Ecolog IO2 Adoption handbook EN

“Eco-responsible Citizen via Location-sensitive
Game-based training”
Project number: 2019-1-BG01-KA204-062480
ECOLOG

O2-A6: Adoption Handbook to guide users on how to
use the authoring system and scenarios

• The ECOLOG Adoption Pathway: How to use IO1 and IO2 and IO3
• The frontend for a regular user
• The backend for the administrators
Content

The ECOLOG Adoption Pathway:
How to use IO1 and IO2 and IO3

The ECOLOG Adoption Pathway
• IO1: Game scenario authoring system and collection of indicative VR
eco-responsibility learning scenarios
• IO2: Informal learning curriculum, learning material and adoption
handbook
• IO3: Web/Mobile learning portal for eco-responsible citizens
We have created a set of eco-responsibility learning scenarios (IO1),
supported via learning material (IO2), which are applied in ecology games
which can be played via the PC or mobile device (IO3).
The following slide illustrates this graphically.

Clean and Safe Environment
Energy Saving - Efficiency
Inclusion of Tourists
Inclusion of people from
disadvantaged groups
Avoidance of violence and
crime
IO1
IO2
IO3

The frontend for a regular user

e-Learning Platform – Home page
• If the user does not own an account, s/he can create one by clickuing on
the top menu item Create new account, or from the button at the bottom
of the page.

e-Learning Platform – Personal Information
• Then, the user should provide some personal information (username,
password, email address, first name and surname are mandatory) to
create her/his account.

e-Learning Platform – Semantic Game Filters
• The user can also filter the games that will be presented to her/him by
choosing from a set of semantic tags, i.e., the game types, game sites,
accessibility and game activities, thus annotating her/his profile.

Game Filters – Game Types
The meaning of the Game Types tags is the following:
• Physical: Choose if you want to play games with activities requiring physical presence at
a location.
• Virtual: Choose if you want to play virtual games through a console.

Game Filters – Game Sites
The meaning of the Game Sites tags is the following:
• Indoors: Choose if you want to play games with indoor activities.
• Outdoors: Choose if you want to play games with outdoor activities.
• Countryside: Choose if you want to play games with activities in the countryside.
• Mountain: Choose if you want to play games with activities involving mountains.
• Park: Choose if you want to play games with activities involving parks.
• Forest: Choose if you want to play games with activities involving forests.
• Monuments: Choose if you want to play games with activities involving monuments.
• City: Choose if you want to play games with activities involving cities.
• Beach: Choose if you want to play games with activities involving a beach.

Game Filters – Accessibility
The meaning of the Accessibility tags is the following:
• Wheelchair: Choose if you would need wheelchair accessibility in the games.
• Low Vision: Choose if you would need games to be compatible with low vision
challenges.
• Cognitive Learning Difficulties: Choose if you want the games to be compatible with
cognitive learning difficulties.
• Speech Difficulties: Choose if you want the games to be compatible with speech
difficulties.

Game Filters – Game Activity
The meaning of the Game Activity tags is the following:
• No Chemicals: Choose if you want to avoid games with activities that involve chemicals.
• No Fire: Choose if you want to avoid games with activities that involve fire.
• No Water: Choose if you want to avoid games with activities that involve water.
• No Dirty: Choose if you want to avoid games with activities that involve dirty
items/locations.
• No Touch: Choose if you want to avoid games with activities that involve touching to
things.
• No View: Choose if you want to avoid games with activities that involve having to view
things.

• After clicking the “Create my new account” button, the user will receive an
email to the email account provided. The user should confirm her/his
account by clicking the link they will get at their email. Then, the user will
be able to access the dashboard and courses, as explained in the next
slides.

• In order to login, the user should click on the top menu item Log in,
presented on the right top menu.

User dashboard page and available courses
• The user provides username and password, and s/he is presented with
her/his dashboard page, listing also all available courses.

Courses’ page
• The user selects the ECOLOG course by clicking on the course title.
S/he is then redirected to the course page.

