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The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.

190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: 410.779.3400 | F: 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com

Personalized Learning Designer

Moodlerooms Learning Solutions Team




Webinar Objectives

• Understand the capabilities of Personalized Learning Designer (PLD)

• Learn how to create rules to personalize instruction in joule 2 courses

• Review best practices for rule creation• Explore use case scenarios for using

PLD• Overview principles of differentiated

instruction

Personalized Learning Designer



Today’s Agenda

• What can you do with PLD?• How does PLD work?• Creating PLD Rules• Deciding the Event Trigger• Adding Conditions to Events• Defining the Action• Managing Rules

Personalized Learning Designer (PLD)

• Use Case Scenarios• Practical Exercises• Brainstorming Rules• Q&A

Hands-on with PLD

• Key principles of differentiated instruction• Methods to differentiate instruction

What is differentiated instruction?



Which tasks are the most time consuming for you?

1. Remind participants to

complete assignments

2. Create opportunities for

differentiated instruction

3. Sort participants into groups

4. Monitor student and course progress

5. Send personalized

messages/feedback

6. Notify participants that

assignments were graded

7. Show/hide elements of the

course



Personalized Learning Designer (PLD)Moodlerooms’ solution to help you more easily facilitate courses

With Personalized Learning

Designer (PLD) , you can automate

elements of your courses, and save

time by using a tool that monitors

participants' interaction.

PLD is essentially an automated

agent that works on the teacher’s

behalf. This “agent” focuses on

completing tasks that you don’t

necessarily have time to

accomplish on a daily basis.



What Can You Do with PLD?

Quickly identify key behaviors

Differentiate course content

Automate course activities using

configurable rules

Take action to remediate or

accelerate learning

Stay personal with special messaging

and learning pathways customized for each participant

Create automated reminders and

feedback

Let PLD make your course facilitation easier by automating the following and more….



Use Case Scenarios

Create rules that send out encouraging messages to participants to provide positive reinforcement for certain behaviors in the course.

Remind participants about forum rules of participation with a pop-up alert that appears the first time they view each forum activity.

Provide automatic feedback for participants as soon as they complete an activity.

Make specific pages and files available to a participant based on completion/a specific score in another activity.

Send an automated email to a participant who has received a failing grade, detailing specific improvement suggestions.



Personalized Learning Designer Demo

Let’s login as a participant and see PLD in action:

• Alert display

• Directing users to page

• Receiving an email notification

.



How does PLD work?When an event occurs, if the conditions are fulfilled, the actions fire.

PLD provides ways to automate course activities using configurable rules.

Rules are used to customize participant behavior through a combination of three elements:

Events: The events that trigger the

rules.

Conditions: The conditions

for the action to occur after the

trigger.

Actions: The firing. When

the differentiated

instruction action occurs.



Creating PLD rules

Creating a PLD rule is simple:

• Log in to the course.

• Go to Settings block > Course Administration >

Personalized Learning Designer. The Personalized

Learning Designer interface displays.

• Click the Add a Rule button.



Creating PLD Rules

To create an effective rule, consider the following:

What event will trigger the action?

What condition(s) need to be met to flag

the action to occur?

What action will happen?



Rule Creation Process

Let’s see how a facilitator creates a rule:

• Event: Participant completes a quiz

• Condition: Quiz grade is less than 60 %

• Action: Send email telling participants to

re-attempt quiz

.



Managing RulesPLD allows you to create and manage hundreds of rules.

The Rules tab displays:• Add a rule button• List of rules already created in the course

Clicking the Gear icon allows you to:• Edit Rule• Copy rule• Disable Rule• Delete Rule

Filters allow you to:• See which activities are using PLD rules• Sort PLD created events



Deciding the Event Trigger

• Any• Quiz 1• Quiz 2• Quiz 3

Specify the existing activity

• Resources: Pages File, Folder, Book, etc…

• Activities: Assignment, Chat, Choice, Quiz, Etc…

Activity Type

• Activity Completion• Activity Grade• Activity View• User Added to Group• User Removed from

Group• Course Entered• Course grade change

Event



Best Practices for Selecting Events

Activity Completed•Completion conditions vary depending on activity type.

•You may have to manually grade an activity to trigger the rule.

