The document outlines five practical applications for enhancing learner engagement, including interactive content creation with H5P, adaptive learning techniques, personalized dashboards, and restricted access for course activities. It emphasizes the importance of improved productivity, learning retention, and engagement in the workplace. Additionally, it provides information about upcoming webinars focusing on best practices in eLearning and analytics.

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Top 5 Practical Applications
for Building Engaging Learning
Lambda Lab

2. Presenters
Benjamin Young - Presenter
Director of Learning Solutions
Erin Melvin - Moderator
Director of Client Engagement

3. Housekeeping
Audio
Presentation Survey
Questions
Upcoming Webinars

4. Agenda
● Setting the Stage for Engagement
● Building Interactive Content with H5P
● Adaptive Learning Using Restrictive Access
● Personalized Learning with Dashboards
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5. Learner
Engagement
Setting the Stage for Learner Engagement

6. Learner Engagement
Improved Learner Engagement can lead to...
● Improved Productivity
● Learning Retention
● Stronger Commitment to Projects
● And Jobs
● Productivity in the Workplace
What is Learning Engagement?
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7. Learner Engagement
● Interactive Content
● Microlearning
● Adaptive Learning
● Personalization
Ways to Improve Learning Engagement
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8. Interactive Content with H5P
● Supercharge your Content
○ Interactive Video
○ Presentations
○ Games
● Mobile Friendly
H5P
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9. Demo - Interactive
Content with H5P
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10. Adaptive Learning
● Adaptive Learning: delivery of custom learning
experiences that address the unique needs of individuals
through just-in-time feedback, pathways, resources
● Interactive form of learning
● Challenges, choice, results and feedback
Adaptive Learning 101
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11. Restricted Access
The Activity Locking functionality more formally known as Restricted Access which allows
you to set certain criteria that must be met for learners to view and/or complete an
activity or resource.
Tips
Activity Locking is actually called “Restricted Access”
The Feature exists for both Moodle and Totara Learn
Feature usually works in conjunction with activity completion
Also known as activity locking
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12. Activity Completion?
• Completion conditions set on activities in a course
• Can be included as course completion conditions
• Can be manual or automatic based on conditions
What is activity completion?
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13. Activity Completion
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14. Demo - Adaptive Learning
using Restricted Access
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15. Dashboards and Blocks
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Dashboards
• Dashboards allow for creating a personalized user experience
• It is possible to have several dashboards
TIP
You can set the homepage for your learners to be a dashboard from
Site Administration > Appearance > Navigation > Default home page > Totara dashboard.
Or in Totara 12, Administration menu > Navigation

16. Demo - Dashboards
and Blocks
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17. Engaging Learning
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● Interactive
● Bite-size
● Guided
● Personalised
● “Sticky”
Summary

18. Thank You
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19. Ask Me Anything! Best Practices in eLearning
● Tuesday December 3, 10am PT / 1pm ET
Ask Me Anything! Zoola Analytics
● Tuesday December 10, 10am PT / 1pm ET
Ask Me Anything! Moodle and Totara Learn
● Tuesday December 17, 10am PT / 1pm ET
Upcoming Webinars: September
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20. Contact Us
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Phone: +1.877.694.5289
Web: techsupport.lambdasolutions.net
Email: support@lambdasolutions.net