Overview
- Brief Description: Short answer English language activities for university students to review English created with H5P.
- Role: E-learning developer
Problem
- Challenge: Students needed more self-grading extra practice content to review the English their studied in their textbook.
- Objectives: Create culturally appropriate, engaging self-grading activities using H5P.
Context
- Background: An English language teaching institution in Saudi Arabia. They use Blackboard for their LMS.
Solution
- Approach: The strategies and methods you used to tackle the problem.
- Tools & Technologies: H5P, Camtasia, Audacity, Snagit, mostly Pexels for images, Blackboard
Implementation
A spreadsheet to track the approved quiz questions a team of item writers contributed. User-friendly features include data validation so that users could only select quiz topics from a drop-down menu and an overview tab to track how many questions we had for each section of each quiz and how many more we needed. In the end, we made over 1700 questions for the textbook English Unlimited.
The team also found copyright-free images and uploaded copies of them to Google drive as a backup. Then the team made each question in the spreadsheet in H5P, using the Colum and Quiz content types.
Finally, we asked the community of teachers to check the questions by completing them in H5P on Blackboard to check for quality.
- Process: I utilised AI tools to assist in creating questions and content myself. I also set up Google Sheets to ask teachers to contribute extra practice resources based on the textbook.
- Timeline: Developed over 2 academic years.
Results
- Outcomes: Each textbook chapter now has extra practice material in Blackboard.
- Metrics: Positive reviews on a student e-learning survey.
Reflection
- Learnings: Can now create with all H5P conent types. Improved using AI prompts for questions and images.
- Future Improvements: More help to source real images of the local context. Also audio from students would improve it.
Visuals
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