Specific Course page
• The course contains training
content in all 5 ecology topics
adopted in the ECOLOG project.
• Clean and Safe
Environment
• Energy Saving/Efficiency
• Tourism Inclusion
• Inclusion of people from
• Avoidance of violence and
crime.
• One of the activity types is the
Play EcoLOG Game, which
comprises a link to the ECOLOG
Game Application.

Game App filtered
scenarios
Clicking on one of the Game Activities
links, the Game App opens automatically
in a new browser window and presents
the list of available Scenarios under the
specific ecology topic.
As can be seen, the list is filtered for the
specific topic.

Missions within a Scenario
The user can then click on one of the Scenarios and s/he will
be presented with the list of Missions under that Scenario.
The first of the two missions in the example is a VR mission
and is indicated clearly as such. This means that clicking on
the link, the VR game will open in a new window of the
browser.

A VR Game mission
Since we are in the Clean and Safe
Environment topic, the Park Clean-up VR
game will open. The user will need to
collect waste and put them in the correct
bin to collect points/grades.

Another VR Game
mission
Similarly to the other VR game, if the topic
selected was the Energy Saving and
Efficiency, the user would be presented
with the corresponding VR mission, within
a Building.

Physical missions and game instances
The second mission is a physical mission with location-
sensitive actions/objectives to be completed. As can be seen,
there are two already started games instantiating that
mission, which the user can JOIN.
[The Game App is a multi-player game, which allows multiple
users to join the same instantiation of a mission and compete
for the completion of the mission actions and the available
score.]
Each user receives her/his own score. Alternatively, the user
can Start a new Game, which will have again the same set of
objectives and others can join. Each game action/objective
represents a physical action that the user must do before s/he
scans the respective QR code, within the app, to claim the
completion and be awarded the points.

Instantiate a game mission
Starting a new game is simple, by giving it a
name and clicking on Create.

Instantiate a game mission
The user is now able to perform actions and
claim them using the Claim an objective
button.
The user who created the game instance, can
also Close the game and send scores, and
initiate the sending of scores to the eLearning
platform.
The closing of the game will trigger the
request back to the eLearning Platform to
update the user’s grades for the specific
Game Activity in the ECOLOG Course.

Grades
The points collected by the
user can be checked in the
Grade section in the
eLearning Platform.
The Grade section is
accessible from the left
menu.
The user can have separate
grades for each one of the
GameActivities available in
the course.

eLearning Mobile App - Login
page
The user can also access the
eLearning Platform through the
dedicated Android mobile app.
S/he will be again able to browse
through the content and play the
game, etc.

eLearning Mobile App –
Dashboard with courses
The user can access the course and see its content.

Course page
The Game Activities can be accessed from here as well.

Grades page
Finally, the user is also able to see her/his grades via the
mobile app.

Edit Profile
• The user can edit her/his profile by clicking the arrow next to her/his
name and clicking on the Profile button

Edit Profile
Then, the user should click the Edit Profile button, which will present the
following screen. The user can change and/or add general information,
user picture, additional names, interests, other optional information and
game filters (see also the section for creating an account).

The backend for the administrators

eLearning Admin user (administrator)
When admin
user is logged
in, s/he will be
presented with
the following
screen.

eLearning Admin user – create new course
In order to create
the new course,
the admin user
should click on the
Site
administration
link, from the left
menu, and then
select the Courses
tab.
After that, s/he
should click on the
link Add new
course.

After that, s/he
will be presented
with a form,
where some
fields are
mandatory, such
as Course full
name and Course
short name.

We have created
the new course
ENERGY
EFFICIENCY AND
SUSTAINABILITY.
The next step is to
enroll the users by
clicking the button
Enroll users.

A new popup window
will appear where the
admin user will be
able to select the
students and enrol
them to the course.

When users are
enrolled, the admin
user should click on
the button Proceed
to course content.

S/he will be
presented with
the following
page.

S/he should click
on the button Turn
editing on and this
page will be
presented.

