Advanced commenting capabilities using the Moodle Media Collection activity - Forrest Duxbury and Vicki Tan, University of NSW

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The University of New South Wales Australia has developed advanced commenting features for the Moodle Media collection activity. This allows comments and likes to be added to audio, video and image files in Moodle Media Collections. With audio and video files, comments can be added to specific points in the media item's timeline. Different comment types allow you to control who sees your comments. This includes the whole course, just you or a person you send feedback to and you.

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Forrest Duxbury & Vicki Tan, UNSW Australia
Advanced commenting capabilities using
the Moodle Media Collection Activity

Agenda
2
• Introduction
• Background
• Interface
• Key benefits
• Use cases
• Lessons learned
• Future improvements

Background
Version 1
2014
Version 2
2015
Version 3
2016
4
Media collection activity
developed between UNSW
Australia & Netspot
(Blackboard)
Media hosted in Moodle
theBox developed between
UNSW Australia & Daemon
to host media outside of
Moodle.
UNSW Australia, Netspot &
Daemon develop
integration of Media
Collection with theBox.
Advanced commenting
added to theBox and Media
Collection.
Existing comments
migrated.

Key benefits
• Comments are displayed using a bar graph in relationship to the timeline
• Comments can be targeted:
– Private comments
– Course comments
– Feedback comments
– Public (World) comments
• User’s can reply to comments
• Interface is horizontally aware
8

Media Comment Use Cases
• Video/audio assignment submissions
• Presentation skills
• Peer review audio/video work
• Others?
9

Lessons learned
• Graphical user interface design is not easy
• Adding more functionality makes workflow more difficult
• Success of current system has led user’s to want to expand use of the system
• Get techies to talk to techies directly where possible, but be involved!
10

Future improvements
11
• Further graphical user interface enhancements
• Advanced grading
– Grading individual media items
– Apply weighting to media items grades
• Ability to download media items via Moodle
• Transcripts via Moodle

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