Working with Monash Coursework Template & Moodle 4.1

As part of the Monash Online leadership group, I used my extensive knowledge of Moodle and background in Monash Online pedagogy to develop a response to the challenges of the institutional changes to Moodle.

Along with the upgrade to Moodle 4.1, the university had developed an LMS template that would have proved incompatible with the established pedagogical approach of Monash Online units, so I developed the Working with Monash Coursework Template strategy. 

The strategy document outlines a technical learning design approach that Monash Online and OES could take to preserve our pedagogical integrity while accommodating the imposed changes.

Great work

OES Chief Academic Officer
11 October 2023

Thanks so much Elena and Leigh for all your hard work that made the testing possible and gave us the time estimates. It's hugely appreciated.

OES Lead Learning Designer
24 October 2023

Global Immersion Guarantee

For the 2019 Global Immersion Guarantee, I contributed design and user-experience expertise to enhance the student online learning experience.

The signposting was effective

Student user feedback
2019

Better than last year, easier to navigate, more structured

Student user feedback
2019

Global Immersion Guarantee

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Intercultural Competence for the Workplace

I developed the Moodle site for Intercultural Competence for the workplace: a training module for graduating students.

Design for the Moodle site focuses on students' experience across multiple platforms and devices using Bootstrap to achieve responsive design across platforms as well as small and large screen devices.

Visit and see how the site allows students to unlock a guided learning experience:
Intercultural Competence for the Workplace

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Musical theatre: Skills and performance - Rehearsal Documentation Blog

I developed an assessment tool for a Rehearsal Documentation Blog assignment for a Musical Theetre: Skills & Performance teaching unit. I used Moodle's Database activity to develop a tool where students' submitted responses are fashioned into a formatted Moodle page.

Rehearsal Documentation Blog

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Arts Graduate Essentials Moodle modules

I designed and implemented the student-user-experience for the Arts Graduate Essentials Moodle modules. I designed interactivity using Moodle's restricted access functionality as well as designed and developed the structuring and and flow of pages within Moodle Lessons. I developed and embedded H5P interactive activities.

Arts Graduate Essentials

• Arts Graduate Essentials: Active Learning Module
• Arts Graduate Essentials: Academic Integrity Module
• Arts Graduate Essentials: Critical Thinking Module
• Arts Graduate Essentials: Approaching Your Research Task Module

Reproduced with permission from Monash University Faculty of Arts

Arts Graduate Essentials: Building an Argument Video

I produced a video for the Arts Graduate Essentials online module, explaining how to form and communicate an argument.

I produced animated sequences as well as edited and published the video in the Moodle module.

Reproduced with permission from Monash University Faculty of Arts

Arts Graduate Essentials: Guided Reading Video

I produced a video for the Arts Graduate Essentials online module, showing postgraduate students how to engage with scholarly texts.
I produced animated sequences as well as filmed, recorded, edited and published the video in the Moodle module.

Reproduced with permission from Monash University Faculty of Arts

Arts Graduate Essentials: Critical Thinking Video

I produced a video for the Arts Graduate Essentials online module, explaining critical thinking processes.

I produced animated sequences as well as filmed, recorded, edited and published the video in the Moodle module.

View the published Arts Graduate Essentials - Critical Thinking module

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Arts Graduate Essentials: Approaching Your Assignments Series

I produced a series of videos depicting postgraduate students describing their experiences with assignments in their postgraduate studies for the Arts Graduate Essentials online module.
I filmed, recorded, edited and published the video series.

Reproduced with permission from Monash University Faculty of Arts

Arts Graduate Essentials: Academic Integrity Video Series

I produced a series of videos explaining the principles of Academ ic Integrity to Postgraduate students for the Arts Graduate Essentials online module.
I story boarded, filmed, recorded, edited and published the video series.

Reproduced with permission from Monash University Faculty of Arts

Intercultural Competence in the Workplace Animations (storyboards)

I scripted and story-boarded a series of animated videos for soon-to-graduate Monash students.

Collaborating with academics in the ICC field, I focused the stories on experiences of recent graduates and their potential intercultural mis-steps entering the workplace. I chose a simple illustration style which allowed these complex stories to be told with minimal animation.

The animations were produced by an external contractor, and included in the Inter-cultural Competence in the Workplace module.

2018 Arts Faculty Educational Showcase video series

I was an integral part of the team that produced the 2018 Arts Faculty Educational Showcase video series.

I negotiated with the Educational Design team to identify strong teaching innovators in 2018 and engaged with those academics to understand their innovative practice.

I acted as an intermediary for independent video producer Blueboy Video Productions, working together to direct academics and students in the studio and on location to express their teaching and learning experiences engagingly.

I helped edit audio and video footage so that the video series would become an engaging communication for their intended Arts Faculty academic audience.