In this page, the
admin user will be
able to define
topics as well as
to assign activities
to these topics.

In order to
define the
course
completion, the
admin user
should select
Course
completion as
it is displayed
on the image.

S/he will be
presented with
this page, where
s/he will be able
to define different
requirements.

eLearning Admin user – add activity
From the Courses tab
under Site
administration, the
user can edit or change
the courses by clicking
the “Manage courses
and categories”.

Then, the user can
either edit/add course
categories or edit/add
new courses.

If the user expands the
Restrict Access
category, s/he can add
several restrictions, by
entering 1 or 0 for each
user profile. For
example, if Game Type
– Physical is set to 1, it
means that the activity
refers to a physical
presence activity.

If the user clicks on one
of the course of the
previous page, s/he will
get to this page, which
provides information
related to the course.
The Edit button allows
for changes/edit in the
course.

If the user clicks on one
of the view button on
the previous page,
h/she then can click on
the Turn editing on
button to edit and/or add
activities or resources.

A good option is for the
user to click on the edit
button and Duplicate a
resource to keep its
settings and edit
whatever is required for
the new resource.

If the user clicks on the
duplicated resource’s
edit button, s/he can
edit a number of
settings within the page
below. Note that the
activity’s ID is found
within the URL. For
example in the
following: https://eco-
responsible.training/ele
arning/course/modedit.p
hp?update=42&return=
0&sr=0, 42 denotes the
activity’s ID.

If the user expands the
General category, s/he
can change the topic,
activity ID, game type,
game site, game activity
and accessibility
parameters from the
Custom Parameters text
box.

The user can choose from the following options for filling in the game type, game site, game
activity and accessibility parameters.
• game_type = physical, virtual
• game_site = beach, monuments, forest, mountain, park, countryside, city, outdoors,
indoors
• accessibility = speech difficulties, learning difficulties, low vision, wheelchair
• game_activity = chemicals, fire, water, dirty, touch, view

If the user does not duplicate
an activity, clicks on Add an
activity or Resource, s/he has
to fill in all information from
scratch.
From this pop-up window, the
admin should go to the
Activities tab and then select
the External tool.

The user should first fill in
the General tab with the
activity’s name and
description. The user is
advised to select the
preconfigured EcoLOG
Game App. In the Custom
Parameters text box, the
user should add the topic,
activity ID, game type, game
site, game activity and
accessibility (more
information can be found on
slide 54.

From the Restrict
Access category, the
admin can add
several restrictions.
The user should click
on Add restriction.

Then, a pop-up window will
come up, showing the available
restrictions. The most complex
restrictions refer to the User
profile category and the focus
in the next slides is set there.

The user can start setting the
restrictions that should apply
for each student.
If the user chooses the all
option, then all restrictions
should apply for the game to
be visible by the student. For
example, if the cognitive
learning difficulties is set to 1
and the monuments is set 1,
then only games compatible
to cognitive learning
difficulties and not taking
place in monuments will
show up.

If the user chooses the any
option, then not all
restrictions together should
apply for the game to be
visible by the student. For
example, if the cognitive
learning difficulties is set to 1
and the monuments is set 0,
then both games compatible
to cognitive learning
difficulties and not taking
place in monuments will
show up.

If the user clicks on the
Add restriction button
and then chooses the
Restriction set, then
s/he can add a second
set of restrictions.

This is how a multiple
restrictions page will look
like. Note that the user
might choose the must
not option. For example, if
the user selects the
Beach and sets it equal to
1, then only games not
compatible with the
specific game site will
show up.

eLearning Admin user – User’s profile
In order to edit the
User Profile Fields,
the admin user
should click on the
Site
administration
link, from the left
menu, and then
select the Users
tab.
After that, s/he
should click on the
link User Profile
Fields.

After that, s/he
will be presented
with the following
screen, from
which s/he can
edit the profile
fields, the game
types, the game
sites, the
accessibility
categories, the
game activities
and/or add new
profile fields.

