much for the introduction my name is Andreas Husker I'm the CEO of Edaktik we have the Austrian Moodle Partner and I was very impressed with the last presentation this is really high-tech and looking into the future the project we are presenting is a little bit more down to earth what's possible today we've been working on a simple more or less simple reminder plugin because that's everyday usage with our customers so just to give you a short idea of where we are located we came all the way from beautiful Austria and we've also got our chief developer here he's taking the photos right there so if you've got any technical questions feel free to contact him as well what we recommend for we are working primarily in company environments and this is where this plugin already originated there's a lot of students or participants in this case but we also work for universities in different contexts providing Moodle services we have got a strong focus on development enough about us we just jump directly into the functionality in a simple way what is it about it's about to remind participants based on certain conditions like enrollment date or some due date and use automatic messaging not do it by forum or by hand just to get things done in time so if you set it up there will be automatic messages popping up for certain groups of people meeting certain criteria and this is quite a good way of getting things done the long version so what's the complete scenario in corporate context there's a lot of compliance training safety trainings there's no tutoring or anything and you have to put in like 2,000 students and there are like 25 students coming in each week and three participants are leaving the company so there's a lot of fluctuations we actually need to do messaging based on enrollment dates or course start dates or end dates in university context we have this as well like several groups going through the very same course so it could be a scenario for university as well this is very true especially for untutored courses whether you're just continuously pouring your participants and let them do stuff where there's not a lot of interaction I know this is not the best deductible case but in some cases this is how works and it might also be such as some section like you do in virtual classroom and you want to remind your participants beforehand to get things done to do the quiz or whatever or act on resources before they come into classroom there's also an extensive filtering option and reporting to trainers and participants and everything that's more or less for the readings to get done so we jump right in what does it look like it's a module you can just add it to every course you would like to and it sits in there you can then choose whether it's visible for participants or just for teachers and start configuring it you just click on this one and then you get an overview of what you can actually do in there so this is the overview of what it just said already just to give you a short insight what it is all about the plan here would be to have a first reminder on something that's sent to group A and it's supposed to be sent at a fixed date second reminder it's supposed to be sent to everybody except group A for example third reminder is supposed to be set to group B which are the internals and so on you can define whatever you would like there's also the option to duplicate configurations as we will see later on there's a lot you can configure and want to set up things right like in Moodle everywhere once you set up a quiz you don't want to set up the second quiz the same way you just duplicate so this is what duplicate partners do like everywhere in Moodle you can move things around because generally you find out well I put in the reminders in the wrong order there's supposed to be another one just move it up and down and of course you can delete reminders and this is the basic overview where you can also see how many reminder messages have been sent so this just counts the number of participants or events where this certain reminder took place and we'll send that so if we click on the famous editing button we get into the adaptive reminder message editing and it looks like this so it goes down like half a mile but don't worry it's a lot to set up but you don't really have to set it up once you just think about what is the process in my course you can either just set it and forget it duplicate courses and it will just fire out messages or what I would recommend you can use it in conjunction with other tools like doing clip plaza use a reminder in the first place to get students to do stuff beforehand and then just use regular communication your forums, your life to life face to face presentations or whatever so to break it up we start with the general settings this is just the name for the reminder so you can identify what it was meant to be for the description, it's the long text where you can define just for you again to remember what's the actual task you want to cover with this one now we've got group filtering these groups are the standard little groups within your course no matter how you get them within your course they will be there and you can select them you can choose whether group filtering will be active at all or not and if there are a lot of groups in some courses we've got like 500 groups of two when in thousand students you could also select just two groups and invert the filter so you get all the ones except the two next setting you can use setting criteria to specify who will get the message one task could be you could send a message to all our participants that have not yet been active within the course you could also filter on a specific enrollment date so if you do group enrollment for example and people come in every three weeks you could specify a message going on to the group one that came in like four weeks again and not the one that came in last semester then you set criteria concerning course completion so you could send it to all users all users who completed the course or all users who have not yet completed the course and the same thing holds true for activities so if you've got a quiz activity or anything else you could select who have completed this activity who have not completed or all again and the last section tells the module when to send the message the easiest case is you just set an absolute date this is the most static version and will work all the time you just select absolute time set the absolute time down there and that's pretty much it so I just put in the very same setup a few other scenarios so you won't be using this in one reminder message but you could also set a relative time after course enrollment starts like one week after course enrollment you tell them ok now it's time to do this and that or you could even select relative time before course end date so the course is getting to an end you could say ok two times two weeks before the course end date just remind them to do this and that and as you can see there are more criteria like course start date, course end date, course enrollment date, course enrollment end date and you could also send reminders