Moodle offers a lot of tools in bringing lessons to life. It also allows us to re-imagine assessments; how we can prepare students for summative assessments and create engaging formative assessments. In this event two teachers share ways they have improved assessment activities using Moodle. In these slides, Catherine Sicurella presents on the power of PowerPoint in creating online summary videos of offline lectures

1. Melbourne Institute of Business and Technology Pty Ltd trading as Deakin College
CRICOS Provider Codes: Deakin College 01590J, Deakin University 00113B
STRATEGY SESSIONS: CREATING
INTERACTIVE CLASSROOM AND WEB
EXPERIENCES IN MOODLE

2. Melbourne Institute of Business and Technology Pty Ltd trading as Deakin College
CRICOS Provider Codes: Deakin College 01590J, Deakin University 00113B
WHAT WAS THE CHALLENGE?
• Deakin College is undergoing a “Digital Transformation”
project
• Moodle is being used to create blended learning
• All Deakin College units now have:
– 4 hours in classroom each week (active learning)
– Additional “out of class” resources on Moodle

3. Melbourne Institute of Business and Technology Pty Ltd trading as Deakin College
CRICOS Provider Codes: Deakin College 01590J, Deakin University 00113B
WHAT WAS THE CHALLENGE?
Which digital resources will improve engagement
and assessments in a Physiology subject?
Digital Transformation:
• Powerpoint notes; online textbook
• Socrative quizzes; articulate storyline
• Youtube clips; interactive websites
Pass rate improved 14.3%, scored 4.4/5 for satisfaction with teaching resources
ANYTHING ELSE?????

4. Melbourne Institute of Business and Technology Pty Ltd trading as Deakin College
CRICOS Provider Codes: Deakin College 01590J, Deakin University 00113B
WHAT WAS THE STRATEGY?
• Summary videos of topics chosen as potentially
useful resource
• Shown to be effective in other physiology courses
(Shantisaur 2009; Guy et al., 2014; Guy et al., 2017)

5. Melbourne Institute of Business and Technology Pty Ltd trading as Deakin College
CRICOS Provider Codes: Deakin College 01590J, Deakin University 00113B
WHAT WAS THE STRATEGY?
(Hattie, 2009)

6. Melbourne Institute of Business and Technology Pty Ltd trading as Deakin College
CRICOS Provider Codes: Deakin College 01590J, Deakin University 00113B
WHAT WAS THE STRATEGY?

7. Melbourne Institute of Business and Technology Pty Ltd trading as Deakin College
CRICOS Provider Codes: Deakin College 01590J, Deakin University 00113B
WHAT WAS THE STRATEGY?
• Prepared 5 - 10 minute narrated powerpoint summaries for Topics
• Added these to Moodle but kept all other resources the same
• Used same assessments as previously
• Surveyed students for opinion on usefulness of videos
• Compared assessment results

8. Melbourne Institute of Business and Technology Pty Ltd trading as Deakin College
CRICOS Provider Codes: Deakin College 01590J, Deakin University 00113B
LESSONS LEARNT
• 71% of students watched at least 1 video by week 3
• Students did not improve quiz results compared to previous cohort
• No significance difference in performance if no videos viewed
• 77% stated they were helpful or very helpful
• 97% would probably or definitely use them again for revision
• Highest rated resource for learning outside the classroom
• 86% agreed/strongly agreed other units at Deakin College should use these

9. Melbourne Institute of Business and Technology Pty Ltd trading as Deakin College
CRICOS Provider Codes: Deakin College 01590J, Deakin University 00113B
WHAT NEXT ??
Making my videos more interactive……….
I would like to acknowledge the support of Dr Sarah Bradbury in this
project