Activity Grade•Does not work with resources.•Only use for activities where you can select grades.

•Use quizzes and lesson for automatically triggered events.

Activity view•Works every time the user enters the activity.

•No need to do any prep- work.•Could be overwhelming if conditions are not established.

User added/removed from groups•Don’t forget to set up groups in the course settings.

•Some activities don’t work well when separate groups setting is used.

Course entered•Be careful when using alerts as actions; it can become overwhelming.

•Establishing conditions are highly recommended in order to stop triggering.

Course grade change•A great tool for ongoing assessment.

•Best when you want an action to happen based on a facilitator action (e.g., manual grading of an assignment).



It’s time for a poll….

What are your three favorite event types?

Activity Completion

Activity Grade

Activity View

User Added to Group User

Removed from Group

Course Entered

Course grade

change



Adding Conditions to Events

• Has/has not viewed activity

• One condition has to be selected for each type of activity

Activity Viewed

• Has/has not completed activity

• One condition has to be selected for each type of activity

Activity Completed

• Grade is greater/less than or equal to X

• Activity selected in for trigger or different activity

Activity Grade Range

• Role is/not X• Specify role

User Role Check

• User is/not member of a group

Group Membership Check

• Grade is greater than or equal to

• Grade is less than

Course grade range

• Current date is after/before

Date check

The Condition limits the occurrence of events. If no conditions are specified, then the actions will always fire when the event occurs.



Best Practices for Selecting Conditions

•Use the has not option in case you want to set up a condition for something that has not been yet done by the participant

Activity viewed or completed

•Use this to differentiate content based on an activity grade

•For activities that allow multiple submissions, the grade used is the overall grade for the activity

Activity grade range

•Select the roles that will receive the action.

•This may be useful to prevent you to receive alerts while navigating in the course

User role check

•Create rules that will be released exclusively to the participants of a particular group

•Use the has not option to exclude content from certain groups

Group membership check

•Create a grade range condition for <50%, and all participants will fulfill that condition as soon as they enter in the course

• A good work around is to set the range to be greater than or equal to 1% and less than 50%

Course grade range

•Selecting a date condition will not trigger the rule. Participants still have to perform the event

•Very useful when creating time sensitive reminder

Date check



Defining the ActionActions define what is going to happen for the participant

Display Alert • Text alert with the ability to add in tokens

Send Email• Create email with ability to Cc and Bcc participants• Subject line and Body contain the ability to insert

predefined tokens

Go to Activity• Choose the activity to be redirected to and how long in

seconds before moving to that activity

Go to URL• Choose the URL to be redirected to and how long in

seconds before moving to that URL

Lock/Unlock Release Code

• Allows you to lock/unlock a topic, resource, or activity based on the triggering of a rule

• The release code is entered into resources or activities to make the content un/available without the code

Add/Remove user from group

• Allows you to add or remove users from groups



Best Practices for Creating Actions

Use Tokens

• Tokens are like variables that serve as placeholders for user/ course information (think mail merge…)

• Personalize actions by adding first and last name tokens

Use Alerts Wisely

• Too many alerts slows down course navigation

• Consider setting them for the first time viewing an activity

Use Go To and

URL/Activity• Redirect

participants to review important content to remediate or accelerate learning

Lock/Unlock of Release

Code• This is

particularly useful when you want to bundle and release content at the same time

Add/Remove from groups

• To keep participants only in one group, create an action to add the participant to that group and actions to remove them from other groups all in the same rule



Which Action Will You Use the Most?

It’s time for a poll

• Display Alert• Send Email• Go to Activity• Go to URL• Lock/Unlock Release Code• Add/Remove user from group



Keeping Track of RulesWondering if rules are working? Check out the History tab.

The History tab displays:• Rule names• Name of the participant that triggered

the rule• Date • Actions fired

History Filter allows you to:• Sort info by:• Time• Participant’s name• Activity name• Event



Managing PLD Best Practices

Don’t use the Notifications

block

Could confuse participants and cause conflicts

PLD is stronger and provides equivalent

functionality

Copy rules

Use “copy” functionality to

create rules that have similar conditions

Disable/enable

While building a course, disable

rules until you’re ready to release

You can create a rule, and enable it whenever it is

appropriate

Test it

Enroll a fictitious participant into your course and

test the PLD rules

Check the history to make

sure all is working as expected



Use Case Exercises The next slides will display differentiated instruction

scenarios

Purpose:

• Familiarize you with the process of creating PLD rules

• We will explore use cases for a course and decide together

what are the appropriate events, conditions, and actions

for each scenario

• A volunteer will then take control of the screen and create

the rule in our training site

• Are you ready to have fun?



Case 1: Welcome to the Course

Create a “Welcome to the course” pop-up

followed by course syllabus redirect.

• The alert will be displayed the first time they log

in to the course and will stop once they view the

syllabus file.

• The Javascript alert should contain a short

welcome greeting, with the first and last name

of the participant, together with a reminder that

they will be redirected to the syllabus.

How can we use PLD in this scenario?

What are the EVENTS?

Which CONDITIONS must

be set?

What are the ACTIONS?



Case 2: Activity Grade Email

For every graded activity, an email will be

sent to participants with their respective

grade.

• Participants must receive a grade in course

activities

• Send a message to participants with their

current grade.

• Provide link to activity in case they want to

review attempt.

• Add current course to the end of the message.




be set?




Case 3: Assign Groups Based on Pre-test Results

Sort participants into groups, based on the

results of a pre-test.

• Create a set of rules that will add participants to

three different groups based on pre-test scores

• Enroll participant in Group A if grade is greater

than or equal to 85%

• Enroll participant in Group B if grade is less than

85% and greater than or equal to 65%

• Enroll participant in Group C if grade is less than

65%




be set?




Case 4: Differentiate Content

Provide different content to a group of

participants based upon ability level.

• Create a set of rules that will unlock a release

code to display exclusive content to groups A, B,

and C

• Make sure that one group cannot see the

content of another group




be set?




Case 5: Course Completion Notification

Create a course completion notification that

will send a message to participants, parents

and the facilitator.

• Send a message to participants and

congratulate them for receiving 85% or higher

as a course grade

• Notify another system role (e.g. parent) that the

participant has passed the course

• Notify yourself to send a certificate to the

participant




be set?




Can You Come Up with a Use Case Scenario?

How can we use PLD in your scenario?



be set?




The Participant Perspective

Let’s login to the course as a student

and view the use cases presented in

this session from the student

perspective.



Additional Ideas…

•Move participants to/from groups based on course grade change.

Ongoing assessment

•Send an email asking why participants haven’t completed a certain activity after X days of enrollment.

Check up on missing work

•Offer remediation with low quiz scores, and direct them back to supplemental content or the original resource.

Extra help

•Use email alerts for failing participants and add a Cc or Bcc to a supporting role (advisor, mentor, parent, etc.)

Falling notifications

•Create a thank-you email alert after course evaluations are completed.

Thank you alert



Differentiated Instruction

In the next slides, we will explore how PLD can

support methods of differentiated instruction.

In which ways have you employed differentiated

instruction in your classroom/online

environment?

Use the chat or raise your hand to share your

experiences.



Key Principles of Differentiated Instruction (DI)

The goal of DI is to maximize each participant’s growth and individual success by meeting their needs and assisting in the learning process

Adjustments have to be made based on participants’ profiles

Multiple elements and materials can be used to support instructional content

Ongoing assessment holds hands with day-to-day instruction



Methods to Differentiate Instruction

Differentiating Content

• Information presented in multiple ways

• Complementary readings

• Remediation for those who need it

• Explore different reading levels

Differentiating Process

• Adopt multiple teaching strategies

• Allow participants to determine their own learning rate

• Explore different methods of learning

• Let participants choose how they want to learn

Differentiating Product

• Initial and on-going assessment

• Use assessment as a teaching tool for personal growth

• Create multiple formats of Formative and Summative assessments

Differentiating Environments

• Provide different pathways of learning

• Ease access to content

• Vary expectations and requirements

• Create groups that work in similar ability levels



Open Q&A



Resources

• http://www.moodlerooms.com/resources/tutorials/

Moodlerooms Tutorials (“Clickables”)

• http://manuals.moodlerooms.com

Moodlerooms Manuals

• http://moodle.org

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