I often participate in the Articulate community’s eLearning Challenges through this blog. While I’ve used some of Articulate’s products, I instead use other products, usually H5P. I thought, rather than being an Articulate eLearning Hero, that I could be an InArticulate eLearning Hero. Thankfully, people read and comment on the prototypes I create for these challenges, and often it gets me thinking about the challenge and the approach I used. In this case, I have a few more options in addition to the Interactive Checklists and To-Do lists I created previously.
Review of the Original Challenge
Checklist interactions are a great solution when you need to list materials, products, ingredients, action items, and more.
You can also use checklist-style interactions to let your learners:
- Walk through a process, workflow, or procedure.
- Provide instructions or reminders.
- Identify dos and don’ts or generate a to-do list.
- Show and track course progress.
Challenge of the Week
This week, your challenge is to share an example that demonstrates how checklist and to-do interactions can be used in e-learning.
Checklist Extension – Including Reflections
Approach 1
I mentioned in the previous post that I was leaning towards the Course Presentation for this type of activity, especially because it has the ability to “print” the slide deck. You can either print the current slide or the whole deck, each is useful for different reasons. I noted that if you completed the tasks in the deck, if you print after viewing the score, or going to the solution slide you can capture your responses. Taking that to the next level with text input fields is demonstrated here. This is great because I could print the slide deck and fill it in by hand, or I can fill out online and have two different options for downloading it; option 1 gives me an editable Word Doc with all of the text field information; option 2 provides me a PDF which includes my answers to the edited T/F questions. I didn’t actually know some of these options existed, so it’s a nice discovery that compliments activities that normally would have leaned on the Document Builder.
Approach 2
When I first went after the checklist challenge, one of my first stops was the documentation tool. I really like that you can fill in text and download an editable word document from it. Where I got stuck was that unlike composite content types (like course presentation, column, and interactive book), the pages could not include “check boxes” of some kind. Alan Levine brought me around to try this idea again and here’s what I’ve come up with. You can’t provide goals directly, so I included some that could be copy and pasted. Then I provided a standard page for each “required” element. In hind sight, I should have also included a “general reflection” page. Then for the goal assessment page, instead of “what I learned” I changed the wording to fit the review slightly better. Create the document, export, and you’re done!
Approach 3
A content type that was brought to my attention after my previous post is not core to H5P, but was presented by NDLA. In a demo site, the author presented a Priority Order content type. The features include drag-and-drop the order of the list; the ability to comment on each item; the ability to add their own alternatives; the ability to provide a summary; additional resources linked out; a restart button; and finally an export option. For my demo activity I turned off the ability to add their own alternatives, as the list I used was discrete, but turned on the summary input field in order to provide space to reflect outside of the confines of the defined elements. If I were to make a to-do list I might provide sample items (which could be edited by the user) and turn on the add alternative option.
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