relative time to due dates of activities like assignment or quiz this makes it really flexible it makes it a bit complex because you have to think beforehand how to reach which groups at which time intervals and how do you get the best relative times or absolute times last thing is relative time before due date then you get a selection of activities which have completion criteria within the course so it's of all activities but the ones you can track with completion and then you can select hours weeks or days whatever the second last part is going to be to add a message the message is more or less like an email it turns out to be a message with a little messaging system in the end in most cases it will turn out to be an email message sent out to your participants and you can use placeholders as well in the subject as well as in the in the text user name, email address and course name just to tell them do this and that last section is about reporting reporting can be turned on or off depending on your needs you select the roles within your course that should receive the report message you can also add additional email addresses sometimes report is supposed to be sent to some support ticket system or supervisor who is not even middle and then the same holds true oops, it was too quick and the same holds true with the placeholders for the report message that you could use the course name the course count and a user field where it just sends you a list of user first name, last name email address and the count of users who have received this very message in this very context yeah that's pretty much it it's quite straightforward in many cases you will set up like 3, 4, 5 different messages and then have the system run on its own reporting is done via email so everyone can stay stay up to up to the current status and it will be provided for model 3.5 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 so we will also be available for 3.8 there will be two versions one free version that will be published most probably in January and there will be a pro version with enhanced features with special filtering standard reporting and stuff like this this will be available on mold.org and we will also publish it on Github questions so I have two questions should that say January 2020? right and the second one is everything that you presented there in the free version? no the region of the plugin the region of the plugin is a block we made in like two years ago we are now refactoring into a module because blocks are not really well supported in the mobile version but like two thirds of the functionality especially most of the functionality will be in there there will be these conditions to relative dates there will be more or less two thirds of this will be in the free version and what is not there already is will be extended reporting where you can get not just emails but you get reviews where you can see which messages were sent to which person at which time interval check this and also there will be the part that will be visible for the participants which is not yet available so you have to the option to tell your participants which reminders did they get or did they just go through the course without any reminders does anyone have any questions for Andreas? hands straight up over there Rowan just this gentleman here please do introduce yourself before you ask a question good afternoon my name is Dominique from the University of Luba in Belgium I was just wondering so this is something we really need to tell students what not to forget no if you send them several reminders doesn't mean that they will read them and they might be quickly fed up with a certain amount of messages they get right and they usually skip so do you think about any kind of good practice so how often what type or could you imagine a way we can also make sure students check or users, clients check the messages and you kind of know who got them and can expect ok? thank you very good question in very active mood environments my experience is that participants tend to just make their mailbox from mood to a specific location and just let everything go in there so this is a general problem it's not a specific problem of these two one thing that might help is generally if you've got lots of messages coming up using their mail.gest function also expect the mood app with direct messaging to improve on this one direct messaging makes more sense and having like 35 emails in your inbox at the evening from the users we have had this plugin it's more like if you enter the course you will get like in the worst case this is the case that you don't do things on time you will get like two messages the first one will be when you get automatically enrolled in the course a welcome message independent of your enrollment method and if you finish the course you will send a well done message and in between if there's like two compulsory things you have to do there will be most probably like two reminders one two weeks after you've been enrolled for example get going or is there any problem getting in and then another reminder when you lose access either by end of the course or end of your enrollment it's like a handful of messages you would send from one course I'll spread over a time period of several weeks in general I'm absolutely with you use it at a very minimal level to take effect I have a top tip for sending emails to people use emojis in the subject line if you use the same emoji in the subject line for the same kind of message then people can see in their inbox what kind of message it is so if you use like the old time emoji for example to remind someone about something then they're more likely to get what type of messages they've been sent do we have any other questions please stick your hand up now got one at the front here please introduce yourself before you ask your question I'm Bronwyn Campbell from Active Learning Partners you may have covered it but did the filters include being able to not send a message to users that have completed an activity? yes it's always a selection option to have completed, have not completed all users this gives you all combinations you would want that's the main point otherwise you could just scram everything into the forum and do it thank you any other questions from Andreas we have one over here he's going to price we have a one word question the main reason why we do a free version the pro version is that we want to do good maintenance on it most probably we'll be in the range of like 200 dollars per year for the module it's not absolutely fixed yet we still have to decide on which which function I was going into the free version, the pro version but it's going to be a very reasonable price and that kind of plugin maintenance is the stuff that Martin was talking about yesterday in the session about it's really important that plugin maintainers can keep on going with their plugins making them sustainable we've got time for one more question before the break if anyone wants to raise their hand and ask a question of Andreas this is my very long teacher pause okay well can we thank Andreas on this time for a quick thank you