Reproduced with permission from Monash University Faculty of Arts

Using data to understand family violence

I developed 2 assessment tools for assignments for a Using data to understand family violence teaching unit. I used Moodle's Database activity to develop a tool where students' submitted responses are fashioned into a formatted moodle page.

Assignment 1: Injury Prevention Matrix

Assignment 3: Data Quality Framework

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Creating Interactive Content with H5P Workshop 2019

I developed the workshop, the content and the Moodle site experience for Creating Interactive Content with H5P, an Educational Design workshop in the 2019 workshop series.
The Moodle site contains resources to help Monash Faculty of Arts teaching staff develop their use of H5P (a Moodle integrated tool for developing interactive content).
Of particular interest is the 🏆Interactivity Challenge which is a 'gamified' experience that guides users through various levels of achievement in order to expose users to various different H5P content types.

Interactive Content with H5P

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Corporate Sustainability Modules

I helped create the Corporate Sustainability modules. I worked with academics to design and develop the interactive elements which test students' understanding of the lecturer's content. In most instances I developed H5P Interactive content.

• What is Sustainability and Materiality?
• The Environmental Business Challenge
• Social Sustainability
• The Economic Business Challenge
• The business case for sustainability
• The Sustaining Corporation
• First wave organisations
• The sustainability change process

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User Experience for Learning Workshop

I developed the workshop, the content and the Moodle site experience for User Experience Design for Learning, an Educational Design workshop in the 2019 workshop series. The workshop was for academic teaching staff and aimed to deliver teaching and learning training to develop their teaching units.
The Moodle site for User Experience for Learning contains resources to help Monash Faculty of Arts teaching staff develop their online resources to improve the student learning experience and maximise student engagement.
User Experience for Learning

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Using Video Technology

I developed the workshop, the content and the Moodle site experience for Using Video Technology, an Educational Design workshop in the 2019 workshop series. The workshop was for academic teaching staff and aimed to deliver teaching and learning training to develop their teaching units.
The Moodle site for Using Video Technology contains resources to help Monash Faculty of Arts teaching staff develop skills with video production and publication into their online teaching platfrom.
Using Video Technology

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Teaching Effectively with Video Workshop

I developed the workshop, the content and the Moodle site experience for Teaching Effectively with Video, an Educational Design workshop in the 2019 workshop series. The workshop was for academic teaching staff and aimed to deliver teaching and learning training to develop their teaching units.
The Moodle site for Teaching Effectively with Video contains resources to help Monash Faculty of Arts teaching staff develop better pedagogical approaches to the use of video content in their teaching units.
Teaching Effectively with Video

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Teaching Interculturally

I collaborated with several academics to develop the a training module for teachers faced with the challenge of managing large cohorts of students from different cultural backgrounds.

Using content provided by academic subject matter experts, I collaborated with Liberate eLearning to develop the Teaching Interculturally online SCORM modules using the app-eLearn platform, (an adaptation of Articulate Rise).

The following video depicts a groupwork scenario used in the training module and looks at the cultural challenges of teaching such a cohort.

The following image captures the accessible UX interface for easier access to the SCORM packages that I developed in the Moodle LMS for the app-eLearn content.

Moodle pages and Adapt SCORM packages reproduced with permission from Monash University Faculty of Arts

H5P Con 2018

At the 2018 H5P Conference, I delivered a working paper called "Gradable Videos for Proficient French", to the global H5P community of software developers, content creators and academic educators. In the paper, I recommended improvements to H5P based on pedagogical insights gained during the French Proficient H5P Grammaire development.

Conference program

View the H5P Conference 2018 Program for Monday 03 December, 2018

Working paper description

The Challenge: Teachers in the School of LLCL: French Proficient 2 unit face the challenge of: Requiring students to prepare for class by completing grammar exercises. Requiring students to prepare for class by watching video grammar lessons.

The Solution: H5P exercises that integrate with Moodle gradebook Make gradable videos. IE: To build H5P interactive video which grades students according to how much (%) of the video they have watched. 

Conference responses

Positive conference reactions to "Gradable Videos for Proficient French" indicated that my approach to H5P was stimulating and engaging.

@LeighCanny uses @H5PTechnology yo create a series of interactive statements with low-stakes assessable grades to deliver gradable interactive content - initial findings suggests it helps with #studentengagement, #studentmotivation and #studentlearning #h5pcon2018 X

Deakin University Learning Innovations Lead
3:11 PM Dec 3, 2018

#h5pcon2018 here’s an example using gradable videos in @H5PTechnology. Looks really simple and easy to use and students are liking it! X

Deakin University Learning Innovations Lead
3:14 PM · Dec 3, 2018

Leigh Canny using #h5p and the LMS gradebook with release conditions to motivate students to come prepared to class #H5PCon2018 X

Victoria University Associate Director Improving Learning and Teaching
3:06 PM · Dec 3, 2018