If the admin user
clicks on the GAME
TYPE – PHYSICAL
s/he will get to this
screen, where s/he
can edit the settings
related to the specific
profile field and save
the changes.

From the User profile
fields under Site
administration, the
user can see the
description and settings
of each profile field.

eLearning Mobile App – create/edit resources
The admin user can
create and/or edit
resources from the
Mobile App as well.
To do so, s/he
should click on the
Admin button at the
top left corner of the
Mobile App.
After that, the user
should click on the
Game Design
button.

On this screen, the
user can view the
existing topics and
also create a new
one, only by adding
a name and clicking
the Submit button.
If the user clicks on
an existing topic,
s/he can view the
associated
scenarios. The user
can also create a
new scenario,
update the existing
topic (rename),
and/or delete the
topic.

an existing scenario,
s/he can view the
associated missions.
The user can also
create a new
mission, update the
existing scenario
(rename), and/or
delete the scenario.
If the user clicks on the Create
new mission button, s/he will get
to this screen, where s/he can
tag the mission to determine
what the mission is compatible
with (Game Type – VR or
physical, Game Site, Game
Activity, Accessibility) and the
location the mission will take
place at. Then, the user can
submit the mission. When
creating the new mission, a code
is automatically created. Through
a QR generator over the Internet,
the user can get the respective
QR code.

an existing mission,
s/he can view the
associated actions.
The user can also
create a new action,
update the existing
mission (rename),
and/or delete the
mission.
Finally, if the user clicks
on an existing action,
s/he can view more
information on it (name,
associated mission,
score, QR code). Note
that the QR codes are
stored in the Moodle
Course. The user can
also update the existing
action (rename), and/or
delete the action.

Current EcoLOG topics
1. Clean and Safe Environment
2. Energy Saving - Efficiency
3. Inclusion of Tourists
4. Inclusion of People from Disadvantaged Groups
5. Avoidance of Violence and Crime
More details on each topic/scenario/mission are provided in the Adoption Handbook – Annex document.

1. Clean and Safe Environment
Scenario Mission
Keep the environment clean
and safe
The forest needs your intervention
Be ecologically responsible
Walk and exercise in the park, alone or with your pet,
but show you care for your environment.
The forest is our second home
Respect the mountain environment
Streets show our culture
Do not be the thoughtless minority
Rubbish can be a danger

2. Energy Saving - Efficiency
Scenario Mission
Energy Efficiency at Home/
Office
Can you save energy without compromising your
comfort level?

3. Inclusion of Tourists
Scenario Mission
Protect the Caretta-Caretta
nests
Clean the beach and protect the nests during the
daylight
Clean the beach and protect the nests during the night
Help the birds to survive
Make a bird feeder.
Birds feeding

4. Inclusion of People from Disadvantaged
Groups
Scenario Mission
Effective inclusion of
Free the ramp!
Inclusion is for everyone!
I am here for you!
Support the worlds’ wisdom!

Scenario Mission
Forest fire: better to
avoid!
Obey local laws regarding open fires, including campfires.
Keep all flammable objects away from fire.
Have firefighting tools nearby and handy.
Don't burn if it's too windy to burn.
Carefully dispose of hot charcoal by drowning all fires and extinguishing
smoking materials.
Call 112 in case you observe forest fire.
Avoid cutting trees
Why do we need trees?
How should we manage the forest?
How can we contribute on a daily basis to the forest and the trees overall?

Scenario Mission
Water pollution
How do pesticides affect our water?
Agricultural water pollution through soil that is washed off fields.
How can we avoid wasting water?
Keep your dog on a
leash in the forest
How to behave in a forest with a dog while hiking/camping
Feeding of fish is not
always a good idea!
Why you should not feed white bread to fish
Vehicles may damage
parks and forests
Why you should not use motor vehicles in parks and forests

End of Adoption Handbook
The European Commission's support for the production of this publication does not constitute an
endorsement of the contents, which reflect the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